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Editorial 02
CONTENTS NOVEMBER07
News 04
A round-up of the most important stories of the
month from the global mobile communications
markets, produced in conjunction with telecoms.com.
Handset news 16
All the latest gadgets, applications, content and
operating systems.
News analysis 18
Disgruntled Sprint Nextel shareholders forced the
departure of Gary Forsee last month and his exit
could jeopardise his most ambitious project, the
$5bn rollout of a nationwide WiMAX network. UK
incumbent carrier BT gave its public backing to
Spanish open wifi project Fon in October, bringing
a possible three million new customers to the fold.
Meanwhile,. the online world has been making
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MOBILE PAYMENTS serious in-roads on mobile. However, the momentum
The mobile phone as a payments device is an appealing notion. But technical is not coming from the operator community.
obstacles and institutional inertia are stopping the possibility from becoming a
reality. Could the developing world be leading the way with this nascent services INTERVIEW
offering?
As the African wireless communications industry 24
descends on Cape Town for AfricaCom—the largest
event in the sector’s calendar—Mike Hibberd talks to
Vitalis Olunga, chairman of GSM Africa.
COMPANY PROFILE
Samsung 26
Samsung means “three stars” in Korean. It’s not that
modest, but it is an accurate enough moniker. The
Seoul-based conglomerate is a world power in each
of its three, very broad, business lines. Samsung
Electronics, though, is the standard bearer.
COUNTRY PROFILE
South Africa 29
The leading market in is not typical of the continent.
South Africa has commercial HSDPA services and
penetration that will soon break the 100 per cent
mark.
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LOCATION BASED SERVICES FEATURES
With each passing year, hurdles to uptake are overcome, yet location based services
still struggle for uptake. Nokia’s recent acquisition of Navteq has helped thrust the Mobile payments 32
subject back into the spotlight, but it also serves as a warning to carriers that they
could be cut out of the LBS equation altogether. Location based services 38
THE INFORMER
The Germans have a word for it: Schadenfreude. 44
Although presumably not the ones at Nokia
Siemens. Marry in haste, repent at leisure, that’s the
Informer’s take on struggling vendor marriages.
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