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GSMA honours Indian government

Written by Abu Saeed Khan on February 14, 2007 — 1 Comment

Barcelona, Feb 13 (bdnews24.com) – The GSM Association (GSMA) has presented its Government Leadership Award 2007 to India for exceptional achievement in mobile communications policy.
India has been selected because of its success in establishing a framework of policies and regulations, which have stimulated the growth of mobile telecommunications over the past three years.
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Mobile as a payment mechanism

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on February 13, 2007 — 1 Comment

Inside the LIRNE.NET community, we have for some time been discussing a program of research centered on what we all mobile multiple play, a convergence of services around the transactional capabilities of the mobile phone and its unparallelled connectivity.  
Our friend and colleague Abu Saeed Khan is reporting on a major development on these lines [...]

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Mobile networks to be powered by Bio-fuels

Written by Abu Saeed Khan on October 12, 2006 — 4 Comments

The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced on Wednesday that it has teamed up with Ericsson and telecoms group MTN to establish bio-fuels as an alternative source of power for wireless networks in the developing world.
Ecology and economy is equally critical for mobile phone coverage in the less lucrative emerging markets. Diesel generators energise the base [...]

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Motorola for sub$30 handset for “unconnected”

Written by Divakar Goswami on September 28, 2005 — 6 Comments
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Motorola selected to supply affordable and robust handsets for second phase of programme to ‘connect the unconnected’
Singapore 27th September 2005: The mobile industry has driven the wholesale [...]

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