Features
Green base station - The benefits of going green
Radio networks normally account for around 80% of the total electricity used by an operator, and so the power consumption of each cell site is coming under intense scrutiny - but what solutions are the operators faced with,
OSS strategies - Target transformation
How are the operators themselves targeting and achieving their OSS transformation strategies? Larry Goldman, from OSS Observer, hears several describe their own approaches to the market
Social networking - Keeping operators in the 2.0 picture
It is one of the hottest of topics for mobile operators, the harnessing of social networking sites and behaviours to the mobile environment. But are operators in any position to remain in the loop?
Next generation messaging - Care of the community
Contextual messaging, id management, personal profile, call it what you will, could it be that messaging will be become an embedded service within other applications, rather than merely a standalone application in its own right?
Interview - Messaging in context
Mobile Europe: Keith Gibson, CEO, Colibria (pictured). At February's Mobile World Congress there seemed to be a general view amongst the instant messaging providers that mobile instant messaging is too limiting a term to describe the functionality that
Mobile World Congress - Reding can't steal the show
60,000 people, hundreds of exhibiting companies, heads of government and film stars. They were all in Barcelona for Valentine's day in February. And so were we. So what happened, and what did we learn? Here is our review
OS - When more is more
With the LiMo Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance forging ahead with Linux, and Motorola signing up new Windows Mobile licencees, as well as acquiring Danger, the battle for control of mobilephone OS is far from over, says Keith Dyer
Network sharing - Learning to share
Orange and Vodafone have done it, 3 and T-Mobile have done it. Even educated tier two operators will soon be doing it. Although cost saving is the attraction, network sharing brings its own challenges - forcing engineers to