Operators

Details: Category: Operators; 18 September 2009; 13183 views

Telefónica, Europe’s leading carrier by market cap, is set to increase its interest in China Unicom to above 8%, while China Unicom will become a Telefónica shareholder with an approximately 0.88% stake. This broad strategic deal is intended to reinforce both operators’ market positions: a combined 550 million customers and nearly 10% of the global population...

Details: Category: Operators; 02 June 2009; 13059 views

In an official signing ceremony held in Amman, Jordan, Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC (Zain) and Palestinian Telecommunications Company Plc (Paltel) have entered into an agreement for a share-for-share exchange...

Details: Category: Operators; 30 April 2009; 11894 views

Bharti Telesoft, which provides integrated VAS solutions for mobile operators in emerging markets, has announced its new name, Comviva, and its new company name, Comviva Technologies Limited. This major change will be accompanied by a company-wide re-branding initiative to present a unified approach to the market...

Details: James Barton; Category: Operators; 11 August 2008; 10887 views

Zain Group, one of the leading mobile operators servicing the Middle East and Africa, has re-branded its entire African operation from Celtel to Zain with effect from 1^st August 2008...

Details: Category: Operators; 24 April 2008; 13010 views

Intensive competition from mobile phones and the problematic fixed-line market in China have led to a major consolidation in that country...

Details: Michael Schwartz; Category: Operators; 30 January 2007; 11526 views

Sprint Nextel is always watched very closely by wireless broadband specialists because it has been committed since last August to rolling out WiMax-based 4G across the USA. The target is 100 million customers by the end of next year. And it is as a product tied into the Internet in particular that Sprint Nextel sees WiMax developing.

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Operators; 16 January 2007; 13052 views

Sprint Nextel has named Nokia as a key infrastructure and consumer electronic device provider for its WiMAX next generation mobility network.

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Operators; 22 December 2006; 15952 views

Vodafone is set to launch a £7bn plus offer for the Indian mobile phone operator Hutchison Essar as the company prepares to fight off rival bids for India's fourth largest telecoms carrier...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Operators; 27 November 2006; 14418 views

Bharti Airtel Limited has awarded Nokia an estimated US$400 million contract to expand its managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in eight Airtel circles and to deploy a pan-Indian WAP solution across its networks.

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Operators; 15 June 2006; 11447 views

It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana now means that it has established a mobile presence in Ghana - at the third attempt...

Details: Alec Barton; Category: Operators; 02 May 2006; 8802 views

Spring-cleaning was one description of the changes that Vodafone is now implementing as it seeks further success. As those changes stretch to a focus on the emerging markets and also to reinforcing the important role convergence has to play in modern telecommunications, the term spring-cleaning is a considerable under-statement...

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