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Articles tagged with: Avea
Turkey to Get Number Portability by Year-End
Turkey's telecoms regulator has announced that it will mandate mobile number portability to be launched in November this year. Tayfun Acarer, head of the Telecommunications Board told reporters that he expects the infrastructure should be in place within the next couple of months, but the service would not launch immediately to allow for testing. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, mobile-number-portability, turkcell, number-portability, landline, Turkey
NextWave Wireless Puts its US Radio Spectrum up for Sale
NextWave Wireless has retained Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank to explore the sale of its radio spectrum holdings in the United States. NextWaveÃ's U.S. spectrum footprint covers over 251 million people, or pops, in the United States and includes major markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, and Detroit. more
Related Tags: pops, cisco, lte, radio-spectrum, aws, USA
Europe's Top Ten Networks - All Now Over 20m Customers
In Issue 98 of the Mobile World Briefing, when last reviewing the European market, we suggested that "if the normal seasonal pattern is repeated in Q4, then the final period of the year should see something between 25-30m new connections, enough to take penetration up to 110%". We mention this, because the normal seasonal pattern was repeated, we did see 25m new connections across the region and penetration is now standing at exactly 110%. more
Related Tags: orange, ptc, o2, usb-modem, telefonica, turkcell, o2-germany, sfr, orange-uk, o2-uk, polkomtel, orange-france
THIS WEEK IN CHINA: Mainland Telecom Stocks in Focus This Week
..thorities implement restructuring and whether there will be any nasty regulatory surprises. Along with Unicom results Thursday, Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa group reports, which is always interesting. Credit Suisse say we should look for evi more
Related Tags: li-ka-shing, china-mobile, telefonica, china-netcom, hutchison, netcom, hutchison-whampoa, China
Vodafone Accuses Turkcell of Obstructing Mobile Number Portability
Vodafone Turkey CEO Attila Vitai has accused market leader, Turkcell of curbing efforts to introduce mobile number portability into the country. Speaking at a press conference, he said that customers were having to waste money and resources on carrying a couple of phones to ensure they can be contacted. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, mobile-number-portability, turkcell, number-portability, Turkey
Turkish Operator Launches Windows Live Messenger Service
Turkey's avea has launched a Windows Live Messenger service to its ten million mobile subscribers by using Colibria software. The service will enable subscribers to instantly send and receive pictures, and sound, as well as conduct multi-party conversations with other Windows Live Messenger users. more
Related Tags: colibria, windows-live, Turkey
Mexico Q3 Market Update - Telcel reigns supreme
..ly growth rate sliding from 10.8% to 2.6%. However, these figures come with the caveat that Iusacell only quoted its third quarter customer total to the nearest million, which obviously impedes any detailed analysis. Having said that, experienc more
Related Tags: arpu, movistar, telcel, iusacell, nextel, Mexico
Microsoft Comfirms Mobile Content Provider Purchase
Openwave Systems says that it has completed the discussions announced last week with Microsoft and will sell its Musiwave subsidiary to the IT giant for US$46 million in cash. Microsoft will also take on approximately $4 million in net debt. more
Related Tags: microsoft, mobile-music
Alcatel-Lucent Wins Turkish IP/MPLS Upgrade
Alcatel-Lucent says that it has been selected by Turkey's avea to start migrating voice, signaling and networking services onto an IP/MPLS-based network. The converged network will be able to support voice, broadband data services (GPRS, Edge and 3G), signaling and billing traffic, 2G/3G voice traffic as well as future multimedia services. Alcatel-Lucent's solution is part of its Mobile Evolution Transport Architecture (META), a comprehensive vision for the evolution of mobile networks from TDM to all-IP. more
Related Tags: core-network, alcatel-lucent, edge, Turkey
GPRS Based Mobile TV Deal for Pakistan
UK based ROK Entertainment says it has reached agreement with Pakistan mobile operator, Warid Telecom, to provide streamed mobile TV over Warid's existing 2.5G network. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, telenor, singtel, ais, vodacom, pakistan-mobile