MTS demonstrates the new solutions on the exhibition “connection -[Ekspokomm] 2010” Tweet

The operator of MTS in the course of participation in the 22nd international exhibition “the connection -[Ekspokomm]-2010”, that takes place in Moscow in “[Ekspotsentre]” from May 11 to 14, will demonstrate a number of the new solutions for the business and the mass market, and he will also present the new convergent products within the framework of the integration of the companies of group MTS (MTS, “Comstar- Oates”, [MGTS]).

Of business audience and to corporate clients are presented the acting and planned to the starting in 2010 new services MTS, which make it possible to increase the effectiveness of business processes and control of the information of the enterprise:

* Is femtohundredth - the miniature weak base station, intended for creation or improvement in 3G and GSM of coating and assignment of unique services inside the small buildings (to 8500 sq. m.) taking into account the specific character of the arrangement of office (zero floors of buildings, wholesale depots, plant areas, offices beyond the limits of city). For the visitors of exhibition is organized the zone of free connection MTS in the limits of coating femtohoneycombs.
* Thermal-sym- map - new size of the thermoresistant SIM- map “OF [M]2[M] of thermal”, the specially developed for the devices transmission of data, that are exploited under the complex climatic or production conditions, at temperatures from -40[oS] to +105[oS], and under the influence of other unfavorable factors: vibration, impacts, the increased humidity and pollution.
* [Router] “MTS 3G 2” - the [brendirovannoe] coupler in the complete set with the advantageous tariff, for the rapid and advantageous organization of simultaneous Internet access through Wi-Fi for the group of users to 15 people. Internet access can be organized through the fixed connection or with the use of networks 3G and GSM MTS.

Within the framework exposures are also represented navigation services MTS for the corporate clients:

* “Nick” - service for monitoring of transport (auto-, vessels) on the basis of the satellite navigation GPS/[GLONASS] with the accuracy of position finding from 5 meters.
* “Mobile colleagues” - service for monitoring of the position of the colleagues of the company through the cell phones on the base stations of GSM- network MTS with the accuracy from 150 m.

At today's moment navigation services MTS it uses the order of 1500 corporate clients, which composes more than 80 000 subscribers and their number constantly it grows.

Also MTS demonstrates products for the mass market:

* GPS- navigator “MTS navigator Link 300” - the first on the market [brendirovannyy] automobile GPS- navigator with the connection to the GSM- network MTS and the tariff for the navigation “command SHTURMANN”.
* Rule of the [brendirovannykh] telephones MTS, by the neglected company within the framework of partnership with the telecommunication company Of vodafone. Are also on the exhibition represented the models of the rule of [smartfonov] Of blackBerry.

Furthermore, within the framework the united stand of the group of companies MTS, where enter MTS, “Comstar- Oates” and [MGTS], is represented a number of the convergent solutions for the corporate and particular clients on the basis of the combination of technologies MTS and “Comstar”:

* box product “domestic and mobile Internet MTS Stream” for the particular clients, the uniting in itself fixed and mobile Internet on the advantageous for the subscribers conditions.
* universal [router] - multifunctional miniature device for the house or the office, that makes it possible to obtain access to the telecommunication services of operators (Internet, TV, home telephone) with the use of interfaces 3G, ADSL2/2+, WiMAX, Wi-Fi/FON.

Also, on the stand of group MTS together with the company Of huawei is expanded Russia's first demonstration zone of the network “fourth generation” OF LTE. The speeds, accessible in the network LTE make it possible to examine multimedia files at the speed to 70 Mbit/s.

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U.S. CELLULAR APPOINTS MARY N. DILLON AS PRESIDENT AND CEO Tweet

United States Cellular Corporation (NYSE: USM) announced that its board of directors has appointed Mary N. Dillon as president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective June 1. Dillon will replace retiring president and CEO John E. Rooney, and will join the U.S. Cellular board.

