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Al Jawal Introduces 3G Service Commercially

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 [...]

China Telecom 3G Net Nearly Ready

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 [...]

Nokia’s Browser to Open Source Community

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 [...]

Nokia Wins GSM Expansion in China

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 [...]

telSPACE Chooses Trilibis

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 [...]

MinuteWatcher Launches Free Cell Phone Monitoring

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 [...]

Sri Lanka Offers 3G Licence at US$5M

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 [...]

Video Phone Journalism Goes Mainstream

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 [...]

SK Telecom Launches First 3G HSDPA

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 [...]

Make Texting Cheaper

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!]

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