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Articles tagged with: Mobile Data
Austria Gets Europe's First HSPA+ Mobile Data Network
Telekom Austria's mobile subsidiary, mobilkom austria, has become the first operator in Europe to launch HSPA+ services - offering a potential mobile data 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. more
Related Tags: eu, ict, mts, hspa, ericsson, hsupa, mobile-broadband, telekom-austria, hspa+, hotspots, telekom, Austria
Femtocells Deliver 5-Times Speed of Macro Network in Operator Trials
Femtocell developer, Airvana has published results of performance tests of the company's HubBub CDMA femtocell which it says demonstrated dramatic improvements for indoor 3G coverage and performance when compared with using the existing macro-cellular network alone. Based on the results of side-by-side testing, a typical HubBub user can expect to achieve broadband data rates throughout their house of approximately five times that of the existing wireless macro network. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, rural, cdma, iden, mobile-broadband, femtocell, femtocells, indoor-coverage, ctia, testing, airvana
3G Will Dominate Hungary's Mobile Services Market by 2012
Revenue from 3G-based mobile services will grow rapidly over the next four years in Hungary and will overtake 2.5G service revenue by 2012 as more subscribers migrate to broadband mobile data services, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, 3g, pannon, vodafone, mts, mobile-broadband, pyramid-research, national-communications-authority, telekom, 4g, Hungary
Safaricom Subscriber Base Up - Market Share Down
Kenya's Safaricom has reported that its subscriber base has risen by 11.2 percent during the second half of 2008, although it lost market share to new entrants into the market. Safaricom said it had 13.3 million subscribers and its market share has fallen to 77 percent from 81 percent at the end of September, when it had 12 million customer. more
Related Tags: rsa, ict, vodafone, pyramid-research, safaricom, vodafone-kenya, vodafone-group, universal-service-fund, Kenya
Flagship Phones are Driving Sales on Network Operator Websites
Industry analytics firm, comScore has published data from its monthly wireless e-commerce dashboard, which tracks consumer shopping and purchasing behavior, including handsets and mobile data plans, at all of the major wireless carrier sites. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, iphone, analytics, samsung, motorola, apple, verizon-wireless, verizon, iden, vas, comscore, lg, htc, blackberry, sprint, USA
3G-4G to Account for 30% of Global Wireless Subscriptions by 2013
At the end of 2008, only 11% of worldwide wireless subscriptions were 3G. By the end of 2013, the percentage of 3G and 4G subscriptions will reach 30%, reports In-Stat. This trend is reflected in fourth quarter 2008 wireless infrastructure contract awards. more
Related Tags: 3g, samsung, wimax, mobile-wimax, motorola, wcdma, cisco, huawei, clearwire, lte, zte, alcatel-lucent, cdma, hspa, in-stat, 802.16e, wimax,, ev-do, 4g
Kenya Poised for Huge Growth in Mobile Services
Mobile penetration in Kenya's telecom market will grow by 95 percent over the next five years, a market growth that will reflect intense competition among network operators and lead to a rapid uptake of mobile data services, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: orange, 3g, zain, pyramid-research, safaricom, mobile-money, Kenya
T-Mobile UK Tops Mobile Broadband Survey
T-Mobile's UK Mobile Broadband service has topped an independent YouGov survey of 1,958 respondents that have mobile broadband. Conducted in January 2009, the results rank T-Mobile first in nine of 13 categories that include critical assessment factors such as reliability, speed, network coverage, connectivity and value for money. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, t-mobile-uk, mobile-broadband, dongle, yougov, p3-solutions, UK
Mobile Services to Capture More Advertising Revenue in Emerging Markets
As market penetration rates for mobile services continue to soar in emerging markets, advertisers are expected to dramatically increase their spending on "third-screen" ad campaigns targeted specifically to users of mobile data services, providing a potentially huge new revenue stream for operators of mobile networks, according to the latest report by Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: 3g, sms, ict, boost-mobile, pyramid-research, mobile-advertising
148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year
Travellers have long been familiar with the roaming services available for cellular voice calls. Now that 3G networks are widely deployed, similar roaming functions are being made available for data services including MMS and mobile Internet access. Explored in a new ABI Research Brief, these arrangements are already generating revenues in the billions of dollars. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, mms, eu, roaming, rural, driving, abi-research