The GSMA – an inernational organisation that represents the mobile industry – launched the GSMA mWomen programme yesterday. It's designed to bring the socio-economic benefits of mobile technology to women in developing markets. The scheme is a partnership between the global mobile industry and the international development community that aims to bring the 'power of mobile' to more than 150 million women within three years.
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Earlier this month ABI Research predicted there'd be 5 billion mobile phones worldwide by the end of the year… yet a few days later Ericsson estimated there were already 5 million mobiles.
Now the GSMA – one of the mobile industry's global trade associations – has confirmed the 5 billion figure, putting its weight behind recent figures from Wireless Intelligence.
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The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, has launched its own spam reporting service for text messages. At the moment it's just a pilot scheme and is being operated by AT&T Mobility, Korea Telecom and SFR.
Online security company Cloudmark will operate the GSMA Spam Reporting Service. It'll analyse SMS traffic submitted by customers of participating networks via a short code of '7726', which spells SPAM on most mobile phones.
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The UK still hasn't signed the EU's Memorandum of Understanding to implement eCall across Europe… but it looks as though we're moving closer.
Today the GSM Association signed the MoU, emphasising the commitment of the mobile phone industry to the scheme.
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Following the EC's recent warning, the GSMA has just announced a commitment to getting the MicroUSB connector implemented as the universal charging standard for mobile phones.
They’re aiming to have everything in place by 2012.
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