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Thomas Noren, head of Product Line LTE at Ericsson’s Networks business unit talks to telecoms.com about his confidence in the future that LTE will bring.
O2 UK was conspicuous by its absence from the list of carriers offering Nokia’s next flagship device – the N97. Could this be because of its exclusive relationship with Apple?
Taiwanese handset vendor HTC has made the clearest indication yet that it sees its future as being a consumer brand as well as a supplier of white label or operator-specific handsets.
Thomas Noren, head of Product Line LTE at Ericsson’s Networks business unit talks to telecoms.com about his confidence in the future that LTE will bring.
UK-headquartered speech to text specialist Spinvox has signed a deal with Spanish carrier Telefónica that will see its text voicemail service made available to Telefónica’s entire Latin American customer base. The carrier has almost 125 million customers in the region.
The chief executive officer of CSL, Hong Kong’s first-placed mobile carrier, has predicted that Chinese vendors will come to dominate the global mobile infrastructure market.
Informa Telecoms & Media (ITM) has released forecasts that show annual mobile service revenues in the Asia Pacific region will increase by more than 16 per cent from the end of this year to US$326.37bn by end-2013, with growth powered by the twin engines of rising mobile subscriptions and greater usage of data services.
Nigerian newspaper Business Day has named French telecoms carrier Vivendi as the firm looking to build a deal with pan-MEA mobile operator Zain, after reports emerged last week that the Kuwaiti firm was looking to offload its African operations.
Indian carrier Tata Teleservices (TTSL) is to launch a GSM service this month under the brand of Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, which holds a 26 per cent stake in TTSL.
A five-month research project by customer experience management specialist Epitiro has found that real-life UK mobile broadband speeds reach, on average, only 24 per cent of the headline data rates advertised by carriers as maximum available throughputs.
Merger talks between India’s largest carrier, Bharti Airtel, and pan-MEA operator MTN have been restarted a year after they were last abandoned. The news comes in the wake of the carriers each announcing that they have broken the 100 million subscriber barrier.