Mobile Choice has an interesting blog piece about how long people have to wait after handsets are announced, to actually get them! And I say fairplay, they have a point! In the blog, it’s noted that recent culprits have been the Nokia N96, and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, both of which took a good half-year…
Virus firms says protect your smartphone from viruses
There’s an interesting piece on mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk, where the CTO of a company called UMU Mobile makes a statement about people needing to be more vigilant about the security on their Mobile devices. Peter Harrison says that since the advent of mobile devices are more capable, we are at risk of a virus causing major damage…
GSA confirms 26 Operators committed to LTE
According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), 26 network operators have commited to deploy 3GPP LTE systems. The current status of LTE worldwide is presented in an update of the GSA Information Paper – Evolution to LTE, published on March 4th, 2009. The Evolution to LTE paper contains concise information about the business drivers,…
Netlingo: bit-spit!
As you all know, I do like my tech-jargon, and the main source of that for me is the great site Netlingo! Today we have another instant classic: bit-spit Any form of digital correspondence (text, bit-mapped images, fax transmissions) or the act of sending same. “Did you bit-spit that file to Jane yet?” Now I’ve…
Hutchison plans spin-off for HK Business Unit
Hutchison Telecom has reported a 16% growth in revenues, bringing them in a HK$24bn, but here’s the kicker – net income has dropped from HK$66.8bn to a shade under HK$1.9bn – crumbs…. …. but that’s maybe not the most interesting news – Hutchison has also confirmed that it will be spinning off the Hong Kong…
Vodafone Turkey investing 1.3bn lira in 2009
Vodafone Turkey is planning to invest 1.3bn lira (that’s about $750m) in 2009, according to Reuters. This is to try and counteract the last quarter poor performance, which saw a drop in revenue of ~15%. It is thought the fact that the Turkish market is so fiercely competitive has been part of the problem, with…
UK: T-Mobile G1 accounts for 20% of contract sales
According to ZDNet.co.uk, T-Mobile’s G1 now accounts for 20% of contract sales! Wow! This nugget of information was revealed when the Operator announced it’s financial results recently. The results also showed a 3% drop in T-Mobile’s customer base, to 16.8m – of these, 12.7m are Prepay customers. Mobile broadband shot up by 250%! Of course,…
UK: T-Mobile boosting its HSPA
According to ISPReview, T-Mobile has hinted that it will upgrade it’s HSPA network speed to a downstream of 14.4Mbps. Of course, this is the quickest that “vanilla HSPA”, but HSPA+ is lurking round the corner, and in trials is hitting speeds around 20Mbps. After that, we are starting to talk LTE, a.k.a. 4G! As per…
Orange: Retro phone hunt!
Orange’s “The Feed” Blog is always a good place to hit up if you fancy a bit of a read – alongside our very own IntoMobile of course! 😉 A recent post on there invited readers to hunt down their old phones, and post up about what they find! Suffice to say there are some…
The state of the wireless industry – by the father of the Mobile phone
At a recent conference (the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston), someone called Dr. Martin Cooper picked on five problems with the wireless industry. Interesting enough you might think, but this chap invented the Mobile Phone!! Below are the five problems he picks on, courtesy of CrunchGear. Dr. Cooper also suggested some solutions, but for those…