Sunday 11 November 2012

West Europe MNO profiles


The following West Europe operations are tracked by The Europe MNO Directory 2012:
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Faroese Islands
Finland
France
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Guernsey
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Jersey
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
San Marino
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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East Europe MNO profiles


The following East Europe operations are tracked by The Europe MNO Directory 2012:
Abkhazia
Albania
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Georgia
Hungary
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Moldova
Moldova (Transdniester)
Montenegro
Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
Republic of South Ossetia
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
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Wednesday 29 February 2012

Closing of the transaction to transfer responsibility for the Norwegian nationwide TETRA Nødnett project to Motorola Solutions, Inc. completed | Nokia Siemens Networks

Closing of the transaction to transfer responsibility for the Norwegian nationwide TETRA Nødnett project to Motorola Solutions, Inc. completed | Nokia Siemens Networks:

Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Solutions, a leading provider of mission-critical communications solutions, have completed the transaction to transfer responsibility for the Norwegian nationwide TETRA Nødnett project including the transfer of 25 employees from Nokia Siemens Networks in Norway to Motorola Solutions.

The signing of the agreement to transfer responsibility for the Nødnett project including associated employees was announced earlier this year on January 11.

All regulatory approvals, including Norwegian government approval, have been obtained, and Motorola Solutions has assumed responsibility for the continued roll out, implementation and operation of the nationwide Nødnett network for Norway´s public safety agencies with immediate effect.
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Telefónica - Press Office - Press room home - Telefónica and Mozilla pioneer first Open Web Devices

Telefónica - Press Office - Press room home - Telefónica and Mozilla pioneer first Open Web Devices:

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 27 February2012–Telefónica Digital and Mozilla today unveiled an ambitious strategy to create a new mobile platform that will deliver the first HTML5 based devices running on the open Web. The Open Web Devices platform (OWD), which will launch in 2012,is an important step forward in the establishment of HTML5 as the next major ecosystem for smartphones, and will enable the delivery of smartphone capabilities at low price points.
Telefónica Digital’s product development and innovation team has worked closely together with Mozilla, the pioneers of open Web standards, to create a new phone architecture that relies entirely on the Web, enabling HTML 5 applications with absolute access to core phone APIs. This means that all of the device’s capabilities (calling, messaging, browsing, games etc) can be developed as HTML5 applications and executed via an experience based on the Firefox Web browser.
Despite the significant gains in performance for Web Technologies on mobile devices, HTML and JavaScript-based applications have had limited access to the device’s underlying capabilities. This platform will lead the evolution of the HTML5 set of standards to add new software APIs that are as broad and functionally rich as their native counterparts.
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko Project unlocks the current limitations of Web development for mobile by providing new features and APIs that will demonstrate just how powerful HTML5 can be and that it is possible to run an entire device using this technology. In doing so it is possible to remove much of the middleware and other superfluous software on a device which not only makes the applications run faster, but also brings down the device unit cost.
Because of this initiative’s commitment to openness, this reference implementation will be submitted for standardization to W3C. The objective is that there are no proprietary APIs within the device architecture, making phones developed using it the only truly open devices on the market.
Telefónica and Mozilla are developing this HTML5 operating system on a hardware platform that is based upon a Qualcomm chipset. The three companies will be collaborating to deliver a feature rich prototype platform that will enable smartphone capabilities at feature phone entry level pricing.
An operating system based on HTML5 offers significant opportunities for application developers, content owners and service providers, both in terms of enabling new capabilities, as well as making it easier to develop, deploy and maintain their applications.
According to Carlos Domingo, Director of Product Development & Innovation at Telefónica Digital: 'Telefónica's objective is to drive HTML5 adoption across the industry. For the first time the capabilities of HTML5 and the open Web have been fully leveraged to create an entirely new mobile platform. From our experience in Latin America we know that a huge part of the market is not being catered for by current smartphones. With new open Web devices we will be able to offer a smartphone experience at the right price point for these customers.'
'It has long been our mission to deliver advanced Web technologies that eliminate roadblocks for users and developers. We did it first with Firefox, and now we’re doing it again in creating the first Open Web Devices,' said Brendan Eich, CTO,Mozilla. 'By providing the missing links, Mozilla is now unlocking the power of the Web as the platform for creating and consuming rich content everywhere.'
Arno Gourdol, Senior Director, Web Platform & Authoring at Adobe, which supports the project, said, 'Adobe is pleased to see Telefonica and Mozilla launch this new initiative.We continue to invest in HTML5 products and technologies and support standards bodies like the W3C. The Open Web Devices APIs can be supported as extensions to PhoneGap, enabling developers to create rich HTML5 apps that work across these new Open Web Devices and all of the platforms supported by PhoneGap, including Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Windows Phone.'
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Vodafone and Visa Announce World’s Largest Mobile Payments Partnership - Vodafone

Vodafone and Visa Announce World’s Largest Mobile Payments Partnership - Vodafone:

Vodafone and Visa today announced a worldwide partnership to enable consumers to pay for goods and services using their mobile phones instead of coins and banknotes.

The companies will work together to develop a Vodafone-brandedproposition that will be offered to consumers across Vodafone’s 398-million customer base in more than 30 countries across five continents, enabled by Visa’s outstanding payment network, product suite and brand. The partnership - the largest of its kind between a global payment network and mobile operator - combines the companies’ global reach and expertise to bring Visa payment functionality to consumers around the world.

The new Vodafone mobile paymentproposition announced with Visa will be based onthe Visa prepaid account and offered to consumers in partnership with Visa Issuers. The service will initially be launched in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, and the UK, starting in the coming financial year. Other countries within Vodafone's global portfolio will follow.

In addition to the Vodafone-branded stored value account inside the mobile wallet, Vodafone and Visa will work together to enable Visa Issuers for mobile payments globally. The platform will be open to all partners of all relevant industries, including financial institutions, retailers, transport and utility companies to host their services within an innovative new Vodafone mobile wallet.

Vittorio Colao, Group Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone, said: “The Vodafone mobile wallet represents the next stage of the smartphone revolution. It offers our customers the speed, simplicity and convenience of managing their everyday transactions with a single wave or tap of their smartphone, using innovative and reliable services developed by Vodafone and Visa - technology and providers they can trust. Our mobile wallet will be open to any service provider and we are committed to enable all partners to provide our joint customers the richest service portfolio possible."

In developed countries across Europe, North America and Australia, with a mature infrastructure for electronic payments, users of the Vodafone stored value account will be able to make purchases at the-point-of sale using Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled smartphones equipped with Visa payWave for mobile, Visa’s fast and secure mobile payment technology. By simply waving their smartphone in front of a payment terminal, consumers will be able to make simple, every day purchases such as bus and train tickets, newspapers, magazines or a morning coffee. Consumers will also be able to make high value purchases securely using a passcode.

Peter Ayliffe, CEO of Visa Europe, said: "Our partnershipwith Vodafone represents a huge stride forwardfor mobile payments. Visa’s future of payments initiative is more thanjust a promise: these services arereal, tangible and coming to the mainstream consumer market in the very near future. Any Visa Issuer across these key markets will be able to work with Visa and Vodafoneto enable mobile payments for their customers, backed by all the security, trust and global acceptance the Visa brand represents."

“The convergence of global payment networks, such as VisaNet, with leading mobile telecommunication networks, such as Vodafone, has the potential to transform the way people pay and get paid the world over,” said John Partridge, President, Visa Inc. “Visa’s relationship with Vodafone will assist financial institutions in both developed and developing countries to offer Visa-quality payments to new and existing account holders.”
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