Nokia Wins Radio and Core Network Deal With Bulgarian Operator Vivatel
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ESPOO, Finland, September 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia  has won its first network deal with Bulgarian operator Vivatel.
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Nokia announces some key deals to position itself in the future market for smart phones and music players.
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Nokia Siemens Networks will buy Apertio, which specializes in network management applications for telecommunications operators, for &#8364;140 million ($205 million), the companies said Wednesday.Apertio, in Bristol, England, sells a software application suite with components for managing mobile phone subscribers. Features allow operators to authenticate and deliver applications to users, shut off lost handsets and collect real-time data on subscribers.The management and consolidation of subscriber data is becoming more important, particularly as operators offer &quot;converged&quot; services, the term for offerings that combine mobile, fixed-line and Internet-based services, the companies said.The deal is expected to close by May. When complete, Paul Magelli, Apertio&#39;s CEO, will head a new section within the Converged Core business of Nokia Siemens.Apertio&#39;s software and equipment is used by operators such as Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone. Apertio, a private company, estimates its 2007 revenue at &#8364;28 million.&#160;
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Unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, these handsets from Nokia aim to make access to the mobile Internet easy.
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Shareholders of digital mapmaker Navteq Corp. approved the company's acquisition by cell-phone maker Nokia Corp. by an overwhelming majority Wednesday at a special meeting.
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ESPOO, Finland  - Nokia , the world's  largest cellphone maker, sees content for the wireless Internet  as key to snapping up more mobile phone users, including in  emerging markets, the head of its key unit said on Tuesday.
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Motorola announced it has secured a contract with T-Mobile Czech Republic to deliver EDGE technology to several major cities in the country including Prague, Brno and Plzen.
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VoIP-friendly and smart clamshells too Nokia yesterday launched a trio of handsets, including its latest bid to win business from Apple's iPod and other music players with its a colourful music-friendly handset. It also took aim at the mid-range 3G arena with a clamshell-format 3G smart phone.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia and Alcatel are jumping the gun on Wi-Fi phones that work like regular office handsets: They're offering the same capability on ordinary cell phones. The advent of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phones and IP PBXes (private branch exchanges) opened the door not only to business handsets that sat on a desk and sent packets around a wired LAN, but also to ones that could be carried around and use Wi-Fi. That can mean one handset for all business calls, anywhere in the enterprise, but that still leaves the employee's cell phone for use outside. Dual-mode cell and Wi-Fi devices are just starting to emerge, and moving between networks raises technical issues. By the end of the year, Nokia and Alcatel will offer software that makes Nokia Eseries cell phones, a line of smart phones designed for business, talk to the Alcatel IP Communication server. That means they can be used like a PBX-connected desk phone, with features such as call conferencing and dialing by name, the companies said. It also lets employees keep their desk phones, use just one number, and program which device they want to receive calls on at a given time. The system also lets cell phone users tap into Alcatel's Least Cost Routing capabilities, which can cut enterprise long-distance charges, and make cellular billing records easier to find, they said. In its first iteration, the Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel software will make the phones talk to enterprise PBXes over the ordinary cell phone network. In the near future, it will support dual-mode phones, the companies said. Nokia, in Espoo, Finland, acquired Intellisync last year to gain a better foothold in enterprises. It also weighed in to that market on the hardware side last year when it unveiled the Eseries phones, which include a variety of business features including QWERTY keypads and support for business applications and mobile e-mail systems. Its E70 phone includes Wi-Fi as well as cellular radios. Alcatel, in Paris, is near to closing a merger with Lucent Technologies Inc. and recently agreed to buy the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) business of Nortel Networks Corp. Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel is part of the Intellisync Mobile Suite from Nokia. It is set to become available through Nokia and Alcatel resellers in the fourth quarter. Pricing was not immediately available.
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Finns take plunge into Bristol channel Nokia Siemens Networks is to buy customer-management company Apertio for about â¬140m, with the cash deal set for completion before April.â¦
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Nokia (NYSE:NOK), a world leader in mobile communications, announced recently that more than 750 mobility, business voice and security companies worldwide have joined the Nokia for Business Channel Program since its introduction just three months ago.
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Ericsson has inked a supply contract with Poland&#39;s Polkomtel to deliver GSM, EDGE and wideband-CDMA equipment. The Polish operator has called on Ericsson to implement 2G and 3G network elements
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Nokia Siemens Networks won a $900 million contract from Indiaâs largest mobile phone operator, Bharti Airtel, to help expand its communications network.
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(InfoWorld) - NokiaÂ has signed a licensing deal with Trimble Navigation that gives the mobile phone maker access to hundreds of technology patents for providing location-based services. The deal could also strengthen Nokia's hand in license negotiations with other companies. The deal with Trimble, announced Monday, gives Nokia the rights to almost 700 Trimble technology patents for use in Nokia products, said Waldemar Sakalus, director of business development for Nokia's mobile phone group. Nokia also gets the exclusive right to sublicense the patents to other companies in the wireless industry, he said. In return, Trimble gets a nonexclusive license to use Nokia's own location-based technology patents in its own commercial products. Location-based services allow operators to pinpoint the location of a customer using GPS (Global Positioning System) and other technologies, and then deliver services based on that information, such as finding a nearby hotel or providing driving directions. "It's a field we believe will become more and more important and which carries a lot of business opportunities," Sakalus said. Just last weekÂ NokiaÂ announced its new N95 phone, which comes with integrated GPS capabilities, he noted. Having the exclusive rights to sublicense Trimble's patents could also strengthen Nokia's hand when it comes to negotiating license deals with other companies, Sakalus acknowledged. That could come in handy for Nokia as it tries to resolve aÂ licensing dispute with QualcommÂ over Nokia's use of some key Qualcomm wireless technologies. Nokia has complained that Qualcomm is demanding royalty payments for its technology that are too high, while Qualcomm has accused Nokia of patent infringement. Nokia's current agreement to use Qualcomm's patents expires in the first half of next year. If the Trimble patents strengthen Nokia's negotiating position with third parties then that would be a nice benefit, but that is not it's main motivation for the deal with Trimble, according to Sakalus. He did not refer to Qualcomm specifically. The objective's main deal is to gain access to a broad set of patents in a field that Nokia sees as important and growing, he said. Most of Trimble's customers are in industries such as agriculture and construction, and by sublicensing the patents Nokia can make them more available to the mobile industry, he said. The deal involved a financial payment along with the patent sharing aspect, but the companies aren't providing details. The terms will not materially affect the finances of either company, they said. Trimble's patents deal with location-based services based on GPS; assisted GPS, which uses additional servers to amplify GPS signals in urban areas; and Galileo, the European satellite navigation network. Nokia is still deciding whether it will license them separately or as part of its general portfolio of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) patents, Sakalus said. He said he saw "no problem" with licensing the patents to rival phone makers. Nokia has said that it currently pays more in technology licensing fees then it receives. It hopes to grow its patents portfolio and eventually make patent licensing a profitable part of its business.
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The what got what? Nokiaâs got a smile on its face. The Finnish phone giant's N95 8GB handset has become the worldâs first mobile to win wireless connectivity certification from the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).â¦
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Telekom Austria on Monday won the right to acquire MobilTel, the Bulgarian operator, for â¬1.6bn ($2.12bn), in a deal that would allow it to tap into an underdeveloped mobile market.
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Nokia Corp. announced deals worth more than 2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) with Chinese customers on Tuesday, sending the company's shares up 3 percent.