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Articles tagged with: GSM Association and Telefonica
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
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Telefonica: ICTs can reduce 15% of global emissions by 2020
Telefónica has pledged to lead an information and communication technologies (ICT) industry initiative to cut global CO2 emissions by 15 per cent before 2020. The world's fourth largest telecommunications company reinforced its drive to combat climate change by challenging ICTs to step up the development of energy-efficient devices, applications and networks. more
Related Tags: sim, eu, rsa, ict, itu, edge, o2, lte, climate-change, gsm, telefonica-o2
GSMA Picks LG Phones to Lead HSPA Promotions
The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced that a panel comprising of nine operators has selected two mobile phones developed by LG Electronics as the winning products to spearhead its GSMA's Horizon Phone initiative - which aims to promote HSPA services in the 850Mhz band. more
Related Tags: telenor, hspa, lg, entel, telstra, lg-electronics, rogers, gsma
UK Operators to Define a Common Standard for Mobile Advertising Reports
The GSM Association (GSMA) announced that the UK's five network operators, Vodafone Group, Telefonica O2 Europe, T-Mobile, FT-Orange Group and Hutchison 3G, have formed a working group to define common metrics and measurement processes for mobile advertising as part of the GSMA's Mobile Advertising Programme. more
Related Tags: orange, o2, mobile-advertising, hutchison, gsma, telefonica-o2, UK
GSMA Launches Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse
The GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile operators, has launched the Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Content to obstruct the use of the mobile environment by individuals or organisations wishing to consume or profit from child sexual abuse content. While the vast majority of child sexual abuse content is today accessed through conventional connections to the Internet, there is a danger that the broadband networks now being rolled out by mobile operators could be misused in the same way. more
Related Tags: orange, teliasonera, hutchison-3g, telenor, telecom-italia, hutchison, vodafone-group, danger
Industry Bodies Agree to Promote Single Standard for Mobile Barcodes
GSM Association (GSMA) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), two of the global mobile phone industry's representative bodies have agreed to support the addoption of a single standard for barcode "coupons" and readers on mobile phones. more
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Strong Demand for Laptops With Built-in Wireless Broadband Connectivity
The GSM Association (GSMA), and Microsoft have jointly published the results of the first-ever consumer study into mobile broadband computing that shows that there is a tremendous addressable - but currently untapped - market. The study highlights a 70 million unit opportunity, worth some US$50 billion in 2008, for notebook PCs in the high growth, mass market $500 -$1000 price range with built-in mobile broadband. more
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