Zurich-based roaming specialist Starhome has revealed a new Global Services Operations Center designed to help network operators by identifying events that can affect consumers who are ‘roaming’ abroad. The GSOC can track the movements and services of over one and a half billion mobile roaming customers, proactively identifying and evaluating disruptions and peaks in services.
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The International Data Corporation has forecast that the amount of revenue from mobile applications is expected to increase at a 60% Compound Annual Growth Rate until 2014, when it’ll exceed £22 billion. This growth in worldwide revenue is expected to follow the growth in downloaded apps, from 10.9 billion this year to 76.9 billion in 2014.
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Three UK has done a deal with the makers of the Opera Mini web browser that’ll see the free Opera software made available on Three’s internet portal.
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Last year the European Commission encouraged mobile manufacturers to agree on a universal charger for mobile phones. The first compatible devices are now expected in Europe early next year.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Unlimited mobile data. Once upon a time, it seemed that everyone offered it. Not that mobile data was ever really unlimited – there tended to be a ‘fair usage’ clause tucked away in the terms and conditions – but the word ‘unlimited’ was used a lot. The fact that it was always accompanied by an asterisk didn’t seem to trouble trading standards departments.
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