Privately-held QuickPlay Media Inc plans to deliver full length popular television shows to BlackBerry smartphone screens via Research In Motion's applications store after forging agreements with TV networks, including NBC, CBS Corp and MTV.
After much talk, India's regulatory authorities and telcos are stepping up the pace with a deadline set to bid for 3G wireless licenses and trial services in place or due soon to facilitate the implementation of national networks.
Five major technology organizations - Purple Labs, Nexperience Ltd. Huawei Technologies, Comverse and Communology - have become members of the mobile operator-led terminal recommendations organization, Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP).
A French cable ship, the CS Raymond Croze, has begun repairing two badly damaged cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, Dec. 19, disrupting Internet and telephone communications. Sources indicate the cables were cut within five minutes of each other, possibly by...
The Indian Department of Telecoms (DoT) has published its official timetable for the award of its 3G licences across the country as well as a breakdown of how the relevant spectrum will be allocated across the telecoms circles.
For a country that receives international aid as it seems unable to feed its population and yet claims to be self-sufficient as a nation, North Korea, or officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has accepted inward investment of US$400 million from Orascom to build a 3G mobile network.
Good news for those wireless operators with business plans not based on WiMAX: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an ITU-based standards organization, has completed its latest round of work clarifying the specifications for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless.
The Competition Council, a watchdog for fair competition in France's business sectors, today provisionally suspended an exclusivity agreement between Apple Inc. and France Telecom, Reuters reports, a decision aimed at allowing customers in France to buy the iPhone (with a contract) from rival operators SFR and Bouygues Telecom.
After repeated delays, China is set to award 3G licenses by beginning of 2009. China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Li Yizhong announced on December 12 that 3G network licenses will be issued by the beginning of next year and the country's three restructured telcos are expected to invest CNY 200 billion (US$29 billion).
At a recent presentation in London, Enrico Salvatori, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Qualcomm, introduced the company's latest 45mm chip with two integrated computing cores running at up to 1.5 GHz for next generation mobile computing devices.
It's almost unthinkable. Could telecom vendor giant Nortel enter bankruptcy protection in the near-term? That's what Nortel, whose recent financial woes have been well chronicled, is contemplating, according to a Wall Street Journal piece that reported the company had begun consultations with lawyers and/or consultants on that very scenario, in case its restructuring plan falls through.
The BBC, ITV and BT announced they will work together as partners to promote a common industry approach and consumer offer to deliver on-demand TV over broadband. This new initiative is open for all public service broadcasters, device developers and other ISPs.
The effects of the global economic slump continues to have an effect on the telecom market, including the WiMAX wireless segment. Israel-based WiMAX player Alvarion announced that it will cut 11 percent of its workforce by the end of 2008 in an effort to maintain profitability throughout 2009.
A recent IDATE report confirmed that the number of worldwide FTTx subscribers grew by more than 23 percent between December 2007 and June 2008.
While Asia-Pacific continues to take the lead in the FTTx race, Europe and North America are also seeing increased FTTx subscriber growth.
Alcatel-Lucent has secured in early December a US$230 million order by China Telecom to increase the capacity and coverage of its mobile network country-wide. The contract with its Chinese flagship entity, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, commits the group to provide end-to-end CDMA wireless networking solutions for China Telecom in 56 cities within nine provinces.
AT&T is rolling out its own Ethernet VPLS to more international sites, but it appears that IP MPLS capacity wholesaler Tiscali International Network will take the prize in terms of number of major markets worldwide online for its Ethernet portfolio.
