Articles tagged with: Mobile Data and Vodafone
Mobile Data Revenue Will Double in Spain's Telecom Market by 2014
Despite Spain's pronounced economic slowdown, its telecom market will see mobile data revenue double within the next five years, driven by an uninterrupted expansion of mobile data and Internet-based services, according to a report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: orange, , sim, eu, mobile-broadband, pyramid-research, Spain
Vodafone Australia Offering Free iPhones
Vodafone Australia announced that iPhone 3G will be available free of charge when a subscriber takes out the AU$69 (US$49.40) iPhone tariff with a 24-month contract. more
Related Tags: 3g, iphone, tim, text-messages, Australia
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, 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, pyramid-research, safaricom, vodafone-kenya, vodafone-group, universal-service-fund, Kenya
Vodafone 3rd-Quarter Sales Up On Sterlings Decline
Vodafone has published its interim results - and reported that its third quarter sales rose 14 percent - driven largely by currency fluctuations and rising revenues from India. Sales in the three months ending Dec 31st. were £10.47 billion (US14.9 billion), compared to £9.16 billion (US$13.1 billion) a year ago. Ignoring currency changes caused by a sharply declining UK Sterling and acquisitions, sales would have fallen by 1 percent. more
Related Tags: prepay, roaming, lte, mumbai
Vodafone Wins Mobile Services Contract from UK's National Grid
Vodafone UK today announced that National Grid has awarded it a three year contract worth over £5m as its sole mobile voice and mobile data network provider in the UK. more
Related Tags: edge, mobile-broadband, testing, UK
Vodafone Australia's 3G Upgrade Delayed
It has been reported that the 3G network upgrade being carried out on Vodafone Australia's network has been delayed by its infrastructure supplier, Ericsson. The upgrade was due to be completed by the end of this year, but is now expected to be completed someone in the first half of next year. more
Related Tags: hspa, ericsson, optus, telstra, Australia
Mobile operators will be first to gain from mobile social networking
Social networking is gaining mobility as online social networking providers add mobile interfaces to their services, and numerous specialist, mobile-centric social networks emerge. However, according to Analysys MasonĂ's new report, mobile operators will be the most immediate beneficiaries of mobile social networking services. more
Related Tags: social-networking, mobile-advertising, youtube, mobile-internet, facebook
Vodafone says Apple will meet it part way over branded iPhone apps
Independent analyst comment - Tony Cripps, senior analyst at Ovum more
Related Tags: iphone, itunes, apple, rsa, ovum, walled-garden, compete, app-store
