Nokia-Siemens is reported to have sold monitoring equipment to the Iranian regime. The join venture between the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, and Germany’s Siemens sold a ‘monitor centre’ to Irantelecom, the state telecommunications provider. The technology allows Irantelecom to tap phone lines, read emails and track other electronic communications.

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Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully field tested new EDGE technology that doubles downlink speeds compared to today’s EDGE networks. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Dual Carrier EDGE is a software-based solution that can double data speeds to 592Kbps on existing EDGE-capable GSM networks. Dual Carrier EDGE, based on the 3GPP release 7 standard, is the first step [...]

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Scientists sent by Greenpeace to Ghana have recently found extreme cases of chemical contamination at two “e-waste” facilities. Soil and water tests were conducted at two electronics scrap yards where various items such as broken computers, monitors, and televisions are shipped from the United States and Europe for processing and extraction of scrap metals. [...]

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Nokia Siemens Networks announced that it has 700 MHz Long Term Evolution equipment ready to deploy. Nokia Siemens Networks says its LTE solution for radio and core networks will let operators deploy WCDMA/HSPA and LTE in the 700/1700/2100 MHz frequency bands. Because it supports these three bands, it will be an attractive network solution for [...]

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Nokia Siemens Networks have just completed their first real-world tests of a trial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. LTE networks have been chosen as the next step in GSM, following UMTS and HSPA. A trial network was set up in Berlin on 2.6 GHz spectrum as testers with data cards drove cars around within a [...]

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Nokia Siemens has developed a new technology that will allow operators to squeeze more data in the same amount of spectrum should they upgrade their network using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. LTE is is the proposed successor to HSPA technology. Nokia Siemens’ improvement to the standard allows the network to [...]

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Siemens SL75. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Battery
Disk with software
Manual

The company of Siemens has stopped producing mobile phones. A corresponding department was presented to BenQ by a mother company. And Siemens S75 became one of the last Siemens’ products. This model was fully developed [...]

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nokia and Siemens will announce a merger of their phone equipment divisions tomorrow. The deal is valued at $31.6 billion dollars and will see both companies controling a 50% stake. The new company will have a different name but will not be traded separately.
The entity will be [...]

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3GSM 2006 – BenQ announced its first HSDPA phone at 3GSM, the EF91. The company is calling it the first HSDPA phone, but both LG and Samsung were showing off HSDPA equipped phones at CES. Discounting the claim, the EF91 is still quite a high-end handset:

3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
miniSD card slot
QVGA screen with 262K [...]

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3GSM 2006 – The BenQ EF51 looks at first glance like a music player (it has a certain Creative Zen Micro vibe), but in reality it’s both a mobile phone and a music player. Technically called the BenQ-Siemens EF51, it’s a highly music-oriented device that ups the ante for music phones.
Feature wise the BenQ [...]

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Package:

Handset
Stereo headset
Li-Ion battery 1,000 mAh
Charger
Manual
Mobile Navigation QuickStart
AD Leporello
CD-ROM with software for synchronization
RS-MMC for 1GB (premium shipment, the standard kit has not card included)

For sure all Siemens’ worshipers were waiting for this model and were placing great hopes on it. They thought this release would result in the company’s revival. Forums boiled with passion, the version [...]

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Siemens ME75. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Battery
Charger
Two sets of bibbs
Manual

The company of Siemens often produces “off-road” versions of its phones, which really widens the customer circle and adds to sales. [...]

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BenQ announced its first line of phones since taking over Siemens Mobile. The BenQ-Siemens brand will focus on higher-end phones that bring bigger profit margins. The company hopes to offer about 30 different models this year.
New today are the EF81, S68 and S88. A little about each:
EF81
Thin (.6″) 3G handset with QVGA display and [...]

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Siemens CFX65. Live pictures
Siemens CFX65. Official photos
Siemens CFX65. Photos from the presentation

Standard kit:

Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual

Having released CF 62 Siemens has prepared its elder variant equipped with a camera CFX65 (Venus [...]

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Siemens CL75. Live pictures
Package:

Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual

The company of Siemens lost its positions on the majority of world markets in the course of the last year. Its executive [...]

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