Mobile Networks Archive

  • Increasing Mobile Core Network Spending to Offset RAN Equipment Decline, Says ABI Research

    Posted on March 3, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Ubiquisys Announces World’s First Attocell: a Personal Femtocell for the iPhone

    Posted on January 26, 2011 | No Comments
    SWINDON, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ubiquisys, the developer of 3G and LTE intelligent cells, today announced the world’s first attocell – a personal femtocell. Designed primarily for people travelling abroad, it enables mobile calls...

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  • Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

    Cellphones purportedly used more now for data, Gossip Girl blasts than calls

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Ever notice how easy it is to find mobile plans with unlimited minutes these days? Yeah, it's because they're about as valuable as pea coats in the dead of summer. With more and more consumers disconnecting their landlines in favor of using their cellie for everything, the art of communicating via voice is also becoming lost. According to "government and industry data" cited in a New York Times report, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has "stagnated," with 2009 being the first year ever in which the "amount of data in text, email messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices [in the US] surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls." Dan Hesse, Sprint's head honcho, even chimed in with this nugget: "Originally, talking was the only cellphone application; now it's less than half of the traffic on mobile networks." We also learned that the average length of a mobile call was just 1.81 minutes in 2009, a drop from the 2.27 minutes per call seen in 2008, with many individuals feeling that other communication methods (email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) were far less invasive of someone's time, being that they could respond to those messages at their convenience. Of course, on the Upper East Side (where all the richies use Verizon dumbphones, apparently), we get the impression that yakking away about a cornucopia of drama is still the hotness.

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  • Japan gets LTE next-generation mobile services next year

    Japan gets LTE next-generation mobile services next year

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Faster data access with virtually no latency: LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband networks are coming, at least in the world's most advanced mobile market, the nation of Japan. The country's biggest cell phone carrier, NTT Docomo, said yesterday at GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong it will go fourth generation as early as December 2010.

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  • How should Net Neutrality affect the mobile Internet?

    How should Net Neutrality affect the mobile Internet?

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    The Big Deal yesterday was the FCC's announcement of two additional proposals to its enforcement of Net Neutrality: non-discrimination (ISPs can't play favorites when it comes to network traffic), and transparent management (ISPs should be upfront with their network management practices, like blocking BitTorrent during peak hours). That's all well and good—I don't think you'll find anyone across the Crunch Network who doesn't support Net Neutrality—but this is thought to apply to “traditional” ISPs: Comcast, Time Warner, etc. The question becomes, then,how should Net Neutrality affect the wireless Internet? Should AT&T be subjected to the same regulations that Time Warner is vis-à-vis the iPhone? What about Sprint and the Palm Pre (and Pixi!)?

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  • Location-based mobile social network Centrl integrates web version into its mobile apps

    Location-based mobile social network Centrl integrates web version into its mobile apps

    Posted on September 13, 2009 | No Comments
    "Location" has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the web industry recently, with i.e. Twitter, Facebook and Google having substantially stepped up efforts in that area in the last few months. TechCrunch has always been particularly bullish about location-based mobile social networks, with Loopt, Brightkite or, most recently, Foursquare among the big names. But there are more location-based social networks out there, and one of them, Centrl, is now intending to further bridge the gap between mobile phone users and the web at large (a move we called for last year). The service, which has been available on the iPhone [iTunes link], Android, BlackBerry [JAD file] and Nokia since May 2008, extended its offering with a web app a few days ago.

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  • Arieso reveals hungriest users of mobile data

    Arieso reveals hungriest users of mobile data

    Posted on January 1, 1970 | No Comments
    Network-based analysis compares top smartphone use on mobile networks Appetite for data rockets as new devices drive subscriber demand for apps, services and mobile internet iPhone 4 and Android-based smartphones lead the next wave in the data tsunami 8 December 2010, Newbury, UK – A series of studies,...

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