Nordea Bank Norge ASA and Telenor have entered into a three-year contract for a new telephony solution. The agreement includes a complete renewal of the exchanges at the head office and regional offices with a new switchboard support system that allows the seamless integration with mobile telephony (ProffNett).

Incompatibility of chargers for mobile phones is a major inconvenience for users and also leads to unnecessary waste. Therefore, the Commission has requested industry to come forward with a voluntary commitment to solve this problem so as to avoid legislation. As a result major producers of mobile phones have agreed to harmonise chargers in the EU.

Sonera continues its accelerated turbo 3G build-out program by introducing mobile broadband services in the 900 MHz frequency. Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei are the network vendors for the 3G expansion program in the following years.
“Our customers expect the traditional Sonera network quality where ever they are. By investing in the latest technology we can offer mobile broadband to a growing number of customers in a cost-efficient way”, says Esa Rautalinko, CEO of TeliaSonera Finland.
A significant part of the turbo 3G extension will be based on the 900 MHz frequency. …

Belgacom TV, the leading Belgian IP television service provider added 250,000 new customers since January 2008, representing an increase of 45 percent over 2007. The company’s success is driven by the implementation of an end-to-end IPTV platform from Nokia Siemens Networks that introduced HDTV (high definition television), VoD (video on demand), PVR (personal video recorder) and interactive services for both new and existing Belgacom TV subscribers.

The GSMA, the global trade association for the mobile communications industry, welcomes an initiative driven by the Finnish Ministry of Communications to develop a unified approach to the allocation of ‘Digital Dividend’ spectrum – the spectrum that will be freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital TV – in the Baltic Sea region. The Ministry today hosted a Baltic Sea Summit on the digital dividend in Helsinki attended by government delegations from all the Baltic Sea states, namely Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today it has successfully deployed an IP/MPLS backbone transit network for Orange Business Services, France Telecom’s single brand for services offered to businesses worldwide.