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Latest 3G News
T-Mobile USA to Cut Further 900 Jobs
T-Mobile USA has confirmed plans to cut a further 900 jobs, on top of the nearly 2,000 jobs lost earlier this year at its call centres....
Global Sales of Mobile Phones Dropped in First Quarter of 2012
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner. This is the first time since the second quarter of 2009 that the market exhibited a decline. ...
Thailand's First Quarter Smartphone Sales Raked in over US$255 Million
Thailand's rapidly expanding smartphone market in the first quarter of this year recorded nearly 70 percent growth since a year ago, according to GfK Thailand's retail audit findings comparing smartphones quarter on quarter revenue performances. ...
Nokia Loses Appeal to Overturn 3G Patent
Nokia has lost an attempt to overturn a ruling that it had infringed on a patent held by Germany based IPCom....
Communications network reliability improved in the event of short-term power cuts
The reliability of communications networks and services will be improved in the event of short-term power cuts, Finland's telecoms regulator has announced....
Three Bids Received for Chilean 4G License Auction
Three Chilean mobile networks have submitted bids for the country's 4G radio spectrum auction, local media is reporting....
Performance Outweighs Cost and Privacy for Smartphone Users When Offloaded to Wi-Fi
Ninety-five percent of smartphone users would leverage Wi-Fi if it enabled better mobile data performance; 88 percent would prefer to access Wi-Fi networks if it reduced their monthly phone bill. ...
LCC to Perform Network Tuning for Mexican Operator
LCC International says that it has been awarded a large 3G initial tuning project for an unnamed wireless operator in Mexico....
Operator News in Brief - 11th May 2012
Summaries of short news items relating to the mobile networks....
SingTel Quarterly Profits Jump 30% on One-Off Tax Gains
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) today announced that fourth quarter net profit for the Group grew 30 percent to S$1.29 billion (US$1 billion), primarily from an exceptional net tax credit of S$270 million on an increase in value of assets transferred to an associate....
Carrier Wi-Fi equipment market exploding to $2.1 billion by 2016
BelAir Networks (recently acquired by Ericsson), Cisco, and Ruckus Wireless together account for more than two-thirds of 2011 global carrier Wi-Fi equipment revenue....
Research In Motion Shows off a New BlackBerry Smartphone
Research In Motion (RIM) has announced a new smartphone that it says is aimed at "socially-connected" customers....
SingTel Group's mobile customer base reaches 445 million
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) today announced that the Group posted another quarter of strong growth in customer acquisitions. As at 31 March 2012, the Group had a total mobile customer base of 445 million, an increase of 11 percent or 42.9 million from a year ago....
Imminent TD-LTE Deployment Spur Demand for Wireless Test Equipment in China
Increasing mobile data traffic and the application of mobile Internet continues to drive the wireless test equipment market in China. The home-grown TD-LTE standard offers more bandwidth and ensures more efficient data transfer, which spurs the demand for wireless test equipment....
Qualcomm to Add Support for Clearwire's LTE Network to its Chipsets
Qualcomm has announced that it will add support for Clearwire's upcoming LTE TDD network to its line of multi-mode LTE chipsets with the inclusion of support for 3GPP's Band 41 (B41) radio frequency....
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