Dillon, 48, joins U.S. Cellular from McDonald's Corporation, where she was global chief marketing officer and executive vice president, with responsibility for worldwide marketing efforts and global brand strategy. In this role, Dillon led initiatives to build and enhance the McDonald's brand worldwide, and increase the quality and efficiency of marketing planning and execution. Prior to joining McDonald's, Dillon was president of the Quaker Foods division of PepsiCo Corporation.

"Mary has the rich consumer marketing background and strong operational experience to lead U.S. Cellular to superior long-term growth and success," said LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., U.S. Cellular chairman and TDS president and CEO. "She has the strategic focus to leverage the strengths of U.S. Cellular's customer-focused Dynamic Organization, drive customer loyalty, and improve profitability and shareholder value. Mary's integrity and passion for the customer are an excellent fit for the company."

"U.S. Cellular is positioned for a strong and healthy future," said Dillon, "and I'm excited to build on the company's relentless focus on customers. I look forward to working with the experienced senior management team and dedicated associates to elevate the U.S. Cellular brand and the customer experience. I share U.S. Cellular's values, and am proud to have been selected to guide the company's Dynamic Organization to achieve profitable growth over the long term."

Dillon is on the board of Target Corporation, and holds a BS in marketing and Asian studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

About U.S. Cellular
United States Cellular Corporation, the nation's sixth-largest wireless carrier, provides a comprehensive range of wireless products and services, excellent customer support and a high-quality network to approximately 6.1 million customers in 26 states. The Chicago-based company employed 8,900 full-time equivalent associates as of March 31, 2010. At the end of the quarter, Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS) owned 82 percent of U.S. Cellular.

Visit uscellular.com. for comprehensive financial information, including earnings releases, quarterly and annual filings, shareholder information, and more.

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Orange UK Announces Data Plans for iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Tweet

Orange announced that it is extending its partnership with Apple to offer new iPad plans for customers in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Switzerland. The partnership between Orange and Apple, which has already seen iPhone launch with Orange in 30 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa, will extend later in 2010 with the launch of iPad in additional Orange markets.

Orange UK will offer tailored 3G data plans for iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, from 10th May, and will launch a pre-registration site for SIMs at Orange.co.uk/iPad. Pay-as-you-consume, daily, weekly and monthly data plans will be available, providing the freedom to choose a type of plan depending on usage.

iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface. iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models are just 0.5 inches thick and weigh just 1.6 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and deliver up to 10 hours of battery life for surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos or listening to music, and up to nine hours of surfing the web using a 3G data network.*

Orange, recently recognised as the best mobile broadband provider in the UK by Independent research firm YouGov, will offer micro-SIMs for iPad free of charge to consumers. From the 10th May the micro-SIMs can be ordered from Orange shops, www.orange.co.uk/shop and Orange telesales, as well as directly from Apple. Customers will be able to register their micro-SIMs by calling Orange customer service on 07973 100 150.

iPad users will also benefit from access to Orange iPad apps, including Orange Wednesdays, the popular 2-for-1 cinema ticket offer; Your Account, which allows users to track usage and purchase data bundles; and Orange Wi-Fi hotspot locator.

Pricing
Orange has developed a simple “pay for what you use” price plan for iPad, charging for data access at a rate of 5p per MB of usage each month, costing no more than £40 per month (excluding the optional bundles). In addition consumers can also choose from four money-saving bundles below for more planned or frequent usage.
iPad plan Cost
Pay monthly for what you use 5p (per MB)



All customers will enjoy a £10 credit upon activation of any Orange iPad data plan, for use at any time.
iPad bundles Cost UK Usage Allowance
iPad Daily (valid for 1 day until midnight) £2 200MB
iPad Weekly (valid for 7 days until midnight) £7.50 1GB
iPad Monthly 15 (recurring) £15 3GB + unlimited browsing at Wi-Fi hotspots**
iPad Monthly 25 (recurring) £25 10GB + unlimited browsing at Wi-Fi hotspots**



Additional data consumed beyond bundle allowance will be billed at 5p/MB

Pay as you consume plan is subject to fair usage.
**Fair usage policy of 750MB applies. Wi-Fi hotspots at UK's largest single public Wi-Fi network, BT Openzone

For more information about iPad please visit www.apple.com/ipad

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.



