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The key to driving digital inclusion for 3.2 billion people is to ensure the whole worldwide population is able to use mobile internet rather than focusing purely on network coverage, according to statistics released by industry organisation GSMA.

Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE has rolled out its third-generation 5G Indoor CPE MC8020 at Mobile World Congress 2021.

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.

The 2014 Melbourne Cup’s mobile Internet service is reported to be sorted, with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone increasing capacity in various way to keep the punters connected.

Virgin Mobile today finally joined its telco rivals in offering a 4G Postpaid Mobile Broadband service.

The integration of smartphones into consumer vehicles will become all but standard on new models, according to one leading analyst, which also forecasts that 92 million vehicles will feature technology to integrate the smartphone into the head-unit by 2016.

Smartphone users are increasingly using their phones for instant messaging and accessing social networks, with a 60 percent growth in connection to the Internet from mobile phones in just 12 months by users worldwide.

Opera, the world's 'other' browser company famed for smartphone and feature phone browsers (including iPhones and Android phones), the Nintendo Wii browser and PCs, Macs and Linux boxes, says Gen Y is going gaga for the mobile web: bravo!

Telstra wants to tempt the many pre-paid mobile broadband users, some of whom are experiencing dial-up speeds in heavily populated areas on competing networks, with a new 'Telstra Turbo' Next G USB modem and affordable no-contract pre-paid per gigabyte pricing, although naturally still at higher prices than the competition.

'Going forward' is Telstra CEO David Thodey's pet phrase for the future - it's somewhat ironic as that's the one thing the company can't do while it remains embroiled in negotiations with the Federal Government over the National Broadband Network.