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Should Mobile Ops Adopt over the Top VoIP?
View all 2 articles » Explore tmcnet.com (8 hours, 53 min ago)
Kineto Wireless has announced "Smart VoIP," said to be the first VoIP application specifically developed for mobile operators who want to compete in the over the top voice business.
U.S. Cellular Adds Visual Voice Mail, Illustrates a Key Problem - tmcnet.com
Comment Mentions: Kineto Wireless Gary Kim
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Is Mobility Competing With UC?
Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Feb 21 2012)
UBM TechWeb, the producers of a leading conference for enterprise UC deployment, Enterprise Connect, have just announced another enterprise-oriented conference that focuses on mobility, Mobile Connect 2012. http://www.mobileconnectevent.com/?itc=footer I have always viewed mobility as one of the biggest drivers for UC, so it is puzzling that they would try to separate the two. In particular, the Mobile [...]
Comment Mentions: UBM TechWeb Enterprise Connect
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New Mobile Devices are Changing Behavior
View all 7 articles » Explore Razorsight (Feb 21 2012)
Wireless and untethered devices are starting to change the ways people interact with, and consume, all sorts of media and content. In 2011, the majority of all mobile phone owners consumed mobile media on their smart phones and tablet devices, marking an important milestone in the evolution of mobile from primarily a communication device to a content consumption tool. At the end of 2011, more
Mobile Devices Add New "Anywhere" Content Consumption Screens - Thoughts on Carrier Evolution
All Devices Now are Content Consumption Devices - IP Carrier
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'Last' Big Mobile Spectrum Auction is Coming
View all 3 articles » Explore Fixed Mobile Convergence (Feb 21 2012)
U.S. wireless service providers (and potentially others) soon will have the chance to bid on new wireless spectrum in the 700 MHz frequency range, which they are expected to use to support new Long Term Evolution mobile networks. The allocation is important for a number of reasons.
Major U.S. Spectrum for LTE Authorized for Auction - Thoughts on Carrier Evolution
120 MHz of 700 MHz Spectrum to Be Auctioned, Eventually - IP Carrier
Comment Mentions: Gary Kim Federal Communication Commission
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Optus snaps up Vivid for 4G build
Explore The Register (Feb 20 2012)
Huawei in box seat Optus has swooped on the assets of 4G wireless operator Vividwireless for $AU230 million and use the spectrum as a cornerstone of its own 4G network build out.…
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Big Change Coming for Mobile Payments in 2012, 2013
Explore IP Carrier (Feb 19 2012)
Enthusiasm about near field communications will be more muted in 2012 and most likely 2013, as mobile payments attention shifts to other ways to enable payments, loyalty and credentials programs and mobile commerce.In fact, 2012 will see much more attention paid to a range of other ways of handling the communications, credentials storage and commerce applications. The reason is simple enough: NFC simply has not gotten enough marketplace traction, and ecosystem participants are eager ...
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Why LTE Kills Batteries
Explore IP Carrier (Feb 18 2012)
Devices running on Long Term Evolution and other 4G networks consume battery life, most users have discovered. Nokia Siemens Networks did some preliminary studies on LTE phone’s power drain versus their equivalent 3G models and found that LTE devices consume from five percent to 20 percent more than previous-generation phones, depending on the application used. Some of you will instinctively guess that battery drain is worse than that. In its review of the Samsung ...
Comment Mentions: LTE Nokia Siemens Networks Samsung Galaxy Nexus
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1/2 of U.S. Adults Will Use Mobile Banking by 2016
Explore IP Carrier (Feb 18 2012)
By 2016, about half of U.S. adults will be using mobile banking, predicts. About 92 percent of the top-25 largest banks offer mobile banking, says Javelin. A study by Javelin Strategy and Research suggests that larger banks, armed with greater resources, have jumped into the mobile banking applications area at a level that small banks and credit unions have not generally been able to match, says Mary Monahan, Javelin Strategy and Research EVP and ...
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What is Tablet Impact on Mobile Networks?
View all 2 articles » Explore IP Carrier (Feb 18 2012)
Mobile network planning is never easy, these days. Unlike fixed networks, that generally exhibit clear and stable usage patterns, mobile network demand can fluctuate unpredictability. Tablets are the new factor, as most mobile network bandwidth demand has been driven by PC dongles and increasingly by smart phones. But tablets add a new unknown element. The simple answer is that, over time, "more" bandwidth will be consumed by tablet devices. The issue is how much new ...
Telecom Revenue to Increase in Sub-Saharan Africa, Creating More Mobile Expansion Opportunities and Industry Competition - Fixed Mobile Convergence
Comment Mentions: Informa Telecoms & Media Informa
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Mobile Now "Is Communications"
View all 8 articles » Explore IP Carrier (Feb 17 2012)
About 85 percent of U.S. consumers use mobile devices for communications. For many, mobile is the way they generally use voice, even when they have access to a landline service. In 2011, 202 million adults own mobile phones. Mobile usage has surpassed landline usage as well. Today, approximately 28 percent of American consumers do not have a landline phone whereas just 15 percent do not have a mobile phone. In addition, mobile usage has ...
Mobile Data Growth Set To Swallow Up 4G Capacity Within Five Years - techweekeurope.co.uk
AT&T measures data traffic growth in multiple ways - FierceWireless
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How Big is the Mobile Apps Business?
Explore IP Carrier (Feb 17 2012)
It's getting harder to figure out how big the mobile apps business is, despite its growth. Actually, it is because of its growth that the tracking is becoming more difficult. A few years ago, one only had to track sales of mobile apps, or use of mobile apps, or downloads of mobile apps. In 2012, mobile application revenues from in-app purchases will pass pay-per-download revenues, according to ABI Research. One might argue that "revenue ...
Comment Mentions: ABI Research Mark Beccue
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Implementing Microsoft Lync for a Complete UC Solution
Explore tmcnet.com (Feb 7 2012)
When Microsoft Lync was introduced into the IP and unified communications market in early 2011, it immediately enhanced the way the enterprise communicates by building on the reliability of internal and external communication that Microsoft has become known for. A year later, the enterprise-ready unified communications platform continues to streamline the way we work and communicate using IP-based technologies and the familiar user experience offered by Microsoft.
Comment Mentions: Microsoft Microsoft Office Microsoft Lync
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Study: AT&T Lte Outperforms Verizon Lte - 'The Mother of All Network Benchmark Tests'
Explore dslreports.com (Feb 7 2012)
In the latest version of "The Mother of All Network Benchmark Tests," Signals Research finds that AT&T's LTE network performs "markedly better" that Verizon's LTE network in early tests in several markets, while noting that LTE performance overall lags somewhat due to an immature ecosystem and lower-quality early LTE devices. "Once normalized for channel bandwidth and MIMO, not to mention taking into consideration network loading, the performance differences across all technologies were ...
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