Articles tagged with: Bouygues Telecom and Kpn
Bouygues Telecom Confirms MVNO Deal With KPN in France
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- Bouygues Telecom, a division of Bouygues, Wednesday confirmed it has agreed to sell mobile network capacity in France to Dutch operator Royal KPN. more
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Hunted and Hunter Swap Roles As Telecom M&A Heats Up
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- The hunted are fast becoming the hunters in the consolidation race playing out now among telecom operators in emerging markets. more
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mmO2 and DoCoMohave signed a long-term agreement under which O2 will launch the i-mode mobile internet service in the UK, Germany and Ireland. Under the terms of the agreement, O2 is licensed by DoCoMo to offer the i-mode capability to the 22 million customers of its 2/2.5G and 3G mobile communications networks. more
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2 million i-mode users outside Japan
i-mode users outside Japan exceeded two million at the end of January 2004 and continue to grow rapidly said DoCoMo. Services are currently available through seven i-mode operators outside Japan: BASE (Belgium), Bouygues Telecom (France), E-Plus (Germany), Far EasTone Telecommunications (Taiwan), KPN Mobile (The Netherlands), Telef more
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Greece's Cosmote has signed up to license the i-mode wireless internet service from Japan's DoCoMo. The two leading mobile operators have signed today an agreement, under which Cosmote will offer its i-mode service over its 2.5G GPRS network and 3G UMTS network, with DoCoMo providing its know-how, technology and patents. more
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Third tier operators form alliance
Nine of Europes smaller mobile operators have announced the formation of a new mobile alliance. Amena (Spain), O2 (Germany, UK and Ireland), One (Austria), Pannon GSM (Hungary), sunrise (Switzerland), Telenor Mobil (Norway) and Wind (Italy) signed a formal agreement in Munich, Germany. more
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NEC out-sources 3G production to China
NEC and has announced an agreement in principle for the USA based, Solectron to provide manufacturing and after-sales services for NEC's 3G handsets. In an expansion of the relationship between the two companies, Solectron would be the outsourced manufacturer of NEC's 3G mobile terminal products, or handsets, for markets outside of Japan. NEC, which currently produces these products in Japan, plans to gradually transfer production to Solectron's facility in Suzhou, China, after initial pilot production of each new product in Japan. more
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Japan's DoCoMo and the Italian GSM network operator, Wind Telecomunicazioni have announced a strategic i-mode partnership in the Italian market to launch i-mode services on Wind's GPRS network. The agreement also introduces Wind into the i-mode alliance, the group led by DoCoMo that comprises all the operators that have launched i-mode, and that offers its members the opportunity to market handsets specially adapted for their own services. more
NEC launches i-mode handset in Europe
NEC has launched its latest i-mode handset, the n31i. The device is being supplied to KPN Mobile in the Netherlands, Germany (E-Plus) and Belgium (BASE). more
