www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange Group has reportedly acquired UK digital advertising network Unanimis. The combination of the Unanimis premium advertising network with Orange’s mobile and internet assets will enable advertisers, buyers and media agencies to reach over 71.5% of the UK online population and over 66% of the online population across the UK, France, Spain and Poland.
Unanimis will reportedly continue working under it’s brand name and will be a part of the Orange Group Advertising Network. The acquisition will boost Orange’s presence in two of Europe’s three main digital advertising markets – France and the UK.
On 08.29.09, In Mobile, By Editor
On 08.29.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bougyues Telecom, the French telco, is reportedly mulling to file a complaint to the European Commission about the way the French government plans to sell a fourth 3G mobile phone license, Chief Executive Martin Bouygues said.
Bougyues Telecom has paid EUR619 million for its license in 2002 while the government at present has set the fee at EUR240 million for the fourth third-generation, or 3G, license, which is anticipated to be awarded to Iliad SA’s free mobile phone division.
“We would consider it normal that we should receive a repayment,” if the sale goes through on this basis, Bouygues told a press conference.
On 08.29.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Orange and SFR, the French mobile operators, are reportedly in talks with Bolloré Telecom, the WiMax licence holder, for a possible partnership, a local media report unveils. Bolloré Telecom is keen to profit from its 20 regional WiMAX licences and aligning itself to the mobile operators could be a way for it to do that.
The WiMax licence holder, anticipates to take advantage of the mobile operators’ networks which are overloaded by the explosion of mobile internet in the country.
Bolloré Telecom could either seek to form a joint venture with one of the mobile operators, which would see Bolloré contribute its WiMAX licences in return for access to the operator’s customer base. Alternatively, Bolloré could broker a deal that would see it hand over its frequencies to one of the operators.
On 08.29.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone for customers in France. The stylish handset, a new addition to the BlackBerry® Curve™ series of smartphones, is available from wireless carriers in France.
The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-Azerty keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and access to music, games and other mobile apps for entertainment on the go.
The BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is a quad band phone, and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled to arm customers with fast Web browsing, Wi-Fi calling via UMA where available, and extended data coverage. (more…)
On 08.24.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SFR, the French mobile operator, is reportedly offering the Samsung Galaxy smartphone, the manufacturer’s first Android handset only available through Bouygues Telecom in France since mid-July. SFR has priced the handset at EUR 99 with an Illimythics plan, including rebate, compared to Bouygues’s starting price of EUR 89. The handset will be available at EUR 409 as a standalone product. The Samsung Galaxy features a 3.5-inch AMOLED touch screen, 5 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Google applications, media player, and 8 GB of memory, expandable to 40 GB. It uses the Android version 1.5 (Cupcake).
On 08.20.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The European Commission, EU, will make an investment of nearly EUR 18 million in research to boost LTE – 4G mobile networks. The funding will be used for research on the enhanced version of LTE, LTE Advanced. In countries like Finland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK LTE trials are going on. The commercial launch of services will be made in Sweden and Norway in H1′10. In September 2009, the EC will roll out negotiations on the details with project consortia, including the flagship Artist4G that builds on the achievements of the Winner projects and unites 4G industry and researchers from Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The new projects are scheduled for launch in January 2010.
On 08.16.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobily’s 3.75G High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) coverage now always more and more people in the Western region to connect to the Internet, make video calls, or benefit from the world of iphone content, according to a statement issued by the company Sunday.
Close to the coast, expansion of 3.75G coverage included Rabegh, Turban, Al Khormah, Al Muwaih, Haddad Bani Malek, Al Sudairah, Asfan, Thahban, Thuwal, Bahra, more towards the hills, customers in Al Hada, Bani Saeed, AL Kamel, Al Sail Al Kabeer now have speeds that rival those of customers in major cities. All in all, 3.75G HSPA service reaches 326 cities, regions and areas in the Kingdom, covering 75% of the population. (more…)
On 08.14.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vivendi, the French conglomerate, has reportedly denied that it is in talks to purchase Orascom Telecom Algeria, a unit of Orascom Telecom Holding SAE. It was earlier reported that Vivendi was in initial talks to acquire Orascom Telecom Algeria.
On 08.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The French mobile operators have added 678,600 new subscribers in Q2′09 to end June with 58.91 million subscribers, reports the French telecom regulator Arcep. While the overall mobile market grew by 1.2% in Q2, the postpaid subscriber base grew by 1.8% to 40.51 million and prepaid subscribers fell by 0.3% to 18.4 million. MVNOs, at the end of June, had a 5.3% market share by subscribers, up from 5.17% at the end of March and 4.67% at the end of June 2008. During the Q2, SMS traffic grew by 7.2% to 14.66 billion messages, or 85.9 per month per active subscriber, compared to 13.68 billion or 80.6 monthly messages per customer in Q1.
On 08.03.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The French government has launched tender for the 4th 3G mobile licence in the country, as it publishes the procedure’s details in the Official Journal on 01 August. The candidates who wish to bid for the licence can do so until 29 September by submitting their proposals. The contenders reportedly are ISP Free, Numericable and MVNO Virgin Mobile France (joint bid).
Arcep, the French regulator, has until the end of May 2010 to decide on proposals based on nine criteria, including the credibility of the business plan, coverage commitments and access to the network by MVNOs.