Kyocera made an impression at CTIA 2008 this week with a trio of new CDMA handsets with a fashion sense. The Neo E1100, Mako S4000, and Adreno S2400 are planned to be available in Q3 2008 and feature support for the AWS frequencies (1700/2100MHz).
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[CN+] Spain’s Telefonica Friday said its Brazilian unit Vivo Participacoes has completed the purchase of a majority stake in Telemig Celular Participacoes for EUR429 million
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[CN+] Bharti Airtel is seeking to expand its international mobile phone operations and is focused on acquisitions in emerging markets, the India-based company’s chairman said Friday.
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New research commissioned by Vodafone UK has found that more than 70% of all workers talk business on their mobile phones in public, with one-in-five talking about business-critical subjects such as sales leads, and 15% admit to openly discussing confidential new products or services whilst traveling.
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Russia’s VimpelCom has announced that its licenses for GSM 900/1800 mobile radio telephony communications in 50 regions of the Russian Federation have been extended by issuance of new licenses.
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Nigerian police have arrested two members of a criminal gang which has been accused of stealing fuel from rural GSM base stations.
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According to a Harris Interactive survey, the use of cell phones is increasing and traditional landline telephone coverage is decreasing. In fact, one in five US adults do not have a landline and only 79 percent currently do.
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The thousands of Navajo Nation residents who rely on the Internet to work, study and communicate across their 27,000-square-mile reservation will be out of luck Monday, if their satellite based service provider is shuttered as planned.
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Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee denied Friday that he ordered the creation of a slush fund at the center of a high-profile probe into alleged bribery by South Korea’s largest business conglomerate.
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Apple’s iTunes online music store vaulted past Wal-Mart Stores in February to become the top overall music retailer in the U.S., a market research firm said Thursday.
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Recognizing that it’s not much fun to watch movies on a tiny cell phone, a number of companies are racing to develop gadgets that project what’s playing on the small screen onto walls, table cloths and other handy surfaces.
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While the rest of the world is paying attention to CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas, the N-gage team quietly launched the official version of Nokia’s N-gage 2.0 gaming platform. Saying the official Press Release is coming on Monday, the N-gage Team posted the download link quietly, as a treat to their biggest fans.
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Sprint has announced that it will soon offer the Sanyo Pro-200 and Pro-700 clamshell handsets, both sporting support for Sprint’s CDMA-based QChat Direct Connect service. The Pro-700 is a ruggedized handset, while the Pro-200 is a more stylish handset.
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At the end of the September quarter, the ten largest networks in the Caribbean and Latin America region all had a minimum of 10 million customers. This remains the case in the current quarter, with those same ten and only those ten having passed this mark.
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[CN+] Telekom Austria shares surged more than 5% Thursday after a media report suggested the company is close to agreement on a deal allowing it to drastically cut staffing costs at its fixed-line division.
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[CN+] The Indian government Thursday started allocating spectrum, or radio bandwidth, to new telecoms players, with privately-owned Shyam Telelink Ltd. receiving spectrum to start mobile services in seven circles
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[CN+] Apple’s influence was readily apparent at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas this year, not bad for a company that typically opts to avoid the event.
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[CN+] The French government is considering shelving plans for a fourth mobile telecommunications license despite the revenue an auction would generate, a senior government official told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.
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Cubans who learned last week that they will be allowed to own cell phones got a bonus Wednesday, with news that the mobile connections will allow them to reach overseas friends and relatives in the U.S. and beyond.
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Greece’s telecommunication workers’ union announced Thursday a further strike next week to protest Deutsche Telekom’s move to acquire an equity stake and management control of the country’s largest telecom company.
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The number of mobile phones in the reclusive nation of Burma/Myanmar reached 265,912 at the end of 2007 - reports a newly-published local bi-weekly newspaper, citing the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT).
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This CDMA version of the Curve combines EVDO data with standard Curve multimedia features such as a 2 megapixel camera with video capture, stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, and 3.5mm headphone jack. Other features include GPS navigation, QWERTY keyboard, large QVGA display, push email, and trackball navigation.
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Motorola to close its Singapore handset plat as part of its global cost-cutting initiatives.
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A widowed resident of an alleged haunted home claims he is getting text messages on his mobile phone - from his dead wife.
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion served notice that it is overcoming fears of a slowdown in cell phone sales and the competitive threat of Apple’s iPhone
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