Telecoms Tech

Despite numerous LTE tests across China, predicting when the first commercial 4G networks will become active is a difficult and frustrating game, says our Beijing Correspondent Dr Lin Sun.

Finnish handset vendor Nokia has announced that is expecting to report a loss for the first two quarters of 2012.

Telecoms giant Telefónica has responded to the EU’s new roaming legislation by introducing a standard roaming mobile tariff which they claim is “considerably cheaper than the EU’s regulated rate.”

The traditional approach to service charging involved each network event being equal to a chargeable unit that was priced individually. But this paradigm has changed. The new approach involves tiered service bundles and periodic allowances. This change has been the result of a combination of evolving consumer behaviors and technology advances that have resulted in a rapid increase of usage data being generated by communications networks. These volumes manifest themselves as the challenge we are coming to recognize as big data.

Businesses smartphone uses are moving away from BlackBerry, and the rise of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon is making mobile device management (MDM) one of the hottest markets for enterprise IT, according to the latest market study by Ovum.

Due to a partial improvement in both the fixed (wireline) and mobile (wireless) network communication sectors, telecom service provider revenues passed the $1.91 trillion mark in 2011 -- that's compared to $1.79 trillion in 2010.

Soon, using anything other than a mobile device to make a purchase may be comparable to watching a film on VHS or listening to music on a cassette tape -- a thing of the past.

According to the latest market study by ABI Research, mobile Internet usage will account for 25 percent of China's mobile phone service revenues in 2012 -- that's up from less than 23 percent in 2011.