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Nokia to shed 7,000 staff as part of reorganisation
April 27, 2011Mobile phone maker Nokia has announced it will shed 7,000 jobs as part of a plan to refocus the company on smartphones. Nokia said the majority of the job losses would be in Denmark and Finland, with a total of 700 jobs going in the UK. The plan will...
Vodafone to sell mobile phone stake to Vivendi for £7bn
April 04, 2011Vodafone is to sell its 44% stake in the French mobile phone operator SFR to Vivendi for 7.95bn euros (£7bn). The deal gives Vivendi, France's biggest mobile phone business, full control of SFR and ends months of talks with Vodafone. The UK company...
3G telephone services could be launched in Moldova by this yearend
July 31, 2008Third generation (3G) mobile phone services could be launched in Moldova towards the end of this year. The director of the National Regulatory Agency in Electronic Communications and Information Technology Sergiu Satnic said on July 31 that the four mobile...
Subway cops refuse $140M phone system
January 25, 2007NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- New York subway police finally have their $140 million radio system to better patrol the underground -- but, the audio is bad and they won't use it. Widespread interference causes distortion that one engineer says sounds as...
Swisscom buys back its mobile phone unit from Vodafone
December 19, 2006Geneva (dpa) - The Swiss telecoms company, Swisscom, is to buy back a 25 per cent stake in its mobile unit from the British mobile phone company, Vodafone. The long-awaited deal worth 3.5 billion US dollars (4.25 billion chf) should boost Swisscom...