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Nokia Lumia 900 to Arrive at Other Carriers with Better Camera

In March, United States-based wireless carrier AT&T will add to its offering the first Nokia Windows Phone to pack LTE connectivity, namely the Lumia 900. The handset will be exclusive to this carrier, though only for 45 days, new reports suggest. Moreover, it appears that more operators in the US will be receiving...

16 January 2012
06:41 GMT

Carriers and Makers to Be Responsible for Windows Phone’s Slow Start

Windows Phone hasn’t managed to gain too much traction on the market, although it was made available on shelves over a year ago. Apparently, those to blame for this are wireless carriers and mobile phone makers, at least this is what ex-Windows Phone GM Charlie Kindel notes in a recent blog post. According to ...

29 December 2011
08:31 GMT

UK Wireless Carriers Team over Mobile Marketing and Payments

Today, three of the largest mobile phone carriers in the UK announced a standalone m-commerce joint venture (JV): Everything Everywhere, Telefónica UK and Vodafone UK. This is the first entity of the kind to be formed in the UK, and should result in the fast development and delivery of new mobile marketin...

16 June 2011
08:44 GMT

Apple's iMessage, a Rival for Carriers' Messaging Services

On Monday, during the keynote address at Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple unveiled a wide range of new features as services coming to its users in iOS 5, including iMessage, a service that could prove a direct competitor for the messaging systems that wireless carriers offer to their customers...

7 June 2011
16:41 GMT

Canadian Carriers Lower $60 Plans to $55 per Month

Mobile phone users in Canada can now enjoy cheaper monthly plans on the airwaves of major carriers in the country, including Bell, Rogers, TELUS or Virgin Mobile. All of these carriers unveiled plans to make their $60 plans available for only $55 per month, following announcements concerning the waving of the $35 ac...

14 March 2011
13:41 GMT

Orange and Vodafone Romania Fined 63M Euros

Two of the largest wireless services providers in Romania, namely Orange and Vodafone, were fined a total of 63 million Euros, autonomous administrative body Competition Council announced today in an official statement. Orange was fined 34,8 million Euros, while Vodafone's penalty tops 28,3 million Euros. The C...

15 February 2011
05:57 GMT

Android 2.2 for All Galaxy S Owners in the UK

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has announced several days ago that the long-awaited Android 2.2 operating system flavor is now available for all of its Galaxy S users in the UK, regardless their wireless carrier. The roll-out of this software update started a few months ago, and was delayed a fe...

27 December 2010
04:01 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S Tastes Android 2.2 in Canada

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics and various Canadian wireless carriers have just started to deliver the Android 2.2 Froyo software update for the Galaxy S devices in the country. Among the mobile phone carriers which started to make the move, we can count bell, which reportedly debuted the newer ...

10 December 2010
10:11 GMT

Google Phone Gallery Updated with New Devices

Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has added a series of new devices to its Google Phone Gallery, the online destination where users can learn what devices are available on the market with the company's Android operating system on board. In addition to showing the Android phones out there, the said page ...

28 October 2010
02:16 GMT

BlackBerry Torch at Australia's Telstra and VHA Soon

Recently, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the upcoming availability of its BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone at two wireless carriers in Australia, namely Telstra and VHA. Following the release of this smartphone on Optus's airwaves in Australia, RIM plans on making it available via Telst...

22 October 2010
07:41 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Comes with Tethering Capabilities [Update]

One highly appealing feature that Microsoft reportedly packed inside its upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system was tethering. According to the company, this feature is expected to be available right from launch day, though it's up to wireless carriers around the world to decide whether they will enable user...

24 September 2010
05:56 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Hits All Five UK Carriers, Microsoft Announces

Today, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced officially that all five mobile phone carriers in the UK will make Windows Phone 7 devices available for purchase on their networks as soon as the platform hits the market. According to Microsoft, Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Three will be launch partners...

22 September 2010
09:22 GMT

No Windows Phone 7 for CDMA Users Until 2011

Microsoft is nearing the official launch of Windows Phone 7, something that should happen in a matter of weeks, as the latest rumors around the web suggest, but it seems that the company would leave outside a wide range of mobile phone users. Among them, we can count CDMA mobile phone users in the United States, who...

18 September 2010
12:11 GMT

Facebook Teams with Carriers for 0.facebook.com

Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites around the world, has just announced an initiative meant to offer a wider range of users the possibility to access its features. To be more precise, the social media destination is now available in a number of 45 countries via 50 wireless carriers free of cha...

19 May 2010
04:14 GMT

Seven to Resell Windows Live Hotmail Services to Operators

Global leader in push-enabled mobile email and messaging solutions for mass market devices Seven announced today that it had joined the Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail for Mobile Services Reseller Program. According to the company, the agreement it signed with Microsoft will enable it to resell Windows Live Hotmail s...

1 March 2010
09:59 GMT

Wireless Carriers to Offer More Devices Besides Phones

Mobile phone carriers all around the world are reportedly seeking new ways through which they could expand the use of their wireless networks, and Strategy Analitics says that their focus is expected to shift towards devices like eBook readers, portable navigation devices and game consoles or Mobile Internet Devices,...

29 October 2009
07:27 GMT

Pre-Paid Phone Services to Drive Plan Price Drops

Most major wireless carriers in the United States are mainly focused on providing postpaid services to their customers, rather than offering them the possibility to opt for pay-as-you-go ones, yet it seems that the impressive growth in the number of users opting for a pre-paid service could change the way things are ...

7 May 2009
05:14 GMT

EU to Force Carriers to Accept VoIP

The European Commission is reported to plan on forcing mobile phone carriers to accept Voice-over-IP applications. According to the reports, EU's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, asked the EU to “undo arbitrary obstacles to 'innovative services' on cellphones.” In addition, it seems t...

13 April 2009
11:26 GMT


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