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Articles tagged with: GSM Association and Telenor
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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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: telefonica, hspa, lg, entel, telstra, lg-electronics, rogers, gsma
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, telefonica, telecom-italia, hutchison, vodafone-group, danger
The NGMN Alliance Oulines Development Plans for Next Year
The NGMN Alliance - a group of network operators - says that it has defined its roadmap for the year ahead following a meeting of all its partners. The purpose of this forum was to ensure that the vision of the NGMN Alliance, namely, realisation of the global mobile information society with its many benefits for the end users, is on track. The accomplishments of the past year include agreement on a new IPR regime, clarifying the spectrum requirements for the next generation of mobile networks, initiation of trials for various candidate technologies, and continued contributions to standards development organisations. more
Related Tags: datang, semiconductor, sprint-nextel, france-telecom, itu, nxp, radio-spectrum, nextel, ipwireless, gsma, chipsets
Western Union Working on Global Mobile Money Transfer Service
The GSM Association (GSMA) and Western Union have jointly announced an agreement to facilitate the development of cross-border mobile money transfer services. Western Union and the GSMA are to develop a commercial and technical framework that mobile operators can use to deploy services that enable consumers to send and receive low-denomination, high-frequency money transfers using their mobile phones. more
Related Tags: mtn, bharti, western-union, gsma
Low-Cost 3G Handset Sales Commence
The GSM Association says that the winning handset in the GSMA's "3G for All programme", the LG-KU250, is now on sale across the globe. The 3G handset from LG Electronics was selected by 12 leading operators to spearhead the GSMA's campaign to make multimedia mobile services accessible to a much wider user base. more
Related Tags: hutchison-3g, telecom-italia, bharti, lg-electronics, 3g-phones, bharti-airtel, cingular, hutchison
Telenor Launches Rural GSM PayPhone in Pakistan
Telenor Pakistan has launched a community project, apnaPCO, which aims at bringing access to the most disadvantaged rural communities in the country. more
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GSM Association Aims for Global Point of Sale Purchases by Mobile Phone
The worldwide use of mobile phones for payments at point of sale is the aim of a new initiative announced by the GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade organization for mobile operators. The 'Pay-Buy Mobile' initiative is a natural progression for the industry, following the GSMA's program - announced last year - to define a common global approach to enabling Near Field Communications (NFC), the technology used to link mobile devices with payment and contactless systems. more
Related Tags: sim-card, at&t, nfc, nfc, near-field-communication, teliasonera, mobile-payments, docomo, near-field-communications, lg-electronics, ktf, cingular, rogers, gsma