Verizon working on CDMA network for simultaneous voice and data services
Verizon Wireless is developing a new solution that will allow its CDMA subscribers to access voice and mobile data services at the same time.
According to reports, Apple is making an iPhone for Verizon’s CDMA network and that Verizon will launch the phone early next year, which would break AT&T Mobility’s grip on the popular smartphone.
The main difference between Verizon’s network and AT&T’s UMTS network is that AT&T subscribers can access voice and data services simultaneously in which Verizon lacks behind.
According to Biran Higgins, Verizon’s executive director for ecosystem development, the carrier is working on making its network capable of handling voice and data at the same time.
According to Brad Shewmake, a spokesman for the CDMA Development Group, a solution that will allow CDMA subscribers to access voice and data at the same time will be commercially available in the first half of 2011. August 2009 the CDG announced that specification, called SVDO. The new service will allow CDMA2000 devices to access EV-DO packet data services while in an active 1X circuit-switch voice call.
Intelig & Intelsat sign multi-year capacity contract (Brazil)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Brazilian telecoms operator Intelig has concluded a multi-year capacity contract on Intelsat’s IS-14 satellite located at 315 degrees E. Intelig was acquired by Telecom Italia-controlled TIM Brasil in late-2009.
Integrated fixed and mobile operator will be enabled to use the IS-14 orbiter to expand its network coverage to cover its more than 41 million mobile subscribers through this deal. Intelsat’s satellites has been used by Intelig in the past to provide an advanced, all-digital nationwide network capable of delivering voice and data services to residential users, businesses and other carriers in areas well beyond its urban strongholds.
According to Leonardo Cifali, Director of Engineering and Operations for Intelig, the IS-14 satellite provides it with the coverage it need to support the progression and convergence of cellular services, helping it to meet the long-term needs of its growing customer base while the Intelsat system already has enabled it to offer broadband networks to its government customers, provide maximum network efficiency for its enterprise customers and it now look forward to expanding its wireless telephony services to the most remote areas of Brazil.
MTN Ghana to build offshore broadband network
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A feasibility study has recently been commenced by Ghanaian telecoms group MTN Ghana for plans to offer broadband services via a submarine fibre-optic cable to oil companies operating offshore in the country.
According to MTN’s corporate services director Mrs. Mawuena Trebarh, MTN Ghana intends to build and operate an Offshore Broadband Network for the Petroleum Industry in Ghana through its partnership with Pard Energy.
Collaboration with Norway-based Pard Energy will be seeked by MTN Ghana to raise awareness along with the technological and financial opportunities to be had from embracing broadband voice and data services.
Vodafone Ghana introduces ‘The Vodafone Way’
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: “The Vodafone Way”, a new business model has been launched by Vodafone Ghana to create a significant shift in the work culture of employees and partners of the telecom giant to make it more customers oriented.
According to Isaac Abraham, Corporate Communications Manager of the Company, new business model was designed to make the company’s customers’ expectations real by investing in programmes that would help it understand what motivated customers and it will ensure that Vodafone, its staff and partners do business with speed, simplicity and trust.
The service is also expected to assist in making the company the number one communications network in the country not only in terms of total mobile numbers but in terms of quality of voice and data services and finding solutions to telecommunications problems.
Vodafone Spain launches UC package
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A unified communications (UC) package has been launched by Vodafone Spain for business customers. Microsoft Online Services and Vodafone Office tools are the two products of the package.
Different forms of communications into an integrated, comprehensive and secure communications solution has been combined in the Microsoft Online Services web-based business applications. Calendar functions, work areas and IM features online can also be accessed by the users besides taking part taking in web and video conferences.
Voice and data services from Vodafone are also included in the UC pack , everything at a price of EUR 18 per month.
Vodafone signs managed services deal Oracle
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A four year contract to supply managed mobile services to Oracle has been won by the telecom operator, Vodafone. As per the deal, operator’s Global Enterprise division will provide mobile voice and data services to 16,000 Oracle employees across its Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
According to Nick Jeffery, CEO of Vodafone Global Enterprise, along with the revolutionary per user pricing model, Oracle will benefit from the tools and consultancy that they offer to improve efficiency in both their fixed and mobile communications and according to Carol Kelly, vice president of Global Revenue and Procurement Operations at Oracle, the firm has been impressed by Vodafone Global Enterprise’s straight forward and transparent approach to pricing communications, and they anticipate this will deliver greater cost efficiencies.
Managed mobile services to the largest corporate clients are provided by Vodafone’s Global Enterprise arm.
Mexican mobile operators Iusacell, Unefon to merge
MEXICO CITY, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Mexican cellular phone operators Iusacell and Unefon said on Wednesday they had agreed to merge and aimed to create the country’s second-largest mobile service provider.
The merger of the two companies, both controlled by Mexican industrialist Ricardo Salinas, follows Iusacell’s (CEL.MX: Quote, Profile, Research) restructuring of $350 million of debt, completed on Aug. 28.
Unefon Holdings SA (UNEFONA.MX: Quote, Profile, Research) also said on Wednesday it would acquire a 45.6 percent stake in Unefon to bring its ownership to 100 percent. It said it would buy the stock from the family of key shareholder Moises Saba for $300 million.
Merging Iusacell and Unefon will create a company with around 3.3 million subscribers, putting it in third place in terms of subscriber numbers behind market leader America Movil (AMXL.MX: Quote, Profile, Research) with 39.2 million and Telefonica Moviles (TEF.MC: Quote, Profile, Research) with some 6.9 million.
Iusacell said it was aiming for the merger to lift it to the number two spot in terms of total mobile voice and data services.
Spokesmen for the companies were not available to give further details.
The move had been anticipated by investors. Iusacell’s shares have more than doubled in value in the last six months on rumours of the merger, as well as on the company’s debt restructuring.
Citigroup said in a report last month that if the merger went ahead, “the additional benefit on Iusacell’s stock from current levels could be substantial”.
Iusacell shares ended Wednesday down 4.7 percent at 67.69 pesos. The merger announcement came after the market closed.
Unefon shares do not trade regularly.
Salinas
, among
Mexico
‘s richest men, bought Iusacell in 2003. He promised at the time to come up with a business plan to expand its presence in the Mexican market.
Source- http://today.reuters.com
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