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Kuwait Telecommunications Company, third telecom services company in Kuwait, has announced that it has signed SMS and GSM deals with 450 international telecom operators in 185 countries.KTC’s agreement, which was supervised by Etisalat, is to provide mobile phone services for subscribers.
The deal was signed by Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Badran, the Project Manager for KTC’s Third Mobile Telecom License program in Kuwait, and Ali Amiri, Etisalat’s Executive Vice President for Operations.
Al-Badran showed interest in entering the Kuwaiti market with a strong impact by signing of the new deals, the company was looking forward to cooperate with other major regional companies.

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Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it sold its Mobitex subsidiary, Velocita Wireless L.P., to United Wireless Holdings Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Velocita Wireless operates a nationwide Mobitex wireless data network covering 93% of the U.S. business population. The slow-speed network supports data communications including e-mail, machine-to-machine, telematics, point-of-sale, and telemetry applications, and counts around 200,000 customers, according to the Woodbridge, N.J.-based company.

Interestingly, Velocita appears to have lost more than half of its customers over the past two years; the company counted more than 400,000 subscribers when Sprint Nextel acquired the company in 2005. Sprint Nextel purchased the company to begin using its 900 MHz spectrum to supplement coverage of the iDEN network the No. 3 carrier acquired with Nextel Communications Inc.

Per terms of the newly announced sale, Velocita Wireless will lease certain FCC spectrum channels from various Sprint Nextel Corp. affiliates.

“This acquisition reinforces the position of Mobitex networks in the world. Mobitex has unique properties which make it a desirable choice for applications such as machine-to-machine communication, telemetry and credit-card authorization. We will be investing in the network to provide even better services to the existing customers and target markets,” United Wireless President Andrew Fitton said.

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Among the first such case in U.S., where a show, made for mobile, has made it onto TV: Comedy Central will air a political parody show produced by MVNO Amp’d Mobile. The show, the animated series called �?Lil’ Bush: Resident of the United States�? will be co-produced with Amp’d and the show’s creator Donick Cary, a TV writer who has written for “Late Show with David Letterman�? and “The Simpsons.�? Comedy Central plans to air the half-hour show weekly beginning next summer during the popular 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, possibly right after “South Park�? and before “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.�? MTV Networks, parent of Comedy Central, is a major investor in Amp’d, though it says its decision to air “Lil’ Bush�? wasn’t influenced by MTV Networks’ ownership in it.
The show on Amp’d is only about five minutes long. Comedy Central will make future shows into two 11-minute episodes to fill the 30-minute TV show slot, with the rest of the time being filled with commercials.
Amp’d has ramped up its original content production efforts: the company has hired KC Armstrong, a former producer of “Howard Stern Show,�? to host a reality-TV program for cellphones. It is also launching a 3D mobile game called “Homeland Security: Kim Jong Il Edition,�? in which a U.S. spy will infiltrate North Korea and assassinate the leader in order to stop nuclear-weapons testing.
It has its own TV studios in its West LA office building, where Fox used to shoot “24.�? It produces hundreds of short sports, comedy and reality show clips, which make up about 5% of its content but get about 30% of the usage, the story said.
The article also notes that Amp’d now has more than 50,000 subscribers.