Best New year SMS Greetings: Survey
With new year round the corner, it’s time to be eco-friendly and use new year sms greetings instead of sending out physical cards. but the challenge is to decide what to choose. Let us make it simpler for you.
Here are the results of a survey conducted and it has revealed the TOP 3 New Year SMS greetings:
New Year SMS Greetings
- Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Happy New Year.
{Click Here to send it for Free} - New is the year, new are the hopes and the aspirations, new is the resolution and new are the spirits. Have a promising and fulfilling New Year.
{Click Here to send it for Free} - Before the golden sun sets, 2009′s calendar is destroyed, and mobile networks get jammed, I wish in 2010 every moment is enjoyed. Happy New Year. {Click Here to send it for Free}
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Whole sale IP services launched by Airtel in Middle East
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After completing its Middle East Connect network, Bharti Airtel has launched wholesale IP services in the Middle East. Over the last two quarters the company has added 17 Gbps worth of capacity to the region apart from investing in India- Middle East cable routes on the SEA-ME-WE 4, I-ME-WE and EIG.
All the cable routes in the Middle East has at least three paths besides the company is also building a regional backbone which will connect the major Middle East markets.
The company offers services like global leased circuits, submarine capacity, Ethernet, backhaul, global and regional IP transit and bandwidth on demand.
According to Rajan Swaroop, executive director of Bharti Airtel, the region is a key market with some of the biggest economies and representing one of the most dynamic wholesale markets today. He feels that in order to become a global network service provider it is very crucial to develop services in the Middle East.
COO of Qualcomm resigns
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Len Lauer, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm has resigned from his post and joined as a CEO in another company. This organizational change will result into realignment of Qualcomm’s business groups.
Now Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) organization will report to Steve Mollenkopf, EVP and president, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT).Close partnership with QCT will repay QMT in the long run as the display business enters into the phase of expansion. They work with device manufacturers and also look after commercialization, scaling, and evolving the mirasol product line. All the remaining business will report to Steve Altman, president.
According to chairman and CEO of Qualcomm Dr Paul E Jacobs, Len’s leadership and expertise helped Qualcomm in expanding its business during the past three years. The company wished him every success in his future endeavors.
O2 apologize for snag in London network
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The head of O2 has apologized for the problems the customers faced due to mobile operator’s London network being overwhelmed with bandwidth-hungry smartphones.The customers were disappointed with O2′s network performance in London since summer. However the company started experiencing major network difficulties during the second half of 2009 when
customers with Apple’s iPhone ramped up their use of applications that repeatedly pull data off the internet at short intervals.Without missing the opportunity Vodafone, the second largest operator is claiming that its network will cope far better with the growing number of smartphones.
According to the company the rising demand of data services on smartphones have caused difficulties in the O2 network. Many O2 customers could not make or receive calls and download material to their handsets because of the clogged network by smartphones
However the head of the company has assured that any short term blip in O2′s network Reputation will be addressed by three solutions. Firstly O2 has been working with Nokia Siemens Networks, its infrastructure supplier, on software modifications that will ensure it can better manage the combination of voice and data traffic on its network.
Secondly, the installation of 200 additional mobile base stations in London will increase the traffic load the network can bear.And thirdly O2 is liaising with handset manufacturers, including Apple and Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, to learn about applications which might result into heavy demand on the network.
iPhone Games to witness rise in sales during holidays
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the holiday season near the corner the sales of the Apple iPhone is expected to witness a sharp surge in contrast to the console games market. According to the data released by iPhone website, PlayHaven and mobile ad agency, Mobclix iPhone, game usage is likely to set new records in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, soaring to levels 28 times greater than the same weekly period last year.
Raymond Lau co-founder and CEO of PlayHaven feels that as compared to the slow holiday sales this year for console game titles, the high sales of iphone game downloads is very impressive.iPhones have become a popular mode of entertainment.
Despite the tough competition from Android, App Store is successful in wooing the customers with over 15000 game titles available to date. With consumers demanding for personal devices as their source of entertainment, game app market is witnessing a rise feels Sunil Verma, co-founder of Mobclix. As per the data of the last year on the trends of the current year, a lot people will spend time and money on iPhone games this week, he added.
