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RSS FMCBT's wi-fi parts ways with The Cloud
News F is for FMC BT Openzone's wi-fi roaming deal with The Cloud will end on Thursday, after the two communications firms failed to resolve unspecified issues over commercial terms. BT and The Cloud have had the deal for... [30 Sep 2008]
Wanted: Techies with mobile skills
News F is for FMC Akshay Amar Garkel, senior consultant for professional services at Datacraft India, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia that the use of mobile devices to access various applications ranging from email to... [22 Sep 2008]
C&W pays £30m for FMC
News Telecoms kit company Ericsson has inked a five-year, £30m contract with telco Cable & Wireless to supply and manage a GSM mobile network that will let C&W sell FMC (fixed mobile convergence) services. [12 Sep 2008]
Service-Optimized Ethernet Solutions Are Critical to Achieving Carrier Business Transformation Goals
White Paper Wireless carriers such as Vodafone are acquiring fixed-line assets to create FMC solutions and take share from traditional telcos. For the next 2 to 3 years, business model transformation will remain the single most... [11 Sep 2008]
Interference on the radar for FCC "white space"
News F is for FMC Field tests to determine whether the Federal Communications Commission should open up unused TV spectrum for wireless broadband services are getting mixed reviews as different methods for avoiding spectrum... [12 Aug 2008]
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News F is for FMC Telecoms analyst Analysys Mason predicts there will be a total of 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers globally generating $784bn in service revenue by 2015 - an increase of some 2,400 per cent. [05 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment F is for FMC Written poolside at my hotel in Rome and dispatched via a 3G HSDPA data service. The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my business migrating out of the US into the EU and... [05 Aug 2008]
DIY wi-fi, Vista in disguise, 3G iPhone and more...
News Video: 60-Second Pitch: FMC Kicking off proceedings was Cable &Wireless trying to convince our tough panel of CIOs of the benefits of its FMC tech. One of the biggest stories in July was the launch of... [31 Jul 2008]
'Star Trek' communicators free up doctors' time
News F is for FMC Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal 'Star Trek'-style wireless voice communicator. Wireless from A to Z [29 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News F is for FMC Mobile users should be made more aware of how much data they are using while abroad in Europe, the director general for the information society and media at the European Commission has said. [22 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News F is for FMC The spread of WiMax networks across the UK is continuing, with two providers announcing extensions of their business-oriented networks in the past week. On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the... [10 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming rates: Expect EC to force cuts
News F is for FMC European mobile operators should brace themselves for enforced price cuts for SMS roaming, predicts an analyst. Yesterday was the 1 July deadline set by European telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, for... [02 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment F is for FMC Costs, delays and green issues are all conspiring against business travel. Those factors are also coinciding with the growth of the very tech that could spare you a journey, says Stewart Baines. [30 Jun 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News F is for FMC Femtocells could help speed the arrival of next generation mobile broadband networks - such as WiMax and LTE (long term evolution), the future roadmap of 3G. Industry association body the Femto Forum and... [30 Jun 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment F is for FMC Soon, even a window seat above the Atlantic will no longer be beyond the reach of the chirping mobile phone. What's the tech behind that change and just how welcome is it, asks Anthony Plewes. [26 Jun 2008]
