Finnish vendor Nokia said Monday that it is one of the vendors selected by T-Mobile USA to supply 3G equipment and services for the operator’s WCDMA deployment in the US. T-Mobile is the only US operator yet to deploy 3G due to a lack of available spectrum. But last month, the operator splashed out over [...]
Former PDA heavyweight Palm, on Monday announced its Treo 680 smartphone, running on the Palm OS platform. The Treo 680 is the fourth smartphone launched by Palm this year and follows the 750v, the firm’s business-oriented mobile for Europe, running Windows Mobile 5.0 OS. The 680 is available in the UK for £299. Additionally, retail [...]
The mobile adult content market is forecast to more than double in size, according to figures release Monday. A new study from Juniper Research anticipates that the mobile smut market will grow from a $1.4bn business in 2006 to over $3.3bn by 2011. The research house believes that Europe will be the most lucrative region [...]
German vendor Siemens bowed to pressure from workers union IG Metall on Friday and agreed to finance job placement companies for the dismissed workers of failed Taiwanese-German joint venture, BenQ Mobile. BenQ Mobile, which was established just over a year ago when the German firm effectively paid BenQ Eur50m to take the ailing division off [...]
The world’s second largest mobile manufacturer, Motorola, is losing ground in sales as well as brand recognition according to the analyst group Gartner. In its worldwide mobile sales report for Q3 2006, released Wednesday, the analyst group said Moto had experienced “challenges in some regions”, losing its No.1 spot in Latin American and its No. [...]
An analyst has said that Apple is working on not one but two iPhones, prompting a resurgence in rumours predicting doom for traditional mobile phone makers. Shaw Wu, a Wall Street analyst with American Technology Research wrote in a research paper this month that the firm’s second phone will have IM (instant Messaging) capability and [...]
France Telecom’s mobile unit Orange said Friday that it has launched High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) services in Toulouse and Bordeaux. The operator said users of the new network would typically experience better latency, enhanced usability of current applications and would be better able to deploy new types of real time applications in the [...]
Blackberry maker Research In Motion, has bought Epoch Integration, a wireless network firm, for an undisclosed sum. Customers of the BlackBerry will be familiar with Epoch Integration’s NeedText product, a set of software tools for managing the BlackBerry’s enterprise server. A statement on Epoch Integration’s website said: “We would… like to assure you that RIM, [...]
The head honcho of Virgin Mobile’s South African operation, Sajeed Sacranie, has handed in his resignation, less than six months since the company launched. Local press reports suggest that Sacranie was a hard line manager, but that he has built the company up to be operationally stable and intends to move on as he is [...]
Nokia introduced tools on Thursday to help operators throttle bandwidth hungry applications such as VoIP and peer to peer file sharing over the mobile internet. The announcement comes hot on the heels of 3 UK’s promise to embrace the open internet. From December 1, 3 UK will tear down the walls on its existing closed [...]
Irish incumbent Eircom, is, according to local reports, to receive the Ireland’s last remaining UMTS or 3G mobile licence. Robert Haulbrook, CEO of Eircom’s mobile arm, Meteor, told the Irish Independent Thursday that the former monopoly is in the final stages of a business plan that aims to reduce the cost of rollout by partnering [...]
The US Library of Congress made an amendment to the country’s copyright law on Wednesday, allowing mobile phone users to use their handsets with a different service provider. As of Monday, US mobile subscribers will be legally able to use various software and services to remove the network lock on their handsets. This means a [...]
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer BenQ is planning to cut between 300 and 400 jobs, or half the workforce of its Shanghai mobile phone plant, according to Chinese press reports. The Shanghai factory is another asset the company acquired when it bought Siemens’ mobile handset unit last year. The latest round of job cuts are understood to [...]
The sale of a controlling stake in Hong Kong operator PCCW has exposed something of a family feud, according to press reports on Thursday. Richard Li, the chairman of PCCW, is said to be unhappy following the revelation that his father and tycoon Li Ka-shing is backing the consortium set to buy the 22.7 per [...]
Trade association the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) will launch a European chapter in Paris Thursday night. The new chapter will work in conjunction with the established MEF Asia, MEF Americas and MEF Global boards “to create local trade development opportunities for its members and focus on legislation affecting the industry.” Telecoms.com likes to think that [...]
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