T-Mobile USA Offering Motorola’s Carbon-Neutral Mobile Phone February 5, 2009
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T-Mobile USA says that it has secured exclusive rights to the Motorola W233 Renew mobile phone – the plastics of which are made from recycled water bottles. Through an alliance with Carbonfund, Motorola also offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation, making it the first carbon-neutral mobile phone. We know that many of our customers are concerned about the environmental impact of the products they choose, and we share that concern, said Glenn Zaccara, senior manager of corporate responsibility, T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile is working to find ways to make it easier for our customers to limit their impact on the environment, and our partnership with Motorola to exclusively offer the Renew is a positive step along this journey.
In addition to Renew, T-Mobile also offers customers the option to sign up for paperless billing. In 2008, T-Mobile partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees for customers who signed up for this option and, to date, has planted more than 500,000 trees.
T-Mobile ad receives record YouTube hits February 4, 2009
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T-Mobile’s ‘Dance’ ad has received 5.5 million hits on YouTube since it was released last month, beating the Cadbury Gorilla advert.The Life’s for Sharing advert, which features 400 commuters dancing in a synchronised routine during open hours at Liverpool Street station, has received 5.5 million hits in less than a month, beating the Cadbury ad’s 5 million in 12 months. T-Mobile claimed that the ad is the most viewed sponsored channel of all time in the UK, and 25th in the world.The three-minute advert, which was created by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, was first aired in full during Big Brother on 16 January and took up the entire commercial break.
T-Mobile recorded its highest ever January weekend store footfall after the screening of the commercial.The operator is launching a number of spin-off commercials to maximise the impact of the advert, the first featuring Kelly Brook. The follow-up adverts will promote T-Mobile products and services, including the Combi tariff and the G1 handset.
Macedonia to issue 2 more 3G licences February 3, 2009
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The Macedonian Agency for Electronic Communications has announced a public tender for granting two licences for 3G services. The licences for using radio frequencies will be granted for ten years, with a possibility for extension. Bidders must submit a statement in writing that they will commence operations within six months from the day of granting the licence. Within a period of one year the operator should provide 50 percent coverage and within a period of three years, the operator should provide coverage equivalent to 80 percent coverage of the population in Macedonia. The country held 3G tenders in 2007 and 2008 already, granting licences to respectively Cosmofon and T-Mobile. The remaining network operator, Vip, does not yet have a licence.
Deutsche Telekom Substantially Increased its Customer Numbers in 2008 January 30, 2009
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Deutsche Telekom has issued a trading statement and says that it saw encouraging developments in its mobile communications markets during last year. The number of customers with the companies in Europe and the United States totaled 128.3 million. This means that the number of customers increased organically by 7.6 million. The contract customer segment accounts for 5 million of this growth with a current customer base of 65.9 million.
T-Mobile Deutschland also defended its leading position in Germany. With over 950,000 new contract customers, the high level of the previous year was reached once again. The successful introduction of the Apple iPhone 3G and the attractive range of calling plans were the main reasons for this development.
T-Mobile CEO sees stable results in 2009 January 28, 2009
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T-Mobile International has yet to see a direct impact on its results from the economic slowdown and expects to maintain its performance in 2009, CEO Hamid Akhavan told Telecompaper in an interview. Results for the fourth quarter were in line with the company’s expectations, he said, adding that based on November and December sales figures, the company saw no major changes in the number of clients or spending. T-Mobile is on track to meet its 2008 forecasts, and for 2009 the company expects a stable performance with no decline in results, he said.
Looking ahead, T-Mobile is focused on growing service revenues, while maintaining its profit margins. Growth will come from innovative services such as its mobile data service Web’n’walk and new data-driven phones such as Apple’s iPhone and the G1 Android handset. Mergers and acquisitions are not on the agenda at the moment, due to the high cost of capital, according to the CEO.
