Mobile operator strategies - 16/02/06

Publié le 16 février 2006 par Arnal

DoCoMo, Renesas Technology, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, and Sharp will jointly develop a mobile phone platform supporting HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE.

Vimpelcom (Russia) has offered $5bn to purchase Ukraine's Kyivstar,

Hutchison sold 10% stake ($500m) to Goldman Sachs, and delays 3 Italy IPO.

SFR (France) will debut an HSDPA pilot from mid-February, then will launch first commercial trials, called 3G+,

SkyLink (Russia) has launched commercial deployment of 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO services in the greater Saint Petersburg area.

Vodafone and Orange are the first multi-national mobile operators to launch Instant Messaging interoperability,

Nokia and Sony Ericsson will cooperate to work on mobile DVB-H enabled devices interoperability.

BT would add the Motorola A910 handset (a WiFi/UMA/ cellular phone) as part of the Fusion line-up from 3Q06.

Virgin Mobile has signed a deal with BT Movio to offer, by the end of 2006, digital broadcast television and digital radio services over mobile phones.

Telecom Italia will launch HSDPA mobile services in May.