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After Apple’s iPhone became available in the summer of 2007, and then Google’s Android operating system launched in the fall of 2008, mobile operators had to increasingly deal with the explosive growth of data flowing through their networks. In many parts of the world, the unlimited data plan has become an extinct species, but just…
Leap Wireless, one of America’s smaller operators with roughly 5.8 million subscribers, or just a tad more than the number of people living in Finland, has thrown their two cents about AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile out into the open. Doug Hutcheson, President and CEO of Leap and Cricket, says in a press release: “We oppose…
According to a report done on 1,000 people living in the UK over the course of 3 years, it’s expected that by 2015 over 50% of England’s population will use their mobile phone to conduct some sort of transaction involving money, either tapping to pay, thanks to near field communication (NFC) technology, or simply managing…
Chinese infrastructure vendor and mobile handset maker ZTE has told Reuters that by the end of this year they plan on bringing several LTE devices to the American market. ZTE’s U.S. CEO Cheng Lixin specifically said devices and not smartphones, so we’re thinking that could mean something either really boring, like a couple of USB…
The Japanese mobile industry is one that’s filled with ridiculous devices made by handset vendors that almost never sell their creations overseas. It’s why many call Japan the Galápagos Islands of mobile. With the introduction of smartphones running iOS and Android however, things have started to change. For all the mind bending spec sheets that…
Back in November 2010 the Symbian Foundation announced SYMBEOSE, which stands for ‘Symbian: The Embedded Operating System for Europe’, with the goal of making Symbian an OS that could be used across a wide variety of devices and be supported by a large number of chipset vendors, software developers, and even academic institutions. Trouble is…
Everything Everywhere, the name of the combined networks of T-Mobile and Orange, has announced that they’re going to begin testing LTE in conjunction with British Telecom starting this September. One would think that it would be the major cities that are the first to get coverage, but that isn’t the case here. Trials will take…
Earlier this month we wrote about a leaked Nokia handset called the Oro, and today it’s been made official. For 800 Euros, or more than $1100, you get the 7 month old C7 with 18-carat gold plating, a back made from Scottish leather, and a special home button made from sapphire. Oh and you also…
On June 9th the FCC is going to get together in an open meeting to discuss several proposals. One of those said proposals concerns letting operators in the 2.5 GHz band, in this case Clearwire, use wider channels to deliver service to their customers. If that went over your head then let’s try to tell…
When people started browsing the internet on their mobile phones for the first time, they typically navigated to websites they were already used to browsing on their PC. This made the first smartphones rather horrific since they were not only terribly slow compared to the devices we have on the market now, but they also…