Articles tagged with: Sim and Ict

Cost of Supporting Mobile Broadband is Eroding Subscriber Profitability

Mobile broadband services are more expensive to support than any other wireless service and are endangering subscriber profitability for many mobile network operators concludes a new study from WDSGlobal. The study found that the cost to support mobile broadband products and services is up to 200% greater than the cost to support traditional wireless products such as mobile phones. This means that despite revenue uplift from increased data usage, actual subscriber profitability often remains unchanged and sometimes even worsens. more

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T-Mobile Develops Tiny Embedded SIM Card

..environments," said John Horn, national director of M2M, T-Mobile USA. "With our simple, streamlined certification process, we expect partners to have commercial solutions based on this new technology running on the T-Mobile network as soon a more

Tanzania to Require SIM Registration

Tanzania's government has joined the growing trend for countries to require all PrePay sim cards to be registered with the network operators, citing the usual reasons of crime and terrorism. The Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof. Peter Msolla, said the government would soon table a bill in the National Assembly for the establishment of a Central Equipment Identification Register (CEIR). more

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Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells

..h it is a likely outcome of a femtocell deployment and has already been proven in other similar FMC product deployments. At a time when there is a great deal of interest surrounding managing the costs associated with the growing uptake of �unlim more

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Gartner Says: Carriers Will Struggle Without Major Innovation and Change

Shifts in customer demand, a changing competitive landscape, a weak economy and new government policies will shape carrier strategies during 2009 and 2010, according to Gartner. Carriers will struggle to maintain and grow their market position in this shifting landscape, and success will demand investment strategies that are aligned with the pace of recovery in each country and region. more

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Faster, better patent processing

..how laborious, complicated and difficult patent processing can be. Quite simply, current patent data processing technologies - largely based on the assumption that a patent is a sequence of text blocks, enriched with drawings and diagrams - is more

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Study Finds Disconnect Between Smartphone Adoption and Ability to Manage Mobile Devices

.. that IT needs help. Software that can automatically troubleshoot mobile user issues and simplify management are fast becoming a staple of the data center." Osterman Research forecasts that the proportion of the North American workforce equi more

Caribbean & Latin America - CDMA Enters its "Sunset" Phase

The technology story in the Caribbean & Latin America (CALA) region is simple: most US based technologies are in full retreat, while the international GSM/W-CDMA standards are proliferating. During the quarter, the number of customers connected to AMPS, TDMA and CDMA systems declined by 4.4m overall, bringing the number of disconnections so far this year to 19.9m, or 5.2% of the starting base. more

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Nokia Dismisses WiMAX as a "Wireless Betamax"

..es. Maybe Vanjoki's comment will foretell a similar fate for WiMAX as the dominant technology for commercial users and fixed wireless services. On the web: Financial Times more

Social Networking Usurping Mobile Messaging as Communications Tool

..llected from Mobile Analytics, operators can provide similar classified services to registered users based on their unique subscriber profiles. "Subscriber data has always been part of an operator's asset base, however extracting this informat more