Vodafone Roaming Services teams up with BICS

On 03.03.11, In Mobile, By Editor

BICS and Vodafone Roaming Services are pooling their resources to connect their two communities and achieve greater efficiencies.

BICS consists of Belgacom, Swisscom and South Africa’s MTN and it will initially use the partnership to manage their roaming traffic with Vodafone operators.

According to Daniel Kurgan, CEO of BICS, this cooperation is a major step for the mobile industry to guarantee seamless roaming for all mobile users when they cross national borders. It is a direct response to the expansion of the mobile environment globally in terms of subscribers, networks, technologies and applications.

 

 

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Airtel and Uninor announce Cricket services (India)

On 02.25.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Airtel has announced a set of Cricket related services for their subscribers which include SMS, MMS, Video Alerts, Talk2Me with cricketers and experts, games and applications.

The company has announced an ‘Airtel Cricket Contest’ in which participants could test their cricket knowledge and will also get a chance to win great prizes. Airtel customers can call on 53030 and wish the Cricket Team. 11 of these messages will be etched on Cricket Bats and given to the team.

Uninor has also launched a service called ‘Cricket Unlimited’ which includes Live Match Coverage, Opinion Polls, Cricket Tunes, Rankings, Schedules and Cricket trivia. It is a voice based application and will cost either US$0.06 per match day or US$0.66 for an entire month.

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Airtel plans African mobile market economy transformation

On 01.05.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Bharti Airtel Limited is planning to move the transformation of African mobile communications and positively impact the speed of economic development across the African continent.

According to the company, it is relying on the partnership between it and IBM, which is expected to manage the computing and technology services that will enhance Airtel’s mobile network.

In addition to deploying and managing information technology (IT) infrastructure and applications, IBM will deploy advanced technologies created by IBM Research, including the Spoken Web _ a voice-enabled Internet that allows users to access and share information simply by talking over the existing telephone network, which is particularly compelling for populations with little or no literacy, visual impairments, or lack access to computers.

IBM is also planning to deploy a content management system to offer rich media content such as music and video over mobile devices, while simultaneously facilitating the growth of the application developer community in Africa.

According to Manoj Kohli, CEO (International) and Joint Managing Director, Bharti Airtel, the   strategic partnerships with Ericsson, Huawei and NSN will exponentially improve the quality of the network across the African landscape and expand the footprint of the 2G and 3G services. In line with global trends, Africa is experiencing a surge in demand for access to mobile data applications.

The modernization and optimization of the networks will give Airtel an opportunity to offer exciting services in 2011.

Kohli further observed that the partnerships take us one step closer to our vision of making telephony available and affordable for everyone across Africa, even in the most remote areas which are at present disconnected from the world. We are also laying the foundation for the introduction of 3G HSPA wireless broadband as access to content is the right of every African citizen. Mobile broadband is a catalyst for economic growth and development. Many of their new customers will have an online experience for the first time in their lives.

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Telstra CEO pans Apple’s Walled Garden Approach

On 10.11.10, In Mobile, By Editor

Telstra chief executive David Thodey has claimed that there were problems in the Telco’s relationship with Apple and criticized what he called its walled garden approach to mobile content and applications.

According to Telstra CEO, David Thodey, the company is Apple’s largest customer in Australia, yet with Apple, Telstra still be working through some areas in how to work. The company needs to be more sophisticated in the view of relationship with a lot of companies.

He specified that the iPhone system was quite contained and contrasted it to the openness of the Android OS platform. Although the Google platform wasn’t perfect, it is more open than the Apple offering.

Despite the comments about Apple, the company is still planning to sell the Apple iPad, but will also be launching a range of Huawei supplied Android Tablets to compete with the Apple offering.

David further claimed that Android based devices to overtake Apple in sales within the next 18 months.

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Sanyo Zio and Samsung Transform now available on Sprint

On 10.11.10, In Mobile, By Editor

szSprint has introduced two new phones on its network: The Sanyo Zio and Samsung Transform. Both the phones are High-end Android phones which are available on contact basis. The company has also launched Sprint ID.

Samsung Transform will be available for US$149.99 with a two-year contract and US$100 mail-in rebate. The device features a 3.5-inch HVGA display, horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel rear camera with flash, VGA front-facing camera, a 2 GB micro SD card, and Android 2.1.

