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Articles tagged with: Ict and Mobile Broadband
2009 Will Be Year of the Mini-Notebook in Asia Pacific
..ted with vendors, models and price points, Gartner predicts. From 2010, Gartner expects the mini-notebook market to stabilise and carve out a sustaining segment, especially in the 8.9-inch to 10-inch "sweet spot" screen size. Threats s more
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Cost of Supporting Mobile Broadband is Eroding Subscriber Profitability
..s a laptop. You have to contend with hardware performance and conflicts, driver incompatibility and buggy software. Diagnosis and fault resolution therefore becomes more complex, negatively impacting support times. Add to this the fact that man more
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Telefonica and Nokia partner to mobilize education in Latin America
Telefonica and Nokia have signed an agreement to bring educational content to remote schools in Latin America through the use of mobile technology. The agreement will expand the current scope of Telefonica Foundation's "Proniņo" and "Educared" social programs - two private initiatives focused on using information and communications technologies in the improvement of the quality of education in the region. more
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Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells
..lustrate the flexibility of the femtocell business case. The picture that emerges is one of a low risk investment, requiring a modest financial outlay to get started and costs which can be easily paid back based on conservative assumptions abou more
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CTIA Reports US Mobile Data Revenues Jumped 39% in 2008
..lion text messages were transmitted. Wireless subscribers are also sending more pictures and other multi-media messages with their mobile devices, with 15 billion MMS messages reported for 2008, up from 6 billion the year before. As of Decembe more
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Top 22 Operators Account for 50% of Total WiMAX Subscribers
..less capital expenditures by most of the top WiMAX operators are predicted to slow down in 2009. "Furthermore, some operators are feeling pressure from not having the right spectrum or sufficient spectrum to achieve their deployment plans," add more
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Austria Gets Europe's First HSPA+ Mobile Data Network
..a download speed of 21 Mbps. In a first step, HSPA+ will be rolled-out in Vienna's 10th district, with further hotspots following throughout the country by the second quarter of 2009. Transmission speeds of up to 28.8 Mbps will be reached in t more
Related Tags: mobile-data, eu, mts, hspa, ericsson, hsupa, telekom-austria, hspa+, hotspots, telekom, Austria
European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession
.. according to Arthur D. Little - Exane BNP Paribas joint study "reviving the fixed line" predicts increase in incumbents' valuations of up to 27% over the period 2008-15 Key points: The ongoing success of triple-play helps operators to limit more
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Increased Use of Wireless Networks Demands More Stringent Security Measures
.. attacks, such as evil twin attack, wi-fi phishing attack, and the dictionary attack on wireless networks, but the existing security strategies are largely reactive instead of being proactive. Hence, wireless network operators are often caught more
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Northern Europe Tops ICT Developments Index
ITU has published an ict Development Index (IDI), which compares developments in information and communication technologies (ict) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007. The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be used as a benchmarking tool globally, regionally and at the country level. These are related to ict access, use and skills, such as households with a computer the number of Internet users; and literacy levels. more
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