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Articles tagged with: GSMa
Telstra Launches 21Mbps Download Service
Australian network, Telstra has commercially launched the world's fastest mobile broadband service. The service will offer a 21Mbps peak download rate and the peak network speeds will increase to 42Mbps later this year. more
Related Tags: 3g, arpu, mobile-broadband, dell, telstra, youtube, mp3, modem, Australia
Mobile Communications Is Uniquely Placed to Drive Economic Growth
At the gsma's Leadership Summit, bringing together 400 CEOs, government ministers and officials, industry leaders today stressed the unique role that broadband, specifically mobile broadband, can play as an economic stimulus. Those leaders called for governments to support the rollout of mobile broadband services to drive economic growth. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, rural, itu, china-mobile, telenor, ericsson, mobile-broadband, telecom-italia, 700mhz, play
Rich Communication Suite Initiative Gains Momentum
The gsma has reported significant progress in the Rich Communication Suite (RCS) Initiative, a service providing enriched communication capabilities such as in-call multimedia sharing, conversational messaging and presence-enhanced contact management, all accessible through a user's mobile phone contact list. The initiative has generated considerable momentum across a number of fronts since the gsma brought RCS into its work programme in September 2008, including the delivery of the RCS Release 1 specification, the addition of new programme participants and the successful completion of interoperability tests. more
Related Tags: orange, nokia, sim, voip, rsa, alcatel-lucent, personal, sfr, instant-messaging, 3, ims, siemens, rich-communication-suite, nokia-siemens, presence, testing, interoperability, rcs
GSMA Claims 4 Billionth Mobile Phone Connection
The GSM Association today announced that the mobile world has celebrated its four billionth connection, according to Wireless Intelligence, the gsma's market intelligence unit. They expect to reach a staggering six billion connections by 2013. more
Related Tags: intel, gsm-association, mobile-broadband, gsm
Belgacom ICS Certified as GSMA Compliant Roaming Hub
Belgium based, Belgacom ICS has announced the successful completion of the self-certification process of its Open Connectivity Roaming Hub. With the Open Connectivity (OC) Initiative, the gsma is looking for new ways to set up Interconnection and Roaming relationships between mobile operators through a hub as an alternative to implementing one-to-one roaming relationships across the world's GSM networks. This follows the existing achievements of the Open Connectivity SMS Interworking Hub for which Belgacom ICS was the first to be certified. more
Related Tags: sms, roaming, lte, belgacom, gsm, interoperability, Belgium
T-Mobile CTO to Leave the Firm
T-Mobile International's Chief Technology Officer, Joachim Horn has announced that he is to leave the company at the end of March to pursue a new professional opportunity outside of Germany. A successor for him will be announced in the near future. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, edge, hspa, mobile-broadband, chief-technology-officer
GSMA Urges Latin American Regulators to Relax radio Spectrum Limits
Tight spectrum caps in some Latin American countries are artificially curbing uptake and usage of broadband in the region, according to a study by consultancy Arthur D Little (ADL) for the gsma, the global trade group for the mobile industry. The study found that rigid restrictions on the amount of spectrum available to mobile operators are undermining their ability to provide mobile broadband services that would enable millions of people to access the Internet, email and other online services via computers and handsets at high speeds in areas lacking DSL or cable broadband connections. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, driving, lte, verizon-wireless, hspa, verizon, mobile-broadband, eu, digital-dividend, analog, aws, 700mhz
Bangladeshi Confirms 3G Licenses by Next March
Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, the BTRC has confirmed that it plans to award 3G licenses in the country by March 2009 - a delay on earlier promises to offer the licenses by the end of this year. During the launch of a trial 3G network by Ericsson in August, BTRC chairman Maj Gen (retd.) Manzurul Alam put a valuation of US$200 million on the licenses. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, ericsson, itu, grameenphone, banglalink, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, 3g-licenses, Bangladesh
GSM Trade Body Wants All New Phones to Have NFC by Mid-2009
The gsma, the global trade group for the mobile industry, has called for full NFC functionality -- including the standardised 'Single Wire Protocol' interface -- to be built into all new mobile phones from mid-2009. more
Related Tags: orange, sim-card, nfc, rsa, edge, sfr, ktf, chipset
Tanzania's Internet Cafes Using Vodacom HSPA Network for Backhaul
Vodacom Tanzania, supported by the gsma Development Fund and Qualcomm has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network. Run by local entrepreneurs, each Internet cafe is equipped with several computer terminals connected to Vodacom's HSPA network, which can provide download speeds of up to 7.2 megabits per second. more
Related Tags: qualcomm, hspa, mobile-broadband, vodacom, m-pesa, Tanzania