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The GSMA updated its 2009 report which outlines the impact of operator initiatives in the areas of energy and carbon management. By analyzing 34 mobile networks around the world, the organization discovered that despite considerable growth in mobile connections and traffic, total network energy consumption increased only slightly from 2009 to 2010. According to GSMA’s…
Iliad’s Free Mobile, which launched its mobile services in France at the beginning of the year, signed up 2.6 million subscribers by the end of the first quarter or almost 4% of the country’s mobile market in just 80 days. According to Free Mobile’s figures, the total French market had grown by 854,000 subscribers in…
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of SMS texting and get some media love along the way, Moleskine unveiled a new limited edition notebook that becomes a ballistic device for launching analog text messages. Yep you’ve heard that right – analog SMS. Here’s how it works: The idea comes from Pietro Corraini, who was inspired by…
An hour and a half north of Helsinki there’s a small city called Tampere. It was recently voted the best place in Finland to live. That makes me mad since I actually used to live there back in 2007 and 2008, but anyway, in Tampere there’s an amusement park called Särkänniemi. It’s like Six Flags,…
The next 90 days are going to be absolutely insane for anyone who likes to keep on top of the mobile industry. So much is going to happen in the span of a single quarter that we thought it’d be nice to compile a list of the key major events. Starting in April, AT&T will…
The other day we told you China now has more than 1 billion mobile users. India isn’t that far behind with their telecoms regulator TRAI announcing that there were 903.73 million mobile users at the end of January, a 1.11% increase from 893.84 million in December 2011. Wireless subscription in Urban Areas increased from 586.26…
Talk about numbers. The world’s most populous country has been the world’s largest mobile market for quite some time now and just recently it has reached the most impressive milestone evar, hitting the 1 billion mobile users mark. According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone subscribers reached 997…
Buddhist temple in Wuhan, Hubei province, is encouraging people to send text messages rather than burn incense to say their prayers. The goal of this eco-friendly initiative is to reduce the size of crowds gathering during peak seasons, like the Spring Festival. The scheme was developed in cooperation with the Hubei branch of China Mobile,…
British retailer Phones 4U launched an interesting scheme, allowing early-adopters to easily upgrade their phones every 6 months. Dubbed JUMP (that’s “Just Upgrade My Phone”), it includes signing a double agreement, one with a carrier and the other one with Phones 4U, while also including various trade-in options for switching devices before the service agreement…
During the recent Mobile Web Africa conference in Johannesburg, 3G strategy consultant Tomi Ahonen took the stage to talk about the prospect of mobile technology and how it changes the world. Here are the highlights from his keynote: Mobile is the fastest way to reach consumers. According to a study conducted in New Zealand, e-mail is…