News analysis

Portuguese operators close to MIM interoperability

Vodafone may join later

Optimus hopes to have completed mobile instant messaging interoperability with TMN within the first quarter of next year.

Optimus, the number three operator is currently in commercial discussions with the incumbent operator to establish interoperability between the two operators’ instant messaging communities. It expects to have achieved technical intergration within the first quarter of next year.

Jorge Ferreira, product manager for messaging at Optimus,

Turkcell outlines 3G expectations

License bid process will mean no rollout till mid 2009 

Turkcell will not start investment in its 3G network until it has gone fully through the license approvals process, according to Koray Öztürkler, the Turkish operator’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer.

With the tender process now scheduled to begin on 28th November, and a judicial approvals process that can take up to 90 days, that means that investment in the network will not

WeFi lists hotspots for success

If your handset had a client on it that automatically selected the best available WiFi hotspot for you – would that be useful? What about if you could use the software to ask the service where your nearest

Movidilo moves on European market

Customer care boost

Mobile operators could save millions of Euros a year, as well as generating additional millions, by implementing a client-server solution that blends voice and text input, allied to intelligent database enquiry, to improve the user experience.

Martin Gossling, vp business development for Movidilo, a subsidiary of Spanish company Ydilo, told Mobile Europe that the company’s blend of an intuitive UI, along with advanced database interrogation, has automated response to 85% of one

Russian operators well placed despite credit crunch

Analysts at Credit Suisse have said that Russian operators MTS and Vimpelcom will catch a little pain from the global liquidity crisis and expected economic slowdown, but are both in a good position to continue growing.

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What does a vendor need to do to be successful in LTE?

PA Consulting experts offer some answers

After some years of underachievement, mobile data is finally taking off. Sales of HSDPA dongles are growing rapidly and key internet services (such as Facebook and Google Maps) are going mobile, with the result that mobile operators' data traffic uptake in the UK has shown growth of between 100% and 400%over a twelve month period.

GSMA launches Mobile Broadband mark

Notebooks with embedded HSPA to get industry badge

Hundreds of thousands of notebooks branded with a new GSMA-approved Mobile Broadband mark will be on sale by Christmas, according to the GSMA's Chief Marketing Officer, Michael O'Hara.

The GSMA has brought together 16 companies, including laptop OEMs, chipset developers, module manufacturers and mobile operators to launch a new industry mark to publicise the benefits of "Mobile Broadband" access from notebooks.

Devices carrying embedded HSPA

Nokia stands down business unit

Set to sell security business to private investor 

Nokia is to scale down direct sales of its software and appliances to the enterprise and business market, and is selling its security appliances business, in a bid to focus more on consumer markets.