EE, the 4G mobile phone network operated by Everything Everywhere Ltd, has increased the data allowances on its 4GEE mobile broadband tariffs.
The service launched in 11 UK cities on 30th October.
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A new report by IMS Research forecasts that the number of mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) connections worldwide will treble in five years, from around 107 million connections in 2011 to 326 million connections by 2016.
It says this growth is being driven by a number of factors, including government regulation, a desire for increased efficiency, declining costs and the availability of services that make it easier to develop M2M applications.
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HP says Autonomy deal was spiced up
Mark Bridge writes:
It’s time to ‘ketchup’ with last week’s biggest mobile industry news stories - and where better to start than with HP’s claims of ‘saucy’ behaviour? It’s launched an investigation into last year’s acquisition of UK company Autonomy, claiming the software company had ‘spiced up’ its valuation. Condiment-based puns aside, it’s a serious matter that could see key players from the deal charged with cooking the books.
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Ofcom has launched a consultation about new laws that would allow ‘white space’ technology to be used the UK.
These so-called ‘white spaces’ are the unused parts of frequency bands that have been reserved for other uses, such as TV broadcasting, but could also be used for other applications such as broadband and M2M connections.
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The new Ericsson Mobility Report (previously called the Ericsson Traffic and Market Report) says around 40% of all mobile phones sold worldwide in the past quarter were smartphones.
Recent reports from ABI Research and IDC reached similar conclusions.
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