Saturday, November 6, 2004

Major markets representing more than 445 million mobile users, equal to almost a third of the world's wireless user base, are set to formulate 3G licensing policies by next year that will expand the market for 3G services by almost 3 billion people.
4:09:37 PM    comment   

NTT DoCoMo is ramping up activity to facilitate the introduction of i-mode in Russia, the U.S., the UK and Ireland. Russia's national operators, Cingular Wireless in the U.S. and mmO2 in the UK, Germany and Ireland are each being targeted by the Japanese operator as potential adopters of the i-mode platform, with a decision by mmO2 set to be made by year-end.
4:04:05 PM    comment   

Mobile operators are losing more than 10% of their revenues by failing to implement systems and processes effectively, according to a new report by UK-based research outfit Analysys. "These are revenues from traffic that has been sold with cost incurred but not billed to an end-customer," says Nick Milner, chief marketing officer at revenue-assurance vendor Azure, which commissioned the study. "As the costs have already been spent, the losses are purely from profits."
3:53:55 PM    comment   

MVNOs are essential to driving down the cost of mobile telephony and fixed-to-mobile substitution, according to Nokia. The vendor cites evidence showing that those that have a strong MVNO presence offer markedly cheaper voice calls and also have the highest rates of fixed-to-mobile substitution.
3:50:11 PM    comment   

Have You Called Your Car Lately?. The Viper G.P.S. Tracking System can be reached by the Internet or a cellphone. By By NICK KAYE. [NYT > Technology]
3:47:11 PM    comment   

Where Only the Antelope Roam. Smaller cellphone companies are feeling pressures from national carriers entering rural areas now that urban markets are saturated. By By MATT RICHTEL. [NYT > Technology]
3:46:45 PM    comment   

TruVideo, Beijing DG Telecom in Mobile Video Partnership. JCN Newswire, 29 October 2004 Beijing DG Telecom, a mobile applications and infrastructure provider, has announced an agreement with TruVideo, a Berkeley, California, based company specializing in mobile video solutions, to provide mobile video applications for the greater Chinese mobile market. Fre... [Wireless Watch Japan]
3:46:10 PM    comment   

Cell-Phone Soap Opera a Cool New Genre. by Gail Nakada, 4 November 2004 Love comes to the really, really small screen in a mobile, only-in-Japan, soap opera made exclusively for KDDI 3G cellys. The live-action soap opera, Yokohama 80s, follows the predictable lives, loves, and losses of young, beach-loving Japanese boys and girls back whe... [Wireless Watch Japan]
3:45:24 PM    comment   

Dai Nippon Printing Uses ARM Technology to Develop Java Card OS. PRNewswire, November 4, 2004 -- Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (DNP), one of the world's largest printing companies, and ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY; LSE: ARM), today announced that DNP has developed a evaluation version of a Java Card(TM) OS based on the ARM(R) SecurCore(TM) SC200(TM) processor. Embedded wit... [Wireless Watch Japan]
12:19:36 PM    comment   

Korea's Mobile Internet Boom. Hankooki, 5 November 2004 Just as Korea has set the pace in the development of the fixed-line Internet sector, the nation is also leading the world in the wireless Internet segment, according to a government report. The National Internet Development Agency (NIDA) on Thursday said that 40.2 percent... [Wireless Watch Japan]
12:18:40 PM    comment   

DoCoMo to Acquire Singapore ISP. WWJ Editors, 5 November 2004 NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the company has agreed to make a 100% acquisition of inter-touch (BVI) Limited, a Singapore-based holding company of Internet providers who supply high-speed broadband connections and applications for business travelers at hotels ac... [Wireless Watch Japan]
12:01:13 PM    comment   

By 2006 you will be able to watch television on your Nokia phone. Within two years as many as 20 different TV channels will be made available, Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's general manager of Multimedia, told the ninth Nokia Mobility Conference, which opened this week in Monaco.
10:10:50 AM    comment   

Supernumary. According to Voxilla, Vonage are charging $4.99 a month for a London phone number, and Lingo are charging $9.95 a month. So how much is a telephone number worth, given they[base ']re not fully tradeable commodities? Let[base ']s make some assumptions and... [Telepocalypse]
9:39:09 AM    comment   

