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Articles tagged with: Washington Dc
Improving Phone Coverage on Washington DC's Underground Railway
The metro railway serving Washington D.C. has started deploying underground mobile phone coverage infrastructure, covering 20 of the Metro's busiest stations. The network, which will provide coverage for customers of Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile is expected to switch on in October. more
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Seattle, Atlanta And D.C. To Get First Mobile TV Tests
A coalition of TV broadcasters on Monday said they plan to use Seattle, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., as test markets for digital mobile TV services this year. more
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London Transport Decides Against Mobile Phone Coverage on Underground Platforms
London's underground railway network has decided to delay long-planned implementations of mobile phone coverage on the network, citing a lack of "credible proposals" from suppliers. more
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Court Upholds Fine Against Russia's Megafon
A court in Tbilisi, Georgia has rejected a legal motion brought by the Russian mobile telephone carrier Megafon seeking the dismissal of a fine imposed on the company by regulatory authorities for illegal unlicensed operations in South Ossetia and other areas of Georgia's sovereign territory. more
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New CEO for Promonte Montenegro
Montenegro's Promonte has a new CEO, Christopher Laska - succeeding Kare Gustad who will move to new international opportunities within the Telenor Group. more
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Mobile Coverage on Washington Underground Railway to be Upgraded
The underground railway in Washington DC will shortly allow mobile phones from multiple networks to be used on its services. Currently, only Verizon Wireless handsets work on the railway (since 1997), but a condition in a funding package requires that the infrastructure is opened up to any operator. more
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If spectrum auctions and commercial Mobile WiMAX rollouts (compliant to Wave 2 Phase 2 certification) do not take place by 2008, the market scope for Mobile WiMAX on a global basis will be insignificant - claims Frost & Sullivan. The research firm also observes that the technology is facing a range of challenges that are likely to make it unfeasible as a mobile "access" technology. more
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Sprint Nextel Planning Large Scale Job Cuts
US based Sprint Nextel is reported to be considering a second round of redundancies - said to be be "extensive". The scale of the layoffs isn't clear, but they are likely to be in the range of a few thousand, the Wall Street Journal reports. Daniel Hesse, Sprint's new CEO is planning to raise the issue with the company's board later this week. The future of the troubled WiMAX network is also expected to be discussed. more
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Sprint Outlines WiMAX Launch Plans
USA based Sprint has announced new Xohm mobile Internet business agreements involving web portal services and WiMAX network access devices. The company also named an advertising agency of record to help launch the Xohm brand in the United States. more
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Sprint Nextel Invests in 3G Infrastructure Vendor
Sprint Nextel has made an additional US$10 million strategic investment in IPWireless. In July of 2005, Sprint made its initial investment of $4 million in IPWireless. Sprint Nextel is currently trialing IPWireless' UMTS TD-CDMA technology in the Washington DC area for broadband access for laptops, desktops or PDAs; backhaul for enterprise campus; and a wide array of Wireless Interactive Multimedia Services. more
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