Archive for Telecoms News
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Tesco launches cheapest monthly SIM-only tariff
The UK's cheapest monthly phone contract will provide people with unlimited texts and 100 minutes of free calls for just £6-per-month. Supermarket giant, Tesco, launched the SIM-only deal this week on a rolling tariff, aiming it squarely at teenagers. They aim to capitalise on the overw...
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UAE BlackBerry ban likely to spread through Arabia
A ban on BlackBerry smartphones in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) looks likely to spread throughout other Arabian states, industry observers are predicting. The UAE has banned the use of email, instant-messaging and web-browsing services on the handsets, following a long-running security spat with...
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India mobile phone sales to top 138 million in 2010
Sales of mobile phones in India are predicted to reach 138.6 million in 2010, rising 18 per cent from the 117 million units sold in 2009, research company Gartner has revealed. Information compiled by Gartner shows that the market has been buoyed by new carriers and new manufacturers, increasing co...
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Mobile phones increasingly indispensable to British public
The mobile phone has become practically indispensable to British consumers, with 51 per cent of respondents in a new survey saying they never leave the house without it and 44 per cent admitting that they could not live without it. The figures from the poll by BM Savings, the new personal finance ...
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Microsoft will recapture lost generation with Phone 7
Microsoft has acknowledge that its delay in joining the race to capture the mobile phone market has cost it a whole generation's worth of customers. Chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, said they had an awful lot of catching up to do when it came to smartphones, when he addressed Microsoft...
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Mobile phone subscriptions exceed 5 billion
Global mobile phone subscriptions have reached the 5 billion mark, and industry experts believe the emerging markets of China and India will take that figure to 50 billion by 2020. In figures researched by Swedish mobile technology company, Ericsson, 2 million new subscriptions are apparently made...
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Telecom leaders join for mobile TV trial
Britain's biggest mobile phone providers are joining forces to test a TV broadcast service that could allow people to stream television channels on their mobile phones. O2, Orange and Vodafone have all signed up for the trial, which would see broadcast TV channeled through the 3G spectrum, avo...
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San Francisco imposes phone radiation measures
Mobile phones sold in San Francisco must display the level of radiation emitted by each handset, a new piece of city-wide legislation has ordered. Backed by the city’s mayor, Gavin Newsome, San Francisco is the first city in the US to employ the measures, which will involve a mark of the radi...
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Japanese companies join forces in mobile phone battle
Two Japanese electronic companies will join forces later this year to contend with stiff competition in the mobile phone industry. Toshiba and Fujitsu have just announced that they will merge their mobile phone businesses in October this year. The decision to join together is the result of the ever...
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Google backtracks on Nexus online sales
Google will halt online sales of its Nexus One smart phone through its website, after admitting that the sales medium had failed to live up to its revolutionary potential. Speaking at the US launch of the phone in February, Google's head of mobile, Andy Rubin, said the Nexus would be the fir...
