Celtel launches mobile net service in Africa
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(InfoWorld) - In the wake of Celtel International's launch of its mobile Internet service, African leaders say that the region is starting to embrace the Web as a business tool. Celtel's mobile Internet service, based on GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), lets users roam throughout its coverage region, from country to country, without paying extra charges. Celtel has a presence in 15 African countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Malawi.Africans are now moving beyond using mobile phones for basic communication, Zambia's commerce and trade minister, Kenneth Konga, said last week. "Africa is passing through a challenging economic period which needed the involvement of the private sector," Konga said. "Telecommunication innovations will eventually lead to the development of economies because such innovations contribute to government revenue." Konga said Africa would be more competitive in the global economy if e-commerce were enhanced. "Subscribers can surf the Internet and read e-mails at the speed of up to 175 kilobytes per second from their laptops and data-enabled mobile phones wherever there is Celtel network," Celtel managing director David Venn said, of Cetlel's roaming Internet service.
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(InfoWorld) - In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube. The announcement follows others this week from Vodafone withÂ MySpace.comÂ and eBay. The deals point to a growing interest from online content providers to offer their services to mobile customers as well as continued efforts by operators to drive usage of their wireless data networks. The mobile YouTube service will launch initially in the U.K. where customers will be able to view select videos, forward links of videos and upload and search for videos. Vodafone plans to launch the service in other European markets as well. YouTube has a similar offering in the U.S. where customers of Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless can all upload videos from their phones. On Thursday, Vodafone said it will be the first to launch a new mobile service from eBay in Europe outside of the U.K. Vodafone Italy customers will be the first to be able to download a free application in order to search for and buy items on eBay. The application will come loaded on phones in the future and Vodafone expects to launch the service across its European markets later this year. EBay has experimented with different mobile offerings. In Germany, it launched a customized version of the Opera Mini browser that lets users buy, sell and track bids. EBay also allows any U.K. mobile user to bid for and buy items on their phones. Also this week, Vodafone announced that its customers, starting in the U.K., will be able to download an application to their phones that will allow them to edit their MySpace profiles, upload photos and blog entries and send and receive MySpace messages. It's the first mobile offering for MySpace in Europe, Vodafone said. All three services will be available within Vodafone Live, the operator's mobile portal.
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Vodafone is the first operator to use Facebook's new mobile social networking platform.
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DataWind blows in to Blighty Canadian mobile internet gadget maker DataWind is coming to Europe this month on the back of the second generation of its Pocket Surfer wireless web browser, Register Hardware has learned. And it's promising "the internet anywhere... for free".â¦
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South Africa's plans to open up its domestic telecommunications market have hit shares in the region's biggest phone company.
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The mobile operator explained it will be the first in Europe to offer HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Services) with download speeds of 3.6Mbps when it launches the service in the Isle of Man next summer.
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Mauritania became the latest African  country to benefit from third-generation (3G) mobile phone  services on Thursday as its newest provider Chinguitel went  live, officials said.
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(InfoWorld) - France TÃ©lÃ©com, the parent company of mobile phone operator Orange, is offering a service that lets mobile phone users access videos, music and other content from their PCs. Called "Mon PC Ã  distance," it marks the second launch of the remote mobile access technology from Orb Networks in Europe. The service requires users to download a free software client onto their PCs. They can then use any mobile device with standard browsing and multimedia capabilities to view photos or videos and listen to music stored on their PCs. No special client software is needed on the mobile device. Mon PC Ã  distance, announced Thursday, was actually introduced last month. The service may roll out in France TÃ©lÃ©com's other mobile markets, which include Switzerland, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, and the U.K. Orb introduced the mobile component of its offering in early November. Previously, Orb enabled remote PC access from other computers. Orb is one of the services offered with 3 Group's X-Series mobile data offering, although it can be accessed by any mobile phone with a browser and media player. 3 is charging customers Â£10 ($19) per month to use Orb and another service that lets them watch TV on their mobile phones. Orange customers pay â¬10 ($13) per month for unlimited use of Mon PC Ã  distance.
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A new music service that allows  consumers to directly download an unlimited number of tracks to  their mobile phones for a small weekly fee from wherever they  are will launch in Europe on Thursday.
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Europeans traveling abroad will be able to send text messages and use mobile Internet services with reduced prices just in time for the summer travel season, thanks to the European Union's chief telecom lawmaker.
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Mobile operators are starting to wake up to the potential of giving their customers access to the net.
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Vodafone and EDS have deployed a global managed service for ABN AMRO Bank of the Netherlands, based on RIM&#39;s BlackBerry mobile email clients.
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AMSTERDAM T-Mobile, Europe&#39;s second largest mobile carrier, said on Wednesday that it had started the Continent&#39;s first trial of a high-speed wireless Internet service that uses Flash OFDM technology.
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LONDON -- Cell phone giant Vodafone Group PLC, which has spent years struggling to recoup billions spent on 3G licences, finally launched the cutting-edge service Wednesday in much of Europe and introduced or beefed up its operation in a dozen other
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Early next month, a small company called Cubic Telecom will release what itâs calling the first global mobile phone.
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Chip company Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Thursday rolled out a low-cost Internet device aimed at underserved markets around the world.
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With mobile phones soon expected to push PCs aside as the most popular tool to access the Internet, the company has given mobility a top priority and is taking steps to establish its mobile search engine as the technology of choice for mobile operators.