www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Acer displayed the seriousness of its aim to penetrate the market with various prices and features for its phone lineup by announcing five new smartphones, out of which three would be coupled with the Android OS and two with Windows Mobile 6.5.

E, BeTouch E400, and BeTouch E110 are the android phones and the NeoTouch P300 and NeoTouch P400 both run Windows Mobile 6.5. However, with the announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series, the two Windows phones already look a bit dated.

All of Acer’s newly announced phones will be available overseas and in Canada in 2010, with the possibility of Acer handsets coming to the U.S. in 2011.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Acer Computer and Telstra Business joins hand to to release three ready-to-go business laptops and data plan bundles with built-in wireless mobile broadband connectivity. These bundles will make it easier for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to join the remote workforce revolution, thus providing better services and products to small business.

According to Telstra Business Group Managing Director Deena Shiff, 2010 Back to Business SME survey1 found that not only was the availability of finance a serious concern for about 70 percent of those polled, but investing in technology, including wireless broadband, featured in the growth plans of one in four.

Charles Chung, Acer computer regional Managing Director feels that expansion of 3G embedded notebooks, with their eight hour battery life, onto the Telstra Next GTM network for business customers means all-day, on-the-go computing is now in the reach of more SMEs.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Ukraine’s mobile subscriber base reached 55.41 million at the end of March’09, falling from 55.59 million in February. Astelit, the Ukrainian operator, grabbed 72.1% of the net addition and ended March with a market share of 20.7%. Kyivstar’s subscriber base, on the other hand, dropped from 23.32 million subscribers in February to 23.05 million at the end of March and posted a market share of 41.6%. UMC posted a subscriber base of 17.93 million and 32.4% of market share at the end of March. Vimpelcom had a market share of 3.4% at the end of March.
Mobile penetration in country fell by 0.3% since February to 120.5%.