|
|
Articles tagged with: Sim Card and Sms
Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South
African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors. Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends' handsets. Chinese students spend three months' allowance on a phone they can use to surf the web. Once almost the exclusive domain of rich countries, the mobile revolution has swept through the developing world. An estimated 3.8 billion people, or half the world's population, own a mobile, and most of the growth is taking place in the global South. more
Related Tags: text-messaging, rural, itu, text-messages, earthquake, satellite, bomb, baghdad, health, fm-radio, aol, farmers, emergency
Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
2009 will undoubtedly be a tough year for many global economies. However, despite uncertain forecasts, messaging company, Acision believes that the changing economic landscape will present many revenue opportunities for service providers. Based on the 2008/2009 New Year SMS figures alone, Acision predicts messaging and its associated revenues will continue to soar globally despite the economic downturn. more
Related Tags: mms, mobile-messaging, social-networking, roaming, arpu, twitter, ict, edge, driving, acision, outsourcing, mobile-broadband, personal, dongles, mobile-advertising, text-messages, 3, backhaul, smart, billing, opex, laptop, africa, global-mobile, globe
Austria Tests New NFC Based Mobile Ticketing Service
Mobilkom austria says that it has developed an NFC service in cooperation with the Austrian railway operator, ÖBB for mobile ticketing in pre-selling conditions. The new chip-based NFC application is based on the interoperable international standard VDV-KA (Association of German Transport Undertakings - Core Application) and has been integrated into the mobilkom austria mobile ticketing platform. more
Related Tags: nokia, nfc, rsa, text-messages, battery, telekom, railway, tickets, mobile-tickets, mobilkom-austria, mobilkom, mobile-ticketing, Austria
Bahrain Issues New Instruction for Roaming Mobile Subscribers
Bahrain's telecoms regulator has issued an order to the country's telecoms networks requiring them to offer more information about roaming costs when customers are overseas. As soon as the home network is aware that a customer is roaming overseas, they will be required to send a free SMS to their customer with details of the roaming costs for the country they are in. more
Related Tags: roaming, vodafone, zain, customer-care, text-message, auction, mtc, Bahrain
Sagem Orga Develops NFC Enabled SIM Card for Orange
Smart card vendor, Sagem Orga has announced the availability of an NFC Single Wire Protocol enabled SIM card, developed in co-operation with Orange. The firm said that the SIM card has been customized for Orange specific needs. more
Related Tags: orange, sagem-orga, nfc, near-field-communication, apple, apple, rsa, uicc, battery, java, globalplatform, interoperability, batteries
Turkcell Launches New Applications with Mobile Signature Solution
Turkish mobile operator, Turkcell has rolled out a new series of electronic signature based services, based on a SIM card supplied by Gemalto. The Gemalto solution allows subscribers to securely access online services that require strong authentication using their mobile phone to sign their transactions and documents by means of a legally binding electronic signature. Eighteen months after the initial deployment, the operator is working with 12 partner banks, 4 investment companies, 6 governmental organizations and 2 e-commerce websites. more
Related Tags: gemalto, privacy, turkcell, value-added-services, Turkey
Emerging Markets Mobile Penetration to Rrise from 46% in 2008 to 95% by 2013
Mobile penetration rates are forecast to rise from 46% in 2008 to 95% by 2013 according to a new survey of 34 emerging market countries published by Tariff Consultancy. Already subscribers in the 34 countries total over 2.1 billion users (based on operator statistics as of mid-2008) which accounts for half of the world's mobile users (based on ITU estimates). By 2013 the 34 countries will have grown to 4.3 billion mobile users and will account for around two thirds of global mobile users more
Related Tags: voip, mobile-broadband, itu, hsdpa, top-up, global-mobile, India
Visa Expands Mobile Payments Services
Credit card firm, Visa has launched four new programs to deliver payments and services via mobile phones. Two commercial mobile payments programs, in Brazil and Korea, along with two mobile offers and transaction notification pilots in the United States, add to more than a dozen pilot and commercial programs enabled by the Visa mobile platform around the world. more
Related Tags: rsa, mobile-payments, visa, korea-telecom, smart-card, arizona, wells-fargo, Brazil
Stable growth of the mobile telephony market in Russia
A new report by the PMR research and consulting company, demonstrates that the value of the telecommunication market in Russia grew by 27% in 2007, achieving the level of RUB 957 billion (US$39.5 billion). The data transmission and internet services sectors grew dynamically, but the market growth was caused primarily by very high dynamics of the largest sector: mobile telephony. In the last eight years, the market developed at an average annual rate of approximately 31%, primarily thanks to dynamic development of the mobile telephony market resulting from a low saturation of services. more
Related Tags: mms, megafon, mts, moscow, umts, pmr, 3g-network, army, Russia
Pakistani Operator Blocking Spam SMSs
Pakistan Mobile Communications, better known as Mobilink GSM, has deployed Tekelec's TekMedia AntiSpam Firewall Solution to try and block SMS spam messages being sent to its subscribers. more
Related Tags: spam, sms-spam, memory, mobilink, value-added-services, tekelec, Pakistan
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |