As Core77 put it, “All your Magenta are belong to T-Mobile.” It seems the German-based Deutsche Telekom and their mobile arm, T-Mobile, have trademarked the color Magenta. They’ve essentially put “dibs” on the freakin’ color Magenta! To be fair, the trademark only applies to the tele-communications sector, so anyone using the color Magenta as it…
Sprint’s on board too – Sprint plans to allow pro-rated Early Termination Fee
No, you can’t use the recently increased SMS text message rates to cancel your plan sans Early Termination Fee (ETF), but starting in 2008, Sprint customers will be able to take advantage of pro-rated ETFs. Like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile before it, Sprint will only charge ETFs commensurate with the remainder of the customer’s…
Deutsche Telekom posts 8.6% revenue growth for T-Mobile, 42% data revenue growth
T-Mobile sure is doing well for themselves. Deutsche Telekom, parent company to T-Mobile, has posted a quarter of positive growth in their mobile venture. T-Mobile has seen a 8.6% year-on-year revenue growth to 8,875 million euros (US$13 billion), with data revenue increasing 42%. Interestingly, it seems that T-Mobile’s German subscriber-base was the only market to…
Russian Myasishchev M-55 spy plane turns cellphone tower
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Russia’s counter to the US’s U-2 spy plane was doomed to live the rest of its days in obscurity. The Myasishchev M-55 spy plane was initially designed as a high-altitude spy plane, but was modified as a scientific research platform – the Myasishchev M-55 Geophysica. Only a handful…
AT&T looking to expand oversease?
It looks like Randall Stephenson is taking a gander at the overseas market, namely India, as a possible expansion opportunity. AT&T has entered a bid for a wireless license in Qatar, India in cooperation with India’s Mahindra Telecommunications. As the world’s fastest growing wireless market with 200 million mobile users, it makes sense for AT&T…
UK Operators removed the VoIP capabilities of the N95 and Truphone is doing something about it
It’s nice to see the little guy doing something about this. Rafe and Krisse are having a very interesting debate about this on All About Symbian. My two cents: Buy an unlocked device with a credit card and you’re going to pay for it installments anyway. There is no reason you should give Orange and…
Carnival of the Mobilists: 69
Episode 69 is being hosted at Mobile Marketing and Spam this week.
Qualcomm rejects Nokia’s $20 million
Ouch. All this bickering is troubling me. I understand the arguments coming from both sides and I’m going to have to side with Qualcomm on this one. They created a technology, which means investing R&D dollars, and now they want to be compensated for it. As much as I hate companies stifling innovation by patenting…
Carnival of the Mobilists: 68
Episode 68 is being hosted at Always On Real-Time Access this week.
Nokia Siemens Networks wants 30% of the TD-CDMA market
TD-CDMA is China’s solution for 3G. The Chinese mobile phone market is massive and it helps that Siemens was one of the co-developers of TD-CDMA. 30% is an ambitious figure, but Christoph Caselitz, Head of Customer and Market Operations, thinks it should be cake. Good luck.