Articles tagged with: Wind and Ericsson

Bus Ticket Payments by SMS Trials in Italy

The public transport authority in Florence, Italy has launched an SMS based ticketing system in partnership with Ericsson and mobile operators TIM, Vodafone, wind and 3 Italia. The service allows customers of these operators to buy public transport tickets by text message, charging the cost to their mobile account. more

Related Tags: tim, vodafone, sms, 3-italia, Italy

Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech

This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more

ZTE Aims to be a Top-5 Phone Manufacturer This Year

China's ZTE is close to breaking into the top-5 of global handset manufacturers after it saw handset shipments jump by 40% in 2008 to reach 45 million units, according to the Taiwan based DigiTimes publication. The company had set itself a target of gaining a top-5 placement by 2011, but did accept that shrinking market share in competitors could bring that date forward. more

Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, windows-mobile, wcdma, huawei, vodafone, tim, zte, cdma, ovi, iden, gartner, sony, digitimes, windows, target

Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators

..ll have already been largely realised. The result will be a dwindling number of physical mobile networks, until some markets at the forefront of this trend are left with just one mobile network, including the RAN, backhaul and even transport ele more

Related Tags: t-mobile, sim, eu, ict, mvno, o2, driving, tim, lte, ovum, one-network, backhaul, spice, managed-services, option

iPhone: Not a top 20 handset for browsing and buying on the mobile web

According to statistics released by mobile billing and analytics firm, Bango, when it comes to the most popular phones for browsing and buying content on the mobile web worldwide, the iPhone still sits outside the top 20. The Bango Top 20 handset list, based on Bango's February statistics, puts the Nokia 3110c on top, followed by the Samsung M800 in 2nd and the Nokia 6300 in 3rd. more

Sony Ericsson Enters the South Korean Market

Sony Ericsson is to enter the South Korean market for the first time - as it prepares to offer its windows Mobile based Xperia X1 smartphone on SK Telecom's mobile network. Although the government has dropped the requirement that all handsets sold in the country use the proprietary WIPI platform - Sony Ericsson has chosen to retain that for its first product launch. more

Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?

The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more

Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession

Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more

Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village

..reen-powered site in the remote village of Dertu in northeastern Kenya. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply more

Related Tags: sim-card, sim, solar-power, roaming, itu, zain, villages, health, solar, africa, emergency, Kenya

Industry Big Guns with no Bullets to Fire

After a devastating end to 2008, the future is looking bleak. At the start of 2009 the mobile industry is starting to implement strategic job cuts and closing of overseas offices. This is just the beginning. The New Year started with Nortel Networks filing for Chapter 11. Many companies are not far behind. The question remains: how will some of the largest blue chip companies fare this year? Based on recent findings, Frost & Sullivan expects several firms to have a tough time fighting this year's projected internal and external challenges. more

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