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Taliban regret their attack on telecom towers

For everybody, including those Taliban fighter, there is no such a good thing to make a call without that towers. Except if you were a bat with all of their night features. Yup, you were not! The stories start here: Taliban were worried (and shouldn’t they) if their enemies used their phone signals to track them all [...]

China Mobile’s new mantra: growth, growth, and growth

Let’s take a look into China Mobile growth by number via Pc World: 68,1 million new subscribers in 2007 (22.6 percent growth). And most of them is coming from rural areas. See, cell phone is a must item for Chinese. Even Wong Fei Hung and Co’s deserve a phone once upon a time in China in [...]

RCom want Europe WiMax operator

Reliance Communication or RCom (note: not RComm), The India’s largest wireless operator after AirTel, is close to acquiring a Europe-based specialty WiMax operator. Unfortunately, the source didn’t clearly tell who is the target here. Anyway, whoever it is, this target seems has licenses and spectrum for WiMax operations in 20 countries, including (again and again) the [...]

Motorola responds to Trolltech’s acquisition

Responding to the Trolltech’s acquisition by rival Nokia, Motorola says they had already over with Trolltech for such period. Motorola built LiMo (the Linux Mobile Foundation), along with five other companies, to collaborate on mobile Linux. As part of its first specification, LiMo specifies GTK. One of most high-profile Linux-based phone implementation is RAZR2 V8. Source: [...]

Nokia to turn Romania to be world biggest mobile factory

Due to the closing of its factory in Germany, which becomes controversy, Nokia plans to to turn its Romanian factory to be the biggest mobile factory in the world. It is hopefully to be realized by the end of 2009. Local newspaper, Ziarul Financiar said, the factory to open on Feb. 11 near the Romanian [...]