Articles tagged with: Africa and Music

Bharti Airtel Signs 10-Year Deal with IBM

India's Bharti Airtel and computer giant, IBM are to announce details of a ten-year contract later today. ­Under the terms of the 10-year collaboration, IBM will manage the computing technology and services that power Bharti Airtel's 16-country mobile communications network.  more

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Operator News in Brief - 5th Jul 2010

Singapore's StarHub is launching a DRM-free music download store - powered by Ithos Digital, a digital applications company. The music catalogue comes from 20 record labels.  more

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Asia Pacific to become the largest smart phone market by 2012

The smart phone market continues to see impressive growth around the world, and in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region particularly. Shipments in the region are expected to grow 53% year-on-year in 2010 to reach 76.7 million units and are projected to easily surpass 100 million units in 2011. Furthermore, Canalys forecasts that APAC will overtake Europe, the Middle East and africa (EMEA) in 2012 to become the largest regional smart phone market, accounting for 36% of global shipments.  more

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2.6 GHz Band Vital for the Growth of LTE According to GSMA Backed Research

The licensing of the 2.6 GHz band will be critical to unlocking the benefits of global scale economies in the Mobile Broadband market, according to a new report by US-based research firm Global View Partners in partnership with the GSMA.  more

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survey shows the mobile is a 'remote control' for life

According to a survey, three quarters of mobile phone owners across 11 markets never leave home without their phone, over a third 'cannot live without it' and 67% regularly use the alarm clock feature.  more

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Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014

Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum's latest research. more

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Three New Phones from Nokia

Nokia has announced the arrival of new Nokia Music Stores, more Comes With Music launches and three new music oriented mobile phones - the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and the low-cost Nokia 5030.  more

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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08

The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets.  more

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