Entitled Broadband: A Platform for Progress, the report advocates a coordinated, nationwide approach to broadband development that more closely resembles the development of national railway or electricity networks than the more laissez-faire, market-driven approach that has generally characterized the roll-out of mobile cellular technology.
Android likely falls into this camp as well, as mobile phone manufacturers and cellular carriers would not support a mobile operating system with very narrow appeal.
After plugging in millions of dollars into third generation (3G) mobile services, cellular chief executives like Vodafone's Arun Sarin have been looking for revenue sources outside of phone calls, which have themselves seen prices driven down by competition.
AppleInsider speculated that one of them could be China Mobile , the largest cellular service provider in China.
Since most Indian consumers pay for cellular and mobile data service on a pay-as-you-go basis, Peeks there will be offered on a prepaid basis, as well as by monthly subscription.
N-Gage users will be able to take part in multi-player games with people in the same room via a short-range radio connection and with other mobile users via the cellular network.
The company makes clear that the decision to limit FaceTime over cellular to Mobile Share customers does not violate the FCC's net neutrality rules -- after all, it's being decidedly transparent about the frowned-upon choice -- nor does it cross the line on any "blocking" issues.
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Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ) MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
Given these developments, it would seem that the American mobile market is far from a cellular promised-land.
The company's Boost Mobile division, which markets prepaid cellular phone service to young consumers using sports- and music-oriented marketing, has seen excellent growth this year.
On a typical long-haul flight, says Mike Fitzgerald of Altobridge, a firm that makes technology to bridge satellite and cellular networks, 20 mobile phones are left switched on.
Over 170 million people subscribe to cellular service in the U.S., and nearly 80% of consumers between the ages of 25 and 54 have a mobile phone, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
One conjectures that since the FCC allowed Germany to own a U.S. cellular network (T Mobile owned by Deutsche Telekom), one presumes that it is okay to buy here if you are a vanquished former enemy.
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In 1993, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's principal mobile-phone carrier, opted for a technical standard called Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), which was incompatible with the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the standard adopted by most of the rest of the world.
This vision for mobile payments has been enthusiastically embraced by the various stakeholders involved, including credit-card companies, cellular carriers, makers of smartphones, the leading mobile operating systems developers, and banks and financial institutions.
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It took years for mobile-networking technology to develop and for cellular towers to go up.
China Mobile Limited (CHL) is the largest cellular provider in the world by number of subscribers.
But as you go down, take the mobile communications market -- you have digital cellular phones, cordless, pagers, all sorts of PDAs.
For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we currently give all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share or Tiered plans.
Their monthly fees remain only a fraction of cellular-phone charges, though the upwardly mobile will probably trade up to a handset as soon as they can afford to.
Readers struggling with slow mobile internet connections may soon have a really cool alternative to cellular networks.
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Users can download mobile apps from the Google Play store and share images over cellular networks by tethering to a nearby smartphone or tablet.
Pretty much every adult aged 25 to 55 who wants a mobile phone--about 80%, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association--already has one.
However, when it comes to mobile devices across all networks (read: not just using cellular data), the gap between iOS and Android devices is far wider.
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Greek companies have acquired Albania's fast-growing mobile-phone operator and a licence to set up a second cellular network.
"We're changing the industry's standards for live broadcasting from mobile devices by focusing on what matters most, video quality in cellular networks, " said Max Haot, CEO and Co-Founder of Livestream.
Overall, Grob said, Qualcomm expects that the cellular networks will be able to handle the explosion of mobile data implied by a fast-growing population of users around the world, each downloading more and more data.
While T-Mobile is a German company, it is a U.S. cellular telecommunications service provider and it sells to U.S. government employees.
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"HD Voice is part of our voice-over-LTE strategy, " said Rinne, speaking at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit in Sausalito, California, speaking of the next generation of cellular phone networks.
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