Total Telecom Online back issues from May 2006:
RIM targets small businesses with server download.
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Lorraine Turner, Total Telecom Canada's Research In Motion announced Wednesday the launch of a new downloadable server aimed at small businesses with 15 employees or fewer. The Blackberry Enterprise Server Express is available as a free download via the ...
5.4m U.S. households now using VoIP - TeleGeography.
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Lorraine Turner, Total Telecom New research published Wednesday indicates that 5.4 million U.S. households now subscribe to Internet telephony services, up from 2.7 million a year ago according to TeleGeography. Almost one in five U.S. households are expected ...
LG unwraps Chocolate phone in Europe.
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Anne Morris, Total Telecom LG Electronics is hoping its new Chocolate phone will prove to be as much a draw for European consumers as it has been for mobile users in South Korea. The South Korean vendor on Wednesday officially announced the commercial ...
Ofcom gets [pounds sterling]3.8m for 12 Guard Band licences.
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Anne Morris, Total Telecom U.K. telecoms and media regulator Ofcom confirmed on Wednesday that it has awarded 12 licences for spectrum in the so-called GSM Guard Band after the winning bidders paid the full licence fees, which totalled [pounds sterling]3.8 million, by ...
TTPCom, Analog Devices in pact [TTP Communications].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: TTP Communications TTP Communications and Analog Devices Wednesday announced that TTPCom's subsidiary TTPCom Limited has reached an agreement with ADI - its long time collaborator in the development of silicon and software for cellular phones - under which TTPCom will ...
Nokia discloses shareholding [Nokia].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Nokia Nokia Oyj said Wednesday it has received information that the holdings of The Capital Group Companies, Inc. have exceeded 5% of the share capital of Nokia. The Capital Group Companies, Inc. is a holding company for several subsidiary companies engaged ...
Dataflex in Chile deal [Dataflex].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Dataflex Press Release Dataflex selected for first IP-Centrex ...
Toshiba in MTV Telecom deal [Toshiba BCD].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Toshiba BCD Leading distributor to supply Strata CIX200 telephony platform to their convergent reseller partners Toshiba Business Communications Division (BCD) today announced a distribution agreement with MTV Telecom. Under the terms of the contract, MTV ...
Verizon picks WiderThan [WiderThan].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: WiderThan BEDMINSTER, NJ and SEOUL, South Korea -- May 3, 2006 -- WiderThan (NASDAQ: WTHN), a leading global provider of integrated mobile entertainment solutions for wireless carriers, and Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless service provider in the United States, ...
WiderThan boosts SKT [WiderThan].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: WiderThan SK Telecom exceeds 1 million Emoticon SMS subscribers within ten months SEOUL, Korea -- May 2, 2006 -- WiderThan (NASDAQ: WTHN), a leading global provider of integrated mobile entertainment solutions for wireless carriers, and SK Telecom (NYSE: ...
Euronode picks Prime Carrier [Prime Carrier Ltd.].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Prime Carrier Ltd. Dublin, Ireland Co May 2nd, 2006 Co Prime Carrier Ltd., a market leader in the provision of solutions for the international wholesale carrier-to-carrier and retail telecommunications markets, today announced that Euronode Carrier Services GmbH, a fast ...
Nokia, BAE Systems in deal [Nokia].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Nokia Finnish telecommunications firm Nokia Oyj Wednesday said it has been selected to build a global system for mobile communications, or GSM, and enhanced data rate for global evolution, or EDGE, network for BAE Systems Plc to support operations at its facilities in ...
Belgian operators unveil search engine [Proximus].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: Proximus Belgium's three mobile telephone operators said Wednesday they will jointly launch an easy-to-use search engine for mobile Internet in Belgium to be called PlazZza. PlazZza is an initiative that aims to give mobile phone users easy access to ...
U.S. spectrum: Lessons for RoW [The Shosteck Group].
May 03, 2006 ... Byline: The Shosteck Group SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND. May 3, 2006. Declines in "technology value" were major reasons for the post-auction fall in the market value of 1900 MHz PCS spectrum in the U.S. (1994 to 1997) and 1900/2100 W-CDMA spectrum in Europe (during 2000). The same ...
Orange to cut up to 2,000 jobs in the U.K.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Anne Morris, Total Telecom Orange UK, the mobile operator owned by France Telecom, confirmed on Thursday that it will cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs as part of its ongoing integration with sister company Wanadoo UK. The job cuts are being made in an effort ...
Indian operators reignite clash over spectrum.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Jagdish Rattanani, for Total Telecom, in Mumbai The battle for spectrum has heated up again in India, with GSM and CDMA operators locked in rival camps over the criteria for spectrum allocation in a market that is reaching full capacity due to a fast rising subscriber ...
