Tighter regulation of mobile data roaming casts shadow over Barcelona from Brussels
With MWC 2011 still in full swing there are no shortage of topical issues to blog about, but whilst the mobile industry celebrates its achievements in …
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Will integration of mobile payment with location based advertising kill Google?
Sadly the watcher in not at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, although from London it would seem that the volume of announcements is best …
O2 applies for first UK e-money licence whilst Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard announce contactless payment service
Mobile money is a recurrent theme for the watcher. See the mobile money overview post and Apple’s incorporation of NFC into iPhone post. As anticipated, …
Microsoft to rescue Nokia?
“There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from …
Ofcom consults on proposals to permit trading of 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz spectrum and to vary 3G licences
Ofcom today published proposals for consultation to: make 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz public wireless network licences tradable; and vary the terms of existing 2100 …
Mobile operators to acquire more fixed assets in 2011?
Any twitter followers (to follow go to: @rbratby) may have seen my live tweet commentary from the AnalysysMason city briefing last night. I thought the four speakers …
Will Apple’s move into NFC mobile payment reshape industry alliances?
My eye was caught today by a story on TechCrunch (an excellent blog BTW) that Apple may incorporate near field communications technology (NFC) into its next generation …
Cognitive radio: the road to mobile broadband delivery, or the path to anarchic interference?
For those who are not familiar with the term, cognitive radio (also sometimes described as white-space radio) describes a way of using radio spectrum in which …
UK telecoms policy moves government department as proposals for new Communications Act announced
In a week of Westminster resignations, with Andy Coulson accused of condoning mobile voicemail hacking and Ed Balls taking over as Chancellor you may be …
Mobile broadband event: net neutrality, mobile content, network capacity and handsets
Regular blog readers will know that I hosted a mobile data event for Cambridge Wireless yesterday. I found the event thought-provoking. For those on twitter, I attempted …