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Mobile vendor strategies - 4/12/05
Nokia sold 23m mobile phones (+77%) in China in first nine months. It unveils three new 3G mobile phones: Nokia 6282, 6233 and 6234. Motorola is believed to be in talks with Chinese TCL, and could completely take over TCL's handset business unit. Samsung...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 19/11/05
Siemens targets becoming Ericsson' s challenger in mobile core networks, overtaking Nokia, in the next two to three years. With this goal in mind, it has formed two partnerships in key Asian markets in an effort to improve its position in the market for...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 15/11/05
Sony Ericsson introduced three new low-end phones. Motorola signed a distribution deal with Bharti Teletech (India). It is a strategic alliance for Motorola, which can significantly increase its reach across metros, cities and to the smallest towns in...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 9/11/05
Nokia starts shipments of Nokia 770 phone, part of its new Internet Tablet suite. Motorola unveils four new RAZR handsets, including one that supports CDMA 1X EV-DO technology. It also has invested in Tekion, a North American developer of micro fuel cells....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 5/11/05
Nortel/ LG and Softbank have trialled WiMAX/ HSDPA interoperability and succeeded transmitting simultaneous high speed streams (VOIP, multimedia and video). Nokia unveiled its strategy in push e-mail and directly targets to displace RIM from its leading...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 19/10/05
Samsung is introducing the industry' s first cellular phone with a massive 3GB memory. Palm is teaming up with competitor Research in Motion to bring RIM's wireless-email software to Palm's Treo 650 smartphone. Nokia has estimated its services business...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 29/06/05
Curitel (Korea) will buy a controlling stake in SK Telecom s handset unit SK Teletech. Motorola will introduce a new EDGE Linux-based handset, the E895. Availability in 4Q05. Motorola and Apple are finally launching iPhone, the first mobile phone with...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 25/06/05
Motorola unveils new handset in Japan. The FOMA M1000 will support Wi-Fi, W-CDMA and GSM. It has a Microsoft mobile operating system, features Bluetooth connectivity as well as Internet browsing and the ability to view Microsoft Word and Excel documents....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 21/06/2005
Macromedia is trying to enter the mobile market with its Flash technology. Its latest initiative is an integrated user interface for its Macromedia Breeze conferencing system. Freescale Semiconductor says that it has a new multimode 3G WCDMA/EDGE cellular...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 18/06/05
Huawei said it has 10 commercial 3G contracts. Nokia will jointly work with Avaya on fixed to mobile convergence applications for enterprises. It introduced seven new handsets (three new CDMA models: Nokia 6265 , 2255 model, 2125 phone; and four GSM/UMTS...
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Global operator strategies - 22/02/07
The Italian Government has no objections to foreign stakes in Telecom Italia. The announcement took place just after Telefonica and Sistem are said to negotiate for buying a stake in Olimpia through Pirelli. Essar (India) is seeking partnership of equals...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 5 June 2005
Sony Ericsson is preparing to move into the low-end handset market, while searching volume and improved market share. Nokia outlines low-cost handset strategy, and is introducing two new low-cost handsets targeting emerging markets, including Africa....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 21st May 2005
RIM succeeds in another account. TDC (Denmark) will introduce the BlackBerry to Danish mobile professionals. ZTE and Andrews will manufacture parts for TD-SCDMA. Ericsson and ZTE are teaming to bring TD-SCDMA to the Chinese market. In addition, Ericsson...
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Mobile vendor strategies 05-18-05
Ericsson has selected Adamind's video content adaptation software as part of its Multimedia Messaging Center (MMC). It also will use Adamind MediaSpire(TM)'s integrated support for digital rights management (DRM). NEC and Qualcomm announced the successful...
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Mobile vendor strategies
Ericsson has decided to exit the CDMA market in the US and shed 250 jobs, but will continue to support existing customers. Siemens continues to search a buyer for its loss-making phone unit after Motorola said to have pulled out. Pantech is believed to...
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Mobile vendor strategies
Siemens is in talks for its mobile unit. It is not a surprise, but the German press reported contenders should be Motorola, Acer and Nortel. In fact Siemens should be talking with Nortel of a more general deal (alliance, buy a stake, ???). With Siemens...
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Mobile vendor strategies
Microsoft and RIM announced a deal to extend enterprise instant messaging (IM) and presence to BlackBerry subscribers. Motorola discontinue selling its advanced MPx Windows Mobile smart phone. Alcatel and Instituto Geografico De Agostini have developed...
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Mobile vendor strategy N60
Ericsson launches interactive (via SMS or MMS) Mobile TV application at the Milia TV and broadcasting event. It also targets to commercialize HSDPA in 2006 in Japan . Pantech ( S. Korea ) is considering building a manufacturing plant in Brazil for mobile...
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Vendor - mobile networks 17-01-05 N47
Ningbo Bird, a Chinese mobile phone maker, is targeting the world market in expanding its presence in the overseas markets. Russia , Eastern Europe , India and Southeast Asian countries will be the first targets. Siemens will establish a 3G R&D center...
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Vendor-Mobile networks- 10-01-05 - N46
Motorola has reached speeds of 2.9 Mbit/s per second during outdoor high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) trials with five major European operators. Fujitsu and Staccato announced a partnership to provide all-CMOS, single-chip wireless universal serial...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 28/09/06
Cisco, Nokia/Siemens, Italtel and Bull are working together to bid for a big IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) RFQ from France Telecom. Metrobility Optical (US) has been bought by Telco System (ex BATM) for $7m. Telco System also bought Canadian Critical...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 24/09/06
Alcatel and Nokia are working together to extend business telephony. Alcatel will use Nokia' s Intellisync Call Connect to integrate Nokia E-series devices into the Alcatel IP OmniPCX Enterprise server. The solution will be available in 4Q06 through Alcatel...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 31/08/06
Motorola is reinforcing its commitment to WiMAX by announcing plans to develop mobile WiMAX chipsets. Cisco has signed a distribution deal with HP to incorporate Cisco's WiFi products in enterprise deployments. Redback claims it is N2 in the router market...
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Global operator strategies - 18/02/07
Sonae (Portugal), finally, but it is not a surprise, increased its offer for PT Portugal and PT Multimedia to almost €15.3bn,up 10%, just above PT' shares value. The bid is scheduled to expire on March 9. EU regulators have refused a super telecom regulator...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 20/06/06
Siemens has chosen Amino, a leading IPTV player, to deploy the first IPTV deployment in Thailand for the Advanced Deployment Communications Co. Ltd (ADC). Siemens said its Enterprise Networks unit (not involved in the merger with Nokia Networks) is "available...