TD-LTE technology, which is also known as LTE’s unpaired version, is getting an increased traction these days. China Mobile wants to try it out, there are some deployments in Taiwan, Qualcomm is interested to use it in India, and there is also interest gathering in the U.S. On top of that, now we have the…
ImpulsePay, Park Pay & Go team up to allow pay-by-mobile on mixed purpose parking spaces
After iparkmycar, we bring you a story about another solution for parking in London. This time we’ll talk about ImpulsePay, which is working alongside Park Pay & Go to allow people to pay for parking using nothing but their mobile phones. ImpulsePay is providing its online Payforit service that works in a similar way to…
SouthernLINC Wireless unveils $50 Prepaid Unlimited Monthly plan
As more and more people dig the idea of contract-free and unlimited mobile plans, SouthernLINC Wireless is joining the ride. The company is expanding its prepaid service offerings with the addition of the Prepaid Unlimited Monthly plan, which is already available for customers. For $50 per month, users get unlimited Anytime Cellular Minutes, unlimited text…
India’s Uninor expands to 13 telecom circles
India’s Uninor, which BTW is 67.25% owned by Norway’s Telenor, is increasing its coverage to 13 telecom circles. As a result, its population footprint now reaches 900 million people across India! The latest launch includes the following telecom circles: Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa, Gujarat, Kolkata and West Bengal. On launch day, Uninor connections in these…
London to get a city-wide WiFi for the Olympics
Europe’s largest WiFi operator, The Cloud, plans to build a London-wide WiFi network in time for the Olympic Games in the city in 2012. According to The Financial Times, the decision will be made as early as September, meaning The Cloud could start rolling out the network next year. Last week, London’s mayor Boris Johnson…
1GOAL: Education for All project brings world cup stars and mobile phone companies together to get every child into school by 2015
1GOAL: Education for All is a novel project with noble mission to get every child into school by 2015. We applaud all the parties involved in such a goal, including the celebrities, world cup stars and mobile phone companies. Speaking of mobile companies — the part that we cover here at IntoMobile — operators from…
Image: Texting and driving cartoon
Please, please don’t repeat this at home! It’s funny and stupid at the same time. We at IntoMobile support governments as they implement bans to forbid using a mobile phone and driving. It’s dangerous! [Via: textually]
India to require carriers to use solar power backup for their cellular base stations?
You probably know how important green initiatives are these days. On that note, we bring you this story involving the government of India, which is considering introducing a regulation that would require carriers to use solar power as a backup power supply system. At the moment, most remote base stations in rural areas use diesel-powered…
Qualcomm opens R&D Center in Shanghai, China
Qualcomm is opening a new, multi-million dollar R&D Center in Shanghai, as part of its ongoing efforts to both utilize the growing pool of telecommunications engineering talent and enhance local R&D capabilities for the Chinese market. The new center will focus on advancing chipset solutions to better address China’s increasing need for affordable 3G handsets…
Russia’s Yota to abandon WiMAX in favor of LTE
We’ve heard Sprint and Clearwire are thinking about switching to LTE, but what about the rest of the world. There gotta be some prospects for Intel’s wireless technology, right? Well, it’s definitely true that WiMAX has seen its better days. Today we bring you the story of Russia’s Yota, which is one of the largest…