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Vodafone offers bundling 3G TV

Published Date: December 8th, 2006
Category: 3G, Asia Pacific, Consumer, News

Vodafone offers bundling 3G services as an unlimitted usage option to its subscribers.
Vodafone has introduced what it says is Australia’s biggest mobile TV and music offering on Vodafone live! with 3G. In all there are 21 live and made for mobile TV channels to watch. Vodafone live! with 3G customers can now get access to […]

Cellular Reaches 2,5 Billion Lines

Published Date: September 10th, 2006
Category: 3G, Report, GPRS, Cell Phone, GSM, Consumer, UMTS, Business Briefing

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years.
According to estimates from Wireless […]

This is another new handset challenger in 3G market…
Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced its first UMTS-capable handhelds, the BlackBerry 8707g and 8707v, in Singapore. Both models, which essentially offer the same features but with slight differentiation in exterior casing, will be carried by all three local mobile operators. The 8707g will be available from […]

Smackall, a leading mobile entertainment solution provider announces the release of massively multi-player online game (MMOG) available on selected Java-enabled mobile phones through the SMNA Technology.
The game is played on a board with 7 columns and 6 rows, which is placed in a vertical position. The players have 21 discs each, distinguished by color. The […]

Nokia Indonesia announced its participation in the Indonesia Cellular Show 2006 (ICS 2006) in the Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, 5-9 Juli 2006.
This event is the biggest mobile telecommunication industry exhibition in Indonesia aiming at accommodating demands and needs of all parties in this industry, particularly mobile phone users in Indonesia.
In ICS 2006, Nokia Indonesia introduces […]

Indonesia, which has five 3G operators already, will be the third ASEAN country after Singapore and Malaysia to have WCDMA-based 3G services. We will be joining around fifty million people who already have access to this service around the world.
But it’s not clear what services the operators will offer. When the operators did 3G trials […]

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, […]

As the market evolves with new phones arriving weekly, Whoscallingme.com is poised to support over 600 of them, delivering ring tones to all on-comers.
The vast chasm of mobile functionality is rapidly being bridged by a weekly influx of new mobile devices. This causes more than enough headaches for those hoping to get in on the […]