Singapore (ots) - Flextronics Network Services today announced that it has acquired Construtora JR Paulista LTDA in Brazil, from Algar Telecom S.A, a subsidiary of the Brazilian telecommunications and agribusiness conglomerate, the Algar Group. Flextronics Network Services is a business unit of Flextronics ...
Lausanne/Zurich/Berne (ots) - Orange, sunrise and Swisscom (Fixnet, Mobile and Enterprise Solutions) will in future be taking a joint stance against misuse by providers of chargeable 090x numbers. To this end an agreement governing misuse of value-added services offered via the telephone or Internet (dialer) has been reached. A wide range of companies is involved in the provision of value-added services. The ...
Mountain View, CA (ots) - Wi-Fi Certified Products Now Exceed 1,000 The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that over 1,000 products from over 120 leading manufacturers have received certification since testing began in March 2000. Recent test data released by the Wi-Fi Alliance indicates that wireless LAN interoperability and performance continue to be an ...
More media diversity for mobile handsets in Europe - Project is funded by the EC - dpa is leading consortium Bern (ots) - Five leading European news agencies have founded a consortium to create a new generation of information and new services for mobile communication. The project MINDS (Mobile Information and News Data Services for 3G) is funded by the EC through ...
Parsippany, NJ (ots) - According to a new study from InfoTech, a leading market research and consulting firm, global line shipments of IP-PBX systems increased 18% in the third quarter of 2003, compared to the same period a year earlier -- representing 29% of total lines shipped. This gain was not sufficient, ...
London (ots) - In one of his final acts as Director General of Oftel, David Edmonds, today notified the European Commission of his proposals to promote competition and reduce the price of calling a mobile phone. The Director General has concluded this action is necessary because consumers pay too much for making calls to mobile phones. They have no choice but to pay the high connection charge set by the operator of ...
London (ots) - The outgoing UK telecommunications regulator Oftel and the incoming converged communications regulator Ofcom today agreed on a joint draft decision on the regulation of the UK's wholesale broadband access market. The decision follows the publication earlier this year of a consultation document setting out the terms of a market review ...
London (ots) - Ofcom announces Strategic Review of UK telecommunications sector Ofcom today set out the terms and timing of its forthcoming Strategic Review of the UK telecommunications sector. The Review, which will begin in January 2004 and will run to the end of the year, will be the first comprehensive assessment of the sector for 13 years. The Review will explore: - The importance of ...
Amsterdam (ots) - Gemtek Systems, the leading manufacturer of carrier grade end-to-end PWLAN solutions for telecommunications companies and mobile operators, Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) and corporates implementing public access on their private networks, today launches its next generation Public ...
Zurich (ots) - If you miss a call because your mobile phone is switched off or there is a temporary blip in coverage, you will now be informed automatically by SMS as soon as your mobile phone has reception again. sunrise call memo will be available from December 8, 2003, and is free to all sunrise mobile prepaid and postpaid customers who use sunrise mailbox. sunrise call memo comes into action when your mobile ...
Rockstar Software Swaps Out Competition's Software -- Free of Charge San Francisco, CA (ots) - In an aggressive move, Rockstar Software (http://www.rockstar.com), the leading provider of essential subscriber access and management solutions, today announced that they will exchange existing licenses from any competitor with their own next generation Coreworks solution at no cost until January 31st, 2004. Designed to be ...
New offer with two new price plans and a multimedia option Lausanne (ots) - Orange is offering new customers opting for Orange between 17th November and 31st January two new price plans: Orange Personal 30 and Orange Personal 100. The new price plans include 30 or 100 free talk time minutes every month for calls to all Swiss fixed and mobile networks. However, anyone subscribing before the end of January 2004 can ...
Zurich (ots) - Cablecom successfully completed its financial restructuring on 13th November 2003. The financial restructuring provides the company with a stable, long term capital structure and strengthens Cablecom's position as a leading video, broadband Internet and telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Cablecom GmbH has successfully completed the financial restructuring process announced on 19 June 2003. ...
Zurich (ots) - On the fringe of the 2003 ITU World Telecom exhibition the Swiss ICT/CE association SWICO launched a campaign in Geneva on 15th October with the aim of accelerating the harmonisation of WLAN services in Switzerland, and through EU associations in the rest of Europe as well. All activities are to be taken up or encouraged that could lead to the rapid, sustainable, and open growth of the WLAN market in ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots) - Kabira Technologies Inc., announced today that it will showcase market leading software solutions in partnership with Sun Microsystems at ITU Telecom 2003. Exhibited products will include the Kabira Mobile Messaging Gateway, Provisioning and Service Activation, Convergent Mediation and the OSA/Parlay Gateway. Executives from the company ...
