www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The joint venture between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom, S-Fone, has reportedly appeared to be on rocks. S-Fone’s managing director, Ho Hong Son,reportedly said that the terms of cooperation between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom must change. The two sides are still discussing a new contract, but have not reached an agreement. Son also confirmed that S-Fone’s operations are stable.
After six years in operation, S-Fone (mobile numbers beginning 095) is facing challenges in terms of technology, investment, legal status and operating system. Saigon Postel has reportedly grown unhappy with a business cooperation contract that has limited its rights to basic information in business and development strategies.
Son says that S-Fone needs new motivation to develop, especially a fresh form of cooperation between Saigon Postel and SK Telecom. The two sides are negotiating to find a more suitable model under the guidance of the Government, Son adds.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The new joint venture between Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Incorporated, announced at the Smart Services Leadership Summit on July 28, 2009, was named today – nPhase – and formally became an operational company. The joint venture draws the nPhase name from the original Chicago-based machine-to-machine (M2M) pioneer launched in 2003 as a start-up focused on providing customized M2M communications solutions to meet the unique needs of OEM clients.
The new nPhase will be led by original founder and CEO Steve Pazol, who will serve as the company president. Pazol most recently served as the vice president and general manager of the acquired nPhase group, which was renamed Qualcomm Global Smart Services.
“When we originally selected the name nPhase back in 2002, we knew this industry would be constantly changing and evolving, and we felt the name nPhase communicated this concept,” said Steve Pazol president of nPhase. “We have been very fortunate to have been a part of Qualcomm for the last three years. Now with a 50/50 joint venture between Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm, we look forward to providing M2M wireless communication and smart service offerings to this rapidly growing market.” (more…)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Alcatel-Lucent and Bharti Airtel Limited, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider today announced the appointment of Arnaud Soubelet as the CEO of their joint venture Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India Ltd (ALNMSI).
The joint venture will manage Bharti Airtel’s pan India wireline broadband and telephone services. It will also support their transition to next generation networks (NGN) to offer advanced services like high-speed internet, triple play, media-rich value-added services, MPLS, virtual private networks (VPN) for both retail and business customers of Airtel. The new entity which began pan India operations on August 1 st with 4,000 employees, is headquartered in NCR (National Capital Region). (more…)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 2ergo, a leading international provider of integrated mobile products and services with a focus on mobile marketing, mobile business solutions and mobile entertainment, and AT&T’s Youth Marketing Group today announced a joint venture to promote the annual Vans Warped Tour, a popular music and sports festival featuring some of today’s hottest bands and most talented extreme sports athletes.
As part of the agreement, the AT&T Youth Marketing Group will utilize 2ergo’s Mobile Campaign Manager technology to manage pre-tour text messaging campaigns to concert enthusiasts who opt-in via their mobile devices. By texting the words “WARPED VANS 09” to short code 826709, consumers can then enter their city of choice to receive customized Warped Tour exclusive stage schedules, information regarding contests and more. (more…)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm are in a joint venture to provide machine-to-machine wireless services to companies in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and utilities. The companies said the venture would use chip maker Qualcomm’s wireless technologies and a device certification process that Verizon Wireless has already established to allow network support for mobile devices it does not sell itself.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Ericsson, the equipment vendor, wants to continue its JV with the Japanese firm Sony, even after it bought assets in Nortel Networks, Ericsson’s chief financial officer reportedly said.
“There are no discussions about an end to the partnership,” Hans Vestberg said. If the joint venture needs financial support from its parents, “then it would get it from us”, he added.
Handelsblatt said there had been speculation that Ericsson would soon part ways with Sony on the cell phone business.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Far EasTone’s Vice Chairman Jan Nilsson said the Taiwan company and China Mobile Ltd. will start planning on forming a joint venture in China in the Q1′10.
The executives of the Taiwanese operator will meet the China Mobile’s Wang Jianzhou when he visits Taiwan late-August.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Open Joint Stock Company Vimpel-Communications, a leading international provider of telecommunications services, officially announced the commercial launch of its mobile operations in Vietnam under the Beeline brand via GTEL-Mobile Joint Stock Company, mobile telecommunications joint venture in Vietnam.
“With the start of our operations in Vietnam we are strengthening our positions in South-East Asia. The Vietnamese telecom market has a great potential with a young and dynamic population of more than 86 million people and a fast growing economy. Our partnership with such a reliable and professional local partner as GTEL Corp helped us achieve the result we had planned,” said Boris Nemsic, Chief Executive Officer, VimpelCom. “The launch in Vietnam follows our successful start in Cambodia where we have already commenced operations earlier this year,” noticed Vladimir Riabokon, Executive Vice President, International Business Development, VimpelCom.
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone has received a green signal from the French Polynesian government to offer mobile services across the nation. According to a media reports talks are now underway with Vodafone’s joint venture partner, Pacific Mobile Telecom, but no date has been decided for the network launch.
A spokesman for PMT, Patrick Moux, reportedly said that the company will try to launch its service as soon as possible. He says many issues still need to be addressed, but promises lower calling rates and better interconnection for those travelling overseas.
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone at the Wireless 2.0 summit in Bristol reportedly said that it plans to wait until 2012 to to deploy LTE (4G), however, the company will benefit from an inside track on progress by its joint venture with Verizon Wireless, which plans to roll launch LTE in 2010.
Professor Michael Walker, group R&D director at Vodafone, made the following statement: “There will be no European LTE networks in 2010 except for a few small ones to demonstrate capabilities to governments. Vodafone roll-out will depend on geography, but won’t be before 2012.”