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Industry gearing up for mobile ads push

Although the mobile advertising industry is still in the early stage of development, operators and advertisers recognise its potential and are prepared to face the challenges, according to the findings of a recent forum on the subject. A mobile advertising forum, held in London earlier this month, brought together players from across the mobile advertising [...]

Google gets into WiMAX bed with Sprint

Sprint’s mobile WiMAX network gained yet more momentum on Thursday as the US carrier announced a deal with web giant Google to develop a mobile portal for the platform. Under the pact, Google will provide search, interactive communications and social networking tools as well as location assisted services. Sprint described the agreement as a milestone [...]

Germany appears in court

The European Commission is expected to bring Germany before the European Court of Justice on Wednesday, over provisions to grant a “regulatory holiday” to incumbent carrier Deutsche Telekom. The EC stepped up its infringement proceedings against Germany last month, after giving Germany a chance to reply to the allegations. The procedure was launched at the [...]

BT remains top dog in broadband

UK incumbent telco BT said Thursday it expects to maintain its position as the UK’s leading retail broadband provider after grabbing a 38 per cent share of the 459,000 net additions in the quarter to end June 30. At the end of June, BT had 11.2 million wholesale broadband connections, including 2.4 million local loop [...]

EC moves to remove spectrum restrictions

The European Commission proposed to open up the potential for spectrum this week, increasing the number and choice of wireless services available and expanding their geographic coverage to the benefit of all European citizens. In essence, the Commission is proposing to repeal the GSM Directive of 1987, which helped make GSM a success in Europe [...]

Qualcomm: Broadcom settlement unlikely

US chip shop Qualcomm said on Wednesday that a settlement with rival vendor Broadcom is unlikely, because of the potential impact on the CDMA pioneer’s licensing business. During its quarterly results announcement on Wednesday, the big Q said that it would continue to defend itself from Broadcom’s attempts to obtain an injunction precluding the sale [...]

Apple to shift 1 mil. iPhones in three months

Apple front man, Steve Jobs, said that the company hopes to sell its one millionth iPhone by the end of the third quarter, taking it to one tenth of its goal. Jobs made the projection on Wednesday, during the company’s financial results presentation for the quarter to end June 30. Figures were typically healthy – [...]

BT sacrifices Virgin’s mobile TV service

Virgin Mobile customers in the UK are set to lose their mobile TV service after BT announced plans to pull the plug on its Movio platform on Thursday. A spokesman for the UK incumbent told telecoms.com that following a review of its wholesale offerings, BT had decided not to continue with the Movio service. The [...]

Moto wins WiMAX contract in Bahrain

Bahrain operator Mena Telecom said Wednesday it has contracted Motorola to plan, deploy and manage a nationwide 802.16e-based mobile WiMAX and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. The end to end network, operating in the 3.5GHz frequency band, will comprise WiMAX infrastructure, IMS core, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), voice and data applications, and operational and business [...]

Nokia warns over jealous PCs

Who would have thought Nokia had a sense of humour? The typically dour Finnish firm has launched a campaign for its N95 superphone based on the concept that other pieces of computer hardware are jealous of the device. Over at jealouscomputers.com, Nokia has set up a faux ‘global warning’ page on the dangerous jealous computer [...]