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Sony Ericsson Rearranges its European Management Sony Ericsson has shuffled its European operations around and will now group the Austrian, Dutch, German and Swiss markets as one cluster, ...Switzerland to Permit 3G at 900Mhz - Extends Licenses Switzerland's telecoms regulator, ComCom has renewed the GSM mobile telephony licences of Orange, Sunrise and Swisscom until the end of 2013....Visa payWave mobile pilot in Switzerland declared a success Credit Suisse, PostFinance, SIX Multipay, Swisscard, Swisscom, together with Visa Europe have concluded a pilot study in Switzerland of contactless payments using Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile phones incorporating Visa payWave card payment technology....STMicro 1Q loss widens as sales drop off Swiss chipmaker STMicroelectronics reported a wider first-quarter loss Wednesday as sales sank across the board, and said it would lay off 1,200 people....Ericsson Sells its Radio Planning Division to Ascom Ericsson has announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its TEMS-branded products business, consisting of tools for air interface monitoring and radio network planning, to Ascom. ...Switzerland's Sunrise Extends Amdocs Contract to 2015 Amdocs says that it has signed a new multi-year services agreement to maintain the Amdocs OSS installation at Switzerland based Sunrise Communications. The agreement was signed with Alcatel-Lucent, which manages the network on behalf of Sunrise....Ericsson and STMicroelectronics Complete Joint-Venture Deal STMicroelectronics and Ericsson have announced the closing of their agreement merging Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless into a 50/50 joint venture. The deal was completed on the terms originally announced last August....STMicroelectronics posts loss, cutting 4,500 jobs Swiss chip maker STMicroelectronics said Tuesday it is cutting about 4,500 jobs worldwide after it posted a fourth-quarter net loss Tuesday, reversing a year-ago profit as revenue slipped amid the global economic turmoil....Andrew Wins Radio Coverage Contract for World’s Longest Railway Tunnel Andrew has signed a contract with Alcatel-Lucent Switzerland for providing radio frequency (RF) coverage solutions in the world's longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland....Swisscom reported Wednesday a 32 percent decline in net profit for the third quarter partly due to costs related to the launch of the iPhone and the acquisition of Italian telecom Fastweb.... |