T-Mobile International CTO to leave the company January 27, 2009
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T-Mobile International chief technology officer, Joachim Horn, is leaving the company at the end of March.The operator said that horn is looking to ‘pursue a new professional opportunity outside of Germany’. A successor will be announced ‘in the near future’.During his time at T-Mobile, Horn was responsible for implementing large scale network modernisation in the core, radio and service platforms. He is also credited with laying the foundation for mobile broadband at the company by introducing both HSPA and Edge in the European networks.Horn joined T-Mobile in 2003 as technology director for T-Mobile Germany and head of planning and engineering for T-Mobile International. He took on the role of chief technology officer and member of the executive committee in December 2006.
T-Mobile launches YouTube channel for G1 January 8, 2009
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T-Mobile is launching a channel on YouTube for its G1 Android mobile phone. The new channel allows customers to post questions about their phone and receive written and video answers from both T-Mobile’s experts and other customers. The G1 was launched last year in the US and UK.
T-Mobile prepping free replacement batteries for G1 owners? December 30, 2008
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Wouldn’t it be nice if all cellphones came with an extra battery pack free of charge? Well, that doesn’t seem like it will be happening in the near future, what with all manufacturing costs mobile phone makers are facing nowadays. But rumors have it that T-Mobile and Google are going to do just that. It is said that T-Mobile is gearing up for a so-called extended battery project in which they’ll be sending out free T-Mobile G1 battery packs to owners within a month from now. This is to address the user-feedback regarding the T-Mobile G1’s less not quite impressive battery life.
BlackBerry Curve 8900 To Hit U.S. In Feb.? December 29, 2008
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It seems the stateside BlackBerry faithful will have to wait until the new year to get their hands on the BlackBerry Curve 8900, also known as the BlackBerry Javelin.TmoNews, an unofficial T-Mobile news blog, has confirmed that the anticipated and updated Curve has a “hopeful” release date of Feb. 18. The device is expected to hit T-Mobile first. Already available in Canada and the U.K., the Curve 8900, which got the stamp of approval from the FCC here in November, is being called the high-end BlackBerry Bold 9000’s kid brother.
The quad-band Curve 8900 offers Edge support with built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a 512MHz next-generation processer, a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.4-inch, 480 x 360 high-resolution display. The Curve 8900 also marks the thinnest smartphone in BlackBerry’s 10-year history to offer a full QWERTY keyboard, just a hair over a half-inch thick. While the Curve 8900 lacks 3G support, it wraps in a 3.2-megapixel camera and BlackBerry OS version 4.6.
Google releases unlocked G1 for developers December 9, 2008
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To make the phone more accessible to developers, Google’s Android development team released the first SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked version of the T-Mobile G1, which runs on the Android platform.
The move, which the development team quietly let slip on Friday, is a clear signal to application developers that they now have a G1 to test their applications on free from the constraints of signing up for a service contract with T-Mobile USA. The phone, called the Android Dev Phone 1, is available for $399 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India, Canada, France, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Poland and Hungary.
Developers who are registered in the Android Market can sign into their account and purchase the phone. Google is limiting one phone to each developer account. Google warned that non-developers should probably not make use of the phone, noting that, “Since the devices can be configured with system software not provided by or supported by Google or any other company, end users operate these devices at their own risk.”
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The Phone that Feels the Flu Before You Do December 8, 2008
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A maker of over-the-counter cold and flu remedies released a program this week for the T-Mobile G1, also known as the “Google phone,” that warns the user how many people in an area are sneezing and shaking with winter viruses.
The “Zicam Cold & Flu Companion” will say, for instance, that 8 percent to 14 percent of the people in your ZIP code have respiratory illnesses, representing a “Moderate” risk level. To give germophobes and hypochondriacs even more of a thrill, it also says what symptoms are common, like coughing and sore throat.
Matrixx Initiatives Inc., the Arizona company that makes products under the Zicam brand, gets the information on disease levels from Surveillance Data Inc. — which gets its data from polling health care providers and pharmacies.
Users can also ask the application about risk levels in other ZIP codes, so they can steer clear of, for instance, Atlanta, one of the five most infected cities in the nation right now, according to Zicam.
The “Companion” is available for free from the Android Marketplace, the repository of downloadable programs for the G1. Later this month, the program will be available for the iPhone, according to Matrixx.
Google Inc., which created the G1’s operating system, launched its own state-by-state Web-based flu tracker recently. It’s based on the number of people plugging flu-related searches into Google’s search engine.
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