Features

Not all about Flash

Handset graphics

Next generation rich media services for mobile: Java, Flash … but how about mobile Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)? Samuel Sweet says SVG address reaches areas that Flash Lite can’t.

Keeping control

White label search

Mobile search has been identified as the next key battleground for ownership of the user and increasing take rates for data services. But, Michael Brady asks, do operators really need to relinquish brand loyalty and

Real time modelling

Network optimisation

How can operators meet the challenge of optmising 2G and 3G networks to work effectively in combination? Here Gur Lavie explains the problems and solutions.

TETRA

TETRA World Congress report

As November turned into December, the TETRA community met in Frankfurt to discuss how to take their business forward. With the number of contracts growing and an increasing number of companies entering the TETRA

MIMO: in one ear and out the other?

Is MIMO just another fad waiting to be placed on the much-hyped 'nearly' shelf and forgotten about, or will it provide the extra wireless capacity boost needed by the industry.  Viktor Bale, consultant at PA Consulting Group,

Are you being served?

Lars Johan Larsson takes a challenging look at the ways IMS servers can play a vital role in the network infrastructure and how it will be driven forward in future networks.

A question of planning

Olivier Suard, marketing director at Comptel's inventory management division, Incatel, explains why a converged inventory solution is fundamental to mobile operator operations and how a better planned and managed transmission network will lead to greater operational efficiencies

Survival of the fittest

For service providers to prosper they have to rapidly respond to customers' needs by developing the right service packages at the right time. And this is where automated provisioning can help, says Gareth Senior, chief operating officer at