NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- T-Mobile USA on Tuesday said that Nokia Siemens Networks and LM Ericsson AB will supply the network equipment for its new wireless broadband network, a project worth $4 billion.
T-Mobile is commissioning a "4G LTE" network, the same technology used by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. for their high-speed networks. It will use, in part, radio frequencies handed over by AT&T after the bigger company backed off its deal to buy T-Mobile due to opposition from federal regulators.
In addition to handing over spectrum licenses, AT&T gave T-Mobile $3 billion in cash, which will help finance the upgrade. T-Mobile plans to have the network live next year, covering 75 percent of the 25 largest cities.
Sweden's Ericsson is one of the main suppliers for the LTE networks of Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint Nextel Corp., along with Alcatel-Lucent SA of France.
For Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture of Finland's Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG of Germany, the T-Mobile order represents a new chance to get into the U.S. market for network equipment. It got a $7 billion order from Harbinger Capital, a hedge fund, to build a network for its startup, LightSquared, but that project appears moribund because regulators concluded it would have interfered with GPS navigation.
T-Mobile USA is making the announcement on the first day of CTIA Wireless, the U.S. cellphone industry trade show, in New Orleans. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., with 33.2 million devices on its network. It's a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany.
BOKU And T-Mobile USA Partner For In-app Purchases In Carrier’s App Store - SYS-CON Media
BOKU, Inc., the global leader in online mobile payments, today announced that they are an approved carrier-billing gateway for the T-Mobile Mall, T-Mobile's digital storefront. T-Mobile USA is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY). The partnership enables T-Mobile’s app and game developers to accept in-app payments from T-Mobile’s 34 million subscribers. Applications and games will be distributed and marketed through the T-Mobile Mall, and transactions completed using BOKU will be billed directly to a subscriber’s carrier bill.
By leveraging BOKU’s advanced payment technology, developers can integrate in-app payments into their Android app with BOKU’s 1-Tap™ SDK for Android. Game developers increase consumer conversion and expand their global customer reach simply by dropping the BOKU Android SDK into their application. BOKU’s highly developed technology that’s integrated across over 60 countries and hundreds of carriers handles everything from localization to payment authorization. Integrating with BOKU simplifies the purchase experience for consumers, eliminating the need to manually enter credit card information. Through a simple two-step process called 1-Tap Billing, customers will be able to easily and securely purchase and upgrade games without leaving the gaming experience.
“Our merchants find significant value in the high conversion rate of mobile payments with in-app purchases.” said Ron Hirson, President of BOKU. “By combining our bank-grade technology with the access to millions of customers who regularly use the T-Mobile Mall, we’re confident this global billing and distribution method will add tremendous value to game developers seeking a wider audience and increased revenue.“
“BOKU is a strong partner and a key part of our strategic vision to offer our consumers payment options that add value to and simplify the transaction experience,” said Venetia Espinoza, T-Mobile USA’s director of Digital Stores and Mobile Payments. “Our quality games and gamers combined with BOKU’s strong connection to T-Mobile APIs, simple 1-Tap SDK integration and access to the Android developer community will undoubtedly bring in more people to our app store ecosystem and benefit everyone in the process."
With this agreement T-Mobile customers will be able to access the T-Mobile Mall’s portfolio of games and use mobile payments to purchase a wide variety of in-app content within downloaded apps, including virtual goods found in online games from publishers. Game-insight International is one game developer already taking advantage of the T-Mobile app store billing relationship with BOKU. “We selected BOKU because great technology is critical to our success, and they run a cutting-edge technology focused business. Their sophisticated Android SDK lets us quickly and easily access payment systems that handle complex transactions across multiple currencies with maximum uptime, and that’s what we want in a billing partner,” said Game Insight’s CEO, Alisa Chumachenko. “Our business is driven by quick and easy in-game transactions. BOKU’s 1-Tap SDK keeps players in the game with less time navigating transaction menus; something everyone can appreciate. This new partnership will extend BOKU’s 1-Tap convenience to even more loyal gamers across our growing network of titles.”
About BOKU:
BOKU, the leading online mobile payments company, brings bank-grade payments technology and mobile users together, creating a trusted, accessible platform for consumers, merchants and carriers alike. Based in San Francisco with offices in Europe, Australia, Latin America and Asia, BOKU reaches nearly 4 billion consumers worldwide, across 66 different countries. Leading Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists fund BOKU including Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures and NEA. For more information visit: www.boku.com
About Game-insight International:
Founded in 2010, Game Insight is one of the leading social and mobile gaming studios in Russia, with a strong brand representation globally. Game Insight's portfolio includes games on Android, iOS, social, Web, and HTML 5. The studio is committed to creating high quality, free-to-play games on all platforms. Find more information on Game Insight at the official Web site: http://www.game-insight.com/
About T-Mobile USA:
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY). By the end of the third quarter of 2011, approximately 129 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group — 33.7 million by T-Mobile USA — all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS and additionally HSPA+ 21/HSPA+ 42. T-Mobile USA’s wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile USA among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG. For further information on Deutsche Telekom, please visit www.telekom.de/investor-relations.
