Nokia Retains Lead as Mobile-Phone Sales Soar (NewsFactor)   29 Feb 2008 20:37 GMT
NewsFactor - Worldwide sales of mobile phones skyrocketed to 1.5 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner, a 16 percent increase from 2006 sales of 990.9 million. Sales at the end of the year matched a trend that has demand spiking in the fourth quarter. Fourth-quarter sales reached 330 million.
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Telecoms firms treated better in Belarus than Brussels: mobile operator (AFP)   29 Feb 2008 01:55 GMT

AFP - Mobile phone companies are treated better in Belarus than in the European Union, the head of Telekom Austria said in an interview published Friday.

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No more breaking up (FT.com)   28 Feb 2008 22:25 GMT
FT.com - Like many young adults, none of my four, grown-up children has a fixed line telephone. Their generation has largely substituted mobile phones for traditional phone lines, even though coverage in their homes and workplaces is not always great. But help could be at hand to reduce the frustration of low signal strength and poor call quality at home or work. Some of the world's largest mobile network operators are testing new mini cellular base stations, called femtocells, designed to improve in-building call quality and coverage.
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Sprint bests rivals with $99 unlimited 'everything' plan   28 Feb 2008 21:06 GMT
Sprint Nextel went one step further than rival U.S. mobile operators on Thursday by offering unlimited voice, data, and multimedia services for $99.99 per month.
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Sprint Nextel bleeds $29.5 billion, cuts dividend   28 Feb 2008 15:43 GMT
Sprint Nextel took a battering Thursday, reporting a $29.5 billion loss for its fourth fiscal quarter, caused by a write-down from its 2005 acquisition of Nextel and a shrinking number of mobile subscribers.
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Japanese cellphones to turn into 'robot' buddies (AFP)   28 Feb 2008 08:20 GMT

AFP - For those who feel a bit lonely just talking on the phone, a Japanese company is offering a cellphone that turns into a robot buddy ready to chat.

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Vietnam's FPT enters into financial services (FT.com)   28 Feb 2008 01:40 GMT
FT.com - Vietnam's FPT Corporation made its name as a distributor of mobile phones but it is now looking beyond its core communications technology business with plans to tap the nation's fast-growing financial services sector by opening a commercial bank.
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Decision against Qualcomm in Nokia case stands   28 Feb 2008 01:05 GMT
A December decision against Qualcomm's bid to keep some Nokia phones out of the U.S. will stand, Nokia said Wednesday.
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Opera chooses Google as default search in mobile browser   27 Feb 2008 20:24 GMT
Opera Mobile and Opera Mini users will start seeing a Google search bar on their browser start pages, based on an agreement between the companies.
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O2 warned over deficit in 3G coverage (FT.com)   27 Feb 2008 18:10 GMT
FT.com - O2 suffered embarrassment on Wednesday when regulators threatened sanctions against the UK's largest mobile phone operator if it failed to make its 3G network available to more people.
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