The mobile telecommunications industry is estimated to have secured revenues of around AU$8.8 billion for 2003-04, according to a report by the Allen Consulting Group.
Third-generation networks and services are still in their infancy but industry experts claim there is already a real need for faster technologies.
Carriers have barely rolled out their new third-generation wireless networks, and they're already talking about the fourth generation, which could offer affordable high-speed Internet access for consumer electronics devices on the go.
The imminent arrival of 3G telephony into Australia has many confused. ZDNet takes a look at the state of play of the local mobile telephony market in the lead-up to the promised 3G revolution.
Telstra expects to reach 60-70 percent penetration among its customers by 2010 for high speed third-generation mobile services, chief executive Sol Trujillo has told the Mobile World Congress.
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Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
It has been a busy year in telecoms, whether because of the increasingly bitter relationship between Telstra and the government; the awarding of the contentious but (finally) progressive broadband contract to OPEL; the pivotal election that led to a change of government; or the move of 3G mobile technology into the mainstream at last.
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For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
In 2005, Canadian wireless company Research in Motion (RIM) came from relative obscurity to steal a global lead in e-mail equipped mobile devices with its BlackBerry. Could 2008 be the year that BlackBerry falls off its perch?
A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.
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.
Because of bets NTT's Kei-ichi Enoki laid down years ago, the Japanese carrier is leading the way in mobile phone evolution.
The database giant launched its grid computing offering with much fanfare but when its partners are sending mixed messages, will this help Oracle's cause?
Third-generation mobile technology has arrived, duly accompanied by a barrage of hype. But the industry is already casting its eyes forward to the next big thing - 4G.
Following the success of SMS, the industry is counting on Multimedia Messaging Service as the next big thing.
The new Mac operating system is gorgeous (and it works pretty well, too). Mac-heads will want it; Windows users will yawn.
Though pricier than the 12-inch iBook G4 and some comparable PC laptops, the 12-inch PowerBook G4's performance, solid set of features and software, and killer design will overjoy intermediate and advanced mobile users.
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