Mobile operator strategies - 17/9/05

Publié le 17 septembre 2005 par Arnal

CenterTel (Poland), the mobile arm of TPSA, will introduce the global Orange mobile brand from France Telecom.

Vimpelcom is buying Ukrainian Radiosystems for $206m.

China Unicom will buy 7m low-end CDMA mobile phones.

Mobile TeleSystems (MBT) (Russia) is launching i-mode portal in Russia.

Mobitel (mobilkom Austria group in Bulgaria) launches the first UMTS network in Bulgaria.

Vodafone and Verizon Wireless announced GlobalAccess that will allow users to access Verizon' CDMA2000 1x EV-DO data network in the US and Vodafone's GPRS/UMTS network for international data services.

Deutsche Telecom has decided against selling its T-Mobile USA unit.

Vodafone is introducing 15 new 3G phones, of which 10 are exclusive. The handsets come from Motorola, Sharp, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.