May 25th, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has announced the launch of 3G, having started testing the service in 2005. STC’s Al Jawal mobile operation plans to roll out the largest 3G network in the Middle East and will activate a full service including: voice and video calls, live TV and HSDPA technology, running at speeds of up [...]
May 25th, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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China Telecom is about a month away from completing the final base stations for its TD-SCDMA third-generation wireless network. Chairman Wang Xiaochu told reporters at its annual meeting Tuesday that China Telecom would be ready to launch 3G service within eight after obtaining a license from the government.
China wants 3G service up and running in [...]
May 24th, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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Nokia today announced the release to the global open source software community of the source code for S60 WebKit, the engine for its leading-edge Web Browser for S60, marking a turning point in the drive toward an open code base for web browsers used on mobile devices.
Nokia’s contribution of the S60 WebKit source code, with [...]
May 23rd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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Nokia, a leading mobile networks supplier, recently announced that it has won a GSM network expansion deal with Sichuan Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom. The agreement is Nokia’s first with Sichuan Unicom and marks a significant milestone for Nokia in entering the GSM market in Sichuan and West China. The deal also highlights Nokia’s [...]
May 23rd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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telSPACE, an innovative provider of multi-service billing, rating, and customer care software solutions for the MVNO industry, today announced its selection of the SmartPath solution by Trilibis Mobile.
This choice will accelerate telSPACE’s plan to offer data services that will dramatically enhance the customer’s experience with their mobile phones. These applications will work hand in hand [...]
May 23rd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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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 23rd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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Sri Lanka yesterday offered third-generation (3G) mobile phone network licences to the country’s four cellular phone operators at US$5 million each. The 3G licences will allow the companies to offer high-speed voice and data transmission.
The largest mobile company in Sri Lanka, Dialog Telekom, was already carrying out 3G trials, while two other firms - Mobitel [...]
May 22nd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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Welcome to video phone journalism! BBC has been testing since three years ago.
BBC journalists in the field are using commercially available camera phones on a daily basis. The BBC news organisation has been experimenting using mobile technology or as they call it “participatory social media”. Although the UK-based news company has been toying with video [...]
May 22nd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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SK Telecom proved Korea as the leader of third-generation (3G) mobile network technology with the kick-off of the world’s first commercial HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) service.
SK Telecom introduced today a first-ever 3.5 generation (3.5G) network HSDPA handset and announced the launching of the world’s first handset-based commercial HSDPA network. The company has named [...]
May 22nd, 2006 by
Budi Putra
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With today’s advanced technology it is absurd for us to have to pay around 10 pence to send a 160 character text message to a friend. Standard costs of an out of bundle text message, taken from mobile operator websites on March 2006, listed alphabetically here. Should texting be cheaper? Sign the electronic petition… [3G!]