Qualcomm's system, for instance, is used by Verizon Wireless as well as many other wireless operators around the world.
With the number of people using mobile phones reaching saturation in many European countries, wireless operators are coming under pressure to generate more revenue from existing customers, rather than simply signing up new ones.
Among the park's many war monuments — Fort George Memorial, Wireless Operators Memorial, Norwegian Maritime Monument and more — an evocative one is the Korean War Veterans Memorial, which seems like a photographic negative in stone form.
(Orascom also owns Iraq's main wireless operator, Iraqna).
As carriers try to shift more customers to the leasing model, NextWorth and Gazelle could face challenges getting inventory since so many smartphones will go right back to wireless operators.
Wireless operators pipe e-mail and stream television broadcasts.
But with wireless broadband, many consumer complaints are being traced to compatibility issues between an operator's network and the software installed on a laptop or netbook computer, said Tim