The much-hyped iPhone, once limited to being sold within the flagship stores of Apple and its exclusive carrier partners, will be far more widely available once its 3G model launches on 11 July.
Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient.
Telstra's plans to switch on ADSL2+ across 900 exchanges throughout the country may have a substantial destabilising effect on the communications market, and alter the national carriers relationship with government and regulators, according to a report.
Vodafone is denying claims that it was the cause of TelstraClear's decision to pull out of a planned NZ$50 million converged mobile broadband service in Tauranga.
Fixed mobile convergence (FMC) -- where a single handset can switch seamlessly between making calls over cellular and Wi-Fi networks -- will give Australia's pure-play mobile operators the chance to get the jump on the likes of Telstra and Optus.
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3's bundling of Skype as part of a new services package has the potential to upset the voice monopoly of incumbent fixed-telephony carriers ... if only customers knew about it.
So how many of you have bought a 3G iPhone? Do you feel like a sucker? If you don't, maybe you will once your first bill arrives.
Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.
In this CIO Vision Series interview, Wybrow explains how he fosters a culture of innovation against a backdrop of IT consolidation and outsourcing across Vodafone's mobile communications empire and 4,000-strong global IT workforce.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Retail distributor Wilson Consumer Products has a long history of supplying field sales staff with mobile technology. But after an unsuccessful redevelopment of its original technology, it was forced to return to paper-based systems and has only recently found a solution.
Vendors insist third-generation mobile and Wi-Fi hot spots are complementary technologies, while analysts claim that it's decision time again. Additional reading: Wireless networking 10 times faster?
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Although it's a good smartphone, the Treo 500v needs either Wi-Fi or HSDPA to deliver that knockout punch.
Vodafone has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to ease several regulations governing the Australian mobile phone industry.
The Optus USB modem works as advertised, but fluctuations in service and a few software bugs have hampered our experience during testing.
The 8110 isn't so much an updated model as its virtually identical to the previously released Pearl 8120, excluding the fact that the 8110 includes a GPS chipset, but is without Wi-Fi.
Optus has defended its decision to enter the MMS market in the face of a report claiming current analyst predictions of market size are wildly inflated.
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