October 19th, 2007
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Passengers, especially in Europe, may soon be able to use their cellphone above 3000 meters high. The regulators around Europe call for consultation regarding the introduction of technology. The European Union has recommended to member states that the plan go ahead and space on the airwaves has been reserved for the technology.
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October 5th, 2007
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Britain’s BT Group has teamed-up with FON to create “the world’s largest” Wi-Fi community, adding 3 million consumers to a collective that already includes subscribers to France’s NeufCegetel and Time Warner Cable in the United States.
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September 21st, 2007
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This is another third generation (3G) mobile phone spectrum auction in Britain. The auction could come as early as 2009 although it would not be expected to fetch anything like as much as the £22.5bn the Government raised in 2000 by selling five third generation licences.
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May 18th, 2007
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A recent study has indicated that the worldwide 3G market will rise by 55 percent per year from 2006 to 2010. China and India are major areas of growth.
In other news mobile web use in the UK appears to be taking off, despite reports of poor user experience. 20 percent of the UK, or 5.7 [...]
June 30th, 2006
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Nokia recently announced a new commercial DVB-H pilot in Stockholm with Teracom in Sweden. Nokia is supplying the Nokia Mobile Broadcast System 3.0 and Nokia N92 mobile TV devices to the pilot which will last from October to December 2006 and includes 400 consumers. The project is a co-operation between ATG, Boxer, Nokia, Sveriges Radio, [...]
May 23rd, 2006
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Who’s afraid of the big bad cell phone bill? A lot of people, apparently. A quarter of MinuteWatcher’s visitors on the first day signed up for the free service and started receiving semiweekly alerts about their cell phone usage.
MinuteWatcher puts customers in control of their usage. The company monitors unbilled cell phone usage and sends [...]
May 8th, 2006
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MTPCS, LLC, d.b.a. Chinook Wireless, has selected Nokia to build a GSM/GPRS/EDGE network throughout Montana. Nokia is supplying 100 percent of the radio and core network, along with network services. The companies have signed a five-year supply contract covering equipment, network planning services, deployment services and Nokia Care services.
Chinook Wireless will be deploying one of [...]
May 8th, 2006
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Nokia today revealed that the Nokia N80 multimedia computer has been voted the Best Mobile Imaging Device in Europe 2006 by the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA), the largest photo and imaging press association in Europe. The award is an endorsement of the Nokia N80’s industry-leading feature set, which makes it one of the most [...]
May 8th, 2006
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The number of third generation mobile phones in Finland doubled in the month after new laws took effect on April 1 allowing bundled sales of phones and subscriptions, a senior executive at operator Elisa said on Monday.
“The number of 3G handsets has doubled in a month, they are now 2 percent of all phones and [...]
May 6th, 2006
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Topex, an innovative European company, pioneer in 3G devices and recognized provider of carrier class Next Generation Network equipment and Redline Communications, a leading world-wide provider of WiMAX broadband wireless access networks, today announce it will showcase an end-to-end IP solution for voice, video and data based on Topex’ NGN equipment and Redline’s WiMAX products [...]
