In a case of better late than never, Optus-owned Virgin Mobile is now offering the Apple iPhone 3G at a marginally cheaper price point than its competitors in Australia.
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Vodafone pre-paid customers are reporting being unable to top-up their phone credit due to a problem with Vodafone's credit card processing system.
The handset maker turned over the second-quarter payment for the use of patents related to one flavour of 3G technology.
The cost of buying a mobile phone in Australia is about to soar as telcos prepare to remove subsidies that have kept the prices of handsets down.
Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
The world of speculative telecommunications investments has quieted down considerably since the beginning of the decade, when hype-fuelled carriers plunked down billions to reserve the right to carry mobile phone calls, video calls, and massive volumes of spam at high speed using then-fanciful 3G mobile technology.
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Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?
Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
The software giant has been showing off some of the applications of its tabletop computer, the Surface -- an interactive, touch-sensitive environment that reacts to objects coming into contact with its flat surface.
The K660i shares most of its specs with budget-priced phones, with the addition of HSDPA data speeds, and minus the budget price tag.
The E6 tries valiantly to be a smartphone and a sexy consumer gadget. It's a pity then, that it didn't try that little bit harder.
The cost of buying a mobile phone in Australia is about to soar as telcos prepare to remove subsidies that have kept the prices of handsets down.
Australia's mobile telecommunications market grew by more than 12 per cent in 2002/03, driven by a continuing surge in pre-paid services.
The number of mobile phones in Hong Kong has outstripped the number of regular phones, official figures show, with 67 handsets for every 100 people.
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