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The future of your mobile phone
FEATURE The shape of your next handset 30 January 2012 18:01 GMT TweetWhat are our phones going to look like in 10 years time; see-through displays, Star Trek-style tricorders? Ton Brand from the GSMA - the organisation that promotes standardisation between mobile networks - has a pretty good idea.
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Bill Gates gives $12.5m to phone banking programme
MWC 2009: "Mobile Money for the Unbanked" 17 February 2009 10:43 GMT TweetThe GSM Association and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a programme to offer financial services to millions of people in the developing world through mobile phones.
The "Mobile Money for the Unbanked" (MMU) programme has... -
Universal charger for mobiles announced
MWC 2009: GSMA and 17 companies team-up for micro-USB charging for all phones 17 February 2009 10:34 GMT TweetThe GSM Association and 17 mobile operators and manufacturers have announced that they are committed to creating an industry-wide standard for a universal charger for new mobile phones.
The aim of the GSMA-led initiative is to see that the... -
GSMA calls for more NFC-enabled handsets
Lack of decent phones holding back contactless payment 18 November 2008 11:04 GMT TweetThe GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, is calling for full NFC functionality to be built-in to commercially available mobile handsets from mid-2009.
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Mobile broadband gets a logo
GSMA initiative backed by 16 companies 30 September 2008 13:49 GMT TweetSixteen companies have teamed-up for a GSM Association-led initiative to make mobile broadband a recognisable standard, complete with its own logo.
With the aim to create a new category of "always-connected mobile broadband devices delivering... -
GSMA announces 32,000,000 mobile broadband connections
Trade association talks stats 10 April 2008 8:59 GMT TweetThe GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association for the mobile industry, has just announced the 32 millionth Mobile Broadband connection, a massive increase from 3 million at the end of March 2007.
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LG gets GSMA roaming honour for KP330 and KM560
WCDMA handsets can automatically roam in 220 countries 12 February 2008 21:00 GMT TweetLG has announced that two of its handsets, the LG-KM560 and LG-KP330, have been selected to spearhead the GSM Association's (GSMA) Horizon Phone initiative.
These LG handsets are the first 3G models that can automatically roam in 220 countries,...