Smartphone users in the UK are showing a huge appetite for sponsored free or reduced mobile phone bills, a new study has found. The study into smartphone users' attitudes towards mobile marketing and use of data was conducted by research ...
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Bringing wireless indoors, which was once just a matter of antennas carrying a few cellular bands so people could get phone calls, has grown far more complex and demanding in the age of Wi-Fi, multiple radio bands and more powerful ...
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Data centre and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. Cisco is aiming to become ...
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The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising and a driving simulator touring the country this summer. On Tuesday, Verizon, Sprint ...
An investigation by at800, the organisation tasked with ensuring viewers continue to receive Freeview when 4G at 800 MHz is rolled out across the UK, has found that the roll out is unlikely to have any negative impact. The announcement ...
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Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe. Cisco is aiming to become ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has launched RF switching technology that aims to enable early adopters to implement carrier aggregation solutions. Carrier aggregation allows mobile service providers ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced availability of what it claimns is the industry’s ...
Tags: Peregrine, SPDT RF Switch, Electronics
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 ...
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Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said Wednesday that his is an American company, and the modernization of Sprint Nextel's network will have to be done from the U.S. with operations control in the country, and English speaking staff. ...
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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," ...
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T-Mobile USA's "radical" service plans promising no annual contracts aren't quite as radical as consumers might think, and the mobile operator will change its advertising and offer refunds in a settlement with the state of Washington. On ...
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Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has announced the selection of Gemalto to build its mobile wallet, as it moves closer to bringing its mobile commerce solution to the marketplace. According to MCX, it selected Gemalto for its ...
Mobile users in North America are hanging up and using email, text or social networking at a rapid pace, according to a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Postpaid subscribers, who pay a regular bill for mobile service at the end of each ...
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U.S. mobile operators will warn subscribers when they're heading toward a big bill, after most carriers agreed to send email or text alerts when users are about to exceed their monthly usage limits or start using international roaming. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software