Bankinter and KPN in mobile, banking services deal
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Dutch telecoms group KPN  has  made an agreement with Bankinter  through which the  Spanish bank will offer mobile phone services at special rates  to its banking clients, Bankinter said on Tuesday.
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Telecoms giant Ericsson said Friday it has won a 1.3-billion-dollar (951-million-euro) contract to upgrade and expand Indian operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd&#39;s (BSNL) mobile network.
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InfoWorld - Bank of America customers can now use their mobile phones to&#160;make online banking more secure.
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Company strikes deal with BT Wholesale to sell broadband Net service in Britain, bundle it with mobile offerings.
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Rival mobile telephony vendors are settling their court battle with a cross-licensing agreement.
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(InfoWorld) - With price pressure nibbling away its consumer voice business, Vodafone GroupÂ has taken steps to move beyond its traditional mobile phone operations and strengthen its service portfolio in the potentially lucrative enterprise market. The group's U.K. subsidiary has acquired Aspective and Isis Telecommunications Management, and signed a strategic partnership with Fiberlink Communications, the British operator said Monday. The deals aim to help the operator develop capabilities in three core areas: applications, access and service. Aspective is a consultancy specialized in developing enterprise applications, such as CRM (customer relationship management), to run over mobile platforms. Isis Communications Management brings added service capability, particularly in fleet management and billing. In a move to provide added access capability, Vodafone will offer Fiberlink's Extend360 Mobility Platform, which offers secure cellular access to corporate VPNs (virtual private networks). The deals come in response to demands from large enterprise customers for support with billing and analysis tools, management of their device fleets, mobile data applications and interfaces to internal systems, Pauline Trotter, an analyst with Ovum, wrote in a report.
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Mobile communications operators and banks joined forces to make it easier and cheaper for hundreds of millions of immigrants and migrant workers to send money home by using their mobile phones.
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(InfoWorld) - In a move to beef up its expertise in Internet-based TV technology, Sweden's Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has made an unsolicited offer to acquire Tandberg Television of Norway. Ericsson offered to pay 9.8 billion Swedish kroner ($1.4 billion) in cash for Tandberg in a deal announced Monday, topping an earlier bid by Arris GroupÂ of Atlanta, Georgia. Ericsson is one of several vendors vying to sell IPTV (Internet Protocol television) equipment to cable and telecom companies, allowing them to offer interactive TV broadcasts, video-on-demand and other multimedia services to the home over broadband connections. Telecom operators are particularly keen to roll out IPTV service to generate new revenue, as their circuit-switched telephone business is eclipsed by low-cost VOIP (voice over IP) service. Tandberg sells video encoding and compression equipment, with an emphasis on MPEG-4, as well as products for delivering interactive and on-demand video. It employs around 870 people, including about 370 video and software engineers. Tandberg described Ericsson's bid as unsolicited and said it would review the offer before commenting. In January, it agreed to be acquired by Arris for 96 Norwegian kronor ($15.69) per share -- 10 kronor less than Monday's offer by Ericsson.
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Check balances, transfer money and even pay bills on a handset.
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(InfoWorld) - Big names are coming to mobile video after a slow start for a service that has been touted as a perfect use for fast 3G (third-generation) networks. Three deals announced Monday brought prominent Hollywood figures and a major media company deeper into the business of mobile video. They will bring comedy, news, and other shows to small screens later this year. Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System International signed a deal with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson in which the communications technology company would deliver a broad package of Turner content to mobile operators' portals and offer some directly to users with mobile browsers. Youth-oriented MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) Amp'd MobileÂ signed on partners including "King Kong" and "School of Rock" actor Jack Black and an executive producer of the science-fiction TV drama "The X-Files" to create original shows. Mobile media company FlycellÂ has formed a development and production company and reached a deal with two Hollywood producers to develop five scripts this year. Mobile operators already offer many video services, both live and on demand, but they aren't yet being used by most cellular customers. However, service providers have been lining up bigger partners and well-known content sources, such as the Sundance Institute, have been joining in. Verizon Wireless last yearÂ made a deal with Google's YouTubeÂ unit to show some of the user-generated video site's clips. Ericsson's deal with Turner encompasses news stories and video from the broadcasting company's CNN unit along with animation from the Cartoon Network cable TV channel and its Adult Swim brand. Turner will sell a package of content to carriers to include in their own mobile portals, and Ericsson will handle the technical side of delivering those offerings. The companies will also make some CNN material, namely text news and weather, available free on a mobile Web site for any browser. Turner already supplies some of this content to mobile operators an in individual basis, setting up a delivery system each time, said Brian Hickman, director of sales at Ericsson. Ericsson will adapt the content for multiple devices and streamline the process, he said. The companies will first start working with operators in Latin America and the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and plan to expand to other areas later. The free mobile-Web content can be blocked from users outside those areas, Hickman said. The services don't depend on having Ericsson network infrastructure, and Ericsson will seek similar deals with other media companies. Amp'd Mobile announced a deal with Black and two partners to develop an exclusive series of comedy shorts. Viewers will vote on the shows and determine which return and which are cancelled, the company said. Amp'd will also work with Icebox, co-founded by "The X-Files" executive producer Howard Gordon, which will produce an investigative news series about paranormal sightings around the world. Flycell's new production company, Flycell Productions, will work with an executive producer of the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" to develop scripts for seven, three-minute mobile shows. Flycell Productions also said it has already entered into co-production agreements for three mobile shows of its own.
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Nationwide, Britain's biggest mutually-owned bank, is to merge with smaller rival Portman, to create a new financial services group with more than 150 billion pounds (221 billion euros, 281 billion dollars) in assets.
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BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom Co. Ltd. previewed a file-sharing application for cell phones this week that will let users swap files, including ring tones, music and videos over its 3G (third-generation) network.
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Company to offer 3 devices with Bluetooth and GPS capabilities.
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The deal will involve the creation of new mobile phone network with a capacity of 2.5 million phone lines. TRIPOLI: Libya&#39;s state-run post and telecommunications company has signed a 200 million euro ($244
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A payment system that allows users to spend cash via their handsets is launched across the UK.
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THE merger between mobile phone retailer Carpho
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ESPOO, Finland, December 19  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia  and Thai operator, Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS), have signed a contract for the expansion of the operator's GSM/EDGE network, resulting in nationwide coverage for both GSM and EDGE.