News analysis
What does a vendor need to do to be successful in LTE?
PA Consulting experts offer some answers
After some years of underachievement, mobile data is finally taking off. Sales of HSDPA dongles are growing rapidly and key internet services (such as Facebook and Google Maps) are going mobile, with the result that mobile operators' data traffic uptake in the UK has shown growth of between 100% and 400%over a twelve month period.
GSMA launches Mobile Broadband mark
Notebooks with embedded HSPA to get industry badge
Hundreds of thousands of notebooks branded with a new GSMA-approved Mobile Broadband mark will be on sale by Christmas, according to the GSMA's Chief Marketing Officer, Michael O'Hara.
The GSMA has brought together 16 companies, including laptop OEMs, chipset developers, module manufacturers and mobile operators to launch a new industry mark to publicise the benefits of "Mobile Broadband" access from notebooks.
Nokia stands down business unit
Set to sell security business to private investor
Nokia is to scale down direct sales of its software and appliances to the enterprise and business market, and is selling its security appliances business, in a bid to focus more on consumer markets.
Parliament passes EU Telecoms Package
The European Parliament has passed the EU Telecoms Package, the sometimes controversial bundle of measures designed to update the 2002 regulations to take account of new technological advancements such as internet-enabled mobile phones.
T-Mobile launches G1 phone
Android phone coming to Europe in 2009
In a somewhat low key looking press conference in New York, T-Mobile, Google and HTC have launched the G1 – the first phone developed on Google’s Android platform. Those present were also treated to a royal visit from Larry Page and Sergey Brin themselves, as the pair shambled on to the stage just as the Q&A part was getting going.
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Verwaayen in at Alcatel-Lucent
Former BT man faces very different issues at Al-Lu
Alcatel-Lucent has named its replacement CEO for the departing Patricia Russo, and it has plumped for Ben Verwaayen, the man widely credited with picking BT up, dusting it down, and starting all over again back in 2002, when it looked like the debt-laden incumbent was heading for a messy break-up. Verwaayen will work for a board headed up by new non-exectuve chair Phillip Camus. His
Replacement market drives Western European handset market
Consumers head for mid-tier phones
Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached close to 305 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 11.8 per cent increase over the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Sales of mobile phones in the mature markets of Western Europe and North America slightly recovered after a difficult start. Western Europe reached close to 42 million units while North America surpassed 44 million units in the second
B2M joins Psion Teklogix in alliance partnership
Psion Teklogix, a mobile computing and wireless data collection solutions specialist, has announced that it has entered an alliance partnership with B2M Solutions. Leveraging the synergies between the two companies, the partnership will provide the market with a
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