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Ofcom’s broadband speed report: interesting, but what’s it for?

Posted by Julian Herbert July 27th, 2010

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I have just read the press release and the correpsonding BBC article on Ofcom’s broadband speed report, published today. The research itself is worthy and interesting, but:
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Reliance’s move for Digicable must be a first step not a final move

Posted by Tony Brown July 14th, 2010

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Reliance Communications’ purchase of a majority stake in leading cable operator Digicable has again proved that the Anil Ambani led company is capable of pulling a headline-grabbing deal out of the bag, but what does the acquisition really mean for the company’s ambitions in the Indian broadband market? Read more »

China Mobile rallies operator support for TDD-LTE

Posted by Paul Lambert July 2nd, 2010

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China Mobile, the world’s largest operator by subscriptions, has reached an agreement with 11 operators worldwide to co-operate on TDD-LTE. The move underlines China Mobile’s intent to create a sizeable global market for TDD-LTE, a technology the operator is heavily invested in. Read more »

Disney acquires Tapulous to further drive its strong customer engagement on mobile

Posted by Shailendra Pandey July 2nd, 2010

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Disney has acquired Tapulous, a Silicon Valley start-up that makes music games for Apple’s App Store. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening Disney’s mobile games division, which is already seeing strong growth driven by the mobile apps market explosion.

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A CDMA iPhone would be great for Verizon, but does it make sense for Apple?

Posted by Paul Lambert June 30th, 2010

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If Apple decided to make a CDMA iPhone, the whoops of jubilation would be heard all the way from Verizon Wireless’headquarters in Basking Ridge, NJ, to AT&T’s HQ in Dallas, TX, where the news would no doubt be greeted with stunned silence. Latest reports cite unnamed sources as confirming that Verizon Wireless will offer the iPhone in January, when they say AT&T’s exclusive deal with Apple ends.
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SIM-based services are driving mobile VAS market growth in Latin America

Posted by Shailendra Pandey June 30th, 2010

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A number of Latin American operators are reporting good results from deployments of SIM-based mobile VAS. For example, Telecom Personal is seeing a high level of adoption of its SIM-based mobile VAS in Argentina. Telecom Personal and Oi in Brazil are offering the Windows Live IM service on mobile SIM cards.

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Gemalto buys into M2M future

Posted by Paul Lambert June 29th, 2010

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French mobile vendor Gemalto has acquired German M2M vendor Cinterion for €163 million (US$198.8 million) in cash in a bid to position itself to capitalise on the fast-growing M2M market. Read more »

UK iPhone 4 retail appetite puts pressure on supply

Posted by Paul Lambert June 24th, 2010

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The iPhone 4 launched today in the UK and was greeted by queues of people eager to buy the device before it sells out. Vodafone’s flagship London store only had 50 handsets and the 32GB version was sold out in most stores.  The next batch of devices isn’t expected for a month in that store, according to store representatives speaking with Informa analysts. Read more »

Telstra signs deal with NBN … so now what?

Posted by Tony Brown June 24th, 2010

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The announcement from Canberra came on a lazy Sunday afternoon when most of Australia’s movers and shakers were away from their desks – all except Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Telstra Chairwoman Catherine Livingstone, who emerged from Parliament House to announce that they had finally struck a deal for Telstra to sell its fixed-line assets to the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co.). Read more »

Adobe aims new Flash release at developers and Apple

Posted by Paul Lambert June 23rd, 2010

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US software vendor Adobe has released the latest version of its mobile platform, Flash Player 10.1, in a move that draws clear battle-lines between different approaches to creating and selling smartphone content. Read more »

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