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November 30, 2009

Nokia EVP claims they might sell their handset manufacturing business. (updated)

Nokia Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki: We may sell our handset manufacturing business
Nokia’s EVP, Anssi Vanjoki in an interview to a German publication (Wirtschaftswoche) admitted that Nokia may look to sell it’s hardware manufacturing unit.
After all, RIM (blackberry), Apple and Google don’t make their own handsets, they have all outsourced the hardware bit of it. [...]

What is Mobile Centrex?

Filed under: Mobile — admin @ 10:56 pm

Mobile Centrex: Mobile Centrex solutions allow subscribers to treat mobile handsets as office extensions. There are no upgrades required to the handsets involved – any existing device can be used.
Mobile Centrex solutions provide seamless mobility, ensuring that users have access to the same feature set available in the office, and removes the distinction between a [...]

Case Study of the Mobile IP Centrex: A paper by NTTDoCoMo

Filed under: Mobile — admin @ 10:35 pm

Hiroyasu YUHASHI
Mobile Society Research Institute,
NTT DOCOMO, INC.
We just came across a case study of the Mobile IP Centrex.
The paper explores how at the initial stage of mobile phone penetration, cell phones were primarily used for business. With increased penetration, mobile phone use expanded vastly from business alone to personal and onto entertainment among other utilities. In 2004, [...]

Idea Cellular Launches 'Talk To Auro' | News.UnwireIndia.com

Filed under: Uncategorized — Rohit @ 9:09 pm

IDEA Cellular, the fastest growing Pan India mobile operator today announced the launch “Talk to Auro” and innovative IVR based an groundbreaking value added services for its GSM Mobile subscribers across India which will offer virtual …

Smartphone Security Tips | State of Telecom Industry in Pakistan

Filed under: Uncategorized — Babar Bhatti @ 7:20 pm

Text messaging is a favorite service for many mobile-phone users. It’s also becoming a favorite line of attack for scammers. For instance, text messages carrying insidious coding were the weapon in an attack late last year on phones using the Symbian operating system and … Smart phones running on the Android operating system or the BlackBerry system allow you to limit the amount of access an application has. You simply head to your Settings menu and choose Application. …

Price war looms at NSN vows to win market share

When Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) vows to chase market share, that can surely mean only one thing – price war.
 
Given that that means a bare-knuckle brawl with the undisputed discount champions, ZTE and Huawei, you’d think that’s not a fight NSN would want to pick.
 
NSN’s new CEO Rajeev Suri has told Finnis

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It’s the long tail, says Globe chief

With falling ARPU, increasing churn and slowing sub growth, Globe Telecom CEO and president Ernest Cu said the revenue model is shifting toward the long tail.

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Telstra seeks India re-entry

Australian operator Telstra is planning a re-entry into India’s consumer telecom market, nine years after it bailed out of the country’s earliest mobile operator.
 
The company has asked the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) for permission to increase its stake in new JV Telstra Telecommunications to 74% from 49%, India’s Business Standard

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SoftBank in talks to acquire Willcom: report

Japan’s third largest mobile operator, SoftBank, has reportedly made an offer to acquire debt-laden personal handyphone service (PHS) operator Willcom.
 
Willcom, which is struggling with around 93.5 billion yen ($1.08 billion) in debt, has received offers from Softbank and private investment firms, people familiar with the negotiations

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Lenovo buys back mobile unit for $200m

PC firm Lenovo is buying back its handset unit for approximately $200 million, twice what it sold the business for less than two years ago.

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