AFP - A Japanese government panel called on parents and schools Monday to help limit the use of mobile phones by children to prevent them from accessing "harmful" information on websites.
AP - An Indian telecommunications company has called off merger talks with South Africa's largest mobile phone network operator, MTN Group Ltd., a company statement said. -- read full article
PC World - China has unveiled plans to restructure the country's telecommunications operators, a final step towards the release of 3G... -- read full article
Reuters - China will issue three
licenses for high-speed third-generation mobile phone services
and called for a merger of China Unicom and Netcom, two of its
four biggest telecoms providers, in a long-awaited industry
revamp.
AP - China's biggest mobile phone company will take over a smaller fixed-line carrier, a state news agency said Friday, in what was expected to be the start of a sweeping industry restructuring. -- read full article
PC World - It's not often you read a book and find that, 10 years on, it remains central to your thinking. Ideas come and go, paradigms... -- read full article
AFP - Merger talks between India's biggest mobile phone services firm, Bharti Airtel, and South Africa's flagship MTN Group have been called off, the Indian company said in a statement on Saturday.
Reuters - China will issue three
licenses for high-speed third-generation mobile phone services
and called for a merger of China Unicom (0762.HK) and Netcom
(0906.HK), two of its four big telecoms providers, in a
long-awaited industry revamp.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - President Bush will announce a policy change on Wednesday to allow Americans to send mobile phones to family members in Cuba, the White House said. -- read full article
PC World - Will Sprint follows its competitors lead and restrict mobile broadband subscribers to 5 gigabytes of monthly combined upstream and downstream data usage? -- read full article
Reuters - Advertising on mobile phones has enormous
potential to become a significant platform for marketers, but
any breakthrough is years away and major operators must work
together to succeed, executives said.
Reuters - A U.S. appeals court sided with
Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) on Wednesday,
upholding a lower court's finding that a Golden Bridge
Technology cellphone patent was invalid. -- read full article
