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Femtocells - the consumer challenge
While the benefits to mobile operators of femtocells are becoming better understood - largely by savings in Capex and Opex, how consumers will be educated and persuaded to install and use these Read more...
O2 follows BT, plans 100mbps broadband offers; Euro operator rejects Huawei
>O2 follows BT, plans 100mbps broadband offers. article >Euro operator rejects Read more...
Location-based services mean business--enterprise applications on the rise
Location-based services (LBS) are not just going to be big news for consumers - with the likes of friend finders and local search - but are set to play an increasingly important role in enterprise. Read more...
Vodafone Spain gains in saturated market
With penetration reaching over 120 per cent, Vodafone Spain just managed to outperform the market leader, Telefonica, during Q1/08 by recruiting (on a proportionate basis) more users. Telefonica Read more...
Cut your SMS prices--PLEASE, says French government
The French population is beginning to complain loudly about increasing inflation, claims the French consumer goods minister, who has reacted by asking the country's three main operators - Orange, SFR Read more...
EU powerless to stop 'free' ring-tone download scam
Having conducted a scan of over 550 ring-tone download web sites, the EU has declared that 80 per cent were in breach of regulations. Unfortunately, much to the EU's annoyance, it cannot take any Read more...
Pre-roll video ads prove popular for O2
A six-week study to test the effectiveness of pre-roll mobile adverts has proven to be successful with nearly nine out of 10 cell phone users being happy to receive them. The test, which took place Read more...
Nokia looks to services for future revenues
Having presented a satisfactory set of quarterly results, of perhaps more interest was the growth in the company's services revenues. Buried deep within the results, Nokia confirmed that revenues Read more...
Femtocells move closer to commercial reality with adoption of CPE standard
The commercial deployment of femtocells has taken another step forward following the adoption by the Femto Forum of a worldwide standard that defines the real-time management of femtocells within Read more...
Moscow to have mobile WiMAX this year
Over 160 WiMAX base stations are expected to be installed in Moscow by the end of this year to support the city's first mobile WiMAX service. Comstar UTS, one of Russia's more prominent operators, Read more...
Vodafone signs with Lenovo for 3G laptop deal
Looking to boost the usage of 3G data, Vodafone has announced an agreement with the laptop vendor Lenovo that will see its new X200 computer pre-installed with a Vodafone SIM and supporting software. Read more...
Recession to hit Nokia and Sony Ericsson sales - iPhone unaffected
While the cellphone industry has largely sailed through previous market downturns, this latest turbulence looks set to hit both Nokia and Sony Ericsson hard, but leave Apple and its iPhone Read more...
NFC handsets to generate US$75B in payment transactions within 5 years
A new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity forecasts that the gross transaction value of payments made via NFC contactless technology, for relatively low value purchases (such as Read more...
Ericsson, 3 Italia step toward HSPA Evolution; Nokia Siemens picks up Germany contracts
> Ericsson, 3 Italia in 'world-first' commercial step towards HSPA Evolution. Read more...
EU to impose heavy cuts to SMS roaming charges
European mobile operators are expecting the worst when the EU's Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, announces plans (scheduled for 15th July) for tighter regulation of SMS roaming tariffs. While Read more...