Russian WiMax operator Yota will soon begin offering its customers a WiMax terminal that can make VOIP calls -- and hand them over to a GSM network when the caller wanders out of the WiMax coverage area.
Virgin Mobile said on Thursday that it has tied up with Indian mobile operator Tata Teleservices to offer mobile services in India using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), the more popular mobile technology in the country.
Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members, the GSM Association announced on Monday.
The mobile world is one step closer to adopting a single standard for voice over Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology now that the GSM Association has adopted the carrier-sponsored 'One Voice' initiative.
Developers with the hacking group iPhone Dev-Team say they're making steady progress in unlocking both the iPhone 4's operating system, to run unofficial apps, and its network connection, to run on other GSM networks than AT&T's.
The (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.
LG has decided to return to the show floor at next year's Mobile World Congress, which will take place in February, after being absent at the show earlier this year, according to the GSM Association (GSMA).
A new product from Alcatel-Lucent aims to let mobile operators serve more customers using their existing radio spectrum, by offering faster mobile broadband services such as HSPA and LTE on frequencies currently reserved for GSM. Using software-defined radio technology, it will simultaneously support multiple mobile network technologies on one frequency, enabling operators to continue to serve customers with older phones.
While the Verizon iPhone is a CDMA-only device, it actually has a chipset capable of supporting both CDMA and GSM.
According to the team at iFixit, the CDMA Verizon iPhone uses a Qualcomm MDM6600 chip, the same chip used by the Motorola Droid Pro to connect to both CDMA and GSM networks. iFixit says that the chip supports 3G HSPA+ data rates that max out at over 14Mbps.
The GSM Association is getting behind the emerging mobile broadcast technology IMB (Integrated Mobile Broadcast), it said on Wednesday. The technology opens the door for more mobile TV channels and better picture quality, according to chip maker IPWireless.
On June 1, 1991, the first commercial calls over GSM were made in Finland and Sweden, Nokia Siemens and Ericsson noted Friday as they celebrated the anniversary by recollecting the early days of the technology.
After the launch of the Sierra Leone GSM Operators Association (SLGSMOA) last week, the group has called for a transparent review of Sierra Leone's international telecommunications gateway.
Industry organization GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Green Power for Mobile program, which will help operators that want to use renewable power sources, including solar, wind or sustainable biofuels, to power base stations, it announced on Thursday.
Glo Mobile, the fastest growing telecommunications network in Africa, formally received a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) license in Accra, Ghana, last Friday.
Following our recent discussion on fixed-mobile convergence, one of our readers pointed us to an independent industry association dedicated to addressing implementation of FMC. The organization is called MobileIGNITE, which stands for Mobile Integrated Go-To-Market Network IP Telephony Experience. MobileIGNITE is an independent multi-lateral industry association based on a shared Memorandum of Understanding that is committed to FMC solutions based on standards such as CDMA, GSM, UMTS, SIP, IP Multimedia Sy
After witnessing rapid growth in mobile phone usage in Africa, Africa Network Information Center (AfriNIC) plans to work with GSM companies on issues of Internet development.
There is a lot of good news in Africa, especially in the mobile space, but regulatory and technical challenges remain for both mobile phones and broadband, industry organization the GSM Association (GSMA) said Tuesday.
The security of the most widely used standard in the world for transmitting mobile phone calls is dangerously flawed, putting privacy and data at risk, two researchers warned at the Black Hat conference in Europe on Friday.
Nortel is now current on its financial reporting after restating years of results. Too bad it couldn't record a profitable quarter to celebrate. In the quarter ended March 31, Nortel had revenue of $2.54 billion, compared with $2.44 billion in the first quarter of 2004. Revenue was flat or down in most product segments but grew in its GSM and UMTS business. Nortel attributed most of this gain to a deal signed last year with Bharat Sanchar Nigram to build a wireless network in India. Nortel had a net loss o
Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems have along with luggage maker Rimowa developed a line of suitcases with GPS, Wi-Fi and GSM to help users keep track of them.
GSM coverage is being extended to cruise ships, ferries and merchant ships using picocell base stations and satellite technology, according to vendor ip.access.
Phone manufacturers must build NFC (Near Field Communications) functionality into mobile handsets in order to speed adoption of mobile payment systems, the GSM Association said Tuesday.