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Brief Excerpt from Industry Overview Chapter:
In the US, about 5,000 companies provide wired telecommunication services, with total annual revenue over $200 billion. Large companies include AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest. The industry is highly concentrated: the 50 largest companies hold 90 percent of the market.
The industry includes local service carriers (annual revenues about $130 billion); long-distance carriers (about $70 billion); pay phone operators; pre-paid card providers; and telecommunication resellers.
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In addition, the Samsung FlipShot offers an integrated 3.0-megapixel camera with autofocus, zoom, and video recording capabilities. Other media features from Verizon Wireless include VCAST Video to view high-quality shows and VCAST Music to download music directly to the phone.
Mobility World Congress is considered Asia's premier congress for the mobile and wireless industries, based on attendance – typically more than 1,500 conference delegates, speakers and members of the international press – and the breadth and depth of its tracks. This year’s event features two afternoons of keynote addresses focused on mobile and entertainment and next-generation services. The conference also includes six congress tracks on mobile broadband deployments, emerging business models, wireless devices, network evolution, next-generation services and emerging market opportunities.
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Most of the energy in a typical telecommunication network is consumed by the wireless network's base station site. In response to this, Nokia Siemens Networks says that it is announcing offerings that dramatically improve the energy efficiency of its wireless networks, particularly the base stations and base station sites.
"The Energy Efficiency solution makes good green business sense," said Ari Lehtoranta, head of the Radio Access business unit at Nokia Siemens Networks. "By bringing state-of-the art products and software together with our Services portfolio for operators, we can reduce adverse environmental impact while also generating considerable cost savings for our operator customers."
The four main elements of the solution are:
Nokia Siemens Networks says that the energy consumption of a base station site can be reduced by up to 70 percent with its Energy Efficiency solution.
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"Pocket Express is largely comprised of high income business professionals -a very desirable audience for advertisers," said Douglas Edwards, Handmark co-founder and CMO. "With the help of Nokia Ad Business, we are able to offer advertisers a unique opportunity to reach this attractive demographic on their most personal device."
The program will launch early next year, and will serve as a new revenue stream for Handmark.
"We are pleased to work with high quality mobile content publishers like Handmark," said Vice President and Head of Nokia Ad Business Mike Baker. "Nokia's vision for mobile advertising is to build an open advertising marketplace that is brand safe. Handmark is a great addition to our media offering."
Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that's far from the limit of the Internet giant's wireless ambitions -- which could include running its own mobile network.
The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January. Google is prepared to bid on its own without any partners, say people familiar with the matter. It is working out a plan to finance its bid, which could run $4.6 billion or higher, that would rely on its own cash and possibly some borrowed money.
Google, meanwhile, already is running a test version of an advanced wireless network at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, gaining operating experience that could come in handy if it wins the spectrum and decides to run a full-scale national mobile carrier, according to people familiar with the matter.
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This network expansion is part of the company's aggressive multi-billion dollar network investment each year (more than $1 billion every 90 days) to stay ahead of the growing demand for Verizon Wireless voice and data services. The company has invested more than $170 million this year to enhance and expand its network in southeastern, central and northeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, bringing the network investment in the region to more than $1 billion since 2000.
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GPS navigation is not one of those things most users consider to be crucial in a PDA-phone, at least not in the same way as features like W-Fi and Bluetooth are. But even though most consider it to be a bonus rather than a requirement, it is surprisingly found in quite a few entry-level devices even when high-end ones give it a miss.
Examples will be devices from Mitac and E-Ten, companies which tend to put a GPS chip into every handset they sell, even the 2.5G ones. Another of these manufacturers is Asus, and a good example is its upcoming P527 handheld.
Like the Asus P525 before it, the P527 comes with a numeric keypad. This makes it easier to punch in phone numbers for dialing and even for keying in text compared to writing on the screen. It also eases in users switching over from regular mobile phones as most of those have numeric keypads as well.
As mentioned earlier, the P527 will come with GPS for navigation. This utilizes the SiRFstar III chip, that we've generally had good experiences with in other devices like the Dopod U1000 and Mitac Mio A501.
Like many other Windows Mobile PDA-phones, the P527 comes with quite a few wireless connectivity features. Granted, it's doesn't have HSDPA or 3G, but all others like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are available. A bonus is the inclusion of an FM tuner.
Other notable features of the P527 are a 2-megapixel autofocus camera, a microSD slot with support for SDHC cards, and a 2.6-inch QVGA display. It is also reasonably compact with a thickness of 15.4mm and weight of 125g.
The Asus P527 will be available in Hong Kong and Taiwan at the end of November. Thereafter, it will be sold in Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, India and Turkey.
Check out this shiny new phone from Nokia: the Nokia NM705i. Of course, the chances of you getting your hands on this phone is remote, unless you happen to be in Japan. Available to NTT DoCoMo customers, the NM705i is designed to work on the FOMA (WCDMA 2100MHz) network as well as WCDMA 800/850. A quad-band GSM phone, it will also work pretty much everywhere else in the world. There's an FM radio on-board.
Compliant with Bluetooth 2.0, the phone supports quite a few profiles like: Audio Streaming, Audio/Video Remote Control Profile, Dial-up Networking Profile, File Transfer Profile, Generic Access Profile, General Audio/Video Distribution Profile, General Object Exchange Profile, Handsfree Profile, Headset Profile, Object Push Profile and Serial Port Profile.
