Ericsson has completed the acquisition of Microsoft's Mediaroom business and TV solution. Together with Ericsson's existing capability, the acquisition places the firm as the world's largest, by market share, and the most experienced ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and Moscow-based Rostelecom OJSC, the largest ...
Etisalat UAE will soon be able to deliver new standards of LTE roaming across the globe to its customers, thanks to a newly signed IP exchange (IPX) agreement with SAP. The agreement will help Etisalat launch LTE roaming quickly by ...
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US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
Tags: 4G, Computer Products
Mobile telecoms operator Three UK has gone down for the second time in 24 hours. It comes just five hours after the company said that the problems on its network had been resolved, with services in London being restored first, ahead of ...
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CBR rounds up expert comments on the 4G auction winner announcement and what this means for the future of mobile broadband in the UK. Gary Marven, CEO of MLL Telecom As a UK focused telecoms operator and existing spectrum owner we are ...
Communications regulator Ofcom has raised 2.34bn Euro in the much delayed 4G spectrum auction, more than £1bn less than the Office for Budget for Responsibility (OBR) had forecast. EE already holds 4G spectrum and is currently the ...
New Firefox phones - the first in a slew of new smartphones based on operating system alternatives to Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone - will be launched in February. Created by a Spanish startup called Geeksphone, the ...
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U.K.-based telecoms operator O2 recently urged the mobile industry to cease selling smartphone charges with new handsets, having completed a successful trial. The operator revealed the results of a three-month-long pilot scheme in ...
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By Sherif Salem. While attending an investment conference in Erbil in November, I was struck by a theme that came through in almost all my meetings with listed-company executives: a desire to engage with foreign companies. It seems as ...
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According to CyberMart, an electronics retail arm of the Hon Hai Group, consumers have snatched up all 500 60-inch Radioshack LED TVs that it was selling online on December 25. Early On Monday, CyberMart chairman Steve Chang announced ...
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During the integration of three separate groups of Swiss telecoms provider SwissCom, the business intelligence (BI) function was the only place to get a view of the whole organisation. Following its decision in 2008 to converge groups ...
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Iraqi mobile telecoms company, Asiacell has teamed up with Ericsson on a three year contract which will see the telecoms operator utilising Ericsson’s Charging & Billing in One system. Under the agreement, Ericsson will do systems ...
Tags: Ericsson, Premium customer experience, Telecommunications operators
Ofcom has announced plans to make more spectrum available in the next five years to pave the way for growth in the mobile industry. The telecoms operator said it would free up the 700MHz frequency, currently used for digital television ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that Colt Technology Services has made ...
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