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Nokia acquires Symbian Limited (Finland)

  • December 3rd, 2008
  • 8:50 am

Nokia Corp has announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.
The closing of the offer is a fundamental step in the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, announced on June 24, 2008 by Nokia, together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.

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Femtocell offers enhanced cell phone coverage & unlimited home calling for $10 a month (US)

  • August 1st, 2008
  • 7:09 am

An option to drop traditional landline, company’s femtocell is offering enhanced cell phone coverage and unlimited home calling for $10 a month. A new hardware that enhances cellular coverages in the home or office is the other option brought by Sprint. The Airave is a mini- cell phone tower made by Smasung. The femtocell connects to Sprint’s network via a user’s broadband network and creates a smaller cell phone network, up to 5,000 square feet, within the user’s home or business.

Simultaneously, three different cell phones can use the mini network . $4.99 monthly fee is required for Airave. Also customers with carrier’s Simply Everything plan has an added advantage that they will be able to make unlimited in-house calls. According to the Company,switching from a Sprint tower to the femtocell will not change the plan to unlimited. “People want ubiquitous cell service on their wireless phones everywhere they go, and that includes their home and offices,” said Tom Jasny, Samsung Mobile’s VP of wireless systems and broadband said. From 17 Aug Femtocell will be available nationwide for $99.99.