Tag: 3G

Textual Healing – The rise of the business SMS text…

How do you prioritise your written communication? I’m willing to bet that most of us read text messages long before we read emails. In truth, this is because most of us put family and friends ahead of our colleagues in our communication ‘schedules’. But what happens when these worlds collide? The SMS text message is […]

4G – now also in the UK

It has been available in South Korea for years and in Norway since 2009. Japan launched LTE in 2011 and the US has been shouting about its own successes in delivering LTE these past few years too. Now, 4G is finally also available in the UK. A 4G mobile network, the successor to 3G, launched […]

Have you heard of LTE roaming?

LTE (also known as 4G) is offering quicker download speeds among other advantages, as discussed in a previous Gemalto blog post. Some fortunate people in the United States, Japan, South Korea or Sweden are experiencing the speed of LTE, mobile broadband in their everyday life.  By 2016 more than 500 million people will benefit from […]

Travelling abroad – the mobile as your constant companion

On a governmental level, while the new EU roaming legislation is clearly decreasing the roaming prices, it is also a big opportunity for operators to convince ‘roaming sleepers’ to wake up. More than a quarter of European visitors today turn their phones off. If operators hope to compensate for the price decrease with an increase […]

Morse Code: How did it change communication?

In today’s society, instantaneous messaging is something we both need and expect in our everyday lives. Just think about the number of times you rely on it in a single day; work emails, IMing colleagues, WhatsApping friends. It’s almost impossible to cast your mind back to what communication looked like centuries ago.