Podcast - 15th January 2014
This week's podcast starts with talk about money, as Google buys smart thermostat company Nest Labs while O2 UK closes its mobile Wallet product.
We're also looking at the decline of SMS text messaging in the UK, the end of the Cash4phones recycling business, an alleged security breach that wasn't what it seemed, mobile service on the Channel tunnel and the growth of 4G.
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Strategy Analytics says its recent reports predict that LTE (4G) will account for 50% of all mobile connections in the USA by end of 2014.
That’s expected to increase to 79% by the end of 2018.
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EE has become the first UK network operator offering its 4G service to overseas visitors.
It’s agreed that customers from the USA’s AT&T network will be able to ‘roam’ onto EE when they visit.
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New Ofcom research shows that UK consumers are benefiting from lower-priced communications services than people in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA.
These findings form part of Ofcom’s ninth International Communications Market Report.
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Dell, which recently became a privately-owned company under the chairmanship of founder Michael Dell, has announced a new Enterprise Mobility Management solution.
Dell’s EMM combines its mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), mobile content management (MCM) and a Secure Remote Access gateway.
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