The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is to introduce regulations governing sales promotions by mobile operators in Vietnam. The head of the Telecom Department, Pham Hong Hai, said that such promotions – some of which last up to....
Read More »	Comments (0)

China Mobile has agreed to lease the TD-SCDMA network being built by its parent, China Mobile Communications (CMCC), and has announced that it will pay a maximum of RMB1 billion (USD146 million) during 2009. The company has already invested some....
Read More »	Comments (0)

In three weeks since launching GSM and W-CDMA services, Rwandatel has gained 120,000 customers. As of 21 December 2008 the figure represented the company’s total number of active subscribers, according to CEO Patrick Kariningufu. The cellco hopes to achieve 600,000 customers by the end of 2009 as it expands the networks nationwide.
Read More »	Comments (0)

Vodafone Qatar, which is set to launch pre- and post-paid mobile services nationwide on 1 March, says it will establish an international cable landing station in the Middle East country. Vodafone Qatar chief executive officer Grahame Maher told Gulf....
Read More »	Comments (0)

India’s upcoming 3G auctions look set for yet another delay, having only recently been pushed back to 30 January. The initial delay, from 15 January, came as a result of requests from potential bidders for more time to prepare for the process. The finance ministry....
Read More »	Comments (0)

AT&T has denied that it is forcing its 2G customers to upgrade to 3G contracts by switching its W-CDMA networks to 850MHz and moving GSM/EDGE services to the 1900MHz band. The operator is attempting to boost the coverage of its 3G systems by using the....
Read More »	Comments (0)

US cellular operator Verizon Wireless is set to close its merger with smaller rival Alltel Corp on 9 January, creating the country’s largest mobile network. The closing date is subject to satisfaction or waiver of the closing conditions set forth in the merger....
Read More »	Comments (0)

The Bolivian government has announced that the state-owned telecoms operator Entel finished 2008 with over two million mobile telephony clients. In June 2008 Entel’s subscribers totalled 1.8 million compared to rivals Telecel and Nuevatel with 1.19 million and....
Read More »	Comments (0)

The Kuwait-based international cellular group Zain says it expects net profit to increase by over 30% in 2009, with EBITDA predicted to rise by around 40%. A report, which quotes local newspaper al-Watan, adds that Zain is expecting total subscriber numbers at its....
Read More »	Comments (0)

British broadsheet The Guardian is reporting that mobile operators Vodafone UK and Orange UK are considering an agreement that would see the two companies share technology, engineering and maintenance costs. The two cellcos already share costs at some....
Read More »	Comments (0)

The Russian wireless broadband operator Enforta has received a USD15 million four-year loan from its shareholder The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The loan will support the company's expansion and help refinance an existing....
Read More »	Comments (0)

Hong Kong’s Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) has shortlisted five qualified bidders for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) licences, which cover the operation of WiMAX networks. The list of five companies, unchanged from an earlier announcement....
Read More »	Comments (0)

Ecuadorian state-owned national fixed line operator Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CNT) plans to cut end-user fixed line telephony rates by 50% this month, according to general manager Cesar Regalado. Regalado also said that the operator....
Read More »	Comments (0)

Telecom Italia's German subsidiary Hansenet will start to offer free mobile internet access to new customers for its Alice DSL services, according to Hansenet's marketing director Michele Novelli in an interview with the Financial Times Deutschland. Novelli said that all....
Read More »	Comments (0)

Indian telecommunication services provider Bharti Airtel's Sri Lanka unit will launch its operations on 12 January, writes the Lanka Business Online. The Board of Investment (BOI) has granted concessions to the local operating unit RTEC Mobile Lanka and the....
Read More »	Comments (0)

Africa and Middle East mobile operator Zain expects net profit to rise by more than 30 percent in 2009. The firm's CEO Saad al-Barrak told al-Watan newspaper that EBITDA would rise by around 40 percent this year. A spokesman for Zain, which operates in 22 countries....
Read More »	Comments (0)

Daily Mobile got some pretty sweet hands-on images of the SE Kate C510. Just to rehash, the K770 successor will feature a 3.2 mega pixel camera with Photo Flash Face detection, Smile Shutter, BestPic, QVGA video recording, an active lens cover and....
Read More »	Comments (0)

For years, Research In Motion has dominated the U.S. market for smart phones, essentially handheld laptops for road warriors. It was a niche market growing five times faster than the standard cell phone space. Then came the Apple iPhone, creating a flood of....
Read More »	Comments (0)

A new exploit for a wide range of Symbian OS-based smartphones was made public last week. This exploit has been dubbed the “SMS Curse of Silence” by Tobias Engel, who discovered and disclosed the exploit at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress....
Read More »	Comments (0)

All the Israeli operators have switched to per-second billing, following a decision announced in 2005 by the Ministry of Communications. The move replaced the 12-second billing used so far. The ministry gave mobile operators a long time to prepare for....
Read More »	Comments (0)

A new study from Parks Associates finds consumer demand for networking features will drive the next wave of consumer electronics purchasing, particularly for imaging and mobile devices such as digital cameras, photo frames, and mobile phones. The survey from....
Read More »	Comments (0)

A report from Taipei-based MIC is predicting that the Taiwanese mobile phone market volume reached 1.71 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, down 5.3% sequentially. Market value is expected to reach NT$9.7­2 billion (US$294.2 million). In the first quarter....
Read More »