One to watch. According to The Feature, Siemens are working with Flarion to deploy FLASH-OFDM technology in the 450Mhz range. I[base ']ve written previously about Flarion and why it[base ']s a significant technology. This announcement is interesting because it very much follows a [base "]disruptive innovation[per thou]... [Telepocalypse]
9:38:24 AM    comment   

A terrible toll. This is a tale of deceit, greed, and intrigue. Well before the broadbandits burst onto the scene, the copper highwaymen have been perfecting their tricks for decades. Their sly plans continue to this day. How I found out about the... [Telepocalypse]
9:32:36 AM    comment   

Vote for VotI!. My apologies. Mea culpa. I sincerely regret any confusion that may have been caused. VoIP is a complete waste of time. OK, I exaggerate slightly for effect. But in fact, VoIP is indeed not very important. Why? Because it mistakes... [Telepocalypse]
9:25:17 AM    comment   

When quality isn't job number one. Via David Isenberg I note the following screed from the poisoned pen of The Register[base ']s Andrew Orlowski: Of course carriers have greater pretensions that that: they want to be TV channels and Wal Mart, too. Anything else to a carrier... [Telepocalypse]
9:22:30 AM    comment   

When talk is free. A moment of zeitgeist[sigma] I[base ']m Skyping with my brother in the conference foyer. But we[base ']re both saying nothing because we[base ']ve run out of things to say. Just stayed online, doesn[base ']t cost anyone anything. Heavy breathing noises without the premium rate... [Telepocalypse]
9:09:05 AM    comment   

Telco manager trouble. Peter Cochrane has a short opinion piece on Are IT Departments Doomed?. In the same vein, let me pose you the following conundrum. I make zero-charge calls to friends and associates around the world on an almost daily basis. Skype... [Telepocalypse]
9:06:53 AM    comment   

Qualcomm to build $800M U.S. wireless media network. The wireless technology company plans to build towers around the country to beam music and video to several types of 3G handsets using the 700-MHz radio spectrum. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
8:57:32 AM    comment   

Verizon Wireless to Buy NextWave Licenses. The deal announced Friday gives Verizon Wireless big chunks of additional spectrum in key markets including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. [eWEEK Technology News]
8:57:00 AM    comment   

MOT To Supply PoC To Bouygues Telecom. PARIS -- Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, the French mobile operator,... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
8:55:24 AM    comment   

GPS Hits the Spot. GSM operators better get on the path to location-based service offerings, or find themselves lost in Paltry ARPU-ville, say market watchers. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
8:53:39 AM    comment   

Seven See's. Seven service providers in the Asia-Pacific region are banding together in a common vision to build a cooperative network. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
8:52:48 AM    comment   

The myth of the One True Device. Earlier this week Tim Bray confessed his lack of lust for a do-everything phone, and then Jeremy Zawodny agreed, and then Russell Beattie dope-slapped both of them pretty hard. I, of course, agree with everybody. ... [Jon's Radio]
8:49:02 AM    comment   

Clay Shirky: Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software. We have grown quite adept at designing interfaces and interactions between computers and machines, but our social tools -- the software the users actually use most often -- remain badly misfit to their task. Social interactions are far more complex and unpredictable than human/computer interaction, and that unpredictability defeats classic user-centric design. [Tomalak's Realm]
8:47:42 AM    comment   

Mobile aggregators risk being squeezed out of the value chain, since increasing optimism about mobile entertainment is fueling both a rise in direct deals between brands and operators, and initiatives from some cellcos to run even basic services themselves.
8:29:50 AM    comment   

GPRS pricing models are showing signs of downward pressure across the Asia-Pacific region, though differing pricing models might still have a negative effect on the market.
8:27:15 AM    comment   

Regulators are looking closely at m-commerce and m-payment legislation to safeguard consumers
8:24:23 AM    comment   

The rapid adoption of mobile banking services by South Korean subscribers is largely due to the cellcos' close partnerships with Korean banks
8:12:00 AM    comment   

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