China's phone users numbered 1.53 billion at the end of September, including 1.27 billion mobile phone users, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Wednesday. Mobile broadband subscribers reached 525 million at the ...
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China Telecom is moving into the mobile instant messaging space with its own app that will compete against WeChat, the rival product from Internet giant Tencent that's become a hit in China. China Telecom on Monday launched the YiChat app ...
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Cisco has raised the stakes in its fight against Microsoft's $8.5bn (£5.3bn) acquisition of Skype, claiming that European Union regulators who approved the deal have effectively created a monopoly in internet voice communications. ...
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Skype's Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centrally control their usage of the service. Using Skype Manager, administrators can create ...
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According to new research from Cisco, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next four years, exceeding the amount of data initiated over fixed lines by three to one by 2017. Cisco estimates that mobile data traffic ...
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UK users download the most data on their mobiles, according to a new report from UK telecoms regulator Ofcom. The International Communications Report for 2011 compared 17 countries around the globe, but found the average 424MB download by ...
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Businesses are turning away from traditional fixed phone lines in favour of mobile or internet-based telephony,according to research findings released today. Ofcom's annual communications market report showed the number of business lines ...
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