Cablevision, cable operator in Mexico, owned by Televista, will invest $280m in 2006, mainly in launching telephony services, the digitization of its network. BT plans to introduce higher speed wholesale broadband connections of about 8Mbit/s in the UK....

DoCoMo will sell simplified 3G handsets for customers who do not need or desire highly sophisticated functions. Vodafone did the same in January with a “Simple Mode 3” 2G handset. Sprint Nextel is offering Fandango Mobile, a service enabling users to...

Idea Cellular (India) had 7m mobile subscribers at the end of February. At the end of 2005, India had about 75m mobile subscribers, up 56%. It added about 4.7m new subscribers in January, a Chinese-like high-mark. Argentina: 22.7m mobile lines, up 62%,...

Scott Migaldi , Motorola' s director of Wireless Broadband Standards, is appointed to the WiMAX Forum's board of directors.

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3G LTE IPR plan We can make mistakes, but not twice. It is in short what ETSI is thinking about Intellectual Property Rights for patents essential to mobile networks. WCDMA cumulative royalties currently are about $80-$100bn up to 2017. ETSI wants to...

Risk in airplanes? When I was young, it was forbidden using electronic devices in planes, and the ban was gradually only lifted some years ago. Children are now playing game devices, earing walkman, while adults are using laptops, DVDs, and cellphones....

Wireless local loop in China It is not a new market. Its is know as PHS (technology-related) or Little Smart (marketing label), and is a cheap wireless fixed service. With currently about 85m subscribers (+31%), and accounting for about 60% of new foxed...

Euro IT retail market According to IT Europa, the Europe IT retail market has grown over $100bn. Top 50 retailers account for about 80%-85%of the total revenue. Growth has been driven by continued commoditisation of IT products, price cuts, boom in Internet...

Chinese mobile market It is well expected that China would grant 3G licenses in the next months. China is the first mobile market with the number of subscribers (current some 400m), with the number of new subscriber added each year (59m in 2005), with...