About Orange:
Orange is the key brand of the France Telecom Group, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. With 131.8 million customers, the Orange brand now covers Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates.

In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population, and 3G coverage to more than 93%. At the end of March 2010, Orange had more than 17.3 million customers in the UK – 16.44 million active mobile customers and approximately 860,000 fixed line internet customers.

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Brand Services Limited.

For more information please call the Orange Press Office 0870 3731500, or visit www.orange.co.uk/newsroom

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SANDISK TO PRESENT AT THE J.P. MORGAN TMT CONFERENCE Tweet

MILPITAS, Calif.- SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK) announced that Sanjay Mehrotra, President and COO will present to the investment community attending the 2010 J.P. Morgan TMT Conference in Boston, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 09:20 am, Eastern Time. The session will be webcast and can be accessed live from SanDisk Corporation's Investor Relations website at www.sandisk.com/IR. A replay of the webcast will also be made available.

About SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards, from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.

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Lemon Mobiles modish QWERTY — iQ 707 flaunts Opera Mini Tweet

Users to enjoy up-to-the-minute browsing experience.

Smartphone-seekers in India can now surf the Web with the Opera Mini browser on the sleek and stylish iQ 707 from Lemon Mobiles, the mobile brand promoted by Fastrack Communications Pvt. Ltd. The iQ 707 QWERTY phone was recently launched in the Indian market and has a 3.2 MP camera, EDGE, quadband, Java and a trackball, and the latest addition is the integrated Opera Mini Web browser, which dramatically improves performance and the overall user experience.

Opera Mini, the world’s most popular mobile browser, offers server-side compression, which shrinks Web pages by up to 90 percent before loading them on the device. This speeds up the browsing experience and also saves users a substantial amount of money on their data usage bills.

On this collaboration, Dag Olav Norem, VP Products, Opera Software said, “India has been one of our fastest-growing markets over the past few years. Today, it represents our third-largest Opera Mini user base, after Russia and Indonesia. With the rapid rise in the number of people browsing the Web from their mobile phones, users are picking only the best software for their devices — and that is Opera Mini.”

“India is one of the largest and fastest growing mobile markets in the world. Over the years, there has been a steady rise in the number of users connecting to the Web with handsets, and the onset of 3G services will only see an upsurge. We at Fastrack, aim to make every Indian a part of the mobile revolution,” adds Gopal Kalra, Director, Fastrack Communications. “Integrating Opera Mini with iQ 707 was an obvious choice, because we want our users to enjoy a feature-rich Web experience while simultaneously minimizing their data-usage costs.”

For further specifications of iQ 707, browse through the following URL: http://www.lemonmobiles.com/index.php?option=com_catalog&Itemid=21&p_id=16&action=view
About Lemon Mobiles

Lemon Mobiles is a brand owned and managed by Fastrack Communications Pvt. Ltd. Fastrack Communications Pvt. Ltd. was established in 2008 with a focus on quality products for the burgeoning telecom revolution in India. The driving mantra at the company is Total Quality Management in every aspect of the trade — Product, Sales and After Sales Service. Learn more about Lemon Mobiles at http://www.lemonmobiles.com.

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Huawei and vividwireless Launch World' s First MIMO BeamForming WiMAX Network Tweet

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and vividwireless, Australia' s leading wireless broadband operator, announced the launch of Australia' s first commercial WiMAX network in Perth – the most powerful wireless broadband network in the country. It is also the world' s first WiMAX network to adopt cutting-edge 4T4R (4 transmitter and 4 receiver) and Beamforming technology, delivering wireless access speeds comparable to most ADSL2+ connections.

Beamforming maximizes transmission power so that consumers can receive a better signal and a higher data rate. It also provides a 20% increase in coverage radius. Due to innovative technologies such as Beamforming, MIMO (multi-input multi-output), 4T4R, and interference cancellation, Huawei' s WiMAX network provides wider coverage and higher capacity, using fewer base stations, and also utilizes energy-saving technology to increase network efficiency. Through the new network, vividwireless users are able to experience downlink speeds of up to 36 Mb/s and uplink speeds up to 4Mb/s, even up to three kilometers away from the base station. Huawei' s compact vividwireless USB modem provides consumers with high-speed broadband on-the-go.

