U.S. mobile networks carried 69 percent more data traffic in 2012 than in the prior year, but roughly the same number of voice minutes and fewer SMS messages, according to the industry group CTIA. The findings came from a semi-annual ...
Tags: Mobile Data, SMS
Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday. "There really is no alternative," ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Mobile Demand
NASA has launched three smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested. The smartphones, Google-HTC Nexus Ones running the Android operating system, launched aboard the maiden flight of ...
Tags: NASA, Nanosatellites, Android Smartphones
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
Cisco's long-anticipated entry into cellular base stations will come at Mobile World Congress next week, along with the company's familiar promise of an end-to-end architecture. Having the dominant vendor of Wi-Fi gear in the cellular RAN ...
Tags: Cisco, Small-Cell, Network
Microsoft is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations, as part of a long-term strategy to spread mobile telephony and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Internet service, solar-powered base stations
Microsoft has announced that it is collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to provide broadband access using TV white spaces and solar-powered base stations. The move comes as part of a long-term ...
Mobile phone operator Three UK has confirmed that it will not charge a premium for its LTE high-speed mobile network. Three's announcement contrasts sharply with the payment plans offered by Everything Everywhere's (EE) Orange and T-Mobile ...
Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations, building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. The move will bring the networking ...
Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, will drive the market for wearable wireless devices to grow from 14 million items this year to as many as 171 million in 2016. In four years, the market for these devices ...
Mobile payment systems in the U.S. have been long on promise and short on reality. The launch Monday of the Isis system in Salt Lake City and Austin will promote the adoption of mobile payments among users of nine smartphones that support ...
Tags: mobile payment systems, U.S., Isis system, smartphones, NFC
UK-Last week(10 September)representatives of the UK's entertainment industry met Culture Minister Ed Vaizey MP.The roundtable meeting brought together representatives from the British TV,theatre and live music industries to discuss the ...
Tags: UK, entertainment industry, spectrum policy, creative industries
MetroPCS said late Tuesday it had launched a commercial voice-over-LTE service, claiming a win in the international race for the next generation of mobile voice. The fifth-place U.S. carrier said it was making VoLTE-capable phones ...
Tags: MetroPCS, commercial service, international race, mobile voice
Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, is driving the market for wearable, wireless devices that will grow from 14 million items this year to as many as 171 million in 2016. In four years, the market for ...
Expanding the radio spectrum available for license-exempt applications such as Wi-Fi is one of a number of options the European Commission is considering to drive wireless innovation and make the use of radio spectrum more efficient, a ...
Tags: European Commission, radio, spectrum, wireless innovation