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Articles tagged with: Wimax and Vodafone
Hong Kong Undreground Railway Extension Gets Mobile Phone Coverage
A major extension to Hong Kong's mass transit railway will feature another wireless communications network from wireless confined-coverage system solutions provider, Radio Frequency Engineering (RFE). Enlisted by mobile network operator, SmarTone-Vodafone, RFE will design, supply, install and commission a turnkey commercial wireless communications solution for the MTR's new LOHAS Park Station and tunnel extension. more
Related Tags: 3g, mobile-tv, eu, itu, fire-brigade, core-network, mts, cdma, iden, 1800mhz, gsm, network-management, trains, subway, railway, indoor, radio-frequency, pmr, mobile-radio, tunnel, seamless, Hong Kong
Clearwire Taps Former Vodafone Director for CEO Role
USA based wimax operator, Clearwire Corp. has brought in former Vodafone director, Bill Morrow to act as the joint-CEO of the firm - replacing co-founder and CEO Ben Wolff. Bill Morrow is widely credited as being the mastermind behind the turnaround of Vodafone Group's former Japanese operations - but left the firm in 2006 for personal reasons. more
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Vodafone Raising Funds for India's 3G Auction
Vodafone Essar is reported to be currently trying to raise US$2 billion as a bridging loan to finance its bids in the country's delayed 3G and wimax auctions. The current reserve price for the 3G auction is US$412 million to cover all the available circles - although the auction has been delayed as the Finance Ministry is battling to double the reserve to at least US$824 million. more
Related Tags: wall-street-journal, hutchison-telecom, mumbai, tax, hutchison, essar, court, auction, India
SmarTone-Vodafone Confirms LTE Network Upgrade Intent
Hong Kong's SmarTone-Vodafone has announced that it plans to migrate its network towards an LTE platform after it withdrew from last weeks wimax license auction. The operator said that it decided not to persue the wimax option after the cost of the license started to exceed the cost of deploying the LTE upgrade. more
Related Tags: lte, hspa, hspa+, wimax-license, smartone-vodafone, option, Hong Kong
Vodafone Interested in Romanian WiMAX Licenses
Romania's new telecoms regulator, ANC has announced that six companies have expressed an interest in the forthcoming award of two wimax licenses. The six companies have been named as: Asesoft International, Comcore Management, Cosmote, Media Sat, RCS & RDS and Vodafone Romania. more
Related Tags: rsa, rcs, Romania
WiMAX, 3G and Number Portability to Drive Indian Wireless Market in 2009
Defying the global economic slowdown, India's mobile-phone demand is expected to continue to rise at an accelerated rate in 2009 due to the rollout of 3G and wimax networks and the implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: iphone, apple, apple, rsa, isuppli, mtn, mobile-number-portability, cdma, number-portability, chennai, delhi, wireless-broadband, mnp, testing, churn, airtel, 2g, India
Safaricom Subscriber Base Jumps 50% in Six Months
Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom has reported that it subscriber base rose over the six months to October by 50.3% over prior year position of 7.956 million to 11.956 million - while turnover increased by 20% compared to September 2007 to Kshs 34.5 billion (US$469 million). more
Related Tags: prepay, avea, safaricom, vodafone-kenya, tax, vodafone-group, churn, 3g-network, Kenya
Vodafone Corrects Maltese WiMAX Subscriber Numbers
Following the latest Communications market review of the Malta Communications Authority (MCA) for the period January-June 2008, Vodafone has had to clarify its position on the wimax customer base figures reported, after a mistake by Vodafone staff resulted in incorrect figures being provided by the company. more
Multi-Mode WiMAX-LTE Chips to Hit Markets in 2009
2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both wimax and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will welcome the economies of scale that come from creating devices that support both 4G standards. more
Related Tags: intel, abi-research, netbooks, lte, kddi, 4g, usb, dual-mode
2008 is delivering mixed results for mobile infrastructure vendors such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent. more
Related Tags: orange, base-station, iphone, samsung, w-cdma, apple, apple, abi-research, alcatel-lucent, cdma, lte, edge, mobile-internet, base-stations, radio-access-network, cdma2000, siemens, hsdpa, email, music, congestion
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