News analysis
When LTE-ready may not mean ready
WiMax experience and SON capabilities crucial, says Motorola
Motorola will exploit its experience in deploying OFDM-based networks as it competes for LTE business from early operator adopters, according to its director of product management, Rock Mostaert.
Opera Mini usage jumps 450% in a year
Opera Mini users generated more than 73.7 million MB of data for operators worldwide during October 2008, according to the browser company.
GSMA calls for NFC phones by mid-2009
Doing it our way is for the best, operators' association says.
The GSMA has called for the mobile industry, and chiefly the handset makers, to get a move on with producing handsets that comply with its vision of how NFC mobile payments will work.
The GSMA wants handsets available by the middle of next year that include SIM control of the secure element, using the ETSI Single Wire Protocol to interface between
3 brings INQ 1 to market
Mass market internet phone requires sub-$200 subsidy
Operators' cost of acquisition for the INQ 1 phone, launched today at a joint event held by 3UK and INQ, will be less than $200, Mobile Europe has learnt.
Pig of a job to unlock a SIM?
Users keen to unlock their handsets from a specific mobile operator may have a new way of doing so.
Globo gives messaging new twist with CitronGo
The Greek software company Globo, that is developing a messaging software solutions, says it has signed several MoUs with service providers already, ahead of open Beta launch next year.
Vodafone KPIs show data is crucial
Voice revenues and ARPU sliding: can data come to the rescue?
No doubt you’ll have seen the Vodafone results by now. In case you haven’t, the headline news is that Vodafone has said that its five prong strategy, formed
Telia Sonera says unaffected by crisis so far
Mobile services and sales in Eurasia were the chief drivers for third quarter sales of Telia Sonera. The operator has reported that net sales for the quarter increased 4.1 percent on hte previous year to SEK 25,817 million.