The USA wireless trade association, the CTIA, through its Common Short Code Administration (CSCA), has announced its partnership with Aegis Mobile to verify the identity of organizations that use premium short code campaigns.

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The study, commissioned by Broadcom, revealed that 60 percent of respondents cannot go a full day without Wi-Fi before seeking a connection.

Israel based Alvarion has reported a 28.4% drop in its first-quarter revenues of US$33.3 million, and a net loss of US$6.

T-Mobile USA has confirmed plans to cut a further 900 jobs, on top of the nearly 2,000 jobs lost earlier this year at its call centres.

HP has delivered an AppSystem for the SAP HANA database and related services to T-Mobile USA, which it says helped the mobile network operator shorten the time required to analyze information from more than one week to less than a day.

The Internet economy in the G20 nations is larger than the GDP of Brazil or Italy and is expected to nearly double to US $4.

A new report from Juniper Research has found that mobile network operators face losing nearly one-quarter of revenues -- nearly $300 billion -- to a combination of fraud and billing error by 2016.

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner.

Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.