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Articles tagged with: Skype
EU Investigating Mobile Operators Over Blocking of VoIP Services
The European Union is looking at whether blocks on VoIP service by Europe's mobile phone operators might breach competition laws. The European Commission, the EU antitrust authority has sent letters to each of the mobile phone operators asking them what actions, if any, they take to affect internet based voice calls. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, european-commission, voip, vodafone, hutchison-3g, kpn, eu, european-union, hutchison, antitrust
Two Danish Operators to Support Mobile Barcodes
Danish mobile operator, Sonofon is to start offering canLife 2D barcode platform to its subscribers - joining TSC which has already launched the service for its customers. Scanbuy, which developed the service says that it can now reach 80% of Denmark's mobile subscriber base. more
Related Tags: telenor, free-mobile, Denmark
VoIP-Connected Households to Grow by 8.5 Million by 2011
About 8.5 million more U.S. households will start using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for their home phone service over the next two years, according to a new forecast from Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services. more
Related Tags: voip, verizon, USA
Hutchison Whampoa Launches Handset Subsidiary
Hutchison Whampoa has launched its own mobile phone subsidiary, INQ Mobile to develop phones for its 3G networks worldwide. The company aims to launch a range of low to mid-priced handsets based largely on free operating systems, likely to be either Linux or the Google backed Android OS - and will be based on Qualcomm chips. more
Related Tags: android, google, social-networking, qualcomm, voip, seven, facebook, hutchison, inq-mobile, linux
New technologies for better network management
The EUREKA-funded CELTIC MADEIRA project, winner of the 2008 CELTIC Excellence Award, has successfully applied new ways to manage large telecommunications networks using a web-based interface. more
Related Tags: ericsson, dell, 3gpp, network-management
Verizon FiOS Repeats as Most Competitive Telecom Provider in 2008
The wRatings Corporation, an independent competitive research firm, announced today the results of the annual Most Competitive Media & Telecom Study, which was sponsored by software house, SAP. In the report, Verizon FiOS repeats as No. 1 for Telecom Providers with a W Score of 73.0. Two business segments of Google, their Shopping/Services and their Search engine, rank as the No. 1 and 2 Media Properties with W Scores of 88.8 and 88.2 respectively. A W Score of 100 means the business built the highest consumer and economic advantages when compared with the 540+ companies in the wRatings national coverage. more
Related Tags: google, t-mobile, wind, verizon, alltel, sap, USA
SMS Vendor TynTec Secures Private Equity Investment
Mobile messaging operator TynTec has accepted a significant minority investment from HarbourVest Partners, a private equity investment firm. HarbourVest investment professionals Alex Rogers and Claudio Siniscalco will be joining TynTec Ltd's Board of Directors. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, voip, rogers
UPDATE: FCC Vote Delayed on Skype Bid for Open Networks
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission delayed a vote scheduled for Thursday that would have denied a petition from Ebay's skype to open up cellular networks. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, t-mobile-usa, sprint-nextel, verizon-wireless, verizon, fcc, sprint, nextel, federal-communications-commission, USA
FCC Vote Delayed on Skype Bid for Open Cellular Networks
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission has delayed a vote scheduled for Thursday that would have denied a petition from Ebay's skype to open up cellular networks. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, t-mobile-usa, verizon-wireless, verizon, fcc, verizon-communications, sprint, federal-communications-commission, vodafone-group, USA
Mobile WiMAX Trials Completed in Finland
The first Mobile WiMAX field testing in Finland has been carried out in Savonlinna. Part of a larger Mobile WiMAX technology study initiated by ten Finnish broadband operators, the field test was run by local telephone company SPY and consultancy company Omnitele in collaboration with network company Daimler Finland. The equipment used in the field tests were AlvarionÃ's 4Motion solution with its IEEE 802.16e compliant BreezeMax as radio access network platform. more
Related Tags: mobile-wimax, voip, rural, driving, 802.16e, radio-access-network, alvarion, ieee, handover, Finland