Cisco has announced a proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks. This demonstrates its strategy to compete in mobile broadband infrastructure with 3G now, with the path laid for transition to LTE. It also follows on from Cisco’s often stated views about the steep growth curve that we can expect from mobile video in particular over [...]
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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, Apple and AT&T each released results for Q1 2009. Naturally enough, both were keen to talk up the continued vigorous growth in sales of iPhones. AT&T has the exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in the US and sold more than 1.6 million units to customers during Q1. Overall, Apple shipped nearly 3.8 million units over [...]
Mobile network operators, keen to raise data consumption levels, are increasingly offering heavily subsidised mobile computers to subscribers, either as a stand-alone proposition or as part of a ‘bundle’ of features alongside a standard mobile telephony service.
This trend isn’t new, by any means, particularly in Europe, but it’s interesting to hear rumours that Verizon Wireless of the [...]
It’s Friday, so it must be time for another story about Nokia. Or LTE. This time it’s both, as it happens…
Reports are emerging that the smartphone maker is developing a high-end ‘data-intensive’ touchscreen-based device that will work on the LTE (long term evolution) network soon to be rolled out by Verizon Wireless across the US. It [...]
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