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Nepal launches 3G

State-owned GSM operator Nepal Telecom launched Nepal’s and Indian sub-continent’s first 3G service on May 17.
The 3G SIM card reportedly cost Nepali Rs 4,195 (US$64.50) with 3G tariffs similar to that of prepaid rates.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has released guidelines for the running of MVNOs. Pakistan had 58.39 million mobile subscribers at the end of [...]

African Safari

Bharti and MTNL will bid for the second national telecom operator (SNO) licence in Africa’s third largest economy Kenya.
Other qualified bidders include France Telecom, Telkom of South Africa and Emirates Telecommunications Corp.
The successful bidder will be offered one licence for all services - cellular, internet backbone, international voice gateway, commercial VSAT and national and international [...]

GSM worldwide user base touches 2 billion

GSMA announced at the New Delhi meet that GSM based mobile subscriber base has touched two billion this month.
Craig Ehrlich, GSMA Chairman said,
“While it took 12 years for the industry to reach the first billion connection, the second billion has been achieved in just two and half years, boosted by the phenomenal growth of mobiles [...]

Time runs out for the wristwatch

Another gadget becomes the victim of the mobile phone. This time its the wristwatch. According to the Journal Sentinel, all the cool dudes and dudettes are refusing to wear their time on their wrists and are just looking at their cell phones instead.
“I see our business going down because of it,” says Chuck Reardon, manager [...]

M&A activity in Europe

Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) is expected to announce on Friday that it has agreed to buy Austrian mobile operator Telering for about $1.6billion.
Last week, France Telecom bought Spain’s third largest mobile operator Amena for $12 billion.
And Ireland’s Eircom acquired Meteor, a local mobile operator for $506 million.
Source: Business Standard

I-mode Felica

News.com has a nice article precising NTT DoCoMo’s new mobile-wallet service called “I-mode Felica”. Operators in advanced mobile markets like Japan are looking at these kind of VAS to not only increase ARPUs but also stickiness / lockin of their subscribers.
“DoCoMo is moving to a post-I-mode business model based on Felica.” -Yasushi Yoshikawa, general manager, [...]

Global wireless penetration hits 28%

New findings from Informa claim that the global wireless market has 1.8 billion subscribers, representing worldwide penetration of 28 percent. The four largest wireless growth markets are the BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
Italy, the UK, Sweden and Hong Kong have already exceeded 100 percent market penetration, and other markets that could follow this [...]

State of the US mobile market

According to a 5,600 household survey from Forrester Research:
* 67% of US households have at least one mobile phone.
* The top three mobile carriers will own seven out of 10 mobile households: Cingular+AT&T Wireless (28%), Verizon (27%), and Sprint/Nextel (15%).
* Basic features like price, battery life, and ease of use continue to be most important [...]

Nokia N series

Nokia has launched its new N series range of multimedia handsets featuring hard drives, multi-megapixel cameras, MP3 players and other standard smartphone functionality.
The N series product portfolio comes from Nokia’s new Multimedia business group. In order to distinguish the high-end models from the basic ones, the old four-digit model codes have been replaced by [...]

Cellphonies

I think everyone will relate to this story on mobile subterfuge in social situations.
“People are turning the technology on its head,” Katz said. “They are taking a device that was designed to talk to people who are far away and using it to communicate with people who are directly around them.”

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