New SMS mobile payment system is launched.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Lorraine Turner, Total Telecom A new mobile phone payment system enabling peer-to-peer payments via SMS has been launched in the U.K. and Germany. The LUUP service -- known as LUUPAY in Germany -- also allows subscribers to pay for service such as ringtones ...
BSNL extends GSM tender date - press.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Jagdish Rattanani, for Total Telecom, in Mumbai India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has extended by three weeks its 10 May deadline for the submission of documents relating to the state-run operator's massive tender for 45.4 million GSM lines, news reports said. ...
Telekom Austria offers fixed-mobile bundle.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Lorraine Turner, Total Telecom Austrian incumbent Telekom Austria and mobilkom Austria announced Thursday the launch of a fixed-line and mobile telephony bundle. The new service will enable subscribers to take out a combined fixed-line and mobile service from ...
MVNOs: Recipe for success?
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Richard Sedgwick of Motricity Anyone involved in the mobile industry will almost certainly be familiar with the Mobile Virtual Network Operator(MVNO). By buying mobile network and infrastructure services from established wireless operators and reselling the service under ...
Where next for the network equipment market?
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Venkatraman Shankar of Sasken The telecoms equipment industry, which has underperformed the market for the past five years, is slowly reviving, thanks largely to increased wireless demand. There were 1.8 billion wireless subscribers worldwide in 2005 and according to ...
Why roaming will survive the mobile VoIP revolution.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Guy Talmi of Starhome "All things change, and we change with them," goes the ancient Chinese proverb. There could not be a more apt phrase to describe the condition of the telecommunications industry at this point in time - and the importance of being quick to adapt in a ...
Skype - it's all under control.
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Nigel Hawthorn of Blue Coat Systems Recent calls from analyst group Info-Tech Research for organisations to place a blanket ban on Skype has ensured that this far-reaching new technology has enjoyed continued prominence in the headlines, attracting praise and criticism ...
Vodafone Iceland uses Telsis [Telsis].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Telsis Icelandic wireline and mobile carrier Og Vodafone is planning for ...
Sagem Orga picks TynTec [Sagem Orga].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Sagem Orga SIM card manufacturer selects enterprise quality SMS operator for distribution of mission-critical phone updates via SMS SIM card manufacturer Sagem Orga has selected enterprise quality SMS operator TynTec to provide its Over-The-Air (OTA) ...
Intec, TelstraClear in pact [Intec Telecom Systems ].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Intec Telecom Systems Intec Telecom Systems a supplier of billing software solutions to the global telecoms industry, confirms Thursday that one of the recently announced contract wins is with TelstraClear, a service provider in New Zealand. ...
Bango inks deal with Telefonica [Bango].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Bango Bango said Thursday it has agreed a mobile phone content partnership with Telefonica Moviles Espana. Bango said that through its direct connection to the Telefonica Moviles "Pagos Movistar" payment service, TME subscribers can now browse mobile content ...
Thus wins [pounds sterling]5m contract [Thus].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Thus Thus Group said Thursday that it has won a GBP5 million contract from the Audit Commission to provide a converged next generation network. Thus said it will connect 500 Audit Commission's sites across England with a resilient Wide Area Network (WAN), ...
Option Q1 profit up 104.2% [Option].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Option Belgian wireless technology company Option NV Thursday said its net profit in the first quarter of the year was EUR7.6 million, up 104.2% from the EUR3.7 million recorded in the first quarter of 2005. The company's sales in the first quarter were ...
Nokia, ATI in partnership [Nokia].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Nokia Finland's Nokia Oyj Thursday said it has signed a strategic partnership with ATI Technologies Inc. to bring enhanced mobile multimedia experiences to Nokia customers. ATI and Nokia said they are now working closely together to drive multimedia ...
Slazenger picks Sirocom [Sirocom].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Sirocom Weybridge, Surrey, 4 May 2006 -- Sirocom, the UK's fastest growing VNO, today announces a major new customer win with leading international sports company Dunlop Slazenger. A rolling contract will see Sirocom deploy a secure, fully managed QoDSL network across ...
Biscit launches webPLUG [Biscit].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Biscit Biscit's webPLUG uses electric wires to give superfast online connectivity to all computers in a home or office Link to image http://www.biscit.net/images/webplug/biscit_webplug_unit.jpeg London, May 4, 2006 - Biscit, a leading telecoms and ...
First Hop appoints chairman [First Hop].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: First Hop Helsinki (Finland) -- 4 May, 2006 -- First Hop announced today that it has appointed industry veteran Keith Gibson as the company's new Chairman. Keith's appointment marks a period of rapid development for First Hop, as mobile operator interest in its business ...
