Shortly after unloading Esat, O'Brien spotted a 3-inch-square ad in the Financial Times inviting bids for a mobile license in Jamaica.
The relatively unknown Bharti snatched the prized mobile license for Delhi, then reeled in Telecom Italia and British Telecom as partners (they later sold out from Bharti).
Masiyiwa subsequently became the first person in the world to be granted a mobile telecoms license by a court of law rather than the government, and he went on to build Econet Wireless, a leading Pan-African mobile telecoms company with operations across Africa, U.K and New Zealand.
China Mobile and Vodafone joined to bid for a mobile-telecommunications license in Myanmar, hoping to tap the nascent and highly lucrative sector as the once-isolated country opens up to foreign investment.
On the Mocean Mobile side (our ad server license business), we have some of the largest mobile ad sellers in the industry using the platform.
No one pays for Android, and consequently, the partner relationship isn't the same as when vendors pay to license an OS. One of the issues Microsoft had with Windows Mobile was that as all partners were paying to be part of the ecosystem and license the platform and all were treated equally -- which wasn't necessarily a good thing.
He dipped into the cell phone business in 1995 when he won a license in Ireland to set up a mobile phone network, Esat Telecom.
It has replaced half its managers with veterans of advertising and publishing, patched up relationships with disaffected photographers and broken new ground with deals to license such things as photos and movie clips to mobile-telephone customers.
As winner of an exclusive FCC frequency license in 2006, Aircell has built a revolutionary new mobile broadband network for commercial and business aviation.
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It's the second time a game manufacturer has created mobile games for the Olympics--a venture that requires a pricey license from the International Olympic Committee.
Gameloft released multiple mobile games based on the movie franchise up until this year when Kabam took over the license with The Fast and Furious 6.
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That makes Canadian Dreams and Magics a whole hell of a lot more useful to business users than the G1s down in the States, and going forward, this is an issue T-Mobile probably wants to think about -- as long as the base Android code doesn't license ActiveSync, anyway.
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They all license their architecture from British firm ARM, which Nvidia cut a deal with in 2005 for its Tegra mobile processors.
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