Samsung Electronics and Google have signed a global cross-licence patent agreement.
It covers current patents and those filed during the next ten years across a range of technology and business areas.
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Recent rumours about the possibility of AT&T acquiring Vodafone - following the latter company’s decision to dispose of its US business - have led to a format statement being issued.
The UK Takeover Panel, which regulates takeover bids and other merger transactions involving UK companies, asked AT&T to make the statement.
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Mark Bridge writes:
A new report has highlighted the issue of poor mobile phone coverage in rural Sussex villages. BBC Sussex invited me onto their ‘Sussex Breakfast’ radio show to explain what could be done - and, as usual, I made enough notes for a lecture rather than a three-minute interview.
Here’s what I would have liked to have said if I’d been given a disproportionate amount of time to talk.
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Expecting the unexpected
Mark Bridge writes:
Great news for mobile phone users. Ofcom’s new rules preventing unexpected mid-contract price rises came into force last week, which means UK consumers can no longer be surprised by their subscription charge increasing while they’re still locked into a minimum-term deal.
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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has agreed to make radio spectrum available for transport operators to offer faster broadband connections to passengers on aircraft, boats, railway trains and coaches.
Each vehicle could receive a data connection of around 50Mbit/sec, providing more than 10Mbps via WiFi to an individual passenger.
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