mobile operators

The FCC has agreed to extend by a year the period in which mobile operators must offer consumers local number portability.

Both are strategically reducing the role of mobile operators to that of "connectivity providers" .

Indeed, "data portability" stimulates competition, just as phone-number portability encourages competition among mobile operators.

Eventually, mobile operators could come to see barcode-driven advertising as a significant source of revenue, Mr Bulkeley says.

Mobile operators see the new field as such a small part of their overall business that it gets relegated to the back-burner.

Spam short message (SMS) had been a big problem that disturbed cell-phone users and mobile operators recently.

Chinese mobile operators are expected to spend tens of billions of dollars on network equipment over the next three years.

This helps mobile operators lure voice traffic away from fixed-line operators, a process known as "fixed-mobile substitution" .

It has not given India's mobile operators enough space on the radio spectrum to carry calls crisply and reliably.

Judging by the complaints of some of India's mobile operators, its airwaves are just as overcrowded.

Mobile operators are duly beefing up their networks and preparing to roll out LTE, the next generation of wireless technology.

What follows will be an exercise in posturing and brinkmanship by mobile operators and internet companies as they jostle for advantage.

People do not generally buy them in shops, but from mobile operators.

The mobile operators were preparing to pick up much of the cost, although Huawei was offering to supply deeply discounted equipment.

Chief executives of all the major mobile operators have been invited to a meeting at City Hall in October.

China Mobile was the first of the country's three mobile operators to launch its own app store in August 2009.

Either the labels will have to make do with less, or other firms, such as the mobile operators, will have to pitch in.

Ofcom will auction off the frequency currently used by analogue television broadcasts in 2010, handing it over for use by mobile operators.

"They have proven very willing to force mobile operators to give money back to consumers because that attracts applause, " he says.

At present, the message inter-working gateway system are widely used in the all mobile operators SMS platform.

The NMa is concerned that the mobile operators may have entered into anti-competitive agreements over these payments.

The handset makers are forever customizing operating systems and software applications to suit the differing needs of mobile operators.

Therefore, the major mobile operators are actively building a third-generation mobile communications networks.

SMS popularity was a pleasant surprise to mobile operators because the cost of sending and delivering messages is low.

Look for the big Internet companies like Yahoo and Google to become key mobile portals, alongside the mobile operators.

South Korean mobile operators have been struggling to develop new revenue sources in their saturated $17bn home market.

By the same token allowing mobile operators to fall to foreign predators is unlikely to compromise national security.

Mobile operators, who typically subsidise a part of the purchase price for phones, are another source of pricing pressure.

AT&T's deal was vigorously opposed by Sprint, rural mobile operators, consumer organisations and leading politicians on Capitol Hill.

Also, consumers cannot get these handsets directly through their mobile operators, and the operators cannot subsidise them.

In the past five years or so it has steadily risen up mobile operators' lists of the handsets they promote to their subscribers.

Huawei mainly supplies, wholesale, to the likes of mobile operators - though this strategy is changing.

But mobile operators are also reluctant to speed the replacement of high-margin voice calls with low-margin internet use.

To commemorate the event, the country's second largest mobile operators, China Unicom (China Unicom) held a night celebrations.

The Ministry has recently punished three mobile operators for breaching these regulations.

More than 60 mobile operators in 15 countries - including all those in the UK - are compliant with the system's carrier billing.

As a software platform, Symbian has been optimised for flexibility in customizations by handset makers and mobile operators.

A spokesman for the Mobile Operators Association said more than 30 scientific reviews had found no adverse health effects.

Smartphones have helped boost mobile operators' revenue by encouraging customers to use data and other value-added services.

Huawei has yet to strike significant deals with British mobile operators, but this may be about to change.

Mobile operators are supporting an initiative to enable people who work abroad to use their phones to send money home.

Such practices make mobile operators nervous, especially when customers are on flat-rate plans.

In a mature and saturated market, they are at a disadvantage to mobile operators.

The other caveat with the FCC's new rules is their leniency towards mobile operators, who will be allowed to block some kinds of traffic.

Therefore, the study of behavioral intentions in mobile service is essential for mobile operators.

In other words, mobile operators don't want people simultaneously avoiding their call charges and hogging 3G network capacity.

After all, mobile operators have far more powerful brands and much greater reach than banks.

The new service will compete not only against mobile operators, but with telephone companies and cable firms that sell broadband.

The smartphones come in three versions, one for each of China's state-run mobile operators.

This paper is presented in the position of the domestic mobile operators and from the view of strategy managers.

Most mobile operators and handset-makers are searching for a platform for their mass-market phones of the future.

Mobile operators, for instance, take a big cut when payments are made using "premium" text messages.

So big mobile operators, including those from emerging economies, are looking for growth wherever it can be found.

Most European mobile operators provide customers with mobiles that use 3G technology called W-CDMA.

Mobile operators charge about two cents for each three-minute lesson.

Software players put mobile operators on the defensive.

China would then be left with three large mobile operators, led by China Mobile.

That is because unlike the United States, Indian mobile operators are not subsidizing the phone.

Mr Vestberg explains that Ericsson has been building new networks for mobile operators and modernising old ones.

The big question is whether the broadcasters and mobile operators can agree how to divide the spoils, assuming there are any.

Next, HTC started making customised smartphones running on Windows systems for mobile operators such as Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone.

Working with over 220 mobile operators, txteagle is able to reach 2 billion subscribers in 80 countries.

On average, it predicts, mobile operators will not break even from 3G investments before 2014.

China's three mobile operators, all of which are state-owned, don't control handset sales the way U. S. carriers do.

But its model may point the way for other mobile operators.

Mobile operators could then use fixed broadband pipes to deliver content (such as music tracks) to mobile phones.

But what is good news for taxi drivers is less so for mobile operators.

Facebook has deals with 200 mobile operators in 80 countries, so possibly 0 will extend to most or all of those.

Another problem is that mobile operators have yet to work out how to deal with advertisers.

Mobile operators in America are now launching tracking services.

Mobile operators in America are now launching tracking services too.

Many mobile operators now run base-stations at a standard temperature of 35º C, rather than the previous norm of 25-30º C.

The upshot is that mobile operators see no market for preinstalled apps, and so the circle closes.

Samsung equipment is used by 57 mobile operators in 36 countries.

In order to create new profit growth point, more and more attention to mobile operators, value-added business.

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