VODAFONE Australia boss Bill Morrow will flick the on switch to the telco's 4G mobile network in June, boasting that the recovering telecoms company will have the fastest 4G services in Australia. Speaking at a strategy update in North ...
Tags: 4G, Computer Products, web service
The prelude to 2013's 4G battle has intensified as mobile operator Three UK has announced that it has gained almost a million customers in the past year. In its annual financial report, Three said that it had added 900,000 new customers ...
Tags: 4G Battle, Computer Products
Microsoft has sponsored 225 London taxis with free Wi-Fi as part of a wider roll-out to the public. Taxi advertising specialist Ubiquitous and technology supplier Track4Services have launched the CabConnect platform via Vodafone’s ...
Three UK, the mobile phone network, is using "big data" at the heart of its business to work out where to locate mobile phone masts and to help personalise the "experience" of its subscribers. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Burgeoning markets in developing countries are favouring simpler hardware providers like Nokia over more high-end producers like Apple. While Apple's dominance in western markets is set to be tested today (14 March) by the launch of ...
Tags: Apple products, Apple, hardware
Apple won a patent infringement lawsuit on last Thursday in the British court. The judgment will make Apple escape from allegations of illegal use Samsung technology. Samsung said its patent of 3G mobile network data processing and ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, patent infringement, Britain
There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carriers and equipment vendors say. Executives from established companies on both sides of the ...
Cisco Systems' acquisition of network optimization vendor Intucell closed just three days before the start of this week's Mobile World Congress, great timing for a deal that is likely to play a big role in Cisco's mobile future. Intucell ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, acquisition, mobile
Ericsson and SAP have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based M2M solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg announced at Mobile World Congress today. The solutions ...
Tags: Ericsson, SAP, M2M Solutions
"In a perfect world, all of us retailers that are utilizing iPads in the store would love to see each and every one of our manufacturers develop their own apps. Within these apps, we should be able to access the complete catalog as well as ...
Orange, Ericsson and Qualcomm have successfully used L-band frequencies to demonstrate the use of supplemental downlink technology on a mobile network, thereby confirming the potential of this approach to increase mobile broadband capacity ...
Tags: Mobile Broadband Capacity, Orange's network, trial system
CBR rounds up expert comments on the 4G auction winner announcement and what this means for the future of mobile broadband in the UK. Gary Marven, CEO of MLL Telecom As a UK focused telecoms operator and existing spectrum owner we are ...
Communications regulator Ofcom has raised 2.34bn Euro in the much delayed 4G spectrum auction, more than £1bn less than the Office for Budget for Responsibility (OBR) had forecast. EE already holds 4G spectrum and is currently the ...
2,341,113,000 Euro was raised although the auction was expected to generate at least 3.5bn Euro. After more than 50 rounds of bidding Vodafone, Telefónica UK, EE, Hutchison 3G UK and Niche Spectrum Venutres have won spectrum. ...
Tags: Ofcom, mobile spectrum auction, broadband
EE, the UK's first mobile network to launch 4G, has revealed that it has made a loss before tax of £249m in 2012. The loss is more than double the £113m it lost in 2011, while its annual revenue also reduced by 1.9 per cent ...
Tags: mobile network, Telecom, EE 4G