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At a recent conference on the 2008 financial results of Altitude Telecom, CEO Jean Paul Rivière expressed confidence about Altitude’s WiMAX business im France. Most of Altitude’s revenues come from large enterprises. The company sells VPN IP MPSL, which means migration to an all-IP network for voice and high speed data access using end-to-end high speed Ethernet networks. Rivière says: “We help enterprises migrate their activities to full IP networks, and the demand is booming because our services are more…

While attending a Senior Expo and Conference in Paris in April 2009, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, French Minister for New Technologies announced the imminent launch of Proxima Mobile, a portal for accessing a large set of geo-localized information and public services through a mobile phone. The first set of services will be available in the summer of 2009. By the end of the year, all of the portal’s services will be completely available to the public. It is designed specifically, but not…

AdMob has just released statistics for March 2009 which show that the iPhone and iPod Touch continue to dominate the number of requests generated on the AdMob network of 6000 publishers and 1000 applications around the world.

In March 2009, the iPhone generated 8 times more requests than Android (in the US). Worldwide, the iPhone and the iPod Touch generated 23 times more requests than Android. This is not surprising given that the iPhone has had a headstart. AdMob’s statistics indicate that…

Starting 1 July 2009, the roaming rates charged by mobile phone operators for sending data and SMS between EU member states will drop significantly. For example, a text message sent from the Netherlands to Spain will cost no more than EUR 0.11 instead of EUR 0.28. The new rates come just in time for the holiday season when thousands of Europeans go to Spain, Italy, and southern France, only to return home to find huge mobile phone bills. Stories of…

A class action lawsuit filed in Washington state alleges Clearwire misrepresented to customers that its Internet service was fast, reliable and comparable to cable Internet and DSL. The plaintiffs, who come from Washington, Hawaii, Minnesota and North Carolina, retained a Washington DC law firm, to bring the lawsuit against Clearwire for false advertising, unfair business practices and for reimbursement of early termination fees. The “class of plaintiffs” is defined in the complaint as:

All subscribers to Defendant’s Internet or Internet and…