Wireless Federation

Vodafone Ghana posts a net addition of 800K subscribers in 2 months

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:44:04 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The head of Corporate communication at Vodafone Ghana, Albert Don-Chebe, said that the national PTO has signed up 800,000 subscribers to its fixed and mobile services since it was rebranded and relaunched by its new UK majority shareholder in April 2009. Vodafone group acquired a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom earlier.

Deutsche Telekom expects greater revenues from structural reorganisation in Germany

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:49:10 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Deutsche Telekom hopes that the structural reorganisation of its fixed and wireless business will boost its revenues, the German head of sales and service reportedly said. Nearly 29 million German households households are Deutsche Telekom customers and 58% of those have only fixed-line connections. “If we can tap into at least 1 percent and add wireless [...]

Cell One & MTC offer free calls as competition intesifies (Namibia)

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:39:55 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Cell One and MTC, the competing mobile operators in Namibia are offering free calls to their subscribers from 22h00 to 06h00 everyday as long as they have a minimum N$5.00 balance. The first one to launch the service was Cell One followed by MTC. Both the operators informed their subscribers about the offering through SMS [...]

Vodafone Germany to launch single brand campaign, targets ‘Generation Upload’ customers

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:36:55 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Germany has introduced a a single, new branding strategy as it completes the integration of its Arcor fixed-line unit. The operator plans to present a single and common brand for customers and partners, with the individual needs of customers put at the centre of this strategy. The new single brand will be supported [...]

NTT DoCoMo says in talks with Asian operators for capital investment(Japan)

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:33:08 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading mobile operator, has reportedly unveiled that it is in talks with some Asian mobile operator for a potential capital investment as it targets to seek growth overseas to counter the maturing mobile phone market in Japan. “Our main target is Asia, and there are some other (promising) countries there. We are [...]

Bouygues to launch Samsung Galaxy i7500 on 16 July for €99 (France)

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:30:27 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bouygues Telecom, the French mobile operator, will introduce the Samsung Galaxy i7500 across the nation on July 16. Bouygues will thus become the third French operator to offer an Android smartphone, after Orange, selling the HTC Dream and SFR, the HTC Magic. The handset will be available for €99 ($139) with a 2-yr contract agreement. Apart [...]

GTEL Mobile deploys Comverse ONE (Vietnam)

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:26:27 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Comverse today announced that GTEL Mobile, a new mobile operator in Vietnam, has deployed the Comverse® ONE™ Billing & Active Customer Management™ solution, a converged billing system that will help differentiate the operator from other telecom providers by offering flexible billing models and a 360-degree view of the customer, regardless of touch point. Established last [...]

Vodafone Italy launches SMS Time promotion

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:19:44 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Italy has introduced a new SMS promotion called as SMS Time. The new promotion enables subscribers to send free on-net SMS between 18:00 and 19:00 hours every day. The service can be activated free of charge online at Vodafone’s website, or by calling a short number. The promotion runs until 31 October.

Ericsson inks $1.7 Bn agreements with Chinese operators

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:08:25 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Ericsson today signed framework agreements on 2G/3G mobile communication equipment and related services for 2009 with two major Chinese telecom operators: China Mobile and China Unicom, valued at USD 1 billion and USD 0.7 billion respectively. China Mobile and China Unicom have received 3G licenses of TD-SCDMA and WCDMA standards respectively at the beginning of [...]

Nokia introduces Nokia 3720 Classic for $175

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:02:39 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Nokia introduces what it calls as the “most rugged mobile handset to date”, Nokia 3720 Classic. The new handset will be available this summer for €125 (about $175). The handset is IP-54 certified, thus it can resist water, dust and shock and battery cover is locked with a screw, this bringing a plus of safety. The [...]

Asiacell disconnects 500,000 unregistered mobile phone numbers (Iraq)

Editor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:59:22 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In line with the directions of the Iraqi Government to all mobile telecom companies in Iraq, Asiacell - the largest private Iraqi company and the first and only mobile telecommunications company to provide coverage for all of Iraq - announced that it began disconnecting 500,000 unregistered mobile lines on the 15th of June 2009. [...]

Vivendi may have already won the bid for Zain Africa

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:48:47 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a Ugandan Newspaper (Daily Monitor), Vivendi, the French entertainment group has reportedly won the bid for Zain Africa. The bid made by Vivendi was $12 billion, sources reveal. Although the officials for both the companies have declined to comment, the sources closely reviewing the deal, unveiled that it has been completed.

Etisalat & Emirates NBD to launch mobile banking service in UAE

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47:11 +0000

Etisalat, the UAE based mobile operator and financial services provider Emirates NBD will together launch mobile banking service. The new service will enable the subscribers to make account balance inquiries, transfer funds, pay their credit card bills and make payments to Etisalat by selecting the banking service from a menu on their mobile phone and [...]

TRAI unveils statistics for network congestion (India)

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:26:01 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reportedly unveiled that in the first three months of 2009 congestion on the country’s mobile networks had increased. The regulator claimed that Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Idea Cellular had the most congested networks of the private operators, with Tata Teleservices (TTSL) ranked as having the least [...]

Timor Telecom inks deal with ZTE (Timor-Leste)

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:25:13 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Timor Telecom has reportedly signed a deal with China’s ZTE for the provision of a W-CDMA network. It is further reported that the contract was signed last May and that network deployment should be completed by August. The deal also entails the nationwide expansion of the cellco’s GSM network. The financial details have not [...]

Telefonica introduces ‘Personaliza’ mobile phone customisation service

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:12:09 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica has introduced a new mobile phone customisation service dubbed as ‘Personaliza’ (’Personalize’). The service aims at ported or new subscribers and will be available from 13 July at a price of EUR 23 per design and terminal. The youth-targeted service will initially carry 25 customization designs for the Nokia 5310 Xpress Music and [...]

América Móvil and Nokia to bring mobile email services in Latin America

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:10:37 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: América Móvil and Nokia announced today that they will bring a top of the line messaging experience in multiple devices to customers in Latin America. The agreement adds to the leading collaboration between both companies in music and maps, to meet the growing demand for multimedia options on mobile devices in the region. Through this [...]

Unlocked Samsung Galaxy available in UK for £499

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:05:14 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung Galaxy, which was reportedly earlier that it will be launched by O2 in UK, is rumoured to be available across the nation in an unlocked version. The price of an unlocked Samsung Galaxy stands at £499, nearly $800.

Govt. to purchase Sistema assets (Russia)

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:00:44 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Russian government has reportedly reached an agreement with Sistema to buy its holdings in Svyazinvest and SkyLink. The report, which cites a letter from Communications Minister Igor Shchyogolev to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, claims that as part of the government’s plans to play a bigger role in the telecoms industry it will take [...]

Vodafone plans to wait until 2012 for LTE deployment

Editor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:57:19 +0000

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone at the Wireless 2.0 summit in Bristol reportedly said that it plans to wait until 2012 to to deploy LTE (4G), however, the company will benefit from an inside track on progress by its joint venture with Verizon Wireless, which plans to roll launch LTE in 2010. Professor Michael Walker, group R&D director at [...]