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Articles tagged with: 3G and Sms
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, smartphones, eu, roaming, smartphone, , tim, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rates, 3g-network, interconnection, termination, Belgium
3 UK to Scrap Top-Up Fee Requirement for Skype Users
Hutchison 3g UK (3 UK) has announced that it will offer unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages at no charge to anyone with a 3 SIM card. Starting from next month, there will be no data charges or top-up fees for either contract or pay-as-you-go customers who use Skype on 3's UK network. Anyone with a 3 UK branded Skype-enabled handset will be able to buy a 3 SIM and talk as much as they want to other Skype users without ever having to pay another penny. more
Related Tags: skype, 3-uk, hutchison-3g-uk, voip, social-networking, sim, , hutchison-3g, 3, email, churn, top-up, UK
UK Consumers Rate Voice and SMS Costs More Important than Mobile Data Services
British consumers view call and text prices as more important than 3g and social networking capabilities, research commissioned by UK based firm, OpenCloud has found. In a survey of 1,000 consumers, over 80 per cent of consumers see call and text prices as the most important factors when looking for a new phone, whereas two-thirds of respondents view social networking applications as luxury additions and non-essential. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, social-networking, opencloud, sim, , itu, ovi, mobile-internet, UK
EU calls on mobile operators to continue to improve child safety policies
Half of 10 year-old, 87% of 13 year-old and 95% of 16 year-old children in the EU have a mobile phone, but half of European parents worry mobile phone use might expose their children to sexually and violently explicit images (51%) or bullying by other children (49%), according to a survey. The European Commission has now called on mobile operators to do more to keep children safe while using mobile phones by putting in place all the measures in the voluntary code of conduct, signed by 26 mobile operators in 2007. more
Related Tags: orange, , deutsche-telekom, european-commission, eu, viviane-reding, gsm-association, itu, vodafone, teliasonera, wind, lte, hutchison-3g, telenor, ovi, iden, telefonica, telecom-italia, kpn, teenagers, belgacom, gsm, hutchison, wind-hellas, btc, telekom, adult-content, tdc, mobilkom, Belgium
Tekelec Wins Additional Signaling Business With Wataniya Telecom
Tekelec says that it has won a follow-on order to provide its EAGLE 5 platform to Wataniya Telecom in Kuwait, giving the operator a central signaling solution to handle core network functions. Tekelec's EAGLE 5 provides a single solution for multiple core networking functions such as signal transfer point (STP), signaling gateway and intelligent routing. more
Related Tags: , intel, qtel, wataniya-telecom, capex, core-network, ovi, iden, wataniya, billing, opex, tekelec, ss7, 2g, Kuwait
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, smartphone, smartphones, gps, personal, displays, Netherlands
Mobile Services to Capture More Advertising Revenue in Emerging Markets
As market penetration rates for mobile services continue to soar in emerging markets, advertisers are expected to dramatically increase their spending on "third-screen" ad campaigns targeted specifically to users of mobile data services, providing a potentially huge new revenue stream for operators of mobile networks, according to the latest report by Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, ict, boost-mobile, pyramid-research, mobile-advertising
Partner Communications Revenues/Profits Up - Warns on Outlook
Israeli operator, Partner (which trades under the Orange brandname) has reported a rise in full-year revenues for 2008 of 3.5% to NIS 6,329.5 million (US$1,664.8 million). Net income reached NIS 1,051,479 (US$276.6 million), a rise of 11.9% on 2007. more
Related Tags: orange, roaming, partner, 3g-network, Israel
ZTE to roll out 3G Networks in French Caribbean and Indian Ocean
China's ZTE has secured a contract to roll out all of Outremer Telecom's (OMT) new GSM/UMTS networks in the company's overseas territories in the French regions of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. more
Related Tags: prepay, eu, zte, mts, partner, caribbean, outremer-telecom, 2g, Martinique
Mobile phone manufacturers are 'losing their touch' according to customers
Mobile phone manufacturers risk losing their customers as they race to incorporate touch-screen features into their phones in a bid to copy Apple's success, according to feedback from shoppers collated by European customer review website, Reevoo.com. more
Related Tags: m1, sony-ericsson, nokia, iphone, samsung, eu, apple, ericsson, touchscreen, touch-screen, omnia, storm, email, music, mobile-web
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