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Articles tagged with: Telefonica and Orange
Spanish Networks Face Investigation over Wholesale Messaging Costs
Spain's National Competition Commission (CNC) has opened an investigation into the country's three largest mobile networks, telefonica, Vodafone and Orange after it said that wholesale pricing applied to SMS and MMS messages could be excessive. more
Related Tags: vodafone, sms, mms, termination, telefonica,, Spain
Contract Awarded for Spanish Mobile Number Portability
The Spanish mobile operators are reported to have awarded a contract to local form, Indra to manage their mobile number portability platform from February 2010. The contract is worth €4.7 million over a three year period. more
Related Tags: indra, cmt, mobile-number-portability, vodafone, yoigo, number-portability, Spain
EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
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There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market
The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the European market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, sim, social-networking, eu, 3-uk, vodafone, mvno, o2, tim, wind, lte, outsourcing, ovi, iden, yoigo, 3, movistar, play, p4, virgin, UK
Industry to Settle on a Generic Phone Charger for All Mobile Phones
The GSMA and 17 mobile operators and manufacturers have announced that they are committed to implementing a cross-industry standard for a universal charger for new mobile phones. The aim of the initiative, led by the GSMA, is to ensure that the mobile industry adopts a common format for mobile phone charger connections and energy-efficient chargers resulting in an estimated 50 per cent reduction in standby energy consumption and the potential elimination of up to 51,000 tonnes of duplicate chargers. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, nokia, samsung, motorola, qualcomm, omtp, rsa, phone-charger, vodafone, telenor, ericsson, micro-usb, telecom-italia, sony, 3, gsma, phone-chargers, nokia,, charger, target, mobilkom, motorola,, telefonica,
Mobile Operators Confirm Commitment to Mobile Linux Based Phones
Mobile Linux group, the LiMo Foundation has announced a commitment from six major operator members to specify and deliver mobile phones using LiMo Platform implementations in 2009. more
Related Tags: vodafone, docomo, verizon-wireless, verizon, telecom-italia, mobile-linux, limo-foundation, open-source, linux, true, globe, telefonica,
IPWireless Sold to its Management
IPWireless was been sold to its management by its parent company, NextWave Wireless and secured long term financing with a significant (if unnamed) strategic partner. IPWireless was founded in 1999 and was acquired in May, 2007 by NextWave Wireless and became part of the NextWave Network Products division. In an announcement on December 26, 2008 NextWave disclosed that it had sold 75 percent of IPWireless to IPW Holdings, an entity formed by the senior IPWireless management team. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, base-station, vodafone, mobile-broadband, new-york-city, 3gpp, base-stations, ipwireless, nextwave-wireless, california, new-york, pioneer, bristol, telefonica,
Telefonica Gets a Debt Ratings Upgrade
Fitch Ratings has upgraded telefonica and its subsidiary O2's Long-term Issuer Default ratings (IDRs) to 'A-'(A minus) from 'BBB+', respectively. The agency has simultaneously upgraded telefonica Finance USA's preference shares to 'BBB+' from 'BBB'. telefonica's short term rating of F2 is affirmed. more
Related Tags: edge, fitch-ratings, vodafone, o2, portugal-telecom, fitch, target
Mobile Operators Reclaiming the Machine-to-Machine Connectivity Market
The M2M (machine-to-machine) connectivity market has always seemed to be the playground of specialists: mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and M2M mobile operators (MMOs). These aggregators, such as Jasper Wireless and Aeris Communications, have garnered most of the limelight in recent years. more
Related Tags: vodafone, m2m, mvno, abi-research, docomo, verizon, ntt-docomo, jasper-wireless, onstar
Laptops to come with "Mobile Inside" Logo
A group of IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, which the GSMA says will offer a technical alternative to Wi-Fi services. more
Related Tags: gemalto, wi-fi, t-mobile, microsoft, qualcomm, teliasonera, ericsson, mobile-broadband, telecom-italia, toshiba, lenovo, dell, idc, 3, gsma, mp3, notebook, chipset, wifi, connect
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