Mobile and Wireless
Robert Andersson to head Nokia’s corporate development office
Nokia has announced that Robert Andersson, who currently heads Finance, Strategy and Strategic Sourcing in the Devices unit, will leave the Group Exective Board as of 30 September 2009 in connection with his transfer to new duties in the Corporate Development Office as of 1 October 2009. He will head the Corporate Alliances and Business [...]
Trikomsel partners with Mig33 in Indonesia
Trikomsel, a telecommunication company in Indonesia, has announced a partnership with mig33, a mobile community in the country. Under the agreement, the two companies will form a voucher distribution partnership to develop new opportunities for mobile Indonesian consumers. In the near term, Indonesians will for the first time be able to buy vouchers for a [...]
Airtel launches m-commerce service on voice
Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom services provider headquartered in India, has launched its m-commerce service – ‘Mchek on Airtel’ on the voice platform. This service enables use of voice (IVR) for m-commerce transactions for all Airtel mobile customers. The customer has to call 543219 to access the service which is toll free. The new service [...]
China Telecom selects Alca-Lu for IP backbone
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a centralised purchasing contract with China Telecom, a telecom operator in China, to provide and maintain an IP/MPLS backbone across ten provinces (Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Gansu, Xinjiang and Shanghai). Upon completion in October, China Telecom hopes to deliver advanced broadband services with improved quality. The contract, which is [...]
Alca-Lu, Airtel appoint Soubelet as CEO of their JV
Alcatel-Lucent and Bharti Airtel have announced the appointment of Arnaud Soubelet as the CEO of their joint venture Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India (ALNMSI). The joint venture will manage Bharti Airtel’s pan India wireline broadband and telephone services. It will also support their transition to next generation networks (NGN) to offer advanced services like high-speed [...]
Tata Communications partners with Hyperoffice
Hyperoffice and Tata Communications are partnering to offer the Hyperoffice collaboration suite with the data and voice tools that Tata Communications delivers to business subscribers in India and other countries around the world. Tata Communications offers internet services in India under the Tata Indicom brand name to business subscribers, including online backup, security, web conferencing, [...]
KDDI selects Motorola for LTE network in Japan
Motorola will help develop and implement KDDI’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, including RAN/base stations, in Japan. Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business will provide the optimal LTE solution to enable KDDI to offer high-speed mobile broadband services, such as video and social networking, to its customers across Japan. KDDI informed that it will deploy [...]
Huawei to build Vodafone Czech Republic’s 3G network
Vodafone Czech Republic has selected Huawei as the supplier of its high-speed 3G network infrastructure. Under the five year contract, Huawei will be responsible for expanding Vodafone’s 3G network. The contract will first focus on continuing the expansion of 3G coverage within Prague, as well as Bruno. Huawei will also work on the modernisation and [...]
Ericsson announces agreement with Telefonica O2 UK
Ericsson will provide field maintenance and other services for the Telefonica O2 UK 2G and 3G networks. Under the new agreement, Ericsson will provide field maintenance services for radio and switch sites, spare parts management logistics support as well as optimisation and drive services and facilities engineering services for Telefonica O2 UK. Ericsson and Telefonica [...]
Sonera introduces 3G services in the 900 MHz frequency
Sonera has informed that it has accelerated its turbo 3G build-out programme by introducing mobile broadband services in the 900 MHz frequency. The company has informed that a significant part of the turbo 3G extension will be based on the 900 MHz frequency. In a lower-frequency network, an individual base station serves a larger coverage [...]
