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Cellular customers in Europe will soon be paying less for roaming charges incurred while roaming in other European countries. A preliminary deal has been struck between the European Parliament and representatives of the Council and the European Commission that will set EU roaming rules that carriers must abide by starting July 1st. The agreement will…
If you live in America, chances are that it’s been a while since you’ve actually touched cash. These days people opt to pay for everything with plastic, and we’re not just talking credit cards, but debit cards too since they provide the added benefit of enabling online banking to check how much money you’ve been…
The GSA (Global Suppliers Association) is reporting that over the past 8 months there has been a near 100% increase in the number of operators around the world committing to the LTE standard. There are now 51 network commitments in 24 countries, an increase of 96% over the past 8 months. Not all is rosy…
INQ, the handset maker owned by operator Hutchison Whampoa, better known as 3, is going to be releasing an Android device in 2010, rather than continuing to stick to the BREW platform. The statement was made at Mobilize 09 by INQ CEO Frank Meehan. Quick recap: their first fone was the INQ1, and more recently…
International mobile telecoms provider Lycamobile has announced the launch of its Pay As You Go SIM card and low-cost, high-quality mobile service in partnership with 3 Italia in Italy. The prepaid SIM cards and top-up will be available from over 65,000 retail outlets from the 15th of June. “Following the success of Lycamobile in seven…
Ericsson have announced an exclusive contract with 3 Italia that includes a seven-year agreement to modernize and upgrade the existing WCDMA/HSPA network with Ericsson technologies and architectures. It also includes an extension of the current managed services deal. Under the network transformation contract, Ericsson will modernize and upgrade the existing 3G mobile broadband access and…
Alcatel-Lucent (AlcaLu) has signed an equipment and services contract with 3 Italia, for the expansion and optimisation of it’s Mobile TV broadcast network in Italy. The solution is based on DVB-H terrestrial transmitters (as oppose to the satellite-based DVB-SH), and will allow 3 to increase the indoor and outdoor coverage. Interestingly, the AlcaLu solution supports…
3 has announced sales of over 1m USB mobile broadband dongles to customers across the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria. This has been due, in no small part, to the very attractive cost vs data propositions they have come up with: Also, a new dongle is now available – the Huawei E160G is…
3 Italia has decided to give it’s DVB-H users free access to a whole bunch of channels: RAI 1, RAI 2, Mediaset, Sky Meteo 24, Current TV, and La3. This is at the same time as offer free internet acccess, up to 50Mb/day! At the press conference regarding this, it was explained that this is…
3 Italia have been selected by Juniper Research as winners of the Mobile TV category at this year’s Future Mobile Awards. Here’s the crunch-data: ARPU for DVB-H subscribers is apparently 60% higher than for the market average in Italy – those are some GOOD numbers, and lend weight and credence to the assertion that Mobile…