Martin Mercer, CEO of vividwireless, commented: "Over six short months we have built Australia' s most powerful wireless broadband network and assembled all of the pieces of a leading internet business. This remarkable achievement is a testament to skill, experience, team work, and motivation. Support from Huawei, our supplier of network equipment and terminals, was vital to meeting this tight deadline."

"The beamforming-enabled vividwireless network provides users with an exceptional wireless broadband experience, even if they are located some distance from a cell site," said Peter Rossi, CTO of Australia,Huawei. "Huawei' s global leadership position in the development of WiMAX standards allows us to offer operators new and innovative technologies like beamforming and 4T4R."

The Perth network is the first phase of vividwireless' national WiMAX rollout plan. As vividwireless' s exclusive WiMAX network provider, Huawei will deliver additional WiMAX networks in 2010 covering Australia' s largest cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, and Brisbane.

To date Huawei ranks number one in terms of commercial WiMAX contracts with more than 65 deployment contracts across North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Middle East, and Africa.
About vividwireless

vividwireless, wholly owned by Seven Network Limited, is Australia' s first 4G wireless network. The network is launching in Perth, with metropolitan extension networks focused on main University campuses currently under development in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra.

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Mobile broadband business is self sustainable Tweet

Nokia Siemens Networks publishes techno-economic study that shows, even without voice, operators can keep their monthly capital and operating expenditure to EUR 3 per subscriber*

Operators can profitably provide up to 5 GB of data per month for every one of their existing voice subscribers by using HSPA and LTE radio technology in existing sites and by using spectrum on multiple frequency bands. Additionally, the higher the mobile broadband penetration, the lower the cost of delivering a gigabyte of data per subscriber. These findings were published by Nokia Siemens Networks in a recent mobile broadband techno-economic study to help operators make strategic decisions on the timing and focus of their network investments.

“While the data boom is finally upon us, the viability of the business has eluded most – operators have become increasingly preoccupied with the associated high costs of data delivery versus the lag in expected revenues,” said Marc Rouanne, head of Network Systems, Nokia Siemens Networks. “Our study proves that success in mobile broadband can deliver efficiencies – radio access networks can enable sustainable, cost-efficient broadband offerings to subscribers by leveraging existing base station sites to their fullest capacity.”

Working on the premise that traffic is never equally distributed between sites – typically during a busy hour 50% of the traffic is carried by 15% of the cells – the majority of cells remain underutilized. Adding more users can in effect lead to a more equal traffic distribution between sites and a more profitable use of available capacity.

Further, since traffic distribution is not equal between subscribers – 20% of the subscribers take more than 80% of the bandwidth – network efficiency can be greatly improved by balancing the traffic. For example, radio capacity can be boosted by deploying additional macro sites in hot spots, using 6-sector configurations**, applying QoS differentiation, and by offloading traffic in highly populated areas.

Operating expenditure is the main component in an operator’s cost base. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Flexi Multiradio Base Station is a compact, zero-footprint base station that fits on any existing base station site, making the reuse of existing sites extremely feasible. Fully deployable outdoors, it also makes new site acquisition simpler compared to conventional base station designs and can save on costs including electricity, site rental, backhaul and maintenance. In addition, the company’s single RAN offering will enable operators to leverage LTE to lower the cost per bit, especially when HSPA spectrum is fully utilized.

“The key to maximizing profit from the network will depend upon the accuracy of upgrading capacity of the existing HSPA network vis-à-vis deploying a LTE network,” added Tommi Uitto, head of Network Systems product management, Nokia Siemens Networks. “Our Flexi Multiradio Base Station with software-based evolution will allow operators to efficiently and simultaneously build high capacity on multiple bands with GSM, HSPA and LTE radio access technology, proving to be a huge differentiator and success factor.”
About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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