China Telecom mobile users rose to 3.07m
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With an increase of 3.07 million in November 2009, China Telecom’s total mobile phone users’ number reached 52.99 million. In January, China Telecom’s newly-added mobile phone users reached 1.02 million, in October it topped 3 million, and in November it outpaced 3 million.
However, the number of local phone users, including fixed-line phone users and wireless local phone users decreased by 1.84 million to reach 191 million. The number of broadband users increased 690,000 in November and 8.57 million in total since 2009 to hit 52.84 million.
3G licenses were awarded to China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom at the beginning of this year by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Currently, China Telecom ranks first among the nation’s Big Three telecoms operators with a 3G user base of 4.81 million by October 31, 2009.
Service line won’t be affected due to delays to fixed line award, says Vodafone Qatar
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Corporate governance issues has again led to the delay, this time until the first quarter of the next year, in the official award of Qatar’s second fixed line license to Vodafone Qatar.
In September 2008, the British-Qatari joint venture was declared the winner of the second national operator (SNO) license, with commercial fixed line services originally mooted for 2009, whilst in the meantime it broke the monopoly of Qatar Telecom (Qtel) with the launch of 2G/3G services in July 2009.
According to William Fagan, the head of the country’s regulator, ictQATAR , Vodafone Qatar and its local investor Qatar Foundation had still not formed the actual company that will be awarded the fixed license. In order to launch fixed line services before the end of 2010, he expects all problems to be resolved early in the next year.
Zambian government under pressure to release Zamtel valuation report
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Zambia’s civil society organizations have pressurized the Government to release the valuation report it commissioned to sell its majority stakes in a fixed line incumbent Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel).
According to Fackson Shamenda, former Zambia Congress of Trade Union president, there has not been much transparency in the sale of Zamtel and with the release of the information the potential concerns over the sales will be cleared.
Earlier this year the government had appointed RP Capital to evaluate the telco’s assets, after deciding to sell 75% stake in Zamtel. However they never released the report. This led to complaints saying that there has been no transparency in the process.
According to The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA), eight companies including Portugal Telecom, Orascom Telecom and Vimpelcom have pre-qualified for the stake sale, and those firms are due to complete due diligence today, with bids due by midday. The ZDA will release the identity of those companies that have submitted bids for the stake and after reviewing the bids announce the shortlisted candidates on January11.
Ericsson selected as primary vendor for 2G/3G network rollout by Mobile Norway
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobile Norway, the joint venture formed by Tele2 Norge and Network Norway has selected Ericsson, a Swedish vendor as the main vendor for the roll-out of a new 2G/3G mobile network in Norway. Mobile Norway plans to roll out a network covering 75% of the population in the ‘coming years’.
There has not been any formal announcement of the financial deal or the time frame for the deployment of the new infrastructure.
In September 2007, Network Norway and Tele2 Norgehad announced their partnership and under the terms of the deal, Tele2 Norge acquired 50% of the shares in AMI, holder of Norway’s third GSM-900 license. After the deal, the 50/50 joint venture Mobile Norway came into existence.
Two months after the announcement the Norwegian government revealed that it had received an application from Mobile Norway for the country’s fourth UMTS license. Mobile Norway was also awarded the license for around NOK47 million after a sealed auction in December that year.
GSM mobile services launched by Uninor in Orissa
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the launch of its services in Orissa, Uninor, the GSM mobile service brand of Unitech Wireless and the joint venture company of India’s second largest real estate major
Unitech Limited completes the Blue Arc taking its toll to eight circles pan India. Now Uninor’s service is available in nine states including Orissa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
According to the Unitech Wireless managing director Stein-Erik Vellan, the company is planning to focus on gaining shares where they have launched their services.
The company emphasized on the fact that they want to stay the closest to their customers. From product, pricing to customer services, the firms aims at creating value for individual customers.
According to the executive vice-president of Uninor, Akash Das, the company’s national distribution presence went up over 50 distributors following the launch in Orissa apart from four exclusive stores ready for service across the state. Managing director of Unitech, Sanjay Chandra regarded the project as a mega-success. Uninor’s services have two basic price plans including a base plan known as talklonger@29p and a subscription plan known as callmore@29p.
The former plan is for customers who make longer calls. The plan offers its customers STD call at 49 paise per minute and local calls at 29 paise per minute after charging a call set up fee which costs 39 paise and charged at the time of activation of the cell.
