Posted by: Bappy on: April 22, 2009
In a presentation today at Black Hat Europe, a computer-security conference in Amsterdam, a group of researchers claimed to have found a way to hijack the data sent to and from mobile phones. The researchers say that the attack might be used to glean passwords or to inject malicious software onto a device.
Mobile phones are [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 6, 2009
The sale of the mobile phone’s SIMs has slowed down remarkably as the major operators withdrew the subsidy on the SIM tax considerably.
Leading operators Grameen Phone and Banglalink, enjoying more than 50 per cent share of the country’s cellular phone market together, have already withdrawn major portion of the subsidy on the SIM tax in [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 6, 2009
Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Post and Telecommunications Hasanul Huq Inu on Thursday (26 Mar ‘09) said the government is considering reducing value added tax (VAT) on internet users and lowering tax on internet bandwidth.
Mentioning that access to computer with internet connectivity leads a society to the super highway of development, he said [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 6, 2009
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has blocked over one lakh SIM cards on allegations of illegal VoIP usage since June 2008.
Among these 18,826 were of the country’s leading mobile operator GrameenPhone, BTRC said in a press release on Wednesday (25 Mar ‘09).
Banglalink had the highest number of SIMs blocked, at 44,026. Warid saw 29,760 [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 6, 2009
Starent Networks has announced its XT30 Service Convergence Platform allowing operators to tap into existing mobile core networks in order to deploy new multimedia services on next generation Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. This platform provides innovative voice and messaging solutions that bridge devices between legacy and next generation networks, [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 6, 2009
Police in Brazil have intercepted two homing pigeons which had been trained to carry parts of mobile phones to prison cells, where the handsets were later assembled by the prisoners. The trick of training pigeons to carry contraband into prisons is not a new idea in Brazil and has been used several times in the [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 6, 2009
Nokia has dismissed WiMAX as a failed idea and likened it to the Betamax video format which lost the video tape war in the 1980s. Nokia’s head of sales and manufacturing, Anssi Vanjoki told the Financial Times that he doesn’t “see that WiMax is taking hold anywhere in a big way,”
“I don’t think the future [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: April 5, 2009
After the savings of passive sharing have been realised, where can reductions come from in future? Ovum predicts that operators will seek increasingly active forms of sharing.
While sharing ever more of their infrastructure might sound ridiculous today, all forms of sharing sounded ridiculous ten years ago.
Greater sharing of network assets will be driven by a [...]
