Source: Cellular News As 4G network deployments gather momentum, a substantial 22% of device subscription revenues will come from suites of operator-branded premium services. Total 4G mobile consumer service revenue – including mobile Internet services – will grow rapidly to exceed $70 billion worldwide in 2014. According to ABI Research practice director Philip Solis, “Operators [...]

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India mobile internet report

On January 10, 2010 By BP Tiwari

Source: IAMAI Download report Wireless infrastructures have emerged as an effective option of connecting to an ever-evolving expansive information network such as the Internet. Such infrastructures, due to their inherent advantages, promise a renewed future in terms of offering improved and exciting services to the existing users. As a result, stakeholders are willing to encourage [...]

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Source: Unstrung Don’t hold your breath for LTE The biggest technology question of 2010 is when exactly major next-generation Long-Term Evolution network deployments will go live. TeliaSonera AB (Nasdaq: TLSN) has already deployed city networks in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm. Larger nationwide deployments from NTT DoCoMo Inc. (NYSE: DCM) in Japan and Verizon Wireless in the U.S. are expected to [...]

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Key internet trends for 2010

On December 27, 2009 By tdomf_2e059

Widgets Widgets will become the key to harnessing power of the mobile web. All device vendors now see potential opportunities in offering widgets since these applications enable them to enhance the value of their devices and complement revenues from handset sales. It is becoming clear that, in developed markets, handset vendors can no longer rely [...]

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Sticks and stones

On December 25, 2009 By BP Tiwari

Source : Telecoms In the great playground that is the mobile telecoms industry, Huawei has just pulled Ericsson’s hair and run away laughing. The two have been working on LTE projects in the run up to the Christmas holidays, this week announcing a commercial network apiece. On Wednesday, TeliaSonera, the Nordic-Baltic specialist, switched on an Ericsson-supplied LTE network [...]

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Source : Telecoms Android has been closely watched over 2009, seen by some to represent a clear threat to both the establishment bulk of Symbian and the new-world order of Apple. As 2009 drew to a close, Motorola’s latest phone, the Droid (sold as the Milestone in Europe), was being heralded in some quarters as [...]

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Source: Telecoms It used to be that a man was defined by his actions. Well, in Motorola’s world view, this is no longer the case. The US vendor this week proclaimed that man is instead defined by his technology choices. Yes, it does sound like the synopsis to a science fiction novel, but the firm [...]

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Source : NSN Press Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to participate in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in the Czech Republic, as part of LTE trials that Telefónica will be running in about half a dozen countries in Europe and Latin America. During the six-month trial, Nokia Siemens Networks will demonstrate its end-to-end [...]

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Source: ZDNET China’s TD-LTE standard is unlikely to face the same obstacles that plagued the country’s earlier mobile wireless standard, TD-SCDMA, industry analysts say.China in October submitted TD-LTE specifications to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for approval as a 4G standard. If ratified, it will be officially recognized by the ITU as a 4G technology [...]

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Source: Heavy Reading Long Term Evolution (LTE) core network activity is heating up as many vendors look to seize a share of the next-generation packet core market, according to a new Heavy Reading report. The pursuit of the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) is picking up pace now because of the strategic significance of these packet [...]

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