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Articles tagged with: License Fees
InterDigital Takes Minority Stake in Korean Handset Manufacturer
InterDigital says that it has signed a patent licensing deal with South Koran handset manufacturer, Pantech and also taken a minority equity interest in the company. more
Related Tags: interdigital, pantech, qualcomm, life, Korea South
Sweden to Adjust Radio Spectrum Fees to Reflect Usage
The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) has announced that it will gradually implement a new model for spectrum charges starting from next year that will penalise license holders who have not maximised the use of their radio spectrum. more
Related Tags: swedish-post-and-telecom-agency, radio-spectrum, radio, Sweden
"Gigabyte-ready" network pricing could boost mobile broadband growth
The widespread deployment of HSPA has increased the speed and data capacity of 3G networks dramatically, removing technology barriers of launching true mass market mobile broadband. But simply upgrading to HSPA technology is not sufficient if operators are also to profit from new & faster mobile data services. The mobile network sourcing consultants of Rewheel believe that MNOs and network vendors must develop new equipment pricing schemes minimizing the operators' risk of losing money on exhorbitant capacity upgrade costs while still maintaining healthy margins for the vendors. more
Related Tags: hspa, 3g, opex, broadband
France Launches Tender for Fourth 3G License
The French government has formally opened the bidding for the country's fourth 3G license, and set the reserve price at EUR 240 million (US$339 million). As expected, France Telecom says that it will appeal against the license fee, saying that it is too low compared to the 3G license fees paid by the incumbent operators. more
Related Tags: france-telecom, 3g-license, three, orascom, radio, France
Iran Cancels 3rd Mobile Phone License
The Iranian government has reportedly cancelled the award of the country's 3rd mobile phone license to an Etisalat lead consortium, saying the company had failed "to give necessary guarantees and license fees on time". more
Related Tags: zain, etisalat, 3g-license, turkcell, irancell, gsm, pension, tehran, security, Iran
Bouygues Telecom Loses 3G License Appeal
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the French government was correct in retrospectively lowering the 3G license fees it charged to France Telecom and Vivendi's SFR. In 2000, the French government sold two 3G licenses to France Telecom and SFR for EUR4.95 billion each. A later attempt in 2002 to sell the remaining two licenses raised just EUR619 million from Bouygues Telecom. The fourth license remains unsold to this day. more
Related Tags: orange, 3g, eu, itu, 3g-license, tim, ovi, iden, france-telecom, sfr, 3, bouygues-telecom, 3g-licenses, France
Tessera Extends Patent Talks Deadline with Motorola
Tessera Technologies has announced that it has extended its option agreement with Motorola that enables the firm to enter into a pre-negotiated license agreement with Tessera and settle all outstanding litigation between the companies. The option now runs through mid-February 2009. Other detailed terms of the agreements, including option fees, license fees and license royalties, are confidential. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, motorola, qualcomm, tessera, itc, freescale
Bangladeshi WiMAX License Holders Miss Payment Deadline
Two of the firms which recently won WiMAX licenses in Bangladesh has not paid their license fees before the mandatory deadline. The regulator has however decided to extend the deadline for paying the license fee to the middle of next month, citing the financial situation in international stock markets. more
Related Tags: wimax, wireless-broadband, augere, Bangladesh
UPDATE: Nokia, Mobile Cos to Create Symbian Foundation
Nokia, Tuesday said it will acquire the remaining stake in Symbian it doesn't already own and with a range of partners create the Symbian Foundation, an open source model for the Symbian wireless operating system. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, microsoft, texas-instruments, samsung, smartphones, driving, docomo, texas, apple, motorola, lg, blackberry, panasonic, sony, symbian, open-source, samsung-electronics, siemens, operating-system, symbian-foundation
Mobile Broadband Could the Dominant Internet Access Route for Africa
A new report from the ITU says that growth in AfricaÃ's mobile sector has defied all predictions. Africa remains the region with the highest annual growth rate in mobile subscribers and added no less than 65 million new subscribers during 2007. At the beginning of 2008, there were over a quarter of a billion mobile subscribers on the continent. Mobile penetration has risen from just one in 50 people at the beginning of this century to almost one third of the population today. Mobile subscribers are also now more evenly distributed. In 2000, South Africa accounted for over half of all AfricaÃ's mobile subscribers, but by 2007, almost 85 per cent were in other countries. Mobile success, driven largely by competition, is also spawning new services such as micro-payment prepaid recharging, single rate inter-regional roaming and the uptake of m-commerce applications. more
Related Tags: roaming, ict, itu, vodacom, tax, infrastructure-sharing, oecd