The successful commoditisation of high-speed wireless-internet access as “mobile broadband” may have eventually supplied 3G operators with the missing link in their service proposition – a “killer app”.
You have to hand it to Apple. Although it was late to market on mobile, it is the industry outsider that has most wowed the mobile space since its debut a year ago.
Free to air terrestrial broadcasting is the key to driving mass market adoption of TV services on mobile devices, according to Chinese handset vendor ZTE.
Environmental awareness is on the rise. Marketers have been quick to recognise and seize upon the Zeitgeist. The trouble is, some green claims just don’t wash.
The pressure has long been on operators to squeeze cost out of their businesses, while at the same time broadening their service portfolios and growing their footprints to boost turnover.
Telecoms analyst Forrester recently released research refuting mobile industry predictions that mobile broadband connections could overtake fixed in as little as five years.
The rapid and widespread success of mobile broadband services-which now have more than 100 million subscribers worldwide using more than 300 live networks-is sparking a data traffic boom that will revive the struggling mobile base station market, according to Mobile Networks Forecasts: Future Mobile Traffic, Base Stations & Revenues, a new strategic report and forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media.
Last week, Oman’s telecoms regulator awarded five “reseller” licenses, allowing the new licensees to launch MVNO services, subject to agreements with host operators. The regulator insists on the term “reseller” rather than MVNO, but in effect they are MVNO licenses.
The WiMAX-vs.-LTE debate has been contested furiously by backers of the technologies for years, and the weight of industry opinion has appeared to swing in recent months firmly behind LTE as the dominant technology-migration path – largely because of the lethargic pace of global WiMAX deployment.
The pressure has long been on operators to squeeze cost out of their businesses, while at the same time broadening their service portfolios and growing their footprints to boost turnover.
The European Commission’s latest attempt to iron out the wrinkles in Europe’s mobile landscape has already led to howls of dissent from operators, which claim the action to reduce mobile termination rates (MTRs) could radically change the appearance of the industry in Europe forever.
UK mobile operator O2 is teasing the British public with warnings of limited availability of the iPhone 3G, when it launches on Friday.
Nokia’s announcement that it intends to acquire Symbian comes as little surprise to the industry, though the OEM’s plan to take Symbian and the S60 platform into the open-source world was a striking revelation. It is a radical shift in Nokia’s terminal-software strategy and could completely change the open-source game in the mobile handset market.
It looks like iPhone hysteria has reached a new high [or low], as mobile operator 3 Australia turns to begging Apple to let it have the 3G device.
For those in the US who oppose early-termination fees, I have two words: iPhone 2.0.
With mobile TV services in the flagship market of South Korea floundering and with few signs that operators anywhere else have found a successful formula for launching such services, most operator and vendor delegates at the recent CommunicAsia Summit in Singapore struggled to find enthusiasm for the fledgling industry.
Telecoms professionals are split down the middle on whether increasing bandwidth demands are likely to break the internet.
PCCW Chairman Richard Li must have been out of the business pages for at least six months, so it was only a matter of time before he came back to dominate the headlines once again.
Arun Sarin is stepping down from the top job at Vodafone five years after taking the helm. It’s been a bumpy ride, but he’s coming out smiling.
Now we know. After weeks of speculation as to when Xohm, the WiMAX business unit of Sprint Nextel, would launch commercial services, Barry West, Sprint Nextel CTO and president of Xohm, finally named the month (if not the day).
Chinese Telco China Telecom is dropping some cash on a new quantum computing division, according to a report. https://t.co/qTHcsQJIwC
01 June 2023 @ 17:27:17 UTC
A report - commissioned by Vodafone and carried out by STL Partners - estimates there will be 88 million devices ne hhttps://t.co/OzPN3Sj0pa
01 June 2023 @ 15:47:30 UTC
Nokia and Sigma Wireless Communications will install a private mobile network for Irish energy company ESB Networks. https://t.co/0FKKddncLT
01 June 2023 @ 11:06:52 UTC
