Cingular's mobile data revenue soars   19 Oct 2006 19:29 GMT
Mobile data services helped drive up average customer spending for Cingular Wireless LLC in the third quarter, the largest U.S. cellular operator said Thursday.
Source: InfoWorld

German states agree PC, phone Internet license fee (Reuters)   19 Oct 2006 18:53 GMT
Reuters - Germany's 16 states agreed on Thursday to introduce from January 1 a license fee of 5.52 euros ($6.94) a month on computers and mobile phones that can access television and radio programs via the Internet.
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Microsoft Hooks Up with Orange on Mobile Messaging (NewsFactor)   19 Oct 2006 17:42 GMT
NewsFactor - Microsoft and France Telecom subsidiary Orange will launch an MSN instant-messaging system on mobile phones in Europe come this December.
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IDC: 1 billion phones should sell this year   19 Oct 2006 16:29 GMT
Mobile phone users are on track to buy 1 billion handsets this year, said IDC as part of its report on third quarter sales.
Source: InfoWorld

Cell phone shipments may hit 1B in 2006 (AP)   19 Oct 2006 15:59 GMT
AP - Cell phone shipments rose 21 percent in the third quarter, putting the industry within reach of exceeding 1 billion mobile phones worldwide this year, the technology research firm IDC reported Thursday.
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Nokia meets estimates, but price cuts hurt profit   19 Oct 2006 14:58 GMT
Handset price cuts help market share but ding earnings; sales jump 33 percent over same period last year.
Source: ZDNet

Lower prices hurt Nokia's profit   19 Oct 2006 14:36 GMT
Nokia reported a 20 percent jump in net sales for its third quarter, but increased sales of entry-level phones caused a sharp drop in average selling prices and reduced the company's profit.
Source: InfoWorld

Sweden's Ericsson says 3Q profit rose 17%, boosted by results at Sony Ericsson (Canadian Press)   19 Oct 2006 14:25 GMT
Canadian Press - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Ericsson AB (NASDAQ:ERIC), the world's largest maker of mobile phone networks, said Thursday that third-quarter profit grew 17 per cent, boosted by strong results at its co-owned handset maker Sony Ericsson.
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Mobile phone shipments hit new high: research firm (AFP)   19 Oct 2006 14:12 GMT

AFP - Sony Ericsson led a 22-percent boom in global shipments of mobile telephones in the third quarter.

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Nokia's 3rd-quarter earnings drop 4 per cent despite sales growth (Canadian Press)   19 Oct 2006 12:24 GMT
Canadian Press - HELSINKI (AP) - Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK), the world's top mobile-phone maker, reported a four per cent drop in third-quarter earnings as it took a hit from one-time charges and saw profit margins fall due to higher sales of low-priced handsets.
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