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The manufactures of satellite navigation systems are going through a rough patch and with Nokia announcing a new free mapping service on its handsets these companies have to find new ways of staying in the market without incurring losses. Many believe Nokia’s new service, Ovi Maps, could prove to […]

The spread of broadband has led to consumers demanding that more and more devices are made broadband enabled. As a result, cameras, media players, e-book readers etc that are available these days are all broadband enabled. In fact, as ABI Research has stated, broadband enabled e-book readers and PNDs […]

Why is the regional bell operating companies dropping the rates on their DSL residential service? Easy, to gain more customers. Ok, makes sense. But let’s look a little closer.
First off, VoIP is making a major push into our homes. I for one have 2 lines in my home. One for business and one for home […]

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has recently concluded a survey intended to see what the expectations for the speed of future broadband are, especially because HSPA+ is scheduled to be launched in 2011. Most of the respondents to the research questions suggested that the speed would be a minimum of 21Mb, the same speed […]

Broadband customers are continually on the receiving end of poor service records as far as technical support is concerned. The conclusion of a survey by uSwitch on the technical support efficiency of various broadband operators gave the same indication.
The uSwitch survey claims that on an average, a customer calling for technical […]

Converged voice solutions are offered by Mavenir. Mavenir Systems provides a service where moble operators can now offer enhanced voice service for enterprise customers and consumers and provide additional new services which are furnished as an add-on to previously existing mobility service offerings which are a value-add to the current user experience. Users are […]

Converged Messaging Solutions are also available from Mavenir Systems.The world of the messaging industry is transitioning from the ever popular SMS messaging technologies to new rich, multimedia MMS and IP based instant messaging. Mobile providers have a compelling requirement to seamlessly combine the messaging core between different service domains and devices in order to keep […]

Vodafone, which has theoretically been providing one of the highest mobile broadband speeds of 7.2Mbps in the UK, now claims to have upgraded its network to 14.4Mbps in certain parts of the country. The company has also become the first wireless broadband provider to use the HSDPA technology for the upgrade.
However, Vodafone has itself […]

O2 recently announced the launch of its latest Value Added Service (VAS). Known as the ‘O2 Tech Support’, it is aimed at providing helpdesk support to O2’s mobile broadband customers.
Subscribers using O2’s mobile broadband connection can now benefit from technical advice dispensed by a team of helpdesk executives who counsel on everything from setting […]

GSM, otherwise known as Global System for Mobile communications, is the system that allows roaming from cellular network to cellular network without having to change phones. GSM allows one cellular company’s customers to roam on another company’s service without having to switch providers. This is a valuable benefit to mobile phone users. Nokia and Motorola […]