operators
Mobile profits? Operators are just playing games...
News With 2.5 and 3G finally starting to get a foothold in the major mobile markets and the Nokia N-Gage leaving shops at a more than respectable pace, mobile gaming will be the next major cash cow for mobile operators. [06 Nov 2003]
Operators kill subsidised prepaid mobiles
News UK mobile phone operators are not going to subsidise prepaid mobile handset sales any longer, meaning cheap deals are about to become a thing of the past. The move is a result of a change in accounting practices for operators, according to Bernt... [10 Jan 2002]
Operators promise mobile IM for all
News Some of the world's biggest mobile operators have buddied-up to announce they'll be joining forces to make IM interoperable amongst their collective customers. The operators have agreed to charge mobile IM users for outgoing messages but incoming... [14 Feb 2006]
Pre-pay mobile growth slows - operators breathe a sigh of relief
News The rapid growth in pre-paid mobile phone uptake has started to level off, as operators increasingly try to move users over to long-term contracts. Orange and Vodafone separately claim they have managed to improve their 'Average Revenue per User... [26 Oct 2001]
Maximising the Economic Benefits From Spectrum Use: How to Meet the Needs of Users, Operators, Vendors and Regulators
White Paper While W-CDMA undoubtedly offers a big increase in high quality voice capacity, the extent to which it can deliver the required capabilities for advanced data services has yet to be fully proven and there is concern that operators will struggle to... [28 Mar 2005]
Operators cautious on new spectrum auction
News Mobile operators have reacted defensively to the prospect of fresh spectrum auctions that could lead to renewed competition in the UK's 3G market. It is six years since the original 3G auctions, for which the mobile operators paid a total of £22.5bn. [14 Dec 2006]
Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell: Operators
White Paper Operators are the basic data manipulation tools of any programming language. And the whole reason a computer exists is to manipulate those single bits of data with basic operators. This paper discusses the basic operators available in Visual Basic... [24 Oct 2007]
Operators count on Euro 2004 and Olympics to boost MMS
News European mobile operators hoping that MMS will boost their margins are counting on Euro 2004 and the Olympics to give their products a lift. Only the music clips and football seem to offer the operators any potential for the day-in, day-out boost... [11 May 2004]
Nokia - the operators' outsourcer?
News A recent reorganisation within the vendor's infrastructure arm - the one known for providing base stations and other types of equipment to mobile network operators - means services will be an increasingly significant revenue stream. [31 Jan 2005]
Analyst blames operators and developers for high cost of networks
News A senior analyst is claiming there is a huge gap in communication between network operators and software developers such as SAP and PeopleSoft. Previdi supports Cisco's Alliance for the Internet in Europe, which is attempting to make the Internet... [16 Oct 1998]
German mobile operators dump on SMS providers
News German mobile operators look likely to put many independent companies out of business by hiking the charges for SMS delivery by over 200 per cent. The four German mobile operators - D2 Vodafone, D1 Telekom, Viag Interkom and E-Plus - will more than... [11 Dec 2001]
Mobile operators 'not working on Google rival'
News The chief executive of the GSM Association, the industry body which represents more than 100 mobile operators around the world, said reports earlier this year that the networks had been planning to come together to create a mobile search engine to... [17 May 2007]
UK mobile operators face roaming tariff crackdown
News The UK's mobile phone operators will have to face some stiff questions about their roaming tariffs after the European Union (EU) confirmed that an investigation into the market will focus on Britain and Germany. [19 Jul 2002]
Mobile cost-cutting drive spell danger for operators
News That's the warning from investment bank Societe Generale, which claims that the UK's four mobile operators will suffer if mobile-to-mobile calls charges are capped at 35p a minute. SocGen said the mobile operators could not afford to make such cuts... [21 Aug 2001]
The Benefits to GSM Operators of the Packetized Core Network
White Paper 3rd Generation wireless standards have defined an open architecture for the packetization of wireless telephony networks, giving wireless operators a clear alternative to traditional TDM technologies. [16 Mar 2005]
