Articles tagged with: Mobicom

Nokia wins Moscow MMS contract

Nokia says that it is delivering its MMS solution to ZAO Sonic Duo, which operates in the Moscow area for Russian nationwide mobile network MegaFon. Deliveries begin during October 2002 and service is expected to be launched in first quarter 2003. The deal comes after Nokia announced on October 1st 2002, that it will deliver the Nokia GPRS and MMS solutions to Megafon in the St. Petersburg area. more

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MobilCom blames dispute for rising losses

Germany's mobicom has blamed its ongoing dispute with France Telecom for an increase in its quarterly losses. The company says that for example, the launch of 01566-GPRS planned for February 2002 had to be postponed, requiring the creation of accruals to the sum of US$70.6 million, although it did not explain how a shareholder dispute over the 3G rollout would have affected its 2.5G rollout. more

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New light GSM cell phone for Chinese market

Agere Systems (formerly The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies) has announced that the China-based PTIC Capitel is using its semiconductor and software system-level platform in the company's new C6088 and C6288 GSM handsets, which Capitel started selling a few weeks ago to the Chinese market. The handset are approximately 30% smaller than a business card and weigh only 66 grams each - nearly 70% lighter than the mean weight of wireless handsets. Capitel is the manufacturer and brand name of the cell phones. mobicom Corporation, based in New Jersey, designs the phones and markets them under the mobicom brand outside of China. The cell phones are additionally scheduled to be equipped with Class 8 GPRS technology in the first quarter of next year. more

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