Tagged: Mobile Phone & News
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Mobile penetration and SMS increases News
18.06.2003 Mobile penetration in Ireland has increased to 80pc, bringing the total number of mobile users in Ireland to 3.1 million people, the latest quarterly review from the Commission...Categories: Comms, Digital Life -
Nokia plays up new handsets, plays down 3G News
16.06.2003 HELSINKI: Nokia today launched two new handsets to the press along with a number of phone accessories. In an event which was curiously muted about the topic of 3G, the company...Categories: Digital Life -
Vodafone offers flat-rate roaming charges News
11.06.2003 Vodafone Ireland has today revealed details of a new flat-rate roaming rates for prepaid and postpaid phone users when calling other Vodafone networks across Europe.Categories: Digital Life -
ON TEST: Bluetooth car phone accessory News
05.06.2003 Product: Motorola Bluetooth Car Kit Price: €319 It’s not often we have to borrow a car for a product review, let alone get a man from the garage to fit the product. Come to...Categories: -
Meteor moves on multimedia messaging News
26.05.2003 Meteor Communications is understood to have signed an agreement to deploy LogicaCMG’s Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) that will allow its subscribers to send...Categories: Digital Life, Business -
O2 Ireland writes down £1.4bn News
21.05.2003 Europe’s fifth largest mobile operator, MmO2, posted strong annual results this morning, but the news was overshadowed by the announcement that the firm is to slash the value of...Categories: Digital Life -
Am-Beo secures Sonera Zed contract News
09.05.2003 As originally reported in siliconrepublic.com , Galway-based rating and revenue settlement software firm for the telecoms industry Am-Beo has secured a major contract with...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Mobile, Mobile Phone -
ItsMobile wins Edinburgh contract News
09.05.2003 Irish firm ItsMobile has won the contract for Edinburgh’s new mobile parking payments system. It will be the first meter-based wireless parking system in the UK.Categories: Digital LifeTags: Mobile, Mobile Phone -
Nokia predicts MMS boom News
08.05.2003 Nokia today announced its latest market research on MMS (multimedia messaging service) which finds the majority of respondents to be keen on the technology. Not surprisingly,...Categories: Digital Life -
Study finds mobiles interfere with aircraft equipment News
06.05.2003 A recent study by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has proved that mobile phone transmissions made by airline passengers can interfere with aircraft equipment. While most...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Mobile Phone -
Phones for rent stateside News
29.04.2003 For the first time, Irish J1 visa-toting students will be able to equip themselves with mobile phones for the summer when they enter the US.Categories: Digital Life -
Big two embrace battle for business News
24.04.2003 It’s not exactly a level playing field, but O2 is confident it can take on Vodafone in winning the hearts and minds of Ireland’s business users.Categories: -
Working in the field News
24.04.2003 Leaving aside voice and data communications, the mobile networks are able to offer companies the opportunity to do things that were quite simply impossible a few years ago or at...Categories: Digital Life -
Work ‘to go’ as mobile data comes of age News
24.04.2003 When the first mobile phone call using cellular radio technology was made 30 years ago this month, it was a voice call. However, the technology held out the promise of reliable...Categories: Digital Life -
Phone frenzy as multimedia gets a grip News
24.04.2003 Just when you’ve begun to think that your mobile phone will do almost everything for you, along comes another generation of phones that promises even more. This year’s crop...Categories: -
Mixed first quarter results from Nokia News
17.04.2003 Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia released first quarter figures today which, on the whole, remained in line with expectations. The weak performance of the company’s...Categories: Digital Life -
Mobile sales rise: Gartner News
11.03.2003 Gartner Dataquest’s annual figures on mobile handset sales revealed a 6pc increase on 2001. The news provides evidence that the sector is healthier than previously thought given...Categories: Digital Life -
Irish firm shows off first mobile blogging system News
18.02.2003 At the world 3GSM exhibition in Cannes yesterday new Irish tech firm NewBay Software, whose CEO is former Baltimore marketing head Paddy Holahan, paraded what it claims is the...Categories: Digital Life -
Meteor seeks national roaming from ComReg News
06.02.2003 At the Irish Telecoms Conference in Dublin today, Meteor revealed that it had sought assistance in arranging a national roaming deal from the Commission for Communications...Categories: Digital Life -
Irish customers most lucrative for Vodafone News
27.01.2003 Ireland delivers by far the highest revenue per user of any Vodafone operation in the EU, according to new data released today by the company.Categories: Digital Life