www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 10,000th 3G site has been activated by British mobile network operator Hutchison 3 UK this week with the connection of the 10,000th site in Shooters Hill, South-East London. The huge number is the result of the improved coverage provided to the existing customers besides the introduction of the service to new communities.
With the addition [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Trial of the first LTE has been successfully completed by Mobile operator Entel PCS in Chile. This is also the first LTE field trial rolled out in Latin America.
The field tests were developed in partnership with Ericsson. Entel PCS and Ericsson have demonstrated the first internet connection through LTE technology, launched on December 29, [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With 6 percent year-over-year profit and 1% sequentially loss, Qualcomm revenues reached USD 2.67 billion for its fiscal first quarter to December. 18% improvement in the operating profit and 150 percent increase in the net profit reaching USD 879 million and USD 841 million respectively has also been recorded.
The operating cash flow of the [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The profitability of the Indian telecom industry has been severely hurt due to price war raged between the telecom operators and a number of players trying to make money from this fastest growing industry in the world by number of users. But within 24 months, the telecom industry may undergo a process of consolidation.
The [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vietnamese telecoms operator EVN Telecom has seeked Ministry of Information and Communications permission to share third-generation mobile network facilities with other wireless operators.
Sharing 3G infrastructure, by allowing national roaming on the mobile networks of its rivals, will allow EVN to cut investment costs by up to one-third.
According to Chief of EVN’s IT-Telecom department, Nguyen [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A payment deal has been unilaterally cancelled by Israeli telco NetVision which it had in place with fixed line incumbent Bezeq. The company expressed its unwillingness to pay Bezeq under the terms of the arrangement, in which fees owed to the latter are based on the volume of traffic over the network.
Netvision’s move is [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Interested parties are invited by India’s Bharti Airtel to submit bids for the outsourcing of the management of its fibre-optic cable network with a view to completing a deal before the end of March 2010. State- owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has also decided to invite bids in February to outsource the [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China, Google’s Android mobile phone platform in the Chinese market would not be limited until it complied with Chinese law.
Earlier this month, the world’s top search engine announced that it may shut its Chinese-language google.cn website and offices in China after a cyber-attack originating [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Togo Cellulaire, the leading mobile operator in South African country of Togo is set to provide the country with its first wireless 3G network by contracting Alcatel-Lucent for 22 million euro to extend its network capacity in GSM and build the first 3G wireless broadband network.
Advanced mobile broadband services to over 2.2 million subscribers [...]
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Indian government has relaxed overseas borrowing rules in order to help telecom operators arrange short-term funds for the next months 3G auction. The prospective bidders can now raise money from the domestic market to pay for the spectrum and later refinance those amounts within 12 months through cheaper overseas borrowings.
According to the finance [...]