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CEOs of Cisco, Ericsson and Telefonica to Keynote at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011

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          GSMA Announces Five New ADCs as Part of App Planet at Mobile World Congress The GSMA today announced that the CEOs of Cisco, Ericsson and Telefónica are scheduled to deliver keynote presentations at the 2011 GSMA Mobile World Congress, ...

GSMA Elects New Board Members and Franco Bernabe as Chairman

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          The GSMA today announced that it has elected Franco Bernabè, Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, as its new Chairman for a two-year term, from January 2011 through December 2012. As Chairman, he will help oversee the strategic ...

GSMA Shines Spotlight on Mobile Advertising at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011

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Advertising Industry Luminaries Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP and IPG’s Michael Roth to Headline GSMA Mobile Ad Forum; GSMA and Coca-Cola Issue Challenge to Mobile App Developers Worldwide The GSMA today announced the details of its Mobile Ad Forum conference programme at the ...

GSMA Commends Senegal’s President Wade for Suspending Surtax on International Calls

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The GSMA today applauded the decision of Senegalese president, Maître Abdoulaye Wade,  to suspend surtaxes on inbound international calls and urges other governments who have recently lintroduced  such taxes to take similar action. The decision to suspend the tax comes after ...

World-Leading Bands Muse, Faithless and Groundbreaking New Artists Metric and Eliza Doolittle, Call for Innovative Mobile Apps in the GSMA’s Band App Audition

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                  The GSMA has brought together world-leading music bands Muse, Faithless, and upcoming new artists Metric, and Eliza Doolittle for the first ever GSMA Band App Audition, an app developer competition calling for ...

GSMA Opens Brand App Challenge for Mobile World Congress 2011

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                    The GSMA today announced that it is now accepting entries for its Brand App Challenge, a competition in which mobile application developers create “brand apps” for a select group of global ...

GSMA Launches the Mobile World Capital

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                GSMA Outlines Innovative Vision for the Centre of the Mobile Industry   The GSMA today announced that it is launching the “Mobile World Capital™”. The concept of the Mobile World Capital extends far beyond the ...

GSMA Launches Embedded SIM Initiative to Support the Connected Future

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                The GSMA today announced the formation of a task force of mobile operators to explore the development of an embedded SIM that can be remotely activated. The move is expected to enable the design of exciting new form ...

GSMA Announces Winners of Asia Mobile Awards 2010

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                The GSMA today announced the winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2010, which were held at Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong. The award winners were revealed by Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA and Shi Lirong, Director and ...

Mobile Broadband Central to Future Operator Embedded Mobile Strategy

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                New report outlines key decisions operators must make now to realise full potential of embedded mobile technology The GSMA today unveiled research that reveals 3G embedded modules have a lower total cost of ownership ...

GSMA Launches Mobile Energy Efficiency Network Benchmarking Service

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                Initiative to help the mobile industry lower annual energy bill of $35 billion and reduce MNOs’ carbon emissions The GSMA today announced that it is launching the Mobile Energy Efficiency (MEE) Network ...

GSMA and International Finance Corporation Partner to Launch Community Power from Mobile

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                The GSMA Development Fund today announced that is has partnered with Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank programme, to formally launch the Community Power from Mobile (CPM) initiative. CPM will support and ...

Spectrum Harmonisation for Mobile Crucial for Socio-Economic Development across Asia Pacific, says GSMA

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                New research highlights how mobile could add $729 billion to the GDP of Asia Pacific nations by 2020 The GSMA today unveiled new independent research that highlights the positive impact harmonised spectrum allocation ...

Asia Pacific LTE Connections to Surpass 120 Million by 2015

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                The number of LTE connections in Asia Pacific will exceed 120 million by 2015, according to new data released today by Wireless Intelligence*. This aggressive growth will be spearheaded by China with the country ...

GSMA Launches News Service for Chinese Mobile Industry

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              The GSMA today announced that it has launched a new Chinese-language edition of its hugely successful Mobile Business Briefing news service. The free, weekly Chinese-language edition of Mobile Business Briefing covers global ...

GSMA Unveils Latest Version of Mobile World Live

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            The GSMA today announced the latest version of Mobile World Live, the GSMA’s online portal that serves as a critical information resource for the mobile communications industry. Updates to Mobile World Live build upon the key ...

GSMA announces additional keynote speakers for Mobile World Congress 2011

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          The GSMA today announced that the CEOs of Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, RIM, SoftBank and Yahoo! will be making keynote speeches at Mobile World Congress, which will be held 14-17 February, 2011 in Barcelona. The GSMA also provided ...

Reed Midem Partners With GSMA to Launch Connected Creativity Forum at MIPTV 2011

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          Reed MIDEM, the organizer of leading international television and music events (MIPTV, MIPCOM, MIDEM) and the GSMA, the organization which represents the worldwide mobile industry and which also produces the Mobile World Congress and Mobile ...

GSMA Launches mWomen Programme with Support of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Cherie Blair

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          The GSMA today launched the GSMA mWomen Programme, designed to bring the socio-economic benefits of mobile to women in developing markets worldwide. The launch follows the GSMA’s groundbreaking report with the Cherie Blair Foundation for ...

GSMA Announces Open Call For Entries for 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards

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          The GSMA today announced that the Global Mobile Awards 2011 are now open for entry. The Global Mobile Awards, which recognise excellence, achievement and innovation within the mobile communications industry, will be presented at the Mobile ...