The BBC is now offering live radio over the internet to most mobile phone users. It says it's previously restricted the service due to the cost for consumers and the bandwidth limitations of mobile web traffic, but has changed its policy after seeing the increasing number of mobile phone users visiting the BBC Mobile website.
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A new report from Juniper Research says the continuing surge in mobile internet usage, combined with the increasing number of smartphones and featurephones with built-in integrated GPS receivers, will see location-based local search and information services used by nearly 1.5 billion mobile users by 2014.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists #224. If you’re a regular visitor to The Fonecast and have no idea what the Carnival is, this is a summary of the week’s best blogging about all things mobile. It travels the internet, alighting at a different mobile-related website every week.
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The European Commission has implemented new rules for high-speed mobile internet services. EU members that release 800MHz frequencies as part of the 'digital dividend' resulting from the switchover from analogue to digital television broadcasting are now required to make the frequencies available for wireless broadband applications such as LTE or WiMAX.
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