3g in pictures

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  Acer sees the future of smartphones as free

• Southern Phone calls on Utilibill for Telstra wholesale 3G management

  By Spandas Lui | 28 May, 2012 12:26

  Regional telco, Southern Phone, has signed up as a Telstra wholesale 3G mobile customer and has picked Utilibill to help manage the new services.

• Obama orders agencies to optimize Web content for mobile

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 20:06

  U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

• Obama orders agencies to optimize Web content for mobile

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 17:58

  U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

• Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 May, 2012 02:35

  Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the company said on Monday.

• New coalition opposes Verizon and cable spectrum deals

  By Grant Gross | 15 May, 2012 06:25

  A proposed sale of mobile spectrum from a group of cable providers to Verizon Wireless, along with accompanying marketing and research agreements, will lead to higher prices for broadband and mobile customers, a coalition of groups opposing the deal said Monday.

• Nokia loses UK patent appeal against IPCom, repercussions debated

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 21:32

  London's Court of Appeal has dismissed Nokia's attempt to overturn a ruling that it infringed on an IPCom patent. Nokia said the decision won't affect its current products, but IPCom doesn't agree and is continuing to seek an injunction against all Nokia 3G phones, it said.

• For LTE network slow but thorough will win the day, Sprint says

  By Stephen Lawson | 10 May, 2012 04:19

  Sprint Nextel's methodical rollout of new cell sites with LTE may not win the deployment race, but each market that gets the upgrade will see competitive speeds and more complete coverage than other carriers may offer, executives said Wednesday.

• Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 00:42

  Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.

• Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 December, 2010 03:14

  A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.

• Why Intel's Infineon buy is a smart move

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 31 August, 2010 08:18

  Intel has been on a buying binge lately. Just two weeks ago the world's largest chip maker agreed to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion, and today it announced plans to buy Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions (WLS) division for $1.4 billion.

• Acer sees the future of smartphones as free

  By Peter Sayer | 05 March, 2009 11:27

  Introducing the Acer F900 touch-screen smartphone