Paris (ots) - At GSM in Middle East and Gulf conference 2003, Kabira Technologies, the provider of the Infrastructure Switch software for convergent network and real-time financial services, will be showing its latest solutions for Middle East and Gulf mobile operators requiring real time, high volume activation and provisioning of GSM voice and data services. The ...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (ots) - Fonix® Corporation (OTC BB: FNIX), an international provider of leading speech interface solutions, has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the emerging market for Symbian OS advanced mobile phones. As a Platinum Partner, Fonix is extending its award-winning text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) solutions to the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian develops and ...
Lausanne (ots) - During the first half-year 2003 Orange Communications SA, Lausanne, realized a result of 120 (33) million Swiss francs prior to interest, tax and writing-off. This increased the operational result (EBITDA) by 264% compared with the same period last year. The number of customers surpassed one million for the first time and reached 1,003,000 (+14.6%) ...
Zurich (ots) - sunrise enters the new season with a completely new ADSL special offer: Customers who take out a sunrise ADSL subscription now will receive a modem, the activation fee and the monthly charges until the end of the year, absolutely free. This offer remains valid until December 31, 2003. There were already many good reasons to get broadband Internet access with sunrise ADSL: Our customers surf up to ...
A new type of computer virus has appeared that spreads differently compared with earlier viruses. A Swiss firm has come up with the answer. Lausanne (ots) - In recent weeks, a new type of virus has been spreading from computer to computer across computer networks and over the Internet., These viruses are dangerous because they do not pass through e-mails, as did previous Internet viruses. They exploit a bug in the ...
Lausanne (ots) - Orange has re-designed its website. Thanks to still easier navigation, visitors-both business and private customers-will find their way around the website even better now. A few clicks and they will be able to benefit free of charge from a great number of features, services and information. The new Orange internet page offer a full transparency ...
LOS GATOS, CA (ots) - Famed Early Stage Investors in Cisco and Flextronics Mark Their First India-Related Investment With Michael Moritz Joining the 24/7 Customer Board of Directors 24/7 Customer (www.247customer.com), a leading provider of outsourced contact center and BPO services to Global 500 companies, today announced that it secured $22 million in ...
Lausanne (ots) - Gone are the days when Orange PrePay customers had to buy a PrePay Card, scratch the surface to reveal the code and call the Recharge Hotline to recharge their PrePay account. Thanks to the new Orange Recharge service, PrePay accounts can in future simply be recharged electronically by going to ...
Vienna, Austria and Toronto, ON (ots) - Kapsch CarrierCom AG and Redknee Inc. today announced they have entered a partnership agreement to deliver value-added GSM and UMTS services to selected European markets. This agreement between the two firms follows extensive network trials and business analysis. Kapsch CarrierCom will distribute Redknee's broad array of mobile systems and applications within Austria, Hungary, ...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT/TOKYO (ots) - Fonix(R) Corporation (OTC BB: FNIX), an international provider of leading speech interface solutions, announces the Fonix/Epson Embedded Speech Solution for the Seiko Epson S1C33 family of chips. Developers may now allow users to interact with a wide range of consumer electronic ...
Zurich (ots) - sunrise is leading the way in Switzerland with a new service to protect consumers against dialers and unwanted 090x connections, providing information to interested members of the public on a web page at www.sunrise.ch/0900 and sending out bill inserts to customers. It happens so quickly: a click of the mouse to confirm, a keystroke in the wrong ...
Lausanne (ots) - For the first time in Switzerland, and only with Orange and in4U AG, very small, small and medium businesses can now synchronise Microsoft Outlook applications and data (emails, calendar entries, contacts and to-do lists) with the Orange SPV and the Orange SPV E100 directly via GPRS, without the ...
Lausanne (ots) - In just four years Orange has built up its very own, ultra-modern network stretching across Switzerland and offering coverage to more than 98% of the population. Thanks to this excellent network, Orange is no longer reliant on the National Roaming Service offered in partnership with Swisscom ...
New design, more comfortable to use, boosted performance Lausanne (ots) - With the SPV E 100 Orange is launching a new all-in-one device (Smart Device) in the sound picture video family. The SPV E 100 makes it even easier and more enjoyable to swap emails while on the move, look up contact lists, make calendar entries and to-do lists, surf the Internet, watch video news coverage, etc.. The new Microsoft Windows supported software version 1.50 significantly boosts the ...
Boulder, CO (ots) - SandCherry, Inc., a provider of multi-service broker software for extending applications to phone or mobile device users, today announced the appointment of Michael Sajor as vice president of Mobility Solutions, a significant boost to the company's overall mobility solutions initiative. Sajor ...