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A study by the GSM Association, a trade body for mobile network operators, claims 80% of women in low- and middle-income countries now have their own mobile devices.

The mobile operators trade body, GSM Association, has proposed that its members hold a discussion about possible exclusion of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from many developed markets, with operators fearing this may set them back by years.

The GSM Association, the lobby group for mobile carriers worldwide, has launched a new industry-wide initiative — The Cloud AR/VR Forum — focusing on the development of cloud virtual reality and augmented reality technology.

The GSM Association, the lobby group for mobile carriers worldwide, has announced the appointment of Singtel Group chief executive Chua Sock Koong as deputy chair of its Board.

More than five billion of the world's population are now connected to a mobile network, up from 4.6 billion at the end of 2015, according to a study from the GSM Association released at the United Nations this week.

The Asia Pacific region, including the Australian market, is forecast to become the world’s largest 5G region by 2025, with 675 million 5G connections.

The GSM Association, the lobby group for mobile carriers worldwide, has begun to compete with companies like Facebook and Google in providing a means for users to sign in on websites.

With increased competition and lower manufacturing costs, embedded SIM cards "will increasingly dominate the M2M (Machine to Machine) space, accounting for more than 50% of connections by 2020".

The global body representing mobile operators, the GSMA, has launched a new online analytical tool — the Mobile Connectivity Index — to measure the ability of more than 130 countries to enable billions of their citizens to access to the Internet for the first time.

Everything is moving to software. Get ready for the software defined SIM card.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has quickly reached scale in the massive Chinese market with connectivity boosting major industries and creating a new consumer market in the country for connected vehicles, home appliances and wearables.

Telstra has appointed Warwick Bray as its chief financial officer

Telstra is one of the few vendors to join a new group of telco vendors, mobile operators, content providers and device manufacturers to share best practices in LTE Broadcast.

After several years of the research, global mobile industry body has come out with what it says are definitive data on mobile device penetration: global mobile subscriber numbers of 3.2 billion and total active connections of 5.9 billion by the end of 2012.

A report by global cellular industry organisation, the GSMA, and Boston Consulting Group would seem to support Telstra, Optus and Vodafone's lobbying for early access to the 700MHz Digital Dividend spectrum. However its findings are of limited applicability to Australia.

Global mobile network operator organisation GSMA has released a report compiled with McKinsey & Co that says education services delivered to mobile devices could earn mobile network operators $US70b by 2020 and revolutionise learning for more than a billion students globally.

The GSM Association - which represents almost 800 of the world's cellular network operators - has teamed up with global WiFi body the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) - to simplify connectivity to WiFi hotspots from smartphones and tablets, and roaming between cellular and WiFi networks.

Australia's overseas aid agency, AusAID, has teamed up with its US counterpart USAID, and with global cellular industry body GSMA and Visa in a three year program designed to increase mobile phone ownership among women in the developing world.

The GSMA has released research that claims to show huge economic gains if all nations in Asian Pacific allocate the 700MHz 'digital dividend' spectrum to mobile services.

The day is not far off when a whole range of electronic devices from smart meters to ereaders, and even perhaps your fridge and your washing machine will ship with embedded cellular communications capability that can be turned on at the time of purchase.