The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, a charity that supports women entrepreneurs have published ‘Women and Mobile: A Global Opportunity’. The report, the first detailed global study of its kind, attempts to understand the nature of women mobile subscribers in low and middle-income countries such as Kenya and India, and highlights the barriers facing women’s adoption of mobile technologies. It also shows that, by extending the benefits of mobile phone ownership to more women, a host of social and economic goals can be advanced. Continue reading ‘‘Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity’ report published’
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The GSMA has announced the winners of the coveted Global Mobile Awards at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This year the new two-part format comprised an afternoon awards presentation hosted by writer, actor and self-confessed technophile Stephen Fry, followed by an evening celebration party where winners were entertained with a showcase set from one of the world’s most famous and successful bands, Duran Duran. Continue reading ‘15th Annual Global Mobile Awards winners announced by GSMA’
The GSMA has announced that China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless have gained membership to the GSMA following their commitment to deploy commercial services based on Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the next-generation wireless technology for Mobile Broadband. China Telecom, KDDI, and Verizon Wireless are three of the world’s largest CDMA operators and will begin the commercial deployments of LTE as early as 2010. LTE, when combined with the expansive footprint of these operators’ existing Mobile Broadband services, will deliver high-speed services to more than 150 million* customers over the next three years. Qualcomm has also joined the GSMA as an associate member and will work with the operators to aid the smooth integration of LTE with existing Mobile Broadband technologies. Continue reading ‘China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless join GSMA to launch commercial LTE services’
Zerista has released its mobile social networking application at the GSMA’s 2010 Mobile World Congress. The many thousands of Mobile World Congress participants are the first to take advantage of the new application, which is an extension of My MWC, the show’s official social networking portal created and powered by Zerista. Continue reading ‘Zerista’s mobile social networking app for GSMA 2010 MWC’
The GSMA has announced that mobile operators around the world will invest up to $72 billion in Mobile Broadband technologies in 2010. The new operator CAPEX investment data, compiled by global investment firm Deutsche Bank, reflects the continued consumer and enterprise demand for Mobile Broadband services and the need for underlying infrastructure, and comes as global HSPA connections reach the 200 million milestone. Continue reading ‘GSMA: 342 million HSPA connections by the end of 2010′
At the Mobile Asia Congress, the GSMA unveiled Mobile’s Green Manifesto, developed in collaboration with The Climate Group. Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board, GSMA, was joined at the launch by China Mobile’s Chairman Wang Jianzhou, Kevin Tao, CEO Huawei Device, and Changhua Wu, Greater China Director The Climate Group, who outlined their existing environmental undertakings and goals for the future.
The Green Manifesto sets out how the mobile industry plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions per connection, and demonstrates the key role that mobile communications can play in lowering emissions in other sectors and industries. It makes specific policy recommendations for governments and delegates attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), December 7-18, to realise the full potential of the role that mobile communications can take in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Through the Green Manifesto, the mobile industry outlines its goals:
+ To reduce its total global greenhouse gas emissions per Connection by 40% by 2020 compared to 2009.
+ To aim for carbon neutral growth, despite the fact that the number of mobile connections is set to rise by 70% to 8 billion by 2020.
+ To work with handset vendors to ensure that the energy consumed by a typical handset is reduced by 40% by 2020.
+ To work with equipment vendors to ensure that the life cycle emissions of network equipment components are reduced by 40% by 2020.
The full report can be found at: http://www.gsmworld.com/greenmanifesto
The GSMA has unveiled a European Mobile Manifesto which sets out how the mobile industry will help achieve key European Union objectives to boost economic performance, improve efficiencies, protect consumers and increase the use of green technology. To do this, the mobile industry has undertaken to work more closely with governments, education and health authorities and technology manufacturers. The mobile industry is also calling upon the EU to provide a number of measures to support the initiative.
Through the Mobile Manifesto, the mobile industry outlines its goals to:
+ Increase internet connectivity and drive productivity through widespread mobile broadband access – on the move and at home, in cities and in rural areas
+ Engage consumers and improve efficiency by enabling the “mobilisation” of commercial and public services particularly eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth and eGovernment
+ Build a greener mobile planet by reducing Europe’s carbon footprint through M2M technologies
+ Empower users and maintain consumer trust by providing mobile privacy tools
The full report can be found at: http://www.gsmworld.com/mobilemanifesto.
The GSMA has announced the launch of PathFinder Number Portability Discovery, a GSMA-managed service that will be operated by Neustar, Inc. Designed as a state-of-the-art solution for global number portability, the new service encompasses 2.2 billion telephone numbers that are impacted by number portability worldwide, a figure which is expected to rise rapidly. Number Portability is currently implemented in over 52 countries globally, with many more, including China and India, expected to launch by the end of 2010. The service will also aggregate numbering plan data from virtually every country in the world, including those with high number portability penetration.
PathFinder was created by the GSMA to provide an interoperable, industry-wide solution that enables the routing of global IP service interconnect traffic. The new Number Portability Discovery service will make use of PathFinder’s extensive number portability database, which provides access to all national numbering plans and number portability information, where available, throughout the world. With adaptable and extensible interfaces, the service can rapidly incorporate new number portability data for countries coming on line or that plan to implement number portability in the future.
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