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GSMA Announces Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition Top Innovators

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:09:11 +0000

Stellar line-up of speakers from Coca-Cola, Visa, Walt Disney and Yahoo! attend inaugural Americas event

May 2008, Atlanta: The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced the Top Innovators for the Americas leg of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition, along with additional, high-calibre industry speakers at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace – Americas, which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, 3 – 4 June, 2008.

The Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition was created by the GSMA as part of the Mobile Innovation Market, which encourages breakthrough technology, applications and services in the mobile industry by bringing together smaller companies developing innovative mobile products, industry investors from leading venture capital firms, and senior figures from mobile operators and leading global brands. » read more »

GSMA publishes Near Field Communications (NFC) technical guidelines white paper

admin — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:51:54 +0000

The GSM Association (GSMA) has today published the first in a series of ‘Technical Guidelines’ white papers on mobile NFC (Near Field Communication) services, providing the consolidated views of mobile operators as input to support the standardization of NFC technology. More than twenty mobile operators, including many of the largest in the world, have been working together in the GSMA’s initiative to develop a common vision for Mobile NFC services. The initiative aims to support the development of a stable and efficient NFC ecosystem and promote interoperability, leading to standardization on a global scale.

The Mobile Operators involved in the NFC initiative serve more than 800 million mobile users. They are: Bouygues Telecom; China Mobile; AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless); Elisa; KPN; KTF; Mobilkom Austria; NTT DoCoMo Inc.; Orange; Rogers Wireless; SFR; SKTelecom; Telefónica; Telenor; TeliaSonera; Telecom Italia; TMN; Turkcell; Vodafone and ‘3’. » read more »

Momentum builds around GSMA’s pay-buy mobile project

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:56:53 +0000

Nokia joins leading operators and handset makers in global initiative to enable mobile phones to be used in retail outlets to pay for goods and services

Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, and a further 10 mobile operators have thrown their weight behind a GSM Association initiative to enable the worldwide use of mobile phones for payments at retail outlets.

KPN, Maxis Communications Bhd, mobilkom austria, O2, Orange, SFR, SingTel, SKT, Vodafone and Wind have joined the 14 mobile operators* that initiated the project in February. The handset vendors in the programme include Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, which both plan to participate in the first trials scheduled to begin in October.

The GSMA’s 'Pay-Buy Mobile' initiative seeks to define a common global approach to using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology to link mobile devices with payment and contactless systems. Together with a SIM/Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) card in a mobile handset, NFC can be used to enable a wide range of secure, interoperable and transparent services, such as credit and debit payments. » read more »

GSMA's CEO, President Musharraf And Prime Minister Aziz Discuss How To Connect The Next 50 Million Mobile Users In Pakistan

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:58:23 +0000

Rob Conway, Chief Executive Officer of the GSMA, met in Islamabad recently with President Pervez Musharraf to strengthen cooperation between the government and the mobile industry in getting the next 50 million users in Pakistan connected to mobile. On Saturday, the GSMA CEO met with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, along with CEO's from Ufone (Mubashir Naqvi), Mobilink (Zouhair Khaliq), Paktel (Guo Yonghong), Telenor Pakistan (Tore Johnsen), and Warid (Hamid Farooq), as well as the Minister of Telecommunications & IT, Awais Leghari, and Chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), Shahzada Malik.

In his meetings with the President and the Prime Minister, Mr. Conway suggested that eliminating the 500 Rupees activation tax paid by consumers and the industry would increase mobile penetration and lead to an increase in total tax revenues for the government. The elimination of this tax could significantly increase mobile usage and fuel economic growth, according to a study by consultancy Deloitte on behalf of the GSMA. » read more »

Spectrum Key To The Development Of Mobile TV In Europe

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:13:31 +0000

EMBC report highlights opportunities and hurdles facing mobile television

15th March 2007 - Brussels: Mobile network operators in Europe called for more spectrum to be made available for the provision of mobile television, echoing one of the findings in the final report of the European Mobile Broadcasting Council (EMBC), an initiative of the European Commission. While the EMBC report highlights the great variety of technical solutions to the provision of mobile broadcast services, such as 3G network-based video streaming, MBMS and DVB-H, DMB and satellite broadcast solutions, it notes that a lack of spectrum could limit the development of some of the new mobile TV platforms available. » read more »

3GSM World Congress Grows In Size And Stature

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:56:58 +0000

3GSM World Congress Grows In Size And Stature

15th February 2007 - Barcelona, Spain: The worldâ€™s premier mobile event, the 3GSM World Congress 2007, has enjoyed a second successful year in Barcelona with an increase in both the quantity and quality of visitors. An estimated 55,000* visitors from across the globe gathered at the Congress to do business and discuss the hottest trends in the mobile phone industry. » read more »

Openwave Adaptive Messaging Awarded By GSM Association

admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:27 +0000

Openwave Adaptive Messaging Awarded By GSM Association

BARCELONA, SPAIN, 3GSM World Congress - February 14, 2007 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that Openwave Adaptive Messaging was awarded a commendation in the Best Mobile Messaging Service category of the 2007 Global Mobile Awards. Openwave Adaptive Messaging has also previously been recognized with the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Product Line Strategy Award.

Commented David Peterschmidt, president and CEO, Openwave: "We are delighted to have been recognized in this way by the GSM Association. Openwave Adaptive Messaging simplifies the user experience so people can focus on communicating rather than deciding which network, device or protocol to use."Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association added: "The 2007 Awards attracted the greatest number of entries in the 12 year history of the competition, and to be recognised for excellence at this level is an achievement of which you can be justifiably proud. My congratulations on behalf of the GSMA - we wish you every continued success." » read more »

I-play wins GSM Association 2007 Awards with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo

admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:48:23 +0000

I-play wins GSM Association 2007 Awards with The Fast and the Furious:â„¢ Tokyo

Barcelona, 14 February, 2007: The winners of the 12th annual GSM Association (GSMA) were announced last night at Barcelonaâ€™s National Palace, with the Best Made for Mobile Game being awarded to I-play for â€˜The Fast and the Furious:â„¢ Tokyoâ€™. This is the second year running that the company has won in this category at the GSM Awards, winning last year with Skipping Stone.

Developed and published by I-play, through an agreement with Universal Studios Licensing, â€˜The Fast and the Furious:â„¢ Tokyoâ€™ recorded over a million downloads in just over five months. This builds on the huge success of the overall â€˜The Fast and the Furiousâ„¢â€™ franchise which has now hit over an incredible 6.5 million downloads. » read more »