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GSMA recently published updated " 5G Implementation Guidelines: SA Option 2 ". It explains the two types of SMS in 5G, the sam...

If you have been following the mobile industry for a long time, you could be forgiven for thinking that voice communications is dead. This ...

SMS is 25 years old. The first SMS, "Merry Christmas" was sent on 3rd December 1992 from PC to the Orbitel 901 handset (pictur...

Its June, time for the Internet Trends update by Mary Meeker, KPCB. Last year's updat e has crossed 3 million views on Slideshare. ...

What a change 2 years can make. The last time I was in India, people were reluctant to use data, smartphones were far and few and even thos...

Sometime back I created a OTT Stats, Facts and Figures presentation for the FWIC conference and in that revealed the shocking figures of ...

I am sure you have already heard of Gemalto's (worlds largest SIM manufacturer and supplier) Facebook on the SIM announcement . The adv...

Its been a while we talked about SMS for Emergency purposes and eCall . A new study item in 3GPP has looked at non-voice alternatives for E...

Yesterday a colleague made me aware of this Ericsson's IPX SMS based payment system that looks like a competitor to the NFC technology a...

You can watch the CBS news video and that woman's interview here .

Tapping out a text message could become a thing of the past due to new ' Swype' technology . Instead of pressing individual letters,...

Release 11 Features Advanced IP Interconnection of Services The objective is to specify the technical requirements for carrier grade inter-o...

Summary of interesting facts from the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress 09, Via Tomi Ahonen's, Communities Dominate Brands : 55% of Japan has ...

A non-profit group in the occupied West Bank has started a scheme that uses mobile phone text messaging to help young Palestinians find work...

I blogged few months back about SMS for emergency services in USA now the same is being tried in UK. Ofcom is trialling a new system to le...

The film tells the story of a fictional 17-year-old girl, Cassie Cowan (nickname COW), who is distracted by her mobile for a few seconds wh...

Sometime back I wrote about SMS becoming cheaper in many parts of the world and that can lead to a deluge of SMS SPAM. Last week I read ab...

Police say a truck driver was texting on one mobile phone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming po...

Last year there was a talk here in UK about adding padding to the lamp-posts because people were bumping into them while texting. The surve...

The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest move...