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Free UK mobile phones announce cheap contract mobile phone tariff plans (UK)

  • September 8th, 2008
  • 10:37 am

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China’s mobile phones expected to hit 605 million in 2008 (China)

  • August 18th, 2008
  • 9:02 am

CCID Consulting, China, released data on the production volumes of mobile phones in China and that it is expected to hit 605 million mobile phone in 2008.

Of these 605 million mobile phones roughly 66% or 400 million handsets will be exported to overseas markets leaving the remaining 205 million mobile phones for domestic use.

H1′08 manufacturers in China produced 279 million mobile phones while the world’s top five manufacturers, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG accounted for 65% of the total production, which is a drop from the 70 to 80% that was recorded over the previous two years.

Sales of mobile handsets in China hit 96.4 million during H1′08 which is a 17.5% rise.

   

Brazil’s Mobile phone circulation reaches 135.3 million at the July - end (Brazil)

  • August 18th, 2008
  • 8:01 am

Mobile phone circulation in Brazil has reached 135.3 million, adding 2.14 million at the end of July, up 1.6% from June, reported by telecommunications regulator Anatel.

   

SingTel combined mobile customer base reached 197.71 million (Singapore)

  • August 11th, 2008
  • 10:25 am

The group’s combined mobile customer base grew 45% and reached 197.71 million to 30 June 2008. On a proportionate share basis, the customer base grew 42% year on year despite slowdown in growth of regional economies, said Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SGT). Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, are the eight Asia Pacific markets of group’s mobile customer base. Singtel is adding 182,000 new customers in Q4 of FY08, for a total of 2.75 million.The company said that due to a strong presence in the foreign worker segment, prepaid customers grew 151,000, to 1.34 million.

Singtel is now having 961,000 3G mobile subscribers, representing 68% of its total postpaid base. According to the company Optus’ total customer base reached 7.24 million as it continued to expand its 3G network, which provided coverage to more than 80% of the population. Bharti sets another record of adding 7.40 million new customers in India, which constituted 35% of the combined mobile base, while AIS attracted more than 877,000 new customers.

Olympics updates now on your mobile phone!

  • August 11th, 2008
  • 9:30 am

Olympics lover can now have  every minute update on Google mobile website. Along with the the regular search results, Google will also offer  a timetable of Olympic schedules and results for that event. In 35 other languages this search is available. Another mobile website is created as a storehouse of olympic information.  The Olympics tie-ins are a little bit more extensive on Google’s regular browser search; other search engines, such as Yahoo, are doing something similar. Google is also serving ads on NBC’s online-video coverage of the Olympics using its DoubleClick technology. Just the text based information is not enough for users these days for that NBC will be serving up mobile video to customers of Verizon’s V-Cast service.

Mobile phone sales up by 5.3% in Q2 ‘08 (USA)

  • August 11th, 2008
  • 8:52 am

According to a research report, mobile phone shipments in the United States defied the economic gloom and grew 5 percent annually, to reach 42 million units during Q2 2008. Motorola still holds it Number one position.

Bonny Joy, Analyst said, “Despite economic fears and a tightening on consumer-spend, mobile phone shipments in the United States reached 41.9 million units during Q2 2008, up 5.3 percent from 39.8 million in Q2 2007. Attractive bundling schemes from operators and a number of new handset launches from vendors kept replacement rates at a healthy level.”
Other findings from the report are:

  • Blackberry achieved double-digit marketshare in the USA for the first time. The Canadian firm is seeing huge success with its balanced portfolio of consumer and enterprise handsets;
  • LG returned to second position in the USA for the first time in almost 2 years, due partly to solid gains in the WCDMA market at AT&T.

AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon provides parental control (USA)

  • August 11th, 2008
  • 8:24 am

To keep a check on kids mobile phone usage, Cellular Companies are striving hard to help parents in doing so. Teenagers at some point of time atonishes their parents with cell phone mobile bills 3,000 peak minutes, 5,000 text messages and new ring tones to fill the overnight slot on a college radio station. Finally, Cellular companies realises the pain that parents are undergoing as Cellular networks has begin offering various new services:

  • T-Mobile offers service that will give parents a way to control almost every aspect of their children’s cell phone use, except what they say or write in a text message.
  • Verizon would soon offer similar services.
  • AT&T Wireless was the first out of the four major networks to introduce parental controls when it introduced the “Smart Limits” service last September. For $5 a month, parents can go online to set allowances for text messages, peak calling minutes and money spent on downloadable content. With this plan, parents can restrict which cell phone numbers can be called and limit the times of day the phone can be used for texting, calling or Web surfing. Smart Limits also let parents block Web content which is not appropriate for children.

Double digit growth predicted for Mobile Phone Market - Analysts

  • August 1st, 2008
  • 7:50 am

According to a report, 306million handsets has been shipped by the vendors, during second quarter, a 15% increase a year before. New data reveals that globle phone market is going to have solid growth during second quarter.  According to research analyst, “Since the start of the year, vendors have been wary of the potential decrease in demand for mobile phones.” “That has not stopped vendors from experimenting with and releasing a host of mid-range and high-end devices with GPS, touchscreen, and multimedia. This also goes for hotly contested emerging markets, where vendors are introducing phones that offer features in addition to voice telephony,” analyst further reports.

Comparing the growth by region, the Asia/Pacific area had massive growth due to rapid adoption of phones in markets like China and India. Europe saw a soft demand for high-end devices, and the Middle East and Africa  also had a high demand for entry-level phones. Considering Latin America market, users are migrating from entry-level devices to feature phones is continuous to show positive growth.

Viewing the top 5 mobile phone vendors, Industry-leading Nokia shipped 122 million handsets during the period, Samsung maintained its second-place position, but did see a slight decline in shipments from the previous quarter. Motorola retained the number three position, and managed to have a small profit for the quarter. Due to sluggish demand in Europe and increased price competition Sony Ericsson had a tough quarter.

New South Korea LG Mobile Phone to Support YouTube

  • July 9th, 2007
  • 9:18 am

South Korea LG Electronics and YouTube have inked an agreement that will see the mobile maker engineer a new mobile phone which can operate the service.

The new model will allow users to upload, view and share video clips and user-created content online from the world’s largest video sharing website.

“LG Electronics will unveil the mobile handset that fully supports the YouTube service for the first time in Europe in the second half of this year,” said LG South Korea in a statement.

YouTube is undeniably the most popular online video sharing website which has a 70,000 user- created content and more than 100 million viewers visiting the site on a daily basis.
 

 

   

Mobile phone termination rates cut in Australia

  • June 25th, 2007
  • 8:24 am

The Telecommunications Users Association says recent moves to cut mobile phone termination rates in Australia confirms users here are getting a poor deal.

Chief executive, Ernie Newman says the Australian regulator has set a termination rate of 9 cents Australian, starting next month.

Mr Newman says the Government’s five year deal to gradually lower termination rates with Telecom and Vodafone means New Zealanders lose.

Mobile termination rates are charged by mobile companies to fixed line operators to end calls on their network.

In April, Telecom offered to reduce its mobile termination rate from 20c per minute to 12c per minute, and Vodafone from 20c per minute to 14c, both over the next five years.