Sixteen global IT and telecoms giants, including Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Telefónica, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM), have come together to create a new gadget category—the always-connected mobile broadband…

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It’s been a long-time coming, but the big five carriers in the U.K. have struck a deal with the Internet Advertising Bureau to push mobile advertising into a medium that…

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3 UK wants to pick up the iPhone if O2’s exclusive UK deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) comes to an end, says CEO Kevin Russell (via Guardian.co.uk). With Apple now…

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GetJar, which distributes free mobile applications to consumers on the Internet and over the phone, said it is branching out its business by building application storefronts for wireless carriers. A…

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MediaFLO USA beefed up its news programming slate over the weekend with the addition of three new permanent 24/7 cable news channels: CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News. NBC Universal’s NBC…

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3 UK is the first operator to integrate Facebook into the handset/device, with a “Facebook button” that will take users directly to the site. It will be part of an…

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Three parent Hutchison Whampoa is calling for roaming data charges to be lowered across Europe. It said it had reached a million mobile broadband subscribers across the continent but is…

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Another story of mobile broadband sticker shock. Italy’s competition authority AGCM is looking into complaints that customers of 3, the Hutchison Whampoa-owned mobile network, was grossly overcharging for mobile web…

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3 UK, the country’s smallest mobile operator, wants to double its customer base to 6.8 million in the next three to four years, reports the FT.com. 3 UK chief Kevin…

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Paris-based mobile IM firm Miyowa said today it has raised $8 million in a second round of venture capital from Techfund and Credit Agricole Private Equity. To date, the company…

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It’s been long, it’s been hard, and it’s ended up in Europe’s highest court, but today, mobile operator 3 won its four-year spat with rival O2, in what the European…

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Is there a difference between the mobile web and the wired web? According to a Businessweek article that’s dug through the latest comScore figures looking at the top web sites…

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-- 3UK/Fun Text: 3 UK is adding Fun Text - a cutesy picture messaging service - to its Planet 3 mobile web portal. Cambridge-based Fun Text - which routes basic…

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Ovum has interviewed Kevin Russell, the CEO of 3UK, who said that he’d been with 3UK since 2001 but “only now are customers entering 3 stores to ask specifically for…

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If navigation services are becoming more common on the cellphone, why can’t mobile TV move to the personal navigation device? Garmin said this summer it is moving into the mobile…

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3 UK reports its data traffic has risen 700 percent thanks to the introduction of its mobile broadband USB dongle in October. CEO Kevin Rusell this morning said the telco…

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UK mobile network 3 has signed a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG to provide the operator’s subscribers with ad-funded music videos. The Guardian reports that a year following 3’s…

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It’s been a slog, but nearly five years following the launch of its first 3G network in the UK, Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa said that its 3 Group had…

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The flat-rate tariff wars kicked off by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) in the US, could be crossing the pond. The UK’s Competition Commission has been asked to get rid of mobile…

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Advertising is the next big opportunity in mobile—by some estimates released this week, it will be a burgeoning $250 billion industry within two years, but other more conservative estimates predict…

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More UK operators sharing their networks to cut costs and extend their network reach. The Guardian reports that Orange and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) have agreed to a UK network sharing…

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The UK’s five largest operators--Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3—are announcing today their intention to work together to develop common measurement standards for mobile advertising. The FT reports…

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Mobile operator global trade group the GSM Association has launched the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content to prevent individuals or organizations from trying to use mobiles to consume…

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Five European mobile phone operators announced today that they are cutting the cost of surfing the mobile internet while abroad, saying they had accepted the European Commission’s challenge to give…

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-- 3UK Launches New Version of YouTube Mobile: 3UK and YouTube have struck a deal in which the network operator will roll out a new, enhanced version of YouTube Mobile…

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