Vodacom launches two social networking services in South Africa

Oi Brazil’s got a clever mobile app

Yahoo! steps up the pace in India, Google offers local search via SMS

Rating: Vindaloo
After Google forged an exclusive tie-up with Bharti Airtel and Microsoft’s MSN entered into a similar partnership with Vodafone in India, Yahoo! was looking lost. Yesterday it signed what it called ‘strategic’ deals with three telcos simultaneously. State-owned BSNL, BPL Mobile and Aircel are Yahoo!’s new best friends and between them have 60 million [...]

Ofcom decrees number portability within two hours

Rating: rejoice – eventually
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but finally a regulator has really put the boot in on number portability. On Wednesday the UK’s regulator Ofcom said it is setting new rules by which consumers must be able to receive calls on their new number within two hours – at the moment, [...]

Ad sponsored networks suit hyper growth, too

Time-to-market more important than cost

Where’s the money in Google’s new addition to Mobile Maps?

Rating: you are HERE
Most interesting comments from Markus Goebel’s website concerning Google’s new location service for Google Mobile Maps. The first thing to note is that it doesn’t rely on GPS, but on location information provided by operators’ base stations. Apparently while it’s not as accurate as GPS overall, it works pretty well in urban [...]

Threat to Verizon’s reliability mantle

Rating: Shot itself in foot with Openness thingey
by Tony Dennis
No real hard news here at the E5 event hosted by Telcordia in  San Francisco. Until somebody asked guest speaker, Nicki Palmer, who is vp for network operations support with Verizon Wireless about her company freshly announced open network initiative.
She came out with the confession that [...]

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