February 1st, 2010 | News
There are two blocks of frequencies to provide 3G mobile by ARCEP and will be awarded by next summer for about 120 million euros each.
In January last ARCEP assigned a block of 5 MHz to 15 MHz of mobile spectrum of the fourth 3G license in Iliad, which now has until 2012 to launch its mobile telephony offer called Mobile Free.
In a recent interview with news agency Reuters, Jean-Ludovic Silicani, head of the French telecoms regulator, said that the two blocks 5 MHz of 3G spectrum will be allocated the remaining by next summer “We hope to make public the rules (editor’s note: the call for applications) in mid-February. The deadline for responses will be late March or mid-April. The two blocks of 5 MHz frequencies will be allocated to later in May ”
Regarding the price of each block of 5 MHz, the president of the national regulator has confirmed the price was raised by the press, namely around 120 million euros each.
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Nokia has announced two new mobile devices, including the 6700 Slide, a smartphone running Symbian S60 environment in its version 3.2.
Nominated in six shades blue oil, silver, purple, pink, red and green apple, the terminal sliding announces compatibility GSM / GPRS / EDGE quad band (850, 900, 1 800 and 1 900 MHz) and UMTS / HSDPA tri-band (900 , 1 900 and 2 100 MHz).
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It offers a 2.2 inch LCD touch not managing 16.7 million colors in a resolution 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA), a digital camera with 5 megapixel sensor, autofocus and dual LED flash, a media player, radio FM, an internal memory of 45 MB, slot microSD / microSDHC cards accept up to 16GB, a microUSB port and 2.0 connectivity Bluetooth 2.1.Dimensions 9.5 x 4.6 x 1.6 cm to 110 grams on the scale, the device loads a Lithium-Ion 860 mAh giving it up to 4 hours of talk calls until 29 hours read music and up to 300 hours standby.
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November 13th, 2009 | Samsung
Alongside the B5722 DuoS, Samsung is expected soon to lift the veil on the C6112 DuoS, another mobile phone for up to two SIM cards.
Powered by a rechargeable Lithium-Ion 960 mAh autonomy unknown for now, the phone’s slider form listing compatibility GSM / GPRS / EDGE quad band (850, 900, 1 800 and 1 900 MHz) and can carry up to two SIM cards, allowing to review the appeals of two numbers using a single terminal.
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The call for nominations for the fourth 3G license is now over and, not surprisingly, the Iliad Group is the only one to have filed a case.
Today that has ended the call for nominations for the fourth 3G license, which should bring out a new mobile operator on the French market. And though several names have circulated throughout the few months what shall the procedure lasted only group Iliad (Free) has finally filed a case with the Arcep.
The scenario for 2007 is therefore welcome here, because Free was already the only candidate. But if his record does not reflect the financial conditions of that time, the context has changed since. In 2007, the offer was for a block of 15 MHz for which the new entrant would pay 619 million euros in the first year following the award of the license or the same conditions as in 2002 when 3G No did not exist yet.
The refusal of this scenario in 2007 prompted the government to modify the schema. After public consultation conducted by the Arcep, the French telecommunications regulator, a new approach was proposed: the entrance fee was increased to 240 million euros … but for a block of 5 MHz reserved for new entrants, the two portions of 5 MHz may be an offer from the incumbent.
If several candidates seemed more interested in this new proposal, they all withdrew gradually. At issue: the growing uncertainty regarding the deployment of new 3G network operator.
A forest of obstacles in perspective
Because since 2008, it is true that organized revolt against the base stations, including the supposed negative effects on health have led to a proliferation of appeals calling for their withdrawal, and while the issue of new regulations lowering exposure limits is sought by the associations.
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August 31st, 2009 | Reviews
Samsung’s top tier of Omnia devices is populated by some seriously heavy-hitters – first the 720p video recording Omnia HD and now the Omnia II – with its best-in-the-business display, WM 6.5, zippy processor and preloaded software galore, it will certainly win the hearts and minds of Windows Mobile fans.
It’s no secret that the Samsung Omnia II has the HTC Touch Diamond2 in its sights. The Omnia II has several advantages, not the least of which is the amazing 3.7″ AMOLED WVGA display. For the acronym-allergic – WVGA means 480 x 800 pixels resolution, which several years ago might have been considered acceptable for a computer monitor. That resolution is not so uncommon today, the exciting part here is “AMOLED” – active matrix organic LED. Or in plain English – brilliant picture quality.
It doesn’t end there – the 667MHz CPU is one of the speediest around and the available capacities of up to 16GB built-in memory and up to 32GB external storage via microSD card offer more than enough memory expansion. There’s Wi-Fi and GPS, the autofocus camera shoots 5MP stills and D1 video at 30fps and has dual-LED flash, there’s DivX playback out of the box and HSDPA and HSUPA push the phone to great wireless speeds.
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