Satnav watch links via text to handsets

Rating: Devices appears progammable for LBS

Here’s a way of accessing highly accurate location information with an ordinary mobile phone. A GPS/GSM capable wristwatch which doesn’t even require a Bluetooth connection – the GPS watch uses SMS instead. Better still no-one would know you’re carrying a GPS receiver because it looks like a normal digital watch.

Virgin Mobile targets “the youth” with launch of Indian GSM network and further price reductions

The Virgin Mobile strategy for spreading to new countries is pretty well established. It partners with an existing carrier in the country, and offers its own branded services over its partner’s network. In India, the Virgin Mobile partnership is 50-50 with indigenous operator Tata Teleservices. But Tata runs a CDMA network, which has much less coverage in India than the dominant GSM networks. So Virgin has announced a new GSM service, an ad campaign targeting a youth audience, and new reductions in call and SMS rates.

GSMA Global Mobile Award Winners Speak Out

The GSMA Global Mobile Awards uniquely offer organisations across the global mobile eco-system the opportunity to showcase the latest mobile products, services and initiatives to the world. The Awards which have been running since 1995 are open to eligible mobile companies and supporters of the mobile eco-system.

Is it easy to monitor mobile phone calls? Weaknesses revealed in GSM

Every year since 1984, there has been an interesting convention in Germany. The annual Chaos Communications Congress is a meeting of international hackers, who convene to share information, listen to lectures and attend workshops. This year one of the speakers, a German encryption specialist, has really put the wind up the mobile scene - by claiming to have completely broken through the encryption code that keeps mobile calls on GSM networks safe from monitoring.

Japanese/Indian mobile operator TATA DOCOMO expands aggressively

We recently announced the launch of TATA DOCOMO. The operator is a branch of Indian company Tata Teleservices, heavily funded by Japanese giant NTT DOCOMO. The entire purpose of TATA DOCOMO is to spread a GSM mobile network all across India. This week has see the venture launching in two separate Indian territories.

GoMo Buzzwatch: Tata Teleservices invests $2 billion is GSM network

Indian mobile operator Tata Teleservices has announced it will be investing $2 billion in a country-wide GSM network. The company already operates a CDMA network, but is switching away from the less popular architecture.

CDMA vs GSM? WTF?

To be honest, there’s not a huge functional difference between CDMA and GSM networks. There are proponents in both [...]

Vodafone partners with Ghana Government and major national telecoms to extend mobile network and 3G

Vodafone has made some serious moves in the West African Republic of Ghana. Not content with buying 70% of the share of Ghana Telecommunication Company last year, Vodafone has entered a partnership with the Government of Ghana. With these deals in place, the newly named Vodafone Ghana will be making big improvements to the mobile [...]

MobiCom Receives ‘Best New Technology’ Award for Deployment of Altobridge Solution

Remote GSM technology enables service delivery to isolated small user groups
 
Barcelona, 16 February, 2009 – Leading Mongolian mobile network operator, MobiCom Corporation, has received an award as ‘Best New Technology’, in recognition of its remote GSM service using Altobridge’s Remote Community Solution.
 
Hosted by the country’s ‘My Computer magazine’ in partnership with the Information Communication [...]

Nuance pushes Snap-in to mobile operators

Rating: Jolly sensible use of GSM data channel
I was chatting about call centre matters with Nuance’s Ian Turner when he mentioned one of his company’s products – Snap-in – In passing. Sounds like a jolly clever mobile app to me.

Basically Ian’s goal at Nuance is to help make life easy as possible for call centre [...]

HSL’s 2.75G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) Femtocell in Final Phase of Development - Pricing, Managed Services and Availability Announced

Edinburgh, Scotland, 26th June 2008Femot
HSL (Hay Systems Ltd), an independent mobile network operator and provider of mobile services and equipment have today disclosed further details regarding their 2.75G Femtocell development project.  HSL have now released details of the physical appearance and have announced plans for a managed femtocell network service with the device being available [...]

Aricent goes global with Celltop handset environment

Rating: Breaks out of single operator and single OS handcuffs
Having initially restricted itself to BREW based handsets and just one operator – Alltel, Aricent has widened the scope of its Celltop handset environment to include Java (J2ME) mobile phones.
This enables Aricent to target the much larger number of GSM based operators.
To facilitate this move, Aricent is making [...]

Mobile Marketing Forum London 2008 and GSM BAFTA with Telecom TV and the GSMA

So, I have been quiet today as I am preparing to fly to London for the Mobile Marketing Forum conference at the London Hilton Metropole.  There is a really hot agenda and I will do my best to blog and video some of the highlights.
On top of that I am having lunch with Seeker Wireless [...]

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