It bought Europe's third-biggest mobile phone operator, Orange, in 2000 from UK mobile phone operator Vodafone Group, Europe's biggest mobile phone company.
Almost 1 out of 3 Kenyans is connected to Internet, 75% have a mobile phone and 1 out of every 2 uses his or her mobile phone to make mobile payments.
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Promotion is open to people over 18 who have a mobile phone number from a European mobile phone provider.
Declining mobile phone pricing could negatively impact mobile phone chipset makers like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Infineon Technologies and Broadcom.
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"Less than half of U.S. mobile phone users are highly satisfied with the storage of their mobile phone, and almost 20% are dissatisfied with their mobile storage capacity, " said Brett Sappington, Director of Research at Parks Associates.
For 48 hours, the lack of road, phone or mobile phone links left this town of 41, 000 cut off from the rest of the world.
However, speaking on behalf of all five mobile phone companies, Mike Dolan said scientific research proves that mobile phone masts meet international safety guidelines.
He supported the recommendation in the recently-published Stewart report on mobile phone safety which suggested the creation of a database of mobile phone masts which could then be cross-referenced against health problems.
We expect that RIM will continue to gain market share in the overall mobile phone market as the smartphone segment outgrows the rest of the mobile phone market.
As I explored these sets of issues I honed in on the fact that 60% of Nigerians are within mobile phone coverage and about 40% of Nigerians currently have a mobile phone with an even greater number having access to one when you count shared phones.
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His vision is being rewarded as Shigeta rejoins billionaire ranks after a 14-year absence during which he refocused his mobile phone distributor Hikari Tsushin by diversifying his product line and focusing on mobile phone contracts with large corporations.
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While an increased risk of brain tumors is not established, the increasing use of mobile phones and the lack of data for mobile phone use over time periods longer than 15 years warrant further research of mobile phone use and brain cancer risk.
We believe that though a higher smartphone mix will increase the average blended mobile phone price in the near term, declining prices in smartphones will lead to lower average mobile phone prices following 2014 as represented in the chart below.
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Roughly half of Americans who use a mobile phone are using a smartphone, according to mobile-phone industry estimates.
Wireless services such as mobile phone calls and mobile internet connections are run through the spectrum.
Why pay for a home phone when a mobile phone meets all of your communication needs and then some?
In particular the European Union is pursuing a proposal to make micro-USB the universal interface for mobile phone and other mobile device chargers.
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O2 is making customers' mobile phone numbers truly mobile with the launch of TU Go, a new service that is open to Pay Monthly customers.
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The 2013 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study--Volume 1 and the 2013 U.S. Wireless Traditional Mobile Phone Satisfaction Study--Volume 1 are based on experiences evaluated by 9, 767 smartphone customers and 6, 759 traditional mobile phone customers.
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It will roll out a service this fall, so any Indian with a mobile phone and a Visa card can transfer funds domestically to any other Visa cardholder for a 2% fee (to be split by the card-issuing bank, mobile phone vendor and Visa).
He had conducted a detailed study of his company's fortunes and found that his income had increased by 70% in the six months after he started using a mobile phone in 2006, because basic activities such as stock handling and negotiating prices with suppliers become much more efficient with a mobile phone.
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Mobile commerce, comparative shopping on your phone, mobile bar codes and more all existed and in many cases worked quite well.
Mobile phone users could download a mobile game, after which Puma sent them a coupon for a free phone toy accessory.
The next iPhone, according to numerous leaked reports will be nothing short of the mobile phone to rule all mobile phones.
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Nearly half (45%) of mobile phone owners browse the mobile internet, download content, or use applications, with mobile media usage growing 22% year-on-year.
Nextdoor verifies each person's address by using one of four methods: credit- or debit-card number, landline phone number, mobile-phone number or by mailing a postcard that includes an invite code.
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The base is connected to the phone through a headset connector and, given its apparent size, seems more appropriate for use with a desktop cordless phone than with a mobile phone.
According to the study, 21 percent of mobile phone owners have used mobile banking in the past twelve months, and an additional 11 percent think they will probably use it within the next year.
From the promotional videos on its Web site, it's clear that Tapwave is gunning to compete against Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), whose N-Gage mobile-phone and gaming device should hit the market in early October.
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