Nortel Networks and its new president CEO, Mike Zafirovski have reached agreement with Zafirovski's former employer, Motorola, which filed a law suit against Zafirovski last month immediately after Nortel announced his appointment.
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BigAir Group, which operates a fixed wireless broadband network in Sydney, has lodged a prospectus with ASIC for an initial public offering to raise up to $10 million and list on the Australian Stock Exchange.
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The CSIRO has signed an agreement with Indian ICT company, Infosys, under which the two organisations will cooperate on R&D and Infosys will assist in commercialising CSIRO's intellectual property.
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European chip developer, Sequans Communications, says it will have chips available that will enable equipment manufacturers to launch base stations and mobile devices conforming to the 'mobile' WiMAX standard 802.16e as early as the second half of 2006.
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Global virtual network operator (VNO), Vanco has signed a two-year deal with UK based global engineering company, Smiths Group plc.
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Vodafone has launched its 3G network and the start of a massive advertising campaign focussed around the theme of enabling people to make productive use, thanks to 3G content, of short intervals of otherwise dead time.
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Vodafone in the UK has installed the first vending machine to dispense mobile phones. It is being piloted in Vodafone stores in the northern city of Manchester and offers a choice of three phones with prepaid call credits from £30 as well as SIM-only package costing £5.
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Chariot Internet is to buy Victorian wireless broadband access provider, Omninet Wireless Pty Ltd.
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A group of former Kaz Group executives have set up Artis Group to deliver "premium, high quality IT services to corporate and government clients."
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The ACCC has published interim determinations in five disputes by other mobile carriers with Vodafone's charges for terminating calls on its mobile network.
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Communications minister, senator Helen Coonan, has released a discussion paper canvassing options for a national, legislated 'Do Not Call' register that would give consumers the right to 'opt-out' of telemarketing approaches at any time.
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The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) is hoping to boost the percentage of old cellphones and batteries that get recycled by appointing a dedicated manager of the Mobile Phone Industry Recycling Program.
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Telstra will pay its 1.6 million shareholders a fully franked final dividend of 20 cents per share on Monday 31 October - made up of an ordinary dividend of 14 cents per share and a special dividend of six cents per share.
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Telstra has hiked the price of line rentals for residential customers who choose other carriers for their long distance, international calls and calls to mobiles.
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A large corporate user of BlackBerry push mobile email service has abandoned the service after users emails wound up on the wrong BlackBerry.
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The WiMAX Forum has named KT Corp, the leading provider of high-speed wireless broadband in Korea, to its board of directors.
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