Infineon Technologies has announced its third generation of ultra-low-cost (ULC) mobile phone chips. The X-Gold110 is claimed by Infineon to be a very cost effective one-chip solution for GSM/GPRS ultra-low-cost phones. System costs (bill-of-material) for mobile phone manufacturers are said to be 20 per cent lower compared to existing solutions...

Did you know that 40% of the world's population does not have a bank account, and yet more than 60% have access to a mobile phone? Redknee and its operator customers would like to brief delegates to Mobile World Congress 2009 on how mobile money services are bridging the crucial gap, and how these services will change the industry and the way people bank in 2009...

Backhaul is crucial in that it provides the connection between the core network and the mobile base stations that connect to users' devices. Any cellular network is only as good as its backhaul since it does not matter how well the cellular base stations perform or how wide a choice of handsets the customer has: if the backhaul capacity isn't available the user suffers...

Agilent Technologies and Anite have announced the first shipments of their LTE UE protocol tester. This is the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620 wireless communications test set platform.

Sixteen of the world's best known IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, intending to deliver an alternative to WiFi whereby customers will go online while on the move...