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Articles tagged with: Eu and Ovi
Financial Sites Popular Among Older European Mobile Web Users
comScore has reported that financial services sites, such as those offering banking and stock trading services, are the most popular among european mobile subscribers older than 55, while teenagers are more likely to visit social networking, entertainment and even comic sites on their mobile devices. more
Related Tags: comscore, ericsson, apple, rsa, motorola, samsung, social-networking, lg, blackberry, mobile-internet, teenagers, oem, weather
LTE Deployments will Cluster in 2600 Frequency Band
Strategy Analytics is predicting that the majority of LTE deployments by wireless operators will use the 2,600 MHz band, creating ample new opportunities for terminal component vendors. A strong tranche of deployments will also occur at sub-1,000 MHz frequencies, including roll-outs by such prominent operators as Verizon in the US, eventually accounting for one-third of deployments globally. more
Related Tags: lte, strategy-analytics, verizon, iden, ict, analytics, 3g, usb-modem, usb-modems
Samsung Shows off its First Android Phone
Samsung Electronics has shown off its first Android-powered mobile phone, the I7500. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone. more
Related Tags: samsung, android, google, open-handset-alliance, iden, gps, tim, o2, itu, smartphone, battery, memory, amoled, hsdpa, life
Qualcomm and Broadcom Wave a Paper and Declare "Peace For Our Time"
The acrimonious patent battle between Qualcomm and Broadcom is finally over. The two firms have entered into a settlement and multi-year patent agreement, which will result in the dismissal with prejudice of all litigation between the companies, including all patent infringement claims in the International Trade Commission and U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, as well as the withdrawal by Broadcom of its complaints to the european Commission and the Korea Fair Trade Commission. more
Related Tags: broadcom, qualcomm, td-scdma, cdma, iden, tim, lte, wcdma, ict, wimax, european-commission, semiconductor, 3g, compete, patents, 4g, USA
Telecom Italia Mobile Lost 1.5 Million Customers in 2008
The Italian market lost a total of 135k customers over the year, with net losses in Q2 and Q4 trumping the smaller net gains in the other two periods. The year closed with a total base of 88.58m, compared to 88.72m, while penetration dropped from 152.6% to 152.4%. more
Related Tags: telecom-italia-mobile, tim, wind, vodafone, h3g, arpu, 3g, , Italy
Finland Awards Radio Spectrum for LTE Networks
Finland's TeliaSonera, Elisa and DNA have been allocated additional frequencies enabling them to start building fourth generation (LTE) mobile networks. The frequencies are located in the 1,800 MHz band, which will make Finland the first country in europe to allow the use of 4G LTE technology at such low frequencies. more
Related Tags: teliasonera, elisa, dna-, lte, itu, base-station, 3g, , 4g, Finland
Fitch Downgrades Deutsche Telekom on Guidance Revision, Weak Operating Results
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Deutsche Telekom's (DT) Long-term Issuer Default rating (IDR) to 'BBB+' from 'A-' (A minus) and assigned a Stable Outlook. This follows DT's downward guidance revision for 2009 as operating pressures continue apace in key markets. more
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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
Related Tags: echelon, t-mobile-usa, electricity-meters, smart-grid, sim, t-mobile, , driving, tim, iden, backhaul, gsm, smart, operating-system, billing, security, USA
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
Related Tags: university-of-california, semiconductor, digital-signal-processor, , edge, intel, wi-fi, driving, tim, battery, ieee, testing
P2P mobile messaging to reach $106bn by 2014 - but revenues to decline in some sectors
Mobile messaging revenues are set for measured growth over the next five years, as market forces take effect. SMS, MMS, mobile email and IM traffic volumes will continue their inexorable rise, but the IP evolution is resulting in disruptive business models, increased competition from the Web and commoditisation of established services. more
Related Tags: mms, sms, mobile-messaging, juniper-research, mobile-email, p2p-, social-networking, smartphone, intel, , voip, vas, billing