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Article | 3/02/2011 India aims for greener telecom
India’s telecom regulator has invited comments from mobile operators and other concerned parties in a bid to evolve a policy framework to reduce the c...
Article | 3/02/2011 French telecom operators join forces on mobile payments
Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR have formed a new joint venture that will use cell phones to help make online payments in France safer, the operators...
Article | 2/02/2011 IPv4's funeral expected to come Thursday
A press conference taking place on Thursday in Miami is expected to mark the last allocation of internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses by the ce...
Article | 2/02/2011 Advanced antennas, virtual modems to make networks greener
The GreenTouch Consortium demonstrated its work Tuesday into how using large-scale antenna systems and virtual modems, along with splitting mobile net...
Article | 1/02/2011 Ericsson demonstrates HSPA at 168M bps
Ericsson has demonstrated HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) with download speeds up to 168M bps (bits per second) and 24M bps on the uplink, the company...
Article | 1/02/2011 Mobile phone service restored in Egypt -- for now
Vodafone and France Telecom say mobile phone service was restored in Egypt on Saturday as demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's government ...
Article | 28/01/2011 Verizon to bid for cloud provider Terremark
Verizon Communications plans to buy cloud service provider Terremark Worldwide for about US$1.4 billion in a deal that could significantly expand its ...
Article | 27/01/2011 China 4G TD-LTE trials expected to last 18 months
China has begun large-scale trials of fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology known as TD-LTE, with the tests expected to last 18 months, according t...
Article | 26/01/2011 Samsung, TeliaSonera launch LTE laptop
Operator TeliaSonera has joined forces with Samsung Electronics to launch an LTE-equipped laptop, which will go on sale Friday in Sweden, they said on...
Article | 25/01/2011 Internet body may use up IPv4 addresses this week
The current crop of Internet addresses could start to disappear this week if a regional Internet registry makes one more request for two blocks of add...
Article | 24/01/2011 China Unicom, Telefónica grow closer
Telecom giants China Unicom and Telefónica have agreed to invest more in each other while raising their joint competitiveness in purchasing, roaming a...
Article | 24/01/2011 Orascom Telecom CEO meets North Korean leader
The CEO of Egypt's Orascom Telecom has been given a rare honor during his current trip to Pyongyang: an audience with Kim Jong-il and dinner hosted by...
Article | 18/01/2011 Femtocells may boost more than just cellular coverage: Study
Femtocells will soon be able to improve home security, personal safety and help integrate smartphones with TVs, laptops and media players, in addition...
Article | 18/01/2011 DoCoMo's LTE is quick, but quickly disappoints
NTT DoCoMo's LTE (Long-Term Evolution) data network, launched in three of Japan's biggest cities on Dec. 24, promises speeds of up to ten times those ...
Article | 11/01/2011 Lessons from AT&T might help Verizon survive iPhone
If Verizon Wireless introduces its own version of the Apple iPhone on Tuesday, users of its network might begin to face some of the same performance p...