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Articles tagged with: Hutchison
UK Operators Facing Further Cuts in Mobile Termination Rates
The UK's Competition Commission has ruled that the mobile operators should lower their landline to mobile termination rates by around 20% by 2010/11 - and to a rate which is lower than was proposed by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom. more
Related Tags: orange, t-mobile, hutchison-3g-uk, vodafone, o2, h3g, hutchison-3g, termination-rates, ofcom, landline, mobile-termination-rates, competition-commission, UK
UK Based Superdrug to Sell MVNO Top-Ups
UK based MVNO, Lebara Mobile says that it has signed a new partnership agreement with the high street retailer, Superdrug. Under the deal, Superdrug will sell Lebara Mobile airtime at its 915 stores across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with immediate effect. more
Related Tags: mvno, hutchison-3g, lebara-mobile, hutchison-whampoa, UK
Tellabs Wins UK Mobile Backhaul Contract
In a five-year deal, the UK's BT Group has selected Tellabs to provide solutions for part of its Ethernet-based mobile backhaul service. more
Related Tags: orange, ethernet, t-mobile, hutchison-3g-uk, edge, vodafone, hutchison-3g, tellabs, bt-group, bt, backhaul, UK
Vodafone Loses $2 Billion Indian Tax Case
Vodafone has lost a significant tax bill in India after the Bombay High Court upheld a claim by the government for around US$2 billion following its purchase of a majority stake in hutchison Essar. more
Related Tags: vodafone, supreme-court, gsm, tax, essar, cgp-investments, India
3 Italia Denies Report of 3G Network Break-Up
In a terse statement, 3 Italia has firmly denied the story published by Sole 24 Ore regarding the sale of company assets to Italian competitors. The newspaper had reported that hutchison Whampoa's Italian subsidiary had held talks which could have lead to the break up, and effective shut-down of the network as a going concern. more
Related Tags: vodafone, telecom-italia-mobile, wind, h3g, customer-care, telecom-italia, radio-spectrum, tax, 3-italia, Italy
Asian Operators Agree to Improved Roaming for BlackBerry Users
The Asian mobile operators group, Conexus Mobile Alliance has announced the start of the regional rollout of a mobile data roaming plan for BlackBerry smartphones among Alliance members. The new plan offers a high mobile data access ceiling in most countries to cater to the data usage needs of frequent mobile roamers. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, smartphone, indosat, roaming, w-cdma, smartphones, mtn, docomo, mobile-broadband, blackberry, hutchison-telecom, starhub, billing, true-move, hsdpa
Buongiorno Wins Contract With 3 Businesses in the UK and Ireland
Italian mobile content vendor, Buongiorno says that it has won the bid for the outsourcing of hutchison 3G's Mobile's Java Games Platform in the UK & Ireland. This will be the first significant implementation of a Games Store by Buongiorno since the merger with UK's iTouch last year, and the first to be implemented by the Group in the UK & Ireland. more
Related Tags: hutchison-3g, outsourcing, mobile-games, mobile-internet, java, mobile-content, wap, UK
Hutchison Shows off First In-House Developed Mobile Phone
hutchison Whampoa has shown off the first of its new in-house designed mobile phones, which will be sold under the INQ brandname. The INQ¹ (yes, with a tiny 1) has been designed to offer a tight integration with the Facebook social networking website, and will be available exclusively from the hutchison 3G mobile networks. more
Related Tags: skype, wind, hutchison-3g, rcom, mobile-internet, facebook, hutchison-whampoa, windows
EU Investigating Mobile Operators Over Blocking of VoIP Services
The European Union is looking at whether blocks on VoIP service by Europe's mobile phone operators might breach competition laws. The European Commission, the EU antitrust authority has sent letters to each of the mobile phone operators asking them what actions, if any, they take to affect internet based voice calls. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, european-commission, skype, voip, vodafone, hutchison-3g, kpn, eu, european-union, antitrust
Hutchison Telecom Adds Over 11 Million Subscribers in Q3
hutchison Telecom has reported that during the 3rd quarter of this year, it maintained growth in a quarter where overall economic conditions were turbulent. Its total user base grew to 11.2 million with strong contribution from Indonesian operations which grew 12.5% quarterly. Established markets Hong Kong and Israel recorded significant growth in 3G customers and continued to report progress in all other operational parameters. more
Related Tags: base-station, iphone, mobile-data, hutchison-telecom, base-stations, Indonesia