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Children’s use of mobile phones: A special report 2014

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Sunday 1 Jun 2014 | 2014 | Child Online Protection | Children and Mobile Technology | Global | mYouth | Research & Reports |

Children’s use of mobile phones – A special report 2014 provides a detailed comparison of children’s mobile phone and internet usage in Japan with that in seven European countries – Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, ...

eWaste in Latin America 2014

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Friday 16 May 2014 | 2014 | Environmental Sustainability | Latin America & the Caribbean | Research & Reports |

The widespread use of electronic devices such as personal computers, television sets, radios, mobile phones, tablets and routers causes e-waste to pile up as these products reach the end of their life cycle. According to the United ...

Guidelines for Industry on Child Online Protection: Mobile Operators’ Version

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Sunday 13 Apr 2014 | 2014 | Child Online Protection | Children and Mobile Technology | Global | Guidelines | Mobile Alliance | mYouth |

The GSMA has collaborated with UNICEF and the ITU to produce these guidelines on Child Online Protection.

Arbitrary Radio Frequency exposure limits: Impact on 4G network deployment

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Monday 31 Mar 2014 | 2014 | Case Study | EMF and Health | EMF and Mobile Networks | EMF Policy | Europe | Research & Reports |

The GSMA welcomes the adoption of harmonised, Electromagnetic Fields/Radio Frequency (EMF/RF) exposure limit policies based on the international guidelines. In Europe exposure to electromagnetic fields is governed on the basis of the ...

Case Study: Warid Pakistan expects to save more than US$6 million per year after trialling energy efficiency solutions

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Monday 24 Mar 2014 | 2014 | Case Study | Environmental Sustainability | Middle East and North Africa |

Cascadiant, Warid Telecom and the GSMA collaborated to perform a MEE Optimisation project in Pakistan in 2013. The project was conducted on ten cell sites across various geographies in Pakistan, and the technical solutions were ...

Mobile Phones and Driving: Tips for Drivers

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Friday 14 Mar 2014 | 2014 | EMF and Health | Global | Guidelines |

The GSMA has produced the document Mobile Phones and Driving: Tips for Drivers as a public safety awareness measure.

Preventing mobile payments services from being misused to monetise child sexual abuse content

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Saturday 1 Mar 2014 | 2014 | Child Online Protection | Children and Mobile Technology | Global | Mobile Alliance | Research & Reports |

The GSMA’s Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content works to keep mobile services hostile to those wishing to consume or profit from child sexual abuse content (CSAC). This report contains research on current levels of misuse ...

Mobile Privacy: Consumer research insights and considerations for policymakers

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Friday 21 Feb 2014 | 2014 | Data Protection | Global | Mobile Apps | Privacy | Research & Reports |

The GSMA has been working closely with its members to proactively address key mobile privacy challenges and, as part of this, commissioned this global research study on more than 11,500 mobile users across 8 markets: Brazil, Colombia, ...

Mobile taxes and fees: A toolkit of principles and evidence 2014

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Saturday 1 Feb 2014 | 2014 | Digital Inclusion | Global | Research & Reports | State of the Industry and Trends | Taxation |

This report considers the consistency of mobile taxation policies with established best practice principles by examining the mobile taxation burden and its impact across 19 countries. Across these 19 markets, over USD 3 in every USD 10 ...

Base Station Planning Permission in Europe

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Saturday 7 Dec 2013 | 2013 | EMF and Health | EMF and Mobile Networks | EMF Policy | Europe | Research & Reports |

Mobile network antenna sites need to be located close to where people want to use their phones to access voice and data services. Requirements and conditions that operators face in order to be granted a permit for a network antenna vary largely from one...

Summary of IARC Monograph on Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields

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Friday 20 Sep 2013 | 2013 | EMF and Health | EMF Science | Global | Research & Reports |

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph (volume 102) for Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields (RF-EMF) was published in April 2013. It represents the views and expert opinions of an IARC Working Group (IARC ...

Research into mobile users privacy attitudes: Key findings from Malaysia and Indonesia

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Wednesday 28 Aug 2013 | 2013 | Asia Pacific and Greater China | Data Protection | Mobile Apps | Privacy | Research & Reports |

This paper presents key findings from a GSMA consumer research study on mobile users' privacy attitudes in Malaysia and Indonesia. The research examines user privacy concerns and how they influence their attitudes towards the mobile ...

Children’s use of mobile phones: An international comparison 2013

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Saturday 1 Jun 2013 | 2013 | Child Online Protection | Children and Mobile Technology | Global | mYouth | Research & Reports |

Children’s use of mobile phones – An international comparison 2013 provides a detailed picture of children’s mobile phone behaviour in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The GSMA and NTT docomo’s Mobile Society Research ...

International roaming explained – Arab World

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Wednesday 1 May 2013 | 2013 | Brochure | Middle East and North Africa | Roaming |

The Arab World's mobile market is rapidly expanding, both in subscriber numbers and traffic. Roaming services, however, are still emerging. Countries within the region are in different stages of economic development, with significant ...

Mobile Networks Are Necessary to Deliver a Better Connected World

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Monday 29 Apr 2013 | 2013 | EMF and Health | EMF and Mobile Networks | EMF Policy | Global | Infographics | Video |

Mobile networks must continue to grow and develop in response to the growth of connections and mobile data: 6.6 billion mobile connections. 45 % of the world’s population use mobile communications. ...

Research into mobile users’ privacy attitudes: Key findings from Colombia

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Tuesday 23 Apr 2013 | 2013 | Data Protection | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile Apps | Privacy | Research & Reports |

These documents present the key findings from a GSMA consumer research study on mobile users' privacy attitudes in Colombia. The research examines user privacy concerns and how they influence their attitudes towards the mobile internet ...

Electromagnetic Spectrum Interactive Presentation

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Friday 5 Apr 2013 | 2013 | EMF and Health | EMF Science | Global | Presentation | Video |

The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all types of electromagnetic energy: electric and magnetic fields moving together through space. There are both natural and artificial sources of electromagnetic energy. For example, both ...

Universal Service Fund Study

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Monday 1 Apr 2013 | 2013 | Digital Inclusion | Global | Research & Reports | Taxation | Universal Service Funds |

This report examines 64 Universal Service Funds, how they are currently meeting their objectives and what mobile’s role is in delivering universal service and access. It concludes that most funds are not achieving their stated goal of ...

Mobile Money: Enabling regulatory solutions

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Thursday 28 Feb 2013 | 2013 | Global | Mobile Money | Research & Reports |

The aim of this paper is to provide a useful tool for regulators and mobile money providers to engage more effectively. It elaborates on commonly held positions in the mobile industry relating to key policy and regulatory issues, ...

Accountability Framework for the Implementation of the GSMA Privacy Design Guidelines for Mobile App Development

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Friday 25 Jan 2013 | 2013 | Data Protection | Global | Guidelines | Mobile Apps | Privacy |

The GSMA and its members have been working on a mobile privacy initiative to address consumer privacy concerns and foster confidence and trust for mobile users. Following on from the GSMA's Mobile Privacy Principles and Privacy Design ...