Embattled US smartphone manufacturer Palm is the subject of speculation following a Bloomberg report that the firm has put itself up for sale.
Nordic carrier TeliaSonera has deployed what it claims are the world’s first two commercial LTE networks, offering maximum throughput speeds of 100Mbits/s.
Tags;
dongle,
Ericsson,
Huawei,
LTE,
Samsung,
TeliaSonera,
Broadband & Internet,
Europe,
LTE,
Networks,
News & Analysis,
Operator
Egypt’s financial regulator has granted approval for the purchase of the stake it doesn’t already own in the country’s leading carrier Mobinil by France Telecom’s Orange. For some time the deal has been the subject of a spat between France Telecom and Mobinil’s other principal shareholder, Egyptian player Orascom Telecom.
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega has revealed that the US carrier may have to force its heaviest consumers of wireless data to scale back their usage through the introduction of tiered pricing.
Ericsson made two announcements on Wednesday that underscored the firm’s strategic direction, and the challenges it faces in managing costs.
Korean handset vendor Samsung planted a proprietary flag in the OS wars on Tuesday as it took the wraps off its Bada platform (first announced a month previously) at a glitzy event on London’s South Bank.
Portland, OR – November 19, 2009 – Today the WiMAX Forum® announced ZTE as the latest Gold Sponsors on their forthcoming Congress Americas show which is taking place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 2 – 3rd, 2009.
Industry Visionaries and Leading Companies Set to Converge on Fort Lauderdale to Address WiMAX Ecosystem Drivers, Commercial Deployments
Nigeria’s government has set a 60-day deadline for the privatisation of the state-owned incumbent telco Nitel, including mobile operation M-Tel. The announcement came on Monday as the Nigerian vice-president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, appointed a new board to the company to oversee its stabilisation.
UK carrier O2 announced on Monday that it has struck a deal with mobile navigation specialist Telmap which will see that firm’s personal navigation and mapping service deployed on the majority of GPS-enabled handsets sold by the operator.
Tags;
GPS,
LBS,
location,
location enabled services,
O2,
Telefonica,
TomTom,
Content & Applications,
Europe,
Handsets & Devices,
Networks,
News & Analysis,
Operator