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France Telecom’s new chief expected to deal with suicide issue

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:30 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Stephane Richard’s nomination as CEO of France’s largest phone company, France telecom, will be voted on by its board today. Investors want Richard to come up with a plan for the brutally competitive phone market and closing the one year chapter mired by suicides besides developing a strategy for emerging markets.
Richard was hired six [...]

Idea Cellular offers free mobile tickets for films & travel (India)

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:30 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Citizens of Mumbai and Delhi can now become a part of the save paper campaign started by the pan-India network provider, Idea Cellular, by using their mobile phones instead of paper tickets to travel and watch movies.
People can participate in an SMS-based radio contest which would entitle them to a code (sent to them [...]

TeliaSonera appoints Hakan Dahlstrom as new president

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:29 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The president of Teliasonera business area Broadband Services Hakan Dahlstrom has been promoted by the company to president of the Mobility Services division, succeeding Kenneth Karlberg, who is leaving the company. Deputy Head of Broadband Services Anders Gylder will succeed Dahlstrom as head of the unit.
Head of Wholesale & International Malin Frenning has been [...]

Deutsche Telekom Q4 revenue rises 0.6%

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:29 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 0.6 percent increase in the Q4 revenue has been reported by Deutsche Telekom reaching EUR 16.20 billion. The rise has been attributed to the takeover of OTE which helped offset a slide in revenues in its home market Germany.
However, revenues in Germany were down 3.1 percent to EUR 6.40 billion. Due to negative currency [...]

Asian operator Axiata Q4 revenue rises 53%

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:29 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With 34 percent year-on-year increase, Asian mobile operator group Axiata ended 2009 with 120 million subscribers. Even the fourth-quarter revenues went up 53 percent to MYR 3.69 billion from MYR 2.42 billion in the year-ago period.
Celcom, XL and Axiata Bangladesh delivered strong revenue performance which resulted in the 15 percent increase in the 2009 [...]

Doors opened for foreign players in India’s 3G auction

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:28 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Doors will be opened for foreign players in the upcoming 3G auction to be held in India, allowing them to make an entry into fast growing Indian telecom market. No cap has been decided on the number of service providers in each circle for the government is planning to allow three to four private [...]

Video calling interoperability completed by Canadian telcos

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:28 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Two-way mobile video calling trials has been successfully completed by Canada’s big-three mobile networks – Bell, Rogers and TELUS. With the launch of inter-carrier mobile video calling, video calling will be possible across multiple carrier networks and will create North America’s largest two-way mobile video calling community.
According to Stephen Howe, chief technology officer for [...]

First HSPA then LTE for 4G: Report (USA)

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:27 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In the first half of the decade, wireless mobile operators across the globe will implement HSPA+ while the second half will see the proliferation of LTE. Today HSPA+ is an attractive choice to solve the smart phone capacity crunch many operators face due to its relatively cheaper investment.
However, carriers will need to deploy LTE [...]

Apple holds annual meeting with shareholders

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:26 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders will be held by Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs with no shortage of questions for a company famously stingy with information.
Despite a strong December-quarter earnings report and massive hype around the iPad tablet, Apple’s shares have been treading water around the $200 mark since last October.
Analyst all [...]

Google scraps unveiling event of Nexus One in Beijing

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:25 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One in China has been scraped by Google.
An event introducing the sleek touchscreen phone to software developers in Hong Kong and Taiwan will be held next week, but Beijing will be excluded from the list. It is viewed as Google’s second move [...]