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Agenda Setters 2000 omissions: those who missed out
Comment However, a spokesman was keen to point out recent announcements the telco has made, particularly in the mobile and wireless market ('BT Cellnet beefs up its Web and WAP strategies' http://www.silicon.com/a36248 ) - a little ironic when you... [19 Mar 2000]
Agenda Setters 2000: the movers and the shakers
Comment Combine his company's zeitgeist with Gent's own ability to see beyond the four walls of a mobile operator and you have a true Agenda Setter. As the advert says: great minds don't think alike. Silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2000 has thrown up an... [14 Mar 2000]
A start-up by any other name: lastminute troubles
Comment German last minute travel operator L'Tur Tourismus says the use of a generic Web domain such as Lastminute.com is misleading to consumers, implying it is the only operator of such a service, or an aggregate site. [13 Mar 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Net Wars, planning nightmares and half-baked ideas?
Comment Then cable operator NTL stepped up, guns blazing, and announced a similar package. It seems a long time ago now that Freeserve launched its "free" UK Internet service, but actually it's less than 18 months. [12 Mar 2000]
Keeping up with the Joneses - the UMTS licence race
Comment Last Tuesday, Vodafone AirTouch, the world's largest operator of mobile networks, revealed its plans to launch a global Internet portal, available from cellphones or PCs. Then on Wednesday, the UK's Radiocommunications Agency (RA) kicked-off the... [17 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Intel and Linux; Orange and WAP; and Team Tandem make a comeback
Comment UK mobile telephone operator, Orange, is set to launch a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) service in November, ready for the Christmas rush. It is providing a Linux Gigabit driver, an open source software driver, for its Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit... [01 Nov 1999]
The telecoms mega-mergers: Do end users really benefit?
Comment So there is a genuinely good reason, from the customers' point of view, for an operator to expand and obtain global reach. This month saw the announcement of the world's biggest telecoms merger deal - MCI WorldCom's $129bn bid for Sprint. [19 Oct 1999]
Word of mouth: the future of speech recognition
Comment In mid-July, Orange announced its Wildfire voice-activated electronic assistant service in the valuable advertising minutes before the Star Wars prequel. The cinema ad is part of a £10m media blitz. The launch has been greeted with some scepticism... [30 Jul 1999]
BT's local loop: a bungled unbundling?
Comment Earlier this week, telecoms watchdog, Oftel, insisted that BT must give other companies access to the local loop infrastructure as the UK's largest operator upgrades it, almost certainly for broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) services. [09 Jul 1999]
Free ISPs vs AOL: who will have the last laugh?
Comment Once an operator provides local calls for a fixed monthly fee - as is the case with regional Bell operators in the US - the risk disappears for AOL and the wheels of ecommerce are greased. The latest jockeying for position in the UK Internet... [17 May 1999]
The mobile future: more than just a smart phone
Comment CeBit saw major mobile network operators put their faith in the smartphone, not least NTT DoCoMo, which until Vodafone and AirTouch merge fully, remains the world's largest operator. This year's CeBit event in Hannover has been marked by a flurry... [23 Mar 1999]
Do people really want free Net access?
Comment And if it's a bundled service, the operator will just charge an average rate, which could end up costing the consumer more. Users will have to be careful which tariff they choose if they opt for bundled services - something akin to signing up for... [17 Mar 1999]
AirTouch-Bell Atlantic-Vodafone: a ménage-à-trois made in heaven
Comment This week's speculation about the sale of US mobile network operator, AirTouch has turned to a possible bidding war between two possible suitors. Vodafone, another giant mobile network operator in its own right - both in the UK and overseas - was... [02 Jan 1999]
Why Oftel ruling won't worry mobile companies
Comment There is no technical reason why BT should earn three times more for connecting a call to a mobile operator. Oftel called a press conference on Tuesday to explain the result of a Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) investigation into mobile... [18 Dec 1998]
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