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News V is for Virgin WiMax is currently only available in very limited deployments in the UK and only in its "fixed" variant, with the prospects for "mobile WiMax" - the type needed for portable devices - depending on upcoming spectrum auctions.
[09 May 2008]
News V is for Virgin The healthcare sector could also make use of wearable on-body monitors, which would communicate with a home hub or mobile phone via Bluetooth or the like. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more…
[08 May 2008]
News V is for Virgin The number of mobile network connections used for M2M comms will grow from 37.5 million in 2007 to 186 million in 2012, says the analyst. Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus
[06 May 2008]
News V is for Virgin The company says the new service is aimed at increasing the footfall in Coffee Republic shops from mobile workers, business people and students. Customers making a purchase at Coffee Republic will be offered a free wi-fi voucher...
[14 Apr 2008]
News V is for Virgin LTE is touted as the successor to the existing UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) 3G technology, capable of supporting significantly faster data rates. Wireless from A to Z
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Virgin Mobile is the UK's first, and the world's biggest virtual network operator. What Virgin Mobile wanted to do was to consolidate it all - put it all in one place. They decided to install a storage system because they had loads of storage all...
[10 Apr 2008]
News Travellers on Virgin Train could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be installed on all 52 of Virgin's high speed Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November.
[07 Apr 2008]
News V is for Virgin We are pleased that Dell will be [using] the flexibility and efficiency Gobi provides to meet the growing needs of mobile data users. Both are types of "super-3G", but are incompatible.
[07 Apr 2008]
News V is for Virgin OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more relevant and easier to use with voice-activation technology. With Yahoo OneSearch 2.0, we are fundamentally changing the...
[03 Apr 2008]
News V is for Virgin 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...
[28 Mar 2008]
News V is for Virgin In-flight mobile phone calls may soon be a reality for travellers on UK airlines after UK telecoms regulator Ofcom gave its approval to the technology. Emirates recently launched the world's first commercial in-flight mobile service...
[26 Mar 2008]
News V is for Virgin It does, however, envision the white spaces as a "unique opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless access for all Americans" and a prime spot for use of mobile handsets running its open-source Android platform.
[25 Mar 2008]
News V is for Virgin The imperative to drive 3G services means mobile operators are going to have to get cosy about network sharing. A new report from analyst Analysys - titled 3G Infrastructure Sharing: the future for mobile networks - says sharing of...
[29 Feb 2008]
News V is for Virgin Oxfordshire County Council is rolling out a mobile text alert system to warn residents across the county if their homes are at risk from flood water following heavy rain. Click on the links below to find out more…
[26 Feb 2008]
News V is for Virgin Mobile operator T-Mobile UK was the biggest bidder, stumping up £321,000 for six licences in the 10GHz, 32GHz and 40GHz bands, while rival operator Orange paid £272,130 for two licences in the 32GHz band.
[22 Feb 2008]
News V is for Virgin After conquering the farthest corners of the globe, mobile phones are now destined for the final frontier - space. Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the ringtone as Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC...
[19 Feb 2008]
Photo Terminal 3 is undergoing gradual refurbishment and the Virgin Atlantic check-in area, seen here, has been recently completed. Passengers can choose to link the details on their luggage's RFID chip to their mobile phone number.
[14 Feb 2008]
News V is for Virgin BAA says the database linking the information on the chip to the passenger mobile number will be deleted as soon as the flight has been dealt with. Airport operator BAA hopes this chip could save airport staff hours of time by...
[13 Feb 2008]
Comment V is for Virgin Arun Sarin of Vodafone and Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo are heading up the GSMA's bill, with China Mobile's Wang Jianzhou and Cisco's John Chambers rounding it off. Conway makes way for Vodafone's chief Arun Sarin - who takes the...
[13 Feb 2008]
News V is for Virgin Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress. And to complicate matters further, there are several Linux groups also developing open platforms for mobile phones.
[12 Feb 2008]
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