Articles tagged with: O2 and Wind

Pannon Commissions Wind-Powered Base Station

Hungary based mobile network, Pannon says that it recently commissioned the country's first wind-powered base station. The village of Kálló in Nógrád County offers suitable wind conditions throughout the year, meaning the wind generator can contribute up to 50% of the base station's power demand. more

There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market

The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the European market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game. more

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Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators

Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum

The notion of one network is not entirely far-fetched. After the savings of passive sharing have been realised, where can future savngs come from? In our forthcoming report 2020 vision for mobilewe predict that operators will seek increasingly active forms of sharing. Sharing ever more of your infrastructure might sound ridiculous today, but all forms of sharing sounded ridiculous ten years ago. more

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Dot com diet keeps telecoms in good shape

But are telecoms deals past it as debt levels mature? Telecoms M&A market has recalled the lows of the early noughties with deals values falling 95 per cent over the last two years, a PricewaterhouseCoopers report has revealed. more

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Telekom Austria's First Wind Turbine-Powered Mobile Phone Base Station

mobilkom austria, the domestic mobile subsidiary of the Telekom Austria Group has started operations of the first wind turbine-powered mobile phone base station in Eibesthal in Lower Austria. The project has been nominated for the environmental award of the City of Vienna 2009. more

HTC SHows Off Two New Smartphones

.. based HTC Corp. has unveiled two new flagship devices, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2, which both support HTC's latest TouchFLO 3D interface. TouchFLO 3D has been more deeply integrated into a customized version of Windows Mobile 6 more

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Economic Downturn Sparked a Battle for 3rd Place in Mobile Phone Market

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end-users reached more than 309 million units in the third quarter of 2008, a 6 per cent increase compared to the third quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Growth dipped back into single figures, representing less than half the 16 per cent growth rate of the same period in 2007. more

Ericsson Trials Wind Powered Base Stations

Working with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden, Ericsson has unveiled its latest energy-optimized radio base station site concept, a research project for a pioneering wind-powered Tower Tube. more

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Vodafone Portugal Using Wind Power on its Base Stations

Vodafone has begun generating electricity for its mobile communications network with the installation of a wind micro-generating system in the Serra do Socorro near Mafra. more

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Vodafone Aims to Half its CO2 Emissions by 2020

Vodafone has said that by 2020 it intends to reduce its Co2 emissions by 50% against its 2006/7 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. The company said that this target will be achieved principally by improvements in energy efficiency and increased use of renewable energy. more