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Mobile network operators need to enable science, not art, says Actix

London, 3 February 2009 – Actix, the leader in Network Status Management (NSM) solutions, has today released findings that mobile network operators could benefit from 65 – 85 percent efficiency gains and save hundreds of millions of dollars in costs by using a more systematic, consolidated approach to mobile network engineering and optimization, bringing them one step closer to a Self-Optimizing Network (SON).

Mobile data usage has increased tenfold in the last 12 months, and operators have felt the pinch of reduced average revenue per user (ARPU), coupled with the continuous cost of investment in new technology and infrastructure to manage the growing data load.

Cambridge, 2 February 2009 – ip.access (www.ipaccess.com), the multi-award winning developer of picocell and femtocell solutions, announces that Blue Ocean Wireless, the world’s first global GSM provider for the deep sea merchant maritime sector, is using their nanoGSM® system to provide mobile phone service to merchant seafarers.

Blue Ocean Wireless’ global service enables seafarers to use their existing mobile phones while at sea in exactly the same way that they would in port or on land. The ability to communicate with family and friends at sea is a real need for seafarers, who spend many months away from home.

iPhone users looking for their nearest friends need only to glance at their screen, thanks to the addition today of location functionality to Palringo’s popular rich messaging application.

From today, a user looking down their contact list sees not only the location of his or her Palringo contacts – typically a town name - but also how far away that contact is.

In the next update [due soon] a further click will bring up a map showing the location of that contact and also the location of any other Palringo contacts within a 10km radius.

In the same update, the location function will allow a user to display his/her own location on a map – highly convenient if visiting somewhere for the first time.