As more mobile subscribers make the move to smartphones, growing security threats from mobile malware are spurring increased demand for more robust applications that minimize the potential impact of malware on mobile services....
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The Eighth Arbitrazh Appellate Court in Omsk in Siberia has cancelled the US$2.8 billion judgment issued against Telenor last August in Khanty-Mansiysk. The Omsk court said it will reconsider the case from the beginning on 19 February....
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Zimbabwe’s largest mobile telephone network is phasing out Zimbabwe dollar tariffs and introducing United States denominated recharge cards from Tuesday, APA learns here.Econet Wireless announced that the move to charge in....
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India's Shyam Telelink, which is controlled by Russia's Sistema has announced plans to use the brand-name of the Russian mobile network operator, MTS in the Indian market. MTS is itself 52.8% majority-owned by Sistema.....
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The Eighth Arbitrazh Appellate court in Omsk, Siberia has cancelled the USD 2.8 billion judgment issued against Telenor last August by the Khanty-Mansiysk court in Russia. The Omsk court said that it will reconsider the case from....
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Pakistan ended November with 90.41 million mobile phone users decreasing by 0.1 percent compared with 90.51 million in October, according to figures from market regulator PTA. Mobilink was the market leader with 30.06 million....
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The Indian government has deferred 3G spectrum auction to 30 January from 16 January 2009 previously, writes The Economic Times. The 3G spectrum applications will be invited between 9-15 January. The Department of Telecom....
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China Mobile has signed a TD-SCDMA network leasing agreement with state-owned TD-SCDMAl network operator CMCC. Under the agreement, China Mobile will lease TD network capacity and pay leasing fees to CMCC. The term of the network capacity....
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The number of subscribers to phone services in India grew to 374.13 million at the end of November from 363.95 million in October. According to figures from market regulator TRAI, the overall teledensity increased to 32.34 percent....
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German mobile service provider Drillisch and German ISP United Internet etered into a supplemental agreement relating to MSP Holding in which each of them owns a share of 50 percent and which up to date owns 23,550,000 shares....
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An AT&T wireless spokesman said this morning that virtually all service traffic in the Midwest is operating normally after mobile services were disrupted on Sunday in several states, including Wisconsin.The problem began about....
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Intel has launched a low-cost quad-core mobile processor and added more mobile Core 2 Duo processors to its chip lineup, according to an updated price list dated December 28.Acer was one of the first PC makers to announce....
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The customer base of ETK, the leading telecommunications company of Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khkassia, has exceeded 2 million subscribers.Fully owned by Siberia’s largest telecommunications company Sibirtelecom....
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Alvarion, a provider of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access and wireless broadband solutions, has bagged a $6 million contract from ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad), a Costa Rican incumbent operator for....
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Interactive TV and conditional access technology provider, NDS, says that Indian satellite TV operator, Tata Sky, has selected its XTV PVR solution to power a new PVR service, dubbed Tata Sky+. The service features MPEG-4 technology....
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Qatar Telecom (QTel) has confirmed that it will increase its holding in Indonesia's Indosat to 65% following a clarification about foreign investor rules from the Indonesian government. The authorities have agreed to allow Qtel....
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Bahrain's telecoms regulator has issued an order to the country's telecoms networks requiring them to offer more information about roaming costs when customers are overseas. As soon as the home network is aware that a customer....
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Azerbaijani m­obile operator, Azercell has commissioned its 1,500th base station at 1,500 meters above sea level - in the mountainous region of Gusar, northern region of Azerbaijan. According to figures from the Mobile World subscriber....
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Portugal’s leading telecommunication company (PT) has said it plans to bid for Mozambique’s international tender in 2009 for the third mobile telephony license in Mozambique.PT chief executiv­e Zeinal Bava told reporters in Maput....
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Thai mobile operator TrueMove will launch Apple's iPhone 3G in Thailand on 16 January 2009. The iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone and 3G, Wi-Fi and builtin GPS for expanded location-based mobile....
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Thousands of workers are expected to lose their jobs across the U.K.'s mobile phone industry in early 2009, the Guardian reports Saturday, without citing sources. According to the report, some of the biggest job cuts should be seen....
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As with all things new, people are jumping aboard the Google Android platform. Other manufacturers are hurriedly pushing out Android based handsets and customers are purchasing them, which could be seen as a general indicator....
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Earlier reports last week were pointing to a company called Mobinnova is helping out SE with their new smartphone model. But a new article from Digitimes is suggesting that two other companies are looking at a shot of producing a SE device as....
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Apple has officially gone mass market with the iPhone. Wal-Mart said Friday that it would start selling the popular smart phone on Sunday in nearly 2,500 stores.The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer will sell the 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G for....
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Wouldn’t it be nice if all cellphones came with an extra battery pack free of charge? Well, that doesn’t seem like it will be happening in the near future, what with all manufacturing costs mobile phone makers are facing nowadays. But....
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