Useful Links:
BOKU website: http://www.boku.com
Media Kit: http://www.BOKU.com/press/media
Game-insight International website: http://www.game-insight.com/
T-Mobile website: http://www.t-mobile.com
T-Mobile USA, Boku team on carrier billing for in-app purchases - Fiercemobilecontent
T-Mobile USA is teaming with Boku to introduce new carrier billing options within the T-Mobile Mall digital storefront, enabling Android application and game developers to accept in-app payments from the carrier's 34 million subscribers.
T-Mobile USA developer partners may now leverage Boku's 1-Tap SDK for Android to sell a variety of in-app premium content and services, like virtual goods and new gaming levels. Boku's 1-Tap Billing model enables consumers to make digital purchases with their wireless phone number and charge them to their monthly operator bill, sidestepping the need to manually enter credit card information or store financial data on their device.
Boku now partners with more than 250 mobile operators in 66 countries, among them T-Mobile USA rivals Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ), AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) and Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S). The firm has raised more than $75 million in venture funding since launching in 2008, and in March closed a $35 million round led by New Enterprise Associates and Telefonica Digital.
Earlier this year, Boku signed an agreement to expand its services to the offline sector, teaming with MasterCard's PayPass retailer network to enable consumers to make payments, earn discounts and receive targeted offers via mobile phone wherever PayPass is accepted.
The T-Mobile Mall is featured inside the larger Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Play storefront and offers apps and games curated by T-Mobile USA. The mall includes Music Hub (offering access to music apps as well as MP3 tracks and albums and ringtones), Game Base (a collection of pre-screened titles) and Apps (highlighting T-Mobile's own applications as well as solutions from selected partners).
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T-Mobile & Orange Everything Everywhere £50-million investment programme - Phones Review
There’s big news today for the UK mobile industry as Everything Everywhere, which runs T-Mobile and Orange has announced plans for a £50 million investment programme, intended to give customers a new service approach. The overhaul will bring several changes to T-Mobile and Orange customers.
The revamped customer service will be the first in the UK to be designed around phone operating systems and the devices that use them. Specialist agents will be highly trained to offer customers advice on specific devices and operating systems such as Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry as it’s acknowledged that smartphone use and growth has completely changed the way people use their phones.
Experts in customers’ digital needs will be able to avoid the need to constantly transfer customers to different departments and will be able to offer advice on technology, devices and accounts. Being switched between departments can be a real bugbear to many consumers so this will be a welcome change. The £50 million will be spent on contact centres, high street stores and customer-facing staff.
Up to 12,000 employees will also be able to receive training at a special Development Academy. Around 7,000 customer service employees will receive training in operating systems and eventually they will be accredited with their area of specialty. It’s hoped that this will create excellent communication skills as well as engagement with the customer and also instill loyalty. Everything Everywhere Chief Customer Officer Jackie O’Leary said, “Being the first in the industry to champion something new is exciting and we are extremely pleased by the amazing feedback we are receiving from our customers, our people and the handset manufacturers and operating systems we represent.”
Trials have already been taking place and have proven to be successful with significant improvements in resolution of customer issues at first point of contact. There was also a double-digit increase in Net Promoter Scores that measure customer service and now the new approach is rolling out across the organisation. The companies previously announced that both would be offering T-Mobile and Orange products across stores.
Is this an impressive step forward by Everything Everywhere? Are you a T-Mobile or Orange customer and happy to hear this news? Do you think customer service needed revamping? Send your comments to let us know.
T-Mobile offers cheapest Galaxy S3 deal In UK - Itproportal
The Samsung Galaxy S3 offer, available through Carphone Warehouse's subsidiary Mobiles.co.uk, comes with a rather decent 300 minutes, unlimited texts and 750MB data allowance (note T-Mobile also provides with a Text Basic and Text Extra package which provides with 600 minutes and 250MB data or 100 minutes and 1.5GB worth of data for the same price.
In contrast, the Vodafone offer only offered 100 minutes, 500 texts and 250MB of mobile data with 2GB BT Openzone allowance). With a total cost of ownership of £624, the deal is a good one given that the device costs nearly £500 SIM free.
The Galaxy S3 was unveiled earlier this month in Earls Court, London and comes with a quad core Exynos 4412 processor clocked at 1.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 50GB Dropbox-powered cloud storage, 16GB onboard storage, a microSD card slot, a 4.8in Super AMOLED display with a 1,280 x 720 pixels resolution, an 8-megapixel camera and a number of unique features like the S Voice or the phone's ability to track the user's eye motion.
Source : Mobiles.co.uk
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