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Electricity Meters to Transmit Usage Data over T-Mobile Network

Echelon Corp. and T-Mobile USA have announced an alliance to accelerate the adoption of the smart grid in the North American market by reducing the communications cost of smart meters through the deployment of Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) system over T-Mobile's GSM network. As part of the agreement, Echelon will utilize an embedded T-Mobile SIM within a cellular radio module to enable all the Echelon smart meters on a given low voltage transformer to communicate back to the utility over the smart grid, and T-Mobile will offer users of Echelon's NES system and pricing plans for data usage. more

New digital signal processor is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient

..i Landge, Michael Meeuwsen, Christine Watnik, Anh Tran, Zhibin Xiao Jeremy Webb, Eric Work, Jeremy Webb and Paul Mejia. Support for the work came from STMicroelectronics, Intel, Inc., University of California MICRO, the National Science Foundati more

80% of Healthcare IT Executives Placing Increased Reliance on Mobility

More than 80 percent of global IT decision makers within the healthcare industry stated that mobile technologies are more important to their organizations today than they were in 2008, according to a recent research study commissioned by Motorola. Respondents cited key benefits such as increased order fulfillment accuracy, reduced manual errors and increased employee productivity due to the utilization of mobile technologies within various clinical settings. more

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Yankee Group Predicts No Capex Growth Until 2011

Yankee Group is predicting that telecommunications carriers globally will show measured caution in capital expenditures (capex) in 2009, decreasing from $284 billion in 2008 to $272 billion this year. Capex, as a percentage of revenue, will decline from 15.2 percent in 2008 to 14.1 percent in 2009, again reflecting conservative but necessary cuts for carriers, but also signaling tough times ahead for vendors. more

Related Tags: ict, itu, tim, lte, capex, yankee-group, africa

Verizon Wireless Joins Global Mobile Applications Joint-Venture

US network operator, Verizon Wireless is to join the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) established by China Mobile, Japan's Softbank and Vodafone (which co-owns Verizon Wireless) to help accelerate the uptake of mobile technologies on a mass-market scale. more

Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators

Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum

The notion of one network is not entirely far-fetched. After the savings of passive sharing have been realised, where can future savngs come from? In our forthcoming report 2020 vision for mobilewe predict that operators will seek increasingly active forms of sharing. Sharing ever more of your infrastructure might sound ridiculous today, but all forms of sharing sounded ridiculous ten years ago. more

Related Tags: t-mobile, sim, ict, mvno, o2, tim, wind, lte, ericsson, ovum, one-network, backhaul, spice, managed-services, option

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

Related Tags: asia-pacific, 3g, sim, arpu, lte, ovi, ovum, iden, usb-modem, vas, mobile-broadband, opex, laptop, music, africa, usb

Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, NEC lead fast growing microwave equipment market

..t-only, with TDM traffic handled by pseudowiresApproximately 10% of the microwave backhaul/transport market is currently made up of transport applications for microwave, such as last mile and metro access applicationsMicrowave acces more

148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year

Travellers have long been familiar with the roaming services available for cellular voice calls. Now that 3G networks are widely deployed, similar roaming functions are being made available for data services including MMS and mobile Internet access. Explored in a new ABI Research Brief, these arrangements are already generating revenues in the billions of dollars. more

Related Tags: 3g, sim, mms, mobile-data, roaming, rural, abi-research

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