The Nokia NM705i recently gained the FCC's approval as well, but there's no word on the pricing or availability.
"The economics of traditional voice centric mobile networks cannot profitably support high bandwidth data services and thus IP architectures are becoming critical elements in the delivery of ubiquitous mobile broadband services," said Christman. "To stay on top of the game, NTT Communications Global IP Network, a Tier 1 IP backbone which interconnects four continents with high-performance IPv4 and IPv6 capability, has continuously been upgraded to accommodate such development."
In addition, exclusive footage from the performances will be made available across all three screens that consumers value most — their TV, PC and wireless device — via AT&T U-verseSM TV, AT&T HomezoneSM and CV streaming video service. Taking fans beyond the music as part of the company’s entertainment strategy, AT&T’s production group will be creating and producing a free show based on the concerts that will be available exclusively to AT&T U-verse and AT&T Homezone customers. The exclusive content will consist of on-campus, onstage and backstage features, as well as interviews with Dave Matthews Band.
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It started with Apple, but here comes Google.
In the second major announcement this year by a Silicon Valley stalwart that aims to shake up the way people use mobile phones, Google Inc. officially announced Monday a sweeping plan to encourage a new breed of software development designed to make it easier to surf the Internet from a cell phone.
But Google's not going at it alone. It is working with a newly created global coalition of companies, called the Open Handset Alliance, that includes phonemaker Motorola Inc. and wireless carriers Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. And unlike Apple's iPhone, sold exclusively in the U.S. by AT&T Inc., the Google software platform could be available on countless phones and sold through multiple carriers.
Google is not introducing its own phone - one has been rumored - but a suite of software that can be used on phones starting in the second half of next year. Besides Motorola, other phonemakers participating so far include Samsung, LG Electronics and HTC.
Google's software platform, called Android, runs on open-source code, so any software developer can create a program for it. The idea is to encourage innovation, and thus improve the chances of developing an advanced mobile phone capable of enticing more people to use Web tools on their phones. It also creates new competition for handsets that use Microsoft's operating system for phones as well as Apple's iPhone.
'In order to get a tremendous new mobile phone experience, you need to attract' people who haven't had access to the mobile platform before, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a conference call Monday. 'And that's software developers. This is a developer announcement. You can now build the great things you've done on the Internet' on a mobile phone.
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In terms of specifications the XV6800/HTC Titan will support the wireless connectivity WiFi, and microSD memory cards to be used as external storage systems. Other features include a sliding (full) QWERTY keyboard so you can type easily, a 2-megapixel camera to shoot some photos/videos, 64MB of RAM, and 256MB of ROM.
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With a fun, new compact design, Centro is the smallest and lightest Palm phone to date. Centro has a modern, stylish look that feels comfortable in the hand, pocket or evening purse. Centro was designed as a great phone, messaging, and organizational device, and is incredibly easy to use.
With Centro, Sprint customers can quickly and easily text co-workers and friends, manage email, keep track of their schedules, check stock quotes, watch videos on YouTube, keep current on the latest news, capture and share pictures, browse restaurant reviews on Yelp, and get directions on Google Maps - all in one small, compact phone.
Expected mid-October, the Palm Centro will be available in Palm stores and online at www.sprint.com and www.palm.com/centro for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, available discounts and promotions and required service plan.
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement with Verizon Wireless Tuesday over what Cuomo called deceptive marketing practices for its unlimited Internet service.
Under the settlement, Verizon Wireless will pay $150,000 in penalties and costs to New York state and revise the marketing of its wireless Internet access plan. It will also pay an estimated $1 million in reimbursements to customers.
The company was accused of marketing its wireless Internet plan as unlimited, but then terminating accounts for excessive use. Restrictions on the plans were not clearly and conspicuously disclosed to consumers, according to Cuomo's office.
Verizon issued a state Tuesday saying that it cooperated with the attorney general's office and reached the agreement voluntarily.
"We are committed to providing clear advertising for our products and services, and we began updating advertising for our NationalAccess and BroadbandAccess data plans earlier this spring," the statement reads.
Wireless is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves (rather than some form of wire) carry the signal over part or the entire communication path. Common examples of wireless equipment in use today include:
Wireless networking is used to meet a variety of needs. Perhaps the most common use is to connect laptop users who travel from location to location. Another common use is for mobile networks that connect via satellite. A wireless transmission method is a logical choice to network a LAN segment that must frequently change locations. The following situations justify the use of wireless technology:
The term wireless is normally used to refer to any type of electrical or electronic operation which is accomplished without the use of a "hard wired" connection. Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short (a few meters as in television remote control) or very long (thousands or even millions of kilometers for radio communications). When the context is clear the term is often simply shortened to "wireless". Wireless communications is generally considered to be a branch of telecommunications.
IT. It encompasses cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking. Other examples of wireless technology include GPS units, garage door openers and or garage doors, wireless computer mice and keyboards, satellite television and cordless telephones.
Wireless communication may be via:
Applications may involve point-to-point communication, point-to-multipoint communication, broadcasting , cellular networks and other wireless networks.
