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News Vodafone is extending its fast mobile broadband coverage to a further three million people this summer as part of a multimillion pound investment. The extension will cover Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading and is due...
[12 May 2008]
News The stars are aligning to create a market that's ripe for femtocell technology, according to a report from analyst house Infonetics Research - but don't start counting your mobile-access-point chickens just yet.
[23 Apr 2008]
News The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
[07 Apr 2008]
News The mobile broadband market is hotting up with data card sales set to jump four-fold in the next three years as prices come down - possibly threatening the wi-fi hotspot market. The Infonetics Research Mobility: Broadband, Phones, Subscribers and...
[28 Mar 2008]
News "What is the new new thing in the mobile industry? The new new thing in our industry is internet on the mobile…" So said Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, addressing delegates at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona last month.
[04 Mar 2008]
News 3.5G is driving mobile broadband growth around the globe, with a rapid increase in the number of commercial HSDPA networks being rolled out. The number of commercial HSDPA networks launched worldwide grew by 69 per cent last year, according to a...
[09 Jan 2008]
News The battle between 3G and wi-fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted. The two technologies offer a variety of different benefits and...
[18 Jun 2007]
News The CEO of telecoms giant Ericsson is betting on more than a billion new mobile subscribers signing up before the decade is out. Carl-Henric Svanberg told delegates at the company's capital markets day he predicts the number of mobile users will...
[10 May 2007]
News All Heathrow Express trains have been wi-fi-enabled to provide passengers with broadband speeds of up to 2Mbps for the 15 to 20 minute journey. The service, providing a direct link between Paddington station and Heathrow Airport, offers passengers...
[24 Apr 2007]
News 3G is ancient history and the HSDPA flavour of 3.5G is fast becoming yesterday's man - it seems mobile operators are already gearing up for LTE, or long-term evolution, the next iteration of cellular networks that could see speeds eventually reach...
[01 Mar 2007]
News While European operators are pressing ahead with rollouts of HSDPA networks - a type of 3.5G - their counterparts in the land of the rising sun are already working on the subsequent generation. NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, will have...
[04 Jan 2007]
News Mobile operator 3 has announced a major shift in its business model - repositioning itself as a media and web access company, a strategy that has been more common with broadband sellers. In a scheme called X-Series, 3 has signed up the likes of...
[16 Nov 2006]
News Nortel has announced plans to shed its UMTS access business, claiming a lack of proper scale has hampered the unit's progress. Alcatel has signed on the dotted line with a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire the loss-making unit for $320m.
[01 Sep 2006]
News T-Mobile is claiming to be the first operator to get an HSDPA - that's 3.5G - phone out the door and into business users' hands. The MDA Vario II runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and comes with Redmond's push email.
[17 Aug 2006]
News East coast rail operator GNER is on target to fit out its entire fleet of trains with wi-fi by the end of this summer - eight months ahead of schedule. GNER has already kitted out all 30 of its electric trains with wi-fi and is now putting the...
[26 Jul 2006]
News Just like GSM, just like the widely-adopted flavours of 3G, handset shortages are likely to dog the rollout of the even faster, so-called 3.5G mobile services. The term 3.5G - sometimes referred to as Super 3G - encompasses HSxPA and EV-DO Rev A...
[18 Jul 2006]
News With the paint barely dry on its '3G broadband' service, Vodafone is already looking to the next generation of high speed mobile connectivity. Big Red today announced the launch of its HSDPA network, which will allow customers packing the...
[22 Jun 2006]
News 3 has finished off the UK's HSDPA roster with the announcement it is to roll out a high speed third-generation network. The third-generation operator, which recently celebrated its third birthday, has revealed it has completed trials of the super...
[14 Mar 2006]
News Mobile operators should look at offering single-fee, unlimited data access plans to their HSDPA services if they want to see the technology take off as broadband has, according to an analyst. Devine Kofiloto, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms...
[08 Mar 2006]
News The boss of mobile chipset and patents giant Qualcomm has denied that legal disputes with rivals, most notably Nokia, and a complaint lodged against it with the European Commission are distracting the company's top management.
[15 Feb 2006]
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