Carriers are looking to deploy picocells in dense urban hot spot areas to provide high-speed mobile data service where it is most needed.
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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.
Total outages often occurred early in the iPhone era, and though service has improved dramatically since then, an experiment by a startup suggests that big crowds still degrade mobile data service dramatically.
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U.S. mobile service provider Verizon recently announced prepaid data plans for most of its smartphones and feature phones.
The deal gives the company something that has been in seriously short supply in the mobile business: new spectrum to expand wireless data service.
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And it features what is called mobile Internet protocol (IP), a packet data service that requires users to pay only for the amount of data they send and receive rather than for the amount of time spent on line.
Founded in 2009, the service aggregates anonymized data, such as mobile phone usage and other data.
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Effective today, Globalgig offers the following data packages for mobile broadband access in any country where service is available.
North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
Mobile wireless telecommunications services play a critical role in the way Americans live and work, with more than 300 million feature phones, smart phones, data cards, tablets and other mobile wireless devices in service today.
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Stevens says Verizon and many carriers in Asia have embraced Skype, however, because they realize the service can increase customer loyalty and the amount consumers spend on mobile data plans even if it dents their long distance calling business.
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The mobile Internet is the ultimate realization of "technology as a service, " as data is increasingly transported, shared, consumed and created via the cloud.
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Once a user opts in, the service provider can take the highly granular data thrown off by the mobile device and use it to provide a better, more tailored experience.
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The smart phone market will only take off when technologies such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) are implemented in mobile networks, enabling faster transfer rates of data via mobile phone, she said.
One of those getting the most buzz was the Find My iPhone feature, which will be available only for customers of Mobile Me, an Apple service that lets users sync e-mail and other data between computers and iPhones.
Mobile phone provider Three says it will not charge customers extra to upgrade to the 4G data service.
He estimates that 4G service is equivalent to four times the speed and efficiency of 3G while mobile data traffic, according to companies like Cisco, is expected to multiply by more than 20 times over the next few years.
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Apple released the update to its mobile operating system Sept. 19, adding a new maps service that was built using its own data rather than relying on maps information from partner-turned-smartphone and tablet rival, Google.
Through its affordable, flat-rate service plans, Cricket offers customers a choice of unlimited voice, text, data and mobile Web services.
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Current T-Mobile customers on Classic or Value plans can simply upgrade their existing service by adding an Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan.
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As I wrote last year, perhaps the most important development in the U.S. mobile landscape in 2011 was that all but one of the major carriers have abandoned unlimited data plans in favor of tiered service.
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