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items tagged with Fixed-mobile convergence

Bashing Telstra for the right or wrong reasons?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-12-07 01:31:54
It’s all over the news – the Federal Court says Telstra’s ‘everywhere you need it’ ads were misleading after the ACCC complained – but if we’re going to waste all this time and money bashing Telstra, let’s bash them over their pricing, not their advertising.

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3.5G winning mobile broadband war
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-12-03 05:58:47
Although Intel spurned the inclusion of a Nokia 3.5G HSPA chipset in future Centrino notebook platforms in favour of Wi-Fi and, in the future, WiMAX wireless solutions, notebook vendors have been busily adding 3G and 3.5G data modules anyway.

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Price war brewing in Australian mobile broadband market
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-11-29 00:29:20
Vodafone have launched a 5GB monthly plan for 3.5G mobile broadband users in selected metropolitan areas of Australia at only $39 per month, challenging all fixed and wireless competitors for the December mobile broadband dollar.


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Vodafone NZ launches 'fixed-line' cellular service
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2007-11-11 20:39:26
Vodafone New Zealand has launched a cellular based fixed network bypass service similar to that offered in Australia by Optus subsidiary, Virgin Mobile. The move raises the possibility of a similar offering from Vodafone Australia.
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Exclusive: Telstra delivers Next-G speed boost at last
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-09-24 19:54:09
10.30am: For some time now Telstra have been saying that the Next-G network has already been upgraded to be up to 14.4Mbps compatible, but only offered 3.6Mbps-class devices. Finally, 7.2Mbps-class devices have arrived, and the speed boost is real!


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Fixed phone services heading for an early death
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2007-07-30 16:04:34
The latest market research coming out of Europe forecasts rapid substitution of fixed service services with mobile, lead by Finland where 90 percent of call minutes are expected to originate on cellphones within a year.


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Virgin Mobile launches 3G-based 'fixed line' broadband bundle
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2007-07-24 13:59:42
Virgin Mobile has launched a fixed line telephone service with broadband Internet access and including unlimited local and national long distance calls and 4GBs of download data for $60 month, with all traffic carried on parent Optus' 3G network.


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Telarus & Aruba offer fixed mobile convergence via VoIP over WiFi
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature

Category: VoIP

2007-07-08 03:46:47
Telco service provider, Telarus, has teamed up with Aruba to provide fixed mobile convergence solutions to organisations based on Aruba's range of mobility controllers and WiFi access points.


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T-Mobile USA launches WiFi access for cellphone users
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2007-06-27 23:13:04
Deutsche Telekom's US cellular subsidiary, T-Mobile USA, has launched a converged fixed-mobile service that enables its cellular customers to make low cost calls via WiFi through home base stations and their broadband Internet connection, or through T-Mobile's 8500 public hotspots in the USA.


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‘Australia Connected’ sounds pretty good – now what?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-06-18 08:23:42
The Federal Government’s launch of ‘Australia Connected’ is meant to ensure ’99.9%’ of Australians get access to at least 12Mb broadband speeds one way or the other by June 30, 2009.


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Telstra launches next generation network, 'Next IP'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2007-04-26 00:45:15
At a press briefing today Telstra formally launched its next generation all IP network dubbed 'Next IP'. The presentation was long on sales hype and short on hard information but it once again throws the spotlight on Telstra's unassailably unique and powerful position in the Australian telecoms market.


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Vodafone shows Internet calling on cellphones
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: Reuters

2007-03-15 09:42:02

HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Vodafone, the world's most international cellphone carrier with over 200 million subscribers, showed Internet-calling for cellphones with Skype, which it said it may launch in the future.


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Nortel targets 4G mobile, enterprise and SME markets
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2007-03-10 19:06:58
Nortel president and CEO, Mike Zafirovski, says the company plans to increase its focus on the enterprise, SMB markets, and next-generation 4G mobility.


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Dual Mode handsets - are Wifi/cell phones hype or the Next Big Thing?
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana

Category: The Digital Lounge Room

2007-02-28 08:15:58
Analysts staring into their crystal balls are making varying predictions about the future of Dual Mode handsets - cellphones with built-in VoIP-over-Wifi - so who do we believe?


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Robot cars to compete in toughest ever DARPA Challenge
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-02-18 07:07:58
The types of robots that will be commonplace in the future are being developed today, with the Stanford Racing Team’s newest robotic car, “Junior”, just one of the competitors in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, where robot cars have to drive in real world conditions – without crashing!


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Intel and Nokia hang up on 3G HDSPA for next-gen Centrino
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-02-15 00:15:53
At last September’s IDF (Intel Developer Forum), Nokia and Intel announced they were working on a 3.5G HSDPA module to be included with Intel’s next Centrino platform for Core 2 Duo processors, dubbed ‘Santa Rosa’. Now it’s been cut, and what a shame for consumers this is!


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3G base stations: now available for your home
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2007-02-11 05:17:30
Ericsson has launched a home access point that it claims to be the world's smallest GSM radio base station, a so-called femto cell.


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3GSM 2007 preview: The IP Invasion
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: ZDNet UK

2007-02-11 05:08:33

Next week, 12-15 February, will see the global mobile industry descend upon the Catalan city of Barcelona for what will be the largest 3GSM conference yet.


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Invasion of the pico-cells
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2007-02-04 22:24:42
Japanese cellular operator, Softbank, is to deploy thousands of tiny cellular base stations within buildings to boost indoor coverage of its 3G HSDPA network. The development signals the growing importance of these and even smaller base stations, known as femto cells.


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The phone of the future is coming, and its proprietary!
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!

Category: Telecommunications blog

2007-01-24 19:40:06
A 'Future Phone' that integrates the traditional office phone, home phone and mobile phone into one personal phone with one single phone number will be released at and upcoming conference in May 2007, but the story is not that simple...


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