German carrier Deutsche Telekom demonstrated its resilience to market forces on Friday, turning in
financial results that beat expectations on both the top and bottom lines.
Fourth quarter net loss improved from Eur750m in the last period of 2007 to Eur730m in 2008, while full year profits rocketed to Eur1.48bn, compared to [...]
The mobile handset operating system backed by web giant Google kept something of a low profile during the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this week.
Taiwanese vendor HTC, maker of the first ever Android-based handset, was the only company to come out with a solid addition to it’s portfolio in the shape of the [...]
Troubled Canadian kit vendor Nortel continues to shed assets from the safe haven of bankruptcy protection.
On Friday, as the rest of the telecoms world is shaking off the hangover of Mobile World Congress, Nortel struck a deal with kit manufacturer Radware, to offload elements of its application delivery portfolio.
Under the agreement, the products that [...]
The United Nations Foundation and the the Vodafone Partnership, in conjunction the Rockerfeller Partnership announced the launch of the mHealth Alliance at today’s Mobile World Congress.
Founded in 2005 with a £10m commitment from the Vodafone Foundation matched by £5m from the United Nations Foundation, the partnership has three core commitments. First to develop a [...]
While all the talk at this year’s Mobile World Congress has centred on the launch of a variety of app stores, UK, mobile advertising-funded MVNO Blyk has launched On Blyk, a new content portal. The service is built primarily on messaging and is now available to all Blyk users in the UK.
Blyk aserts that [...]
The explosive growth of wireless broadband is changing the nature of the business for kit makers, the head of mega vendor Alcatel-Lucent said during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
Speaking at the event, Adolfo Hernandez, president, EMEA, Alcatel-Lucent, said that next generation wireless broadband delivery is currently based on an unstable model which does [...]
Mobile transactions firm mBlox has launched the world’s first mobile cross operator ’sender pays data’ trial in the UK this week.
The trial aims to remove consumer confusion over the purchase and download of mobile content, with mobile operators suffering criticism for stinging users with ‘hidden’ data charges.
The model allows content providers and service providers [...]
Disruptive VoIP player Skype has announced at Mobile World Congress that its eponymous VoIP application will be integrated on Nokia N97s from Q309.
The application will be integrated into the device’s address book and be visible to users as a mobile widget. Making the announcement both Scott Derchslag, COO, and Josh Silverman, CEO of Skype highlighted [...]
Mobile revenues may be taking a battering as consumers worldwide cut spending, but carriers can take heart in anticipated growth in the mobile broadband market, according to research released this week.
Speaking to telecoms.com at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, industry researcher Nielsen said that European and US mobile users intend to dramatically [...]
Taiwanese handset vendor HTC has unveiled its second Android-based handset under an operator partnership with mega carrier Vodafone.
The unveiling of the HTC Magic smartphone also marks Big Red’s first Android-powered handset, and will be available in the spring in the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy and France (via SFR).
Details of the device’s capabilities are scant [...]
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