Emergency services operators rely on phone company databases for the addresses of 999 callers who are unable to speak. claims C&WC databases are corrupted by outdated or missing addresses and cause operators to send police, fire or ambulance...
The research is timely, as mobile operators are moving into a new phase, seeking increased profitability through concentrating more heavily on the 'quality' of their customers, rather than the quantity.
A leading analyst house is urging mobile operators to abandon their plans for third-generation (3G) networks. Greenway pointed out that Sonera and Telefonica have ditched their German 3G joint venture while operators such as Orange and Vodafone are...
Gary Corbett, MD for Opera Telecom, which operates premium mobile phone services for companies such as EMAP and Tiscali, said: "It's about time SMS service providers and network operators started to take more responsibility for self-regulation in...
The TD-SCDMA standard, which was developed by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology in collaboration with Datang and Siemens, is designed to help operators move from a second-generation wireless network to a 3G one.
Pieter Knook, senior VP of the mobile and embedded devices division and communications sector business at Microsoft, said in a statement: "Microsoft is providing smarter, advanced mobile solutions and creating business models that help mobile...