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| Operators losing millions to spam claims ex GCHQ official |
| Operators stand to lose between 1m to 2m over a one to three day period as a result of fraudulent SMS campaigns according to an ex GCHQ official Gareth Maclachlan now COO at Adaptive Mobile a firm he co founded said that cyber criminals have been carrying out spam and phishing campaigns in the PC fixed line internet world for years but are seeing even bigger opportunities by targeting mob |
| Mobile is both Facebook s Achilles heel and future |
| Facebook has been at the forefront of the growth in mobile data usage in recent years It is indisputably one of the big stars of mobile one that most operators have wanted to ally themselves with to drive the sale of data plans on their networks Yet by Facebook s own admission mobile could be its Achilles heel |
| We finally understand operators says Intel |
| An Intel executive has admitted that the company s historical inability to win a share of the mobile space stemmed from its failure to properly understand the operator community Herbert Weber EMEA marketing director for mobile and communications at Intel told Telecoms com that the firm has since taken the time to understand the nuances between the PC and mobile business models and has adjuste |
| Viettel lights up Mozambique with fibre and mobile |
| Vietnamese carrier Viettel has expanded beyond Vietnam Cambodia and Laos this week lighting up its first operation in Africa a mobile network in Mozambique |
| Facebook deploys own Euro fibre network to meet demand |
| Mobile operators worldwide should be preparing for an impending surge in traffic over the next several years with mobile users in 2016 consuming an average of 6 5 times as much video over eight times as much music and social media and nearly ten times as much games than in 2011 |
| US operators to introduce shared data pricing plans |
| Operators in the US are preparing to launch shared data plans allowing multiple devices owned by an individual or members of a family to draw data from a single monthly allotment The move is one of the first examples of innovation in data pricing as operators struggle to reap dividends from an increase in consumer data usage |
| T Mobile USA cuts 900 more jobs |
| Deutsche Telecom s US mobile operation T Mobile USA is to cut a further 900 jobs following the unit s failed 39bn purchase by AT 38 T late last year The latest cuts come on top of around 1 900 job losses announced earlier this year |
| Handset sales drop for first time in three years |
| Global sales of mobile phones declined on a qurterly basis for the first time in nearly three years according to research firm Gartner this week The two per cent year on year drop between the first quarters of 2012 and 2011 marks the first time the market has weakened since the second quarter of 2009 |
| Android continues to dominate smartphones |
| Android retains its lead position as the most popular European smartphone OS with HTC and Samsung dominating the market between them According to handset sales statistics released by research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech Android s European market share for the three months to April is just over 50 per cent up from 44 6 per cent last year |
| Free reveals extent of its disruption |
| French low cost 3G operator Free has managed to acquire nearly four per cent of the country s market share in just 80 days |
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