As has been widely expected, Google has confirmed that it will participate in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum license auction here in the US. There’s lots of speculation and analysis about what this means; for its part, Google says FCC rules will prevent it from speaking publicly about its strategy.
Google’s blog post about the decision [...]
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Google Confirms 700 MHz Auction Participation, Gets Ready To Play Spoiler
One Bright Spot In The Morass Of International Roaming Charges
Like many other mobile bloggers, I’ve complained before about excessive international roaming fees. The issue isn’t that I’ve been hit with bill shock because I didn’t know what the prices were; it’s quite the opposite. I know what the charges are, and it’s appalling. While the operator I use, T-Mobile USA, still levies hefty roaming [...]
Motorola Gets A New CEO
This has been a while in the making: MOTOCEO Ed ZNDR is out as Motorola CEO come January 1, and will be replaced by the company’s president. ZNDR’s legacy is undoubtedly the RAZR: a huge-selling handset, but one the company couldn’t follow up with another smash hit.
Motorola’s corporate history over the last several years [...]
Mike on His Bike
My pal, Mike Rowehl, fellow AdMobber, blogger, MoMo’er and engineer extraordinaire has decided it’s time for him to leave AdMob. He explains some of his reasoning here.
It’s always a sad day when a valued employee leaves a company voluntarily and especially so when it’s the first time it happens. In Mike’s case, he was the [...]
Verizon Confirms LTE Plans, Things Get A Bit More Interesting
Verizon Wireless, the US mobile JV between Verizon and Vodafone, has confirmed that it will use LTE for its next-generation mobile network. This is significant because it, in essence, will bring Verizon into the GSM-based camp (though LTE isn’t technically a GSM technology, it’s viewed by most GSM operators as the logical upgrade path from [...]
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A Big Day in Mobile: Penetration Hits 50% Worldwide
Quite a milestone, as Informa says that global mobile phone penetration will hit 50 percent today, some 26 years after the first mobile network was switched on. While ownership of multiple subscriptions and SIMs means that fewer than half the world’s 6.6 billion people have phones, this stat makes very clear just how pervasive mobile [...]
EU Messin’ With Mobile — Some Good, Some, Well…
EU telecom meddler-in-chief Viviane Reding’s effort to get DVB-H made an official EU standard for mobile TV has been successful, giving the technology a boost on the continent. Reding said earlier that the ruling will help make “DVB-H a similar success story as the GSM standard for mobile phones 20 years ago.” It’s not entirely [...]
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links for 2007-11-29
AAS Feature: Reading RSS On Your Smartphone
(tags: rss)
Nearly 24 Million Subscribers to Use 3G LTE Technology by 2012
(tags: 3g 4g lte networks)
O2 to Test NFC in London with 500 Trialists
(tags: nfc rfid o2 oyster)
MyPhoneRocks dot com » Even mobile games beat the PS3
“EA making twice as much money from mobile as from PlayStation 3″
(tags: mobile-games [...]
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An Update On Blyk
Jonathan MacDonald, Blyk’s sales director, got in touch after my post a few weeks back questioning some numbers he’d presented at an event. Jonathan got in touch offering some clarification and further details about Blyk’s performance.
Blyk sends its members up to 6 communications a day. These can take the form of SMS or MMS, [...]
More On Verizon’s Newfound Sense Of Openness
I’ve been thinking some more about yesterday’s announcement from Verizon that it will open up its network to any compatible device, and let users access any service they want. There’s been a lot of analysis saying that this is Verizon’s response to Google’s recent launch of the Open Handset Alliance.
But Verizon’s move really has [...]
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