The Sanyo Zio as per the company will be available for US$99.99 after a two-year contract and US$100 mail-in rebate. Zio features a 3.5-inch “high-resolution” WVGA touchscreen, 512 MB of internal memory, 3.2 megapixel camera, 30 FPS video capture, a 2 GB micro SD card, and Android 2.1.

Sprint ID, a new profile-based feature that let customer easily customize their phone with predefined groups of ringtones, wallpapers, applications, and widgets is also available now. These ID packs contain tailor-made content for groups of users including business professionals, gamers, sports fans, and many more.

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Embedded Mobile M2M Modem Market on tracks to More than Triple in 2010

On 10.06.10, In Mobile, By Editor

­As per the research conducted by Infonetics Research, Worldwide revenue for embedded mobile modems for M2M applications is forecast to more than triple in 2010 over 2009, and to continue growing strongly through at least 2014, at a 66% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

According to Richard Webb, directing analyst for mobile devices at Infonetics Research, from a well-established base over GSM built up over the last decade, the embedded mobile M2M market is now poised for rapid acceleration, driven by new mobile devices, applications, services and providers, combined with the availability of higher speed networks. Demand is rising for mobile M2M applications such as smart energy monitoring and intelligent traffic, backed by government policy and funding, which is helping to create a virtuous growth cycle for the embedded mobile market.

The amount of connections for embedded mobile M2M applications strike 87 million in 2009 and is expected to shoot to 428 million by 2014, driven by wider availability of services, new M2M applications and policy initiatives.

Almost half of all the embedded mobile connections are GSM based, with strong development expected in W-CDMA and later, LTE connections, driven by high bandwidth M2M applications and the need for future-proofing long-life device cycles.

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Aircel & INQ Mobile to launch handsets in India

On 03.17.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Indian telco Aircel and handset maker INQ Mobile will launch the INQ Mini 3G and the INQ Chat 3G phones in India.

INQ Chat 3G is a Qwerty device while INQ Mini 3G is a slim-line mobile and both allow users to multi-task and to switch between applications such as Facebook and a camera. Over 5,000 outlets will make the phone available.

A campaign fronted by Indian cricketer and company ambassador MS Dhoni has been used by Aircel to support the launch.

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Backflip looks bush league

On 03.07.10, In Mobile Phones, By Editor

The Motorola Backflip which came out this weekend for AT&T looked like a standard mid-range Android device. According to the critics it is completely bush league.

While the Backflip is loaded with AT&T’s bloatware, the default Google is completely replaced with Yahoo. AT&T is doing business so it cannot be blamed for blindly copying Android but you can blame them for not allowing you to delete those carrier apps or install apps that don’t come from the Android Market.

According to Phandroid, programs cannot be installed from other app stores even if an individual puts them into his microSD card while it’s connected to his computer. This could be AT&T approach to ensure that the Backflip Android experience isn’t tainted by bad apps but it goes directly against what the company said it planned to do with the operating system.

Last year the AT&T Mobility’s CEO,  Ralph de la Vega opined that, the Android is liked as an operating system on its own, however the company wants to make sure that the company as well as the customers have the option to put applications on that device that are not just Google applications. Therefore when the G1 came out and T-Mobile launched it, it’s primarily a Google phone.

The company wants to give customers the choice of other applications on that device and not just the same Google applications.

Eric Zemen of Phonescoop added to the scene by mentioning on his Twitter stream that the MotoBlur on his Backflip gave him the option to set up myFaves at a time when myFaves is an exclusive calling feature of T-Mobile.

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Tata DoCoMo to offer SIM based service & apps (India)

On 02.23.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobile banking, mobile chatting, information on demand, wallpapers, games and what not. Tata DoCoMo subscribers can enjoy all these facilities as the telco has partnered digital security firm Gemalto to offer these SIM based services and applications.

The service by DoCoMo will support both Hindi and English and the user will be asked for his preference while activating the service. User preference and choices will also be remembered by the service so that the user gets preferred content as real time updates.

According to the company, if an ongoing cricket series is selected by a user as an option, then he will receive all related content on his mobile without having to stream the news from the menu service tab.

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Indian govt to kick start 3G auction, to invite application

On 02.23.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a bid to kick start the long pending 3G auction process in the country; the Indian government will start issuing notices inviting applications from bidders this week.

According to telecommunication minister Andimuthu Raja, the notice inviting applications will be released this week, while the auction will occur 40-45 days later.

Revenue of INR 350 billion has already being cited by the government in its budget for the current fiscal year, and the lack of the auction before the end of the fiscal year in March could widen the deficit.

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