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The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularBangladesh: Motorola Inc. said it won a four-year, full-operations...

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularGermany: E-Plus said it signed an agreement to oursource...

Just when you thought mobile music personalization applications couldn't get any more disruptive, along come background tones. The latest-but surely not last-step in the evolution of such offerings, background tones play during entire conversations between mobile users. Subscribers can choose to assign songs for...

PUNE, India—Indian GSM operator Idea Cellular Ltd. deployed Kodiak Networks’ Real-Time Exchange System in the Maharashtra and Goa circle, according to the companies. The product allows for group-oriented voice applications as part of Idea’s Group Talk suite. Services include Voice Bridge instant group conferencing,...

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will retain its stake in Indian wireless carrier Idea Cellular Ltd. after allowing an agreement for the 32.9-percent stake sale to expire.Under the terms of the agreement, originally signed in December 2004 and which lapsed June 11, Cingular was...

Global Signal Inc. said its board of directors has increased its cash dividend for the fourth quarter to 40 cents per share of common stock from 37 cents in the third quarter of 2004. The dividend is payable Jan. 20. The tower player owns...

T-Mobile USA Inc. expanded its existing $300 million agreement with Nokia Corp. to include next-generation radio equipment, an expanded GPRS core network, implementation and optimization services and Nokia's NetAct network service management system. Shipments of the new equipment are expected to begin immediately. "Nokia...

NEW DELHI, India-Nokia Corp. and carrier IDEA Cellular Ltd. said they jointly demonstrated live multimedia services over an EDGE network with speeds on an average three times faster than data services delivered over GPRS."Our network is 100 percent EDGE compatible and we are fully...

German vendor Siemens AG said it has signed two contracts, one for EDGE technology. Siemens announced a deal with Malaysian mobile operator DiGi Telecommunications to supply it with GSM, GPRS and EDGE equipment. The German equipment maker described the deal as the first EDGE...

BANGALORE, India-Indian software company Subex Systems said Bharti Cellular, India's largest mobile operator, will deploy Subex's fraud management system. The Ranger product helps carriers curb fraud using subscriber profiling and analytical capabilities.The software company said that with the Bharti contract, its Ranger product has...