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Hello! International Telecom Opportunity Calling

Michael Michaud submits:After scanning seven thousand charts as I usually do every weekend, I've come up with this week's weekly stock pick. The scan produced mostly short-sell candidates this week. T    

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Return of Low Power GSM

Dean Bubley submits: About two years ago, there was a sudden buzz of excitement around a newspectrum auction in the UK - referred to as "low power GSM", itrepresented a sliver of frequencies that were    

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Dismantling the Tyranny of the SIM Card

Dean Bubley submits: About 18 months ago, I wrote a deliberately provocative post titled "The Tyranny of the SIM Card".It tackled the thorny issue of whether the SIM (which is essentially'an oper    

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IMS MMtel: Does Anyone Other Than Ericsson Care?

Dean Bubley submits: This may come as a surprise to you, but there is a 3GPP standard for a"PSTN replacement" form of VoIP. Supposedly, it will enable bothfixed-line [TISPAN] and mobile operators to d    

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VimpelCom to Acquire Golden Telecom for $4.3B

Vimpel-Communications (VIP), Russia's second-largest wireless carrier, has agreed to acquire Golden Telecom (GLDN), a Russian broadband and fixed-line operator, for around4.24B, or105/share. The deal repre    

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Alvarion Inks Tier-1 Deal

Aaron Katsman submits: As my buddy Zack “Facebook” Miller posted exactly two weeks ago, Alvarion (ALVR) announced a huge win on Wednesday by inking a deal with a â€&o    

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RIMM Considering iPhone Rival - Globe & Mail

Research In Motion's (RIMM) Blackberry has long been the corporate phone of choice, but a report in Canada's Globe and Mail says the company has launched an important move to grab market share in the    

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Starent Falls Hard, But Goldman Defends It

Notable Calls submits: Goldman Sachs is defending Starent (NASDAQ:STAR) after the shares traded down 22% yesterday and today on news that five T-Mobile European properties (Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany,    

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Report: LG surpasses Motorola for third place in 2008

LG Electronics edged out Motorola as the third biggest handset maker in 2008 in terms of the number of units shipped, according to a report in DigiTimes. The report said LG shipped 100 million units in 2008, ba    

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Rumor Mill: WinMo 6.5 coming in Q3 2009

Microsoft's new upgrade of its Windows Mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, will be available for handset makers in the third quarter of 2009, according to a report in DigiTimes. The report, citing    

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