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February 2011
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First it was copper being stolen from telco ducting in the USA and Australia, now it’s wireless base stations in the UK being targeted. Reports have emerged that Vodafone UK suffered a major network outage on Monday following a break-in on Sunday night at one of its ‘technical facilities’, leaving many customers without voice, SMS and Internet services. The break-in occurred at an exchange located in Basingstoke, UK. An operator spokeswoman told Light Reading Mobile that "specialist... -
The perennial doomsters warning against mobile phone usage and links to brain damage have raised their ugly heads (no pun intended), once again. This time it is no less than the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which has found that 50 minutes of mobile phone use was associated with increased "brain glucose metabolism" - a marker of brain activity - in the region closest to the phone antenna. Presumably, the tests did not involve the iPhone 4. Considering the controversy... -
When embattled Australian mobile operator, Vodafone Australia (VHA) experienced major network issues late last year its CEO told the market it was due to ‘temporary software bugs’. When its customers rallied behind one Adam Brimo who set up a website to vent his frustration he was inundated with like-minded customers and a legal firm proposing a class action that now has 22,000 in support. That same CEO, Nigel Dews, seemed to go into denial about the real issues behind the networks failure... -
This is Barcelona week and you are probably fed up to the teeth with press releases and news emanating from this Catalonian stronghold. The Insider has spent a lot of time talking to delegates, press people and exhibitionists (I think that’s the right term for the people working the stands, especially CBOSS), to get the real gossip. Firstly, MWC this year is BIG. It’s definitely bigger than the last three years at least. The throngs of people in every hall are so large that at times it... -
The official Nokia blog says it is now official - Nokia is getting hitched to Microsoft! You have to love the joint announcement so soon after the so-called ‘leaked memo’ from Nokia CEO, and supposedly ex-Microsoft man, Stephen Elop. The rhetoric is pure Ballmer, though. “Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem. The partnership increases our... -
The annual pilgrimage to the GSMA’a Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is about to begin and The Insider waits with bated breath for this year’s big announcement. In 2009, it was that the GSMA and 17 leading mobile operators and manufacturers today announced that they are committed to implementing a cross-industry standard for a universal charger for new mobile phones. The group set an ambitious target that by 2012 a universal charging solution (UCS) would be widely available in the market... -
Nokia has been hitting the headlines in the past week, but not always for the right reasons. Firstly, speculation in the NewYork Times about an enhanced alliance with Microsoft (the first was announced back in 2009 but little came of it except that the Microsoft executive involved is now Nokia's CEO) surprisingly lifted its share price four per cent over four days. Then came the news that new CEO Stephen Elop, would be dispensing with the services of four of his top executives in a radical shakeup... -
My attention was drawn to an obscure article on the BuffaloNews.com website linking Verizon’s sizable lobbying budget ($9.3 million from 2006 -2009 to State and local government) to considerable subsidies ($614 million or $3.1 million per job) that the company is poised to receive in exchange for building a proposed data center in Niagara County. The publication points out, rather sensibly, that the two could just be coincidental! In recent years, Verizon has employed anywhere from seven to...
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