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Articles tagged with: Retail Stores
AT&T Takes the Microsoft Surface
AT&T has announced that it is to install the Microsoft Surface computers inside its retail outlets to provide consumer services. The announcement is a surprise as Microsoft had originally said that T-Mobile would be the first company to take the display units. more
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Trackfone Wins Legal Case Against Phone Unlockers
USA based TracFone Wireless has won a court case against a group of people which has forbidden them from buying network locked handsets and then reselling them unlocked for use on other networks. more
Related Tags: class-action, tracfone, tracfone-wireless, USA
Sprint Nextel Loses Nearly $30 Billion in Q4
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel posted a dramatic $29.5 billion fourth-quarter loss even as it unveiled an unlimited wireless plan in a bid to stem the flood of subscriber defections. more
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O2 Confirms Winning Irish iPhone Exclusivity
O2 Ireland has confirmed that it will be the exclusive Irish carrier for Apple's iPhone when it makes its official debut in Ireland on March 14th. The iPhone will be sold in Ireland through O2 and Carphone Warehouse retail stores - as happens currently in the UK. iPhone will be available in an 8GB model for €399 (US$600) and a 16GB model for €499 (US$750). more
Related Tags: orange, o2, o2-ireland, carphone-warehouse, Ireland
UPDATE: Sprint Nextel to Cut 4,000 Jobs and Close 8% of Retail Locations
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- Sprint Nextel said Friday it would eliminate 4,000 jobs and close 8% of company-owned retail stores amid the loss of more key customers to rivals. more
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Sibirtelecom Shutting Down NMT Network
Russia's Sibirtelecom has announced that it will shut down its analogue NMT-450 network on January 10th 2008. All subscribers are being encouraged to migrate to the company's CDMA450 network instead. The company's operating license for the analogue service is being revoked. more
Orange UK Starts New Marketing Push
Orange UK has launched a new advertising campaign 'Good things should never end' to highlight it's unlimited offerings on pay as you go and pay monthly mobile plans. The £6 million campaign will run for 12 weeks over TV, outdoor, online, press and in all 343 Orange retail stores across the country. more
Top Selling Handsets inTelia's Retail Stores
Six mobiles from Sony Ericsson are on the Top Ten List of best-selling mobile phones in Telia's retail stores during November. Four of the phones are 3G handsets. Mobile broadband continues to be the best seller, which is why USB modems captured first place. Nokia is on the list with three mobiles. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, usb-modem, usb-modems, modem, Sweden
Telia Announces Swedish HSPA Rollout Plans
Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo will be the first cities to use Telia's HSPA (Turbo-3G) in Sweden. After the initial launch of Turbo-3G, the build-out will continue and more than six million people in Sweden will have access to this new high-speed mobile broadband by summer 2008. Telia's customers are being offered free surfing with Turbo-3G during all of 2008. more
Islamic Militants Attack Mobile Phone Retailers
At least fifteen mobile phone retail stores were blown up by terrorist attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday night in a plaza in the Inayat Kallay bazaar, and a further 25 stores elsewhere were partially damaged. No loss of life was reported by the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn. Tribal administration official Mawaz Khan Afridi told the newspaper that 14 phone shops had been destroyed in the Ittehad plaza. more
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