Dialogue to unveil portfolio [Dialogue].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Dialogue Live demo is part of Dialogue's radical new mobile internet portfolio launch Dialogue Communications is to launch a new global mobile internet portfolio at next week's Internet World exhibition in London. As part of this, it will demonstrate what is ...
Optimi wins U.S. deal [Optimi].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Optimi NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Stacie David, Optimi, 404-249-3265, stacie@optimi.com Cory Stewart, Cookerly Public Relations, 404-816-2037; cory@cookerly.com Optimi Secures Contract with Largest US Wireless Provider Operator to Manage Spectrum Usage ...
Pannon posts Q1 [Pannon].
May 04, 2006 ... Byline: Pannon Hungary's second largest mobile provider Pannon GSM Tavkozlesi Zrt. said Thursday that its earnings before income tax rose in the first quarter of 2006 to 11.03 billion forints ($53.3 million) from HUF8.68 billion a year earlier. The mobile penetration ...
WCDMA now in 105 networks [GSM Association].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: GSM Association London, 5 May 2006: The worldwide movement by operators to deploy high speed mobile broadband services - based on the global W-CDMA and HSDPA technology standards* - is fuelling unprecedented economies of scale in the supply of equipment for carriers and ...
French community plans FTTB build.
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Joanne Taaffe, Total Telecom, in Paris The Hauts de Seine, a large and wealthy county on the edge of Paris, is going ahead with plans to subsidise the construction of a fibre to the building network serving, businesses, schools, universities and homes. The ...
O2 mulls fixed/mobile offering in U.K.
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Lorraine Turner, Total Telecom Telefonica's O2 is eyeing a combined fixed and mobile offering in the U.K. following its success with these in foreign markets. The U.K. mobile operator said Friday that a combined service is likely following O2's acquisition by ...
Friday Review: Patently obvious.
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Anne Morris, Total Telecom A lot of people breathed a sigh of relief when the long-running patent dispute between RIM and NTP came to an end in March this year -- not just users of BlackBerry devices but also those that wanted to see an end to never-ending coverage of ...
BridgePort in IMS reseller deal [Siemens Communications; BridgePort Networks].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Siemens Communications; BridgePort Networks Enables Service Providers to Offer IMS Seamless Handover of Voice Calls Between Fixed, Wireless and Wi-Fi Networks CHICAGO, IL, MAY 5, 2006 -- Following a series of successful joint trials, BridgePort Networks today ...
Bookham posts Q3 results [Bookham].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Bookham SAN JOSE, Calif., -- May 4, 2006 -- Bookham, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKHM), a leading provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2006, ended April 1, 2006. Revenue in the third ...
Nokia 3G phone bestseller [TeliaSonera].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: TeliaSonera TeliaSonera AB on Friday said that for the first time two 3G handsets were in the top-10 list of best-selling phones at Telia stores in Sweden in April. Of the two 3G phones, Nokia's model 6280 entered the list in April as the fifth most sold ...
Belgacom goes electronic [Belgacom].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Belgacom Belgium's incumbent telecommunications company Belgacom SA said Friday it is stepping up efforts to encourage residential broadband customers to switch to electronic billing. Belgacom has offered its residential customers the opportunity to receive ...
TeliaSonera appeals on bitstream [TeliaSonera].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: TeliaSonera Swedish-Finnish telephony services company TeliaSonera AB said Friday it appeals against the County Administrative Court ruling on bitstream access in Sweden. TeliaSonera said it is requesting the Administrative Court of Appeal to change the ...
Telenor wins NOK200m deal [Telenor].
May 05, 2006 ... Byline: Telenor Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor ASA Friday said the agricultural purchasing organization Agrikjoep has extended an agreement with Telenor for two years, worth over NOK100 million a year. The company said the agreement covers the provision ...
Residential VoIP, LLU on the rise in France - ARCEP.
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Joanne Taaffe, Total Telecom, in Paris The number of subscribers to voice-over-IP services in France rocketed during 2005, as did the number of fully unbundled lines in the local loop, according to figures released by French regulator ARCEP. At the end of 2005 ...
Mobile TV an 'encouraging market' - MTV Networks.
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Lorraine Turner, Total Telecom Global content provider MTV Networks said it is expecting to see significant growth in the mobile TV market, although the company warned that the ongoing standards war in the mobile broadcasting arena is counter-productive. ...
Nera swings to Q1 loss [Nera].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Nera Nera ASA of Norway Monday said it swung to a net loss of NOK1 million in the first quarter from a net profit of NOK5 million a year earlier. In the three months ended March 31, pretax profit fell to zero from NOK10 million in the first quarter last year ....
