Having been away from my desk for the past week or so, the only clouds which have recently impinged on my consciousness were those that occasionally threatened to disrupt a family holiday in Wales, or those which John Barrowman sang about during a rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” in the course of a [...]
Archive for August, 2009
I was fascinated to read a piece by Jerry Kramskoy on the BBC Internet Blog about Femtocells. The BBC Mobile Research team has Femtocells firmly in its sights and in particular the new service opportunities. As the article rightly points out of course, there are several further drivers for Femtocells including improving indoor coverage (I [...]
In Juniper’s recent report examining the trends and opportunities facing operators and handset vendors alike in the fast-growing low-cost handsets field, we found that one of the key hurdles in getting phones into the hands of those on very low or subsistence-level incomes was the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the phones themselves.
Over the next [...]
This week I read that Zain has announced that it will deploy the Middle East’s first LTE network in Bahrain. The latest update from The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) (published on the same day as the Zain news as it happens) said that there are now:
31 LTE network operator commitments worldwide, and
Up to 12 LTE [...]
We are in the middle of the dog days of summer: when the mobile industry, from New York to Helsinki, more or less en bloc, exits the office in search of the nearest beach/leisure park/restaurant (insert destination of choice) and sits there for the next couple of weeks; when I scratch around inelegantly compiling nine-ball [...]
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