T-Mobile to Retain iPhone Exclusivity in Germany
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A German court has ruled that T-Mobile Deutschland does not have to surrender its monopoly over iPhone sales in Germany by unlocking the Apple-developed handset. This reverses an earlier court injunction, brought by T-Mobile's rival, Vodafone, in November that required T-Mobile Deutschland to sell unlocked iPhones for use on...
Golden Telecom Planning US$100-mil. Investment in Ukrainian Broadband Sector
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Commonwealth of Independent States alternative telco Golden Telecom has announced plans to invest US$100 million in the Ukrainian broadband market by 2011, according to press reports citing Andrei Milinevsky, general director of the company's Ukrainian unit. Golden Telecom will initially construct retail infrastructure in six...
Texting Payments
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Over the years, dozens of companies have targeted the mobile payments market only to see their dreams slowly fade away and die. Unworkable and/or inconvenient technologies, as well as consumer apathy, have made mobile payments a sinkhole for many a hopeful investor's dollars. But iVisionMobile believes it can succeed where so...
It?s All About Quality
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Quality of service (Qos) is one of those elusive goals for wireless carriers and other service providers. Everyone wants it but it can be difficult to define, and tougher to achieve. Still, it's at the top of everyone's list of key performance indicators. J.D. Power and Associates, in its periodic ratings of overall ...
Wi-Fi More Addictive Than Coffee?
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Could Wi-Fi be more addictive than coffee? With Wi-Fi chipset sales poised to reach 300 million units this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat think it just may be. According to Karen Hanley, senior director at the Wi-Fi Alliance, responses to a series of consumer studies conducted by the non-profit indicated that 80% of consumers ...
FT Boasts iPhone Sales, Higher Dividends
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France Telecom SA says it sold 30,000 iPhones in the first five days of the Apple Inc. device's availability in France, with nearly half of those sales generating new Orange France mobile subscriptions. Under French law the carrier, Apple's chosen iPhone partner in France, cannot tie mobile subscriptions to the iPhone...
'E' in E-Discovery May Be for 'Expensive'
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SAN FRANCISCO -- E-discovery continues to reshape the methods, strategies, and relationships of storage professionals within their organization. And in truth, most storage pros are struggling with what data and documents need to be retained, the legal implications of backup versus archiving, and newly established tiers of...
Ranks of Young Cord Cutters Increasing Steadily
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The trend of young US wireless users opting to disconnect their home phone lines in favor of wireless-only options is growing, reports In-Stat. The typical cord cutter is under 35 years old with a small household and a lower income than the traditional phone user, the high-tech market research firm says. This ...
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