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Articles tagged with: Jersey Telecom
Two Jersey Telecom engineers got a late Halloween scare today when a four foot long snake made a surprise appearance in their work van. more
Jersey's mobile phone users will soon be able to watch TV on their phones, wherever they are, as Jersey Telecom and its technology partner, Alcatel are planning to trial a new mobile phone television service later this year. The service uses DVB-SH technology to bring streaming TV to Jersey for the first time. more
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Number Portability Dispute in the UKs Channel Islands
Jersey Telecom Group, which owns Wave Telecom, is calling for the UK's Channel Islands to work together on Mobile Number Portability (MNP). Guernsey's regulator, the Office of Utility Regulation (OUR), is scheduled to launch a detailed consultation on MNP to analyse its potential impact and explore the most effective way to introduce it to the Guernsey market. more
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Jersey Bans 18-Month Phone Contracts
Jersey Telecom says that it has decided to withdraw its 18-month mobile contracts following pressure from the telecoms regulator. The 18-month deals were introduced by JT in April and gave customers cheaper, or in some cases free, facility-rich handsets in return for a longer period of guaranteed service with the company. 18-month contracts are offered in the rest of the UK and are also available to customers in Guernsey. more
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Island Operator Passes Subscriber Milestone
The Guernsey (Channel Islands, UK) based new entrant, Wave Telecom says that it recently signed up its 10,000th mobile customer. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Jersey Telecom Group, Wave Telecom Limited was granted licences by the Office of Utility Regulation to operate fixed telecommunication services from November 2002 and mobile telecommunications services from March 2003 to, from and within the Bailiwick of Guernsey. more
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Customers of Jersey Telecom will be amongst the first mobile phone users to benefit from an SMS Routing technology from Telsis that enables SMS messages to be delivered immediately to their destinations. Traditional SMS networks use a store-and-forward architecture, in which messages are held at an SMSC (Short Message Service Centre) before delivery. Nowadays, handsets are almost always switched on and available to receive messages, so the need for storage is greatly reduced. more
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Channel Islands GSM improvements
The consultancy firm, Omnitele says that it has been assisting the Channel Island (UK) based Jersey Telecom to increase their GSM network quality inland and to further expand their mobile network coverage to other Channel Islands. Jersey Telecom is a fixed network and mobile operator with headquarters on Jersey Island. On the mobile network, GPRS service was successfully launched last summer and the data service usage, among Jersey Telecom subscriber base, is likely to increase further as MMS will be commercially launched in a few months. more
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Donated mobile phones fund charities
Old mobile phones, collected in Jersey, have raised more than US$3,000 for charity. 1,000 handsets have been donated to the Bring Bring Appeal, supported by Jersey Telecom, which encourages Islanders to recycle their old mobile phones and accessories to raise money for Oxfam. Jersey Telecom says that it passes the old mobile phones handed in to Oxfam, who sell or dispose of them through ISIS Telecommunications. If ISIS can't sell on the handsets, they recycle them in accordance with The Environmental Protection Act 1990. more
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Alcatel has won a contract with Wave Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jersey Telecom, to supply a GSM/GPRS and 3G/UMTS mobile network in the island of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Following the successful rollout by Alcatel of a GSM/GPRS mobile network and services platform in Jersey, Jersey Telecom Group has now selected Alcatel technology for its first 3G/UMTS network. Wave Telecom will launch 3G/UMTS services in Guernsey by April 2004 while GSM/GPRS services will be available in November 2003.Launched in December 2002, Wave Telecom is the only mobile operator to apply for and receive a 3G licence from Guernsey's Office of Utility Regulation. Wave Telecom's licence also covers the provision of GSM/GPRS and 3G/UMTS services for the surrounding Channel Islands of Alderney and Sark.Under the terms of this contract, Alcatel will supply and install a complete and integrated set of GSM/GPRS and UMTS features and network configurations. The Alcatel's Evolium solution features the GSM/GPRS and the UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) radio systems, the mobile circuit and packet switch core network systems, as well as the Radio Network Controllers (RNC) and a Home Location Register (HLR). Furthermore, Alcatel will implement its LMDS solution to provide broadband wireless transport of mobile data and voice traffic, instead of expensive leased lines within Guernsey with mircrowave being used as transport technology between the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Alcatel's LMDS is a flexible, fast and cost-effective mobile backhaul solution.Charles Matthews, CEO, Alcatel UK said: "We are proud to have helped Wave Telecom realise its vision of a 2G, 2.5G and 3G network. The fact the Jersey Telecom Group wants to extend its relationship with Alcatel underlines the quality of our technology and the expertise of our employees. I am confident that the solution provided to Wave Telecom will give it the competitive edge it needs to be successful in the Guernsey market."No financial details were disclosed." more
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Comverse powering UK SMS marketing provider
Comverse has said that its high-capacity Intelligent Short Message Service Center (ISMSC) is the delivery engine behind mBlox, a carrier-independent provider of two-way application-to-person (A2P) SMS text message transmission services for applications providers in Europe. Since its initial launch, mBlox has delivered an increasing number of entertainment, marketing, and premium-rate SMS messages to mobile subscribers across Europe. Application providers and GSM network operators use mBlox as an SMS transmission channel and pay a fee per delivered message. more
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