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Articles tagged with: 3G and Smartphones
Sales of smartphones in China to quadruple over the next five years
Coda Research Consultancy is forecasting that annual sales of smartphones in China will more than quadruple over the next five years, achieving a compound annual growth rate of +29% by the end of 2015. It forecasts that sales in 2015 will total 97.6m units. more
Related Tags: td-scdma, 3g-phones, china-mobile, cagr, China
Mobistar Profits Up Despite Price Pressures
Belgium based Mobistar has reported a slight rise in first-quarter revenues of 2.5% to reach EUR 371.2 million (US$483.8 million) - although its customer base rose by 6.4% over the same period. The company said the disparity was determined in part by the continuing price pressure in a highly competitive market, by the regulatory decisions (lowering of the mobile termination rates in May and July 2008) and a reduced activity in the business market. more
Related Tags: mobistar, eu, roaming, sms, smartphone, , tim, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rates, 3g-network, interconnection, termination, Belgium
AT&T Sees Surge in Wi-Fi Connections
AT&T has reported dramatic growth in the number of Wi-Fi users and connections. The US firm reported Wi-Fi connections totaled 10.5 million in the first quarter of 2009 - more than triple the 3.4 million connections in the first quarter of 2008, and more than half AT&T's 20 million total Wi-Fi connections for all of 2008. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, at&t, starbucks, wayport, roaming, smartphone, iphone, , ovi, iden, wireless-broadband, hotspot, hotspots, airports, wired, 3g-network,
Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Technologies to Close the Gap With Fixed Broadband
Mobile operators are expected to fully maximise their high-speed packet access (HSPA) deployments before eventually deploying 3g long-term evolution (LTE). Many operators will leapfrog from HSPA to 3g LTE, as the window of opportunity for HSPA Evolved is insignificant when compared to 3g LTE. more
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Dell Announces Netbook Deal with China Mobile
Dell has announced a deal with China Mobile - although not for smartphones as has been widely expected. Under the terms of the newly announced agreement, China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) is to distribute Inspiron Mini 10 netbooks - with built-in support for China Mobile's 3g network. more
Related Tags: , smartphone, china-mobile, td-scdma, cdma, netbooks, dell, notebook, China
Dell Reported to be in Talks for Chinese Smartphones
Dell Computers, which has been rumoured to be entering the smartphone market for several years, is now hotly rumoured to be in talks with China Mobile to launch its first range of handsets in the country. The company has been apparently rebuffed by several operators who considered prototype handsets as bland an uninspiring. However China Mobile is thought to be keen on the models presented to it. more
Related Tags: datang, , windows-mobile, smartphone, eu, wind, china-mobile, td-scdma, cdma, wall-street-journal, dell, netbook, touchscreen, chicago, datang-mobile, operating-system, windows, laptop, China
Slower Replacement Cycle to Shrink Taiwan's Mobile Phone Market in 2009
Taiwan's mobile phone market is forecast to shrink by 9.3% to around 6.4 million units. The Taipei-based Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) puts the shrinkage down to slower handset replacements due to the economic downturn. Some 80% of the Taiwanese market depends on replacement sales. more
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Comsys Mobile Offers WiMAX-GSM Handset Reference Platform
Fabless semiconductor vendor, Comsys Mobile has announced the launch of their latest ComMAX reference design platform, the CM1125RD - an optimized multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE smartphone reference design platform. Based on the ComMAX CM1125 baseband processor and integrating solutions from Comsys Mobile's partners, it incorporates all the features and functionalities required of smartphones, from antennae up to application processor. more
Related Tags: m1, semiconductor, smartphone, wimax, mobile-wimax, voip, edge, gps, wimax-forum, ovi, battery, ims, gsm, life, fm-radio
Dutch Railways launches mobile context-aware travel application
Service2Media, Appear and Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the National Dutch railway, have announced the launch of Reisplanner Xtra, the first implementation of wireless context-aware services for Dutch train travelers. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, sms, smartphone, gps, personal, displays, Netherlands
HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008
According to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively. more
Related Tags: base-station, smartphone, wimax, wcdma, driving, lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, dell, gsm, true, 2g
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