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September 8, 2010

Vodafone sells out of China Mobile

Filed under: 2G and 2.5G,3G,Business and managed services,China,China Mobile,Daily News,Operator Services,SFR,Verizon,Verizon Wireless,Vivendi,Vodafone,Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 8:38 am

Vodafone has arranged to sell its 3.2% stake in China Mobile for £4.3 billion ($6.6b), prompting speculation that more asset sales are on the way.

The UK operator will sell its 642.9 million shares to a group of banks including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS, FT.com

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August 30, 2010

Tablet emergence could spell death of laptops: AT&T

Filed under: AT&T,Android,BusinessWeek,Google,Mobile Apps and Content,Public,RIM,Tablets,Verizon Wireless,iPad,iPhone,mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 2:42 pm

(Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc.’s emerging devices president, who oversees the carrier’s relationship with Apple Inc., said tablet computers costing as much as $1,000 might soon make many laptops obsolete.

“You’re going to see those 10-inch pieces of glass become full-on computers,” Glenn Lurie said in an interview this month in Atla

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August 10, 2010

VoIP pushes industry to HD voice

Filed under: 3 UK,3G,Cover Story,Dialogic,Ericsson,Features,GIPS,Google,HD voice,Operator Services,Orange,SK Telecom,Skype,Spirit DSP,TelecomAsia,Verizon Wireless,VoIP,VoIP in Service Provider Networks,Voice services,Wi-Fi,Wireless Access,mobile VoIP — galaxiav @ 11:02 pm

VoIP players are setting new standards in voice quality with HD codecs.

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August 4, 2010

AT&T, Verizon form mobile payment JV

Filed under: AT&T,Barclays,BusinessWeek,Discover Financial Services,M-Payment,Mobile Apps and Content,Mobile Banking,Operator Services,Public,T-Mobile,U.S,Verizon Wireless,Visa,smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 2:34 pm

(Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa Inc.

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July 22, 2010

FASTTAKES: Verizon Wireless, China Mobile, Cable & Wireless Worldwide, M1, Lenovo

Filed under: CWW,China Mobile,Daily News,Fixed Access,Lenovo,M1,Mobile Apps and Content,Operator Services,Public,Verizon Wireless,Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 6:02 am

Verizon Wireless will launch its LTE service in the US on November 15, according to Engadget.

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July 15, 2010

100GE trials show progress toward NGN

Filed under: 100GE,AT&T,Carrier Ethernet,Features,Fixed Access,IP traffic,NGN,Optical Networks,Optical transport,Public,U.S,Verizon Wireless — fmmonteverde @ 6:10 am

As carriers try to support a seemingly never-ending spike in bandwidth-hungry and latency-sensitive Internet Protocol (IP) traffic, next-generation networking (NGN) starts to look pretty attractive.

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June 30, 2010

FASTTAKES: Verizon Wireless, China Mobile, Reliance, Foursquare, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent

Filed under: Alcatel-Lucent,China Mobile,Cisco,Daily News,Fixed Access,Foursquare,Mobile Apps and Content,Operator Services,Public,Reliance,Verizon Wireless,Wireless Access — fmmonteverde @ 6:00 am

Verizon Wireless, the biggest US cellco, will start selling the iPhone 4 from next January, Bloomberg reported.

China Mobile has blocked 5,419 WAP sites that allegedly offered adult content,

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June 24, 2010

Verizon counters iPhone 4 with Droid X

Filed under: Android,Apple,Daily News,Droid X,Google,Mobile Apps and Content,Motorola,Public,Verizon Wireless,iPhone,iPhone 4,mobile phones — fmmonteverde @ 6:09 am

Google and US cellco Verizon Wireless has unveiled their challenger to Apple’s iPhone 4 – the Android-powered Droid X smartphone, made by Motorola.

The Droid X – which features a 4.3-inch display and can run Flash software – will cost $199.99 on a two-year contract and will be released by Verizon in the US on July 15, WSJ

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June 22, 2010

Strategies for surviving

Filed under: 2G and 2.5G,3G,AT&T,CSL,Cover Story,Features,Gartner,Mobile Apps and Content,Ovum,PCCW,Public,Telecom Asia Supplements,Verizon Wireless,Wi-Fi,WiFi offload,Wireless Access,femtocells,mobile internet,wireless broadband — fmmonteverde @ 7:40 am

Flat-rate data plans have turned wireless broadband into a commodity before operators have been able to extract a decent return on their huge infrastructure investment.

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June 20, 2010

The six steps to VoIP

Filed under: Analyst View,AnalystWire,Operator Services,Skype,TelecomAsia,Verizon Wireless,VoIP,VoIP in Service Provider Networks,mobile VoIP — galaxiav @ 9:49 pm

Without outside pressure, operators would not concern themselves with VoIP until they had LTE networks.

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