DDD 3D Mobile on Texas Instruments processor [DDD Group].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: DDD Group DDD Group said Monday that DDD Mobile has been successfully delivered on the Texas Instruments Incorporated OMAP high-performance, ultra-low power consumption wireless applications processors. The group said DDD Mobile software, which resides on the ...
Ericsson, Sulake in billing deal [Ericsson].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Ericsson Swedish telecommunications equipment company Telefon AB LM Ericsson Friday said interactive entertainment company Sulake has chosen Ericsson's internet payment eXchange, or IPX, content billing and payment solution for its Habbo Hotel virtual meeting place and ...
Teleca sells Benima [Teleca].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Teleca Teleca AB of Sweden Monday said it will sell Benima, a debt free technology consulting company, to Aangpannefoereningen AB for SEK525 million. The sale in line with Teleca's strategy to focus its business on mobile devices, the company said. ...
Belgacom offer free domain names [Belgacom].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Belgacom Belgium's incumbent telecommunications company Belgacom SA said Monday the number of Belgacom ADSL retail customers with at least an ADSL Go profile exceeds 800,000 customers. The company said these customers can now request a domain name free of ...
Wind deploys push email [WIND; Critical Path].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: WIND; Critical Path SAN FRANCISCO & TURIN, ITALY -- May 8, 2006 -- Critical Path, Inc. (OTC:CPTH), a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced that Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA (WIND), Italy's leading operator of integrated fixed-mobile-Internet ...
Digicel picks Roamware [Roamware; Digicel].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Roamware; Digicel Caribbean's fastest-growing GSM operator provides seamless services for travelling wireless customers 8th May 2006 -- Global roaming solutions leader Roamware Inc and Digicel Group, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications operator in ...
Truphone links WiFi with mobile [Truphone].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Truphone May 8th 2006 -- London, UK -- Telecommunications newcomer Truphone today revealed its worldwide, low-cost mobile network and declared itself the world's first 4G network operator. The company has developed a software infrastructure that allows mobile phones with ...
Telefonica del PerE[bar] picks Acme [Acme Packet].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Acme Packet Telefonica del PerE[bar] Picks Acme Packet for VoIP Services Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers used by Peruvian incumbent to maximize security and service reach BURLINGTON, MA - MAY 8, 2006 - Acme Packet[R], the leader in ...
Huawei shows new brand [Huawei].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Huawei Huawei's new visual identity reflects that Huawei will continue to focus on customers, innovate, maintain sustainable growth and be committed to constructing a harmonious business environment as a leading telecommunications vendor. (Shenzhen CHINA -- 8 ...
Mobile DRM to cost E3.5bn [Mobile Entertainment Forum].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Mobile Entertainment Forum Mobile DRM issues set to cost Europe [euro]3.5billion in 2006 Lack of effective mDRM (mobile Digital Rights Management) will cost Europe [euro]3.5 billion this year, according to Frost and Sullivan -- over half the estimated annual ...
OFT clears NTL/Virgin [OFT].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: OFT The U.K. Office of Fair Trading said Monday that it has decided, on the information currently available to it, not to refer the ...
Vodafone picks Lucent [Lucent].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Lucent Lucent Worldwide Services provides integration of a mobile messaging solution based on Lucent's Short Message Service Center Gateway to enable real-time rating of short messages from roaming subscribers Lisbon / Murray Hill -- Lucent Technologies ...
Nokia in Chinook deal [Nokia].
May 08, 2006 ... Byline: Nokia Finland's Nokia Oyj said Monday Chinook Wireless, has selected Nokia to build a GSM/GPRS/EDGE network throughout Montana in the U.S. Nokia is supplying 100% of the radio and core network, along with network services. The companies have signed a five-year ...
BSkyB to trial MediaFLO for mobile TV.
May 09, 2006 ... Byline: Anne Morris, Total Telecom Qualcomm said on Tuesday that U.K.-based satellite TV broadcaster BSkyB will be the first European company to trial the wireless technology company's MediaFLO mobile broadcasting technology. The trial is expected to start some time ...
Intec Telecom in KPN deal [Intec Telecom Systems].
May 09, 2006 ... Byline: Intec Telecom Systems Intec Telecom Systems, a supplier of billing software solutions to the global telecoms industry, Tuesday announced a win for core components from its billing family, Intec Interconnect v7 and Intec Interconnect PREP, with the international wholesale ...
StreamShield picks Email Systems [StreamShield Networks].
May 09, 2006 ... Byline: StreamShield Networks StreamShield Networks said Tuesday that Email Systems, a supplier of managed email security services, has selected StreamShield's high-speed clean internet pipes platform for the delivery of subscriber security services. StreamShield's ...