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India blocks service to millions of handsets
News On Monday, any handset without a valid International Mobile Equipment Identity (Imei) code had its connection cut off, according to the Indian Cellular Association (ICA), which represents mobile operators in the country.
[December 1, 2009, 16:39]
Radioactive assumptions in the Digital Economy Bill
Leader Providing an affordable, efficient and reliable cellular network is hard work and has kept the operators fully occupied: they have seen no reason to also monitor and log the intimate details of their users' data transfers, let alone to judicial...
[November 24, 2009, 15:30]
Mobile industry 'cannot identify pirates'
News Mobile operators are unable to comply with proposed anti-copyright theft legislation that requires them to identify unlawful file-sharers, the head of an industry body has said. In the wake of the Digital Economy Bill, published on Friday, Mobile...
[November 24, 2009, 12:11]
You can't blame Google for the network
Talkback The train operators just see the commuters as a cash cow and internet on the move will require infrastructure by them and a healthy return for the shareholders. I will agree that there is a surprising difference in mobile coverage between the...
[November 19, 2009, 22:53]
3 to throttle P2P traffic in peak periods
News ZDNet UK has contacted all the other major UK operators — O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile — to discuss whether they shape their mobile broadband traffic or whether they intend to do so, but none had supplied this information at the time of writing.
[November 13, 2009, 15:07]
launch2net
Downloads The powerful configuration assistant automatically detects your mobile device and configures your mobile Internet connection in seconds without the need to enter cryptic settings like user names, passwords or modem scripts.launch2net supports most...
[November 13, 2009, 13:54]
700 jobs to go as Ericsson abandons UK R&D
News Ericsson provides managed services to operators including 3, Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile. However, Granryd told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that Ericsson's decision to abandon UK-based R&D could be partly attributed to the fact that the UK no longer had a...
[November 10, 2009, 14:00]
Mobile industry decides on LTE voice standard
News Mobile operators and telecoms equipment manufacturers from around the world have agreed on how to carry text messages and voice calls over LTE, the planned successor to 3G. The plan of record for many operators, and the ultimate goal in the...
[November 6, 2009, 14:47]
Nokia Siemens plans thousands of layoffs
News Its British employees include those brought in when NSN bought Apertio, which manages customer data for mobile operators, in early 2008. It operates Orange's mobile network, as well as T-Mobile and 3's joint 3G network.
[November 3, 2009, 13:40]
Wi-Fi firms put onus on users for hotspot security
News Wi-Fi hotspot operators have said security is the responsibility of their customers, after the BBC demonstrated a hack of users' email at public open-access hotspots. Bruce said that with open-access Wi-Fi, operators had to make a balance between...
[November 2, 2009, 14:06]
TV spectrum to be used for mobile broadband
News Reding called on EU countries to have their digital TV switchovers completed by the start of 2012, and urged national telecoms regulators such as the UK's Ofcom to "use the digital dividend in a pro-competitive way to open up the market for new...
[October 30, 2009, 12:17]
Campaign urges cheaper calls to mobiles
News Terminate the Rate, a campaign to lower mobile termination rates, is to hand a petition containing over 114,000 signatures to Ofcom on Wednesday, calling on the industry regulator to make mobile operators charge less for connecting calls.
[October 28, 2009, 14:54]
Symbian SEE & the salmiak salted liquorice
Blog Symbian is striving to work with OEMs and operators to reduce barriers to development. Before I get to the tech, one word of advice if you do attend a trade show in the mobile sector. There will always be a strong likelihood of Scandinavian clients...
[October 28, 2009, 12:28]
Symbian's Horizon app scheme goes live
News Horizon, which was announced in July, is designed to help developers go through the Symbian Signed application accreditation process, have their applications carried by a diversity of manufacturers' and operators' app stores, and have their...
[October 27, 2009, 14:57]
Ofcom lets Intel-funded firm offer mobile WiMax
News However, no WiMax company is able to get 2.6GHz spectrum right now as a planned auction for 2.6GHz spectrum has been held up by a legal dispute between Ofcom and mobile operators T-Mobile and O2. Ofcom has allowed an Intel-funded UK company to...
[October 23, 2009, 16:44]
ZDNet UK launches its Service and Reliability survey
News The survey covers 11 areas of enterprise IT: desktop PCs, notebooks, smartphones, mobile network operators, servers, network infrastructure, peripherals, business applications, unified communications, network security and cloud services.
[October 19, 2009, 16:27]
3 goes Android with Spotify-bundled Hero
News 3 is to start carrying HTC's Hero handset in November, making it the last of the five major UK mobile operators to begin offering an Android phone. The company will bundle the Hero with a Spotify Premium subscription for the duration of the handset...
[October 19, 2009, 13:03]
MPs call for one, simplified privacy law
News One called for online safety to be taught in the core school curriculum and for the government to "establish a national co-ordinating body to ensure that e-safety messages and teaching remain up-to-date", while the other suggested mobile network...
[October 16, 2009, 17:42]
SMS Spam and Fraud Prevention
White Papers To prevent subscriber churn and protect revenues, mobile operators need a flexible solution for identifying and dropping unwanted SMS messages. Short Message Service (SMS) messages account for approximately 10 percent of a mobile operator's revenue...
[October 9, 2009, 2:08]
Kindle, international ebook of mystery
Blog When you've got a hundred countries and goodness knows how many mobile operators (AT&T's Global Network, whatever that may be, notwithstanding), you've got a better chance of organising a bank holiday on Mars with Prince Philip and Skippy, the...
[October 7, 2009, 15:23]
