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March 9, 2010

Tata DoCoMo once again stirs Indian tariff war

Tata DoCoMo, India’s fastest-growing cellco, has once again stirred up the market with aggressive price plans.
 
Tata Teleservices’ GSM arm has unveiled new packages that allow enterprise customers to carry over unused free talk time and free texts for up to three consecutive months.
 
Tata Teleservices managing director Anil S

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February 9, 2010

Streaming video is fastest growing mobile app

Streaming mobile video has become a mainstream medium and is the single most influential factor driving the need for increased network capacity, according to the latest survey from IP firm Allot.
 
The report found that global mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 72% between the second quarter and fourth quarter of 2009, and that YouTube was responsible for

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January 4, 2010

China Mobile apps users approach 1 million

China Mobile has revealed that its four-and-a-half month old app store Mobile Market had amassed almost 1 million registered users at the end of December. 
 
The operator late last week revealed that Mobile Market’s 960,000 registered users had racked up just over 2 million downloads by year-end.

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November 12, 2009

Orange & T-mobile get approvals to merge. UK’s largest Mobile Operator is now in the making.

The proposed merger between Orange and T-Mobile gets all the nods from competition authorities and government bodies in UK and Europe. This signals the creation of UKs largest mobile operator with 30 million users and a market share of around 37 percent.
Timotheus Höttges, the CFO of Deutsche Telekom said- “The negotiations were conducted in a [...]

October 14, 2009

US Mobile Market consolidation not necessary- Deutsche Telekom CFO

Deutsche Telekom CFO, Timotheus Hoettges told Bloomberg News that he sees no need for further consolidation of the U.S. mobile-phone market.
He mentioned that there are four national players in the U.S. market for 300 million households, whereas in Europe, there are 350 million households with close to 70 operators.
Deutsche Telekom’s current focus in the U.S. [...]

August 28, 2009

Macedonia fails in latest bid to increase mobile competition

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Macedonian government has reportedly failed in its latest attempt to increase competition in the country’s mobile market. In a second bid to drum up interest, the Macedonian Agency for Electronic Communications (AEC) apparently solicited interest from 19 of the world’s biggest telecoms companies including Vodafone Group (UK), Telefonica of Spain, China Telecom, Telenor [...]

August 19, 2009

Vodafone Qatar aims at market share of 60% in next 10 years

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone Qatar, the newly launched mobile operator in the country, reportedly anticipates to capture nearly 60% of the Qatari mobile market in next 10 years, a senior company official has said.
“We hope that by 2019 Vodafone Qatar will have acquired 40-60 percent market share as we will be offering quality product and a great [...]

August 17, 2009

China Mobile launches Mobile Market

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Mobile, the nation’s leading mobile operator, has reportedly introduced an online application platform which offers music, games, videos, and other entertainment applications for download to mobile phones.
The online store is dubbed as Mobile Market acts as a link between handset vendors and applications developers to China Mobile’s users.
Mobile Market currently supports 10 handset [...]

August 6, 2009

France ends Q2′09 with 58.91Mn subscribers

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The French mobile operators have added 678,600 new subscribers in Q2′09 to end June with 58.91 million subscribers, reports the French telecom regulator Arcep. While the overall mobile market grew by 1.2% in Q2, the postpaid subscriber base grew by 1.8% to 40.51 million and prepaid subscribers fell by 0.3% to 18.4 million. MVNOs, [...]

July 30, 2009

Vodafone Turkey to invest $675Bn

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone, the Tukrish mobile operator, intends to make an investment of 1 billion lira ($675 million) in technology over a years time period in order to boost its position in the fast paced market, chief executive, Serpil Timuray reportedly unveiled.
The investment will also include 3G services.

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