How the mobile Internet helped to mitigate the GFC

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: RegulationAn OECD report on Internet traffic exchange says the current model based on voluntary contractual agreements has been hugely successful and could be seriously undermined by attempts - reported to be on the agenda of the ITU's global conference in December - to impose the type of regulation that has governed international voice telephony for decad

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MarketAfter several years of the research, global mobile industry body has come out with what it says are definitive data on mobile device penetration: global mobile subscriber numbers of 3.2 billion and total active connections of 5.9 billion by the end of 2012.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: RegulationIT consultancy Analysys Mason has warned that the ITU's forthcoming review of the International Telecommunications Regulations could extend these to the Internet and that any such expansion is "not only unnecessary, but could harm the growth of the Internet in developing countries."

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MarketThe ITU's annual report on the global information society has revealed the key role played by mobile networks in bringing the populations of developing countries online: mobile broadband services now outnumber fixed by two to one and are in many countries cheaper than fixed broadband services.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MarketFive Internet standards bodies - the IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - have joined force to push other standardisations bodies to adopt a new paradigm for global, open standards based on "the effective and efficient standardization processes that hav

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MobilityWoolworths has expanded its range of mobile communications offerings with the launch of global roaming SIM card in partnership with Cubic Telecom, based in Ireland, that it says can cut the cost of roaming charges for voice, text and data by as much as 90 percent.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: StrategyAlcatel-Lucent is calling for urgent action to improve the energy efficiency of telecommunications networks amid predictions that, on current projections, the Internet could consume as much as 10 percent of global energy supply by 2020.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MarketThe mobile industry and its proponents are forever talking of mobile networks delivering increasing throughput at lower costs and competing strongly with fixed broadband networks like the NBN. The reality will be very different, according to one analyst firm.

A new report from the OECD into international mobile roaming charges says that government regulation may be the only way to ensure that consumers are not charged unreasonable rates to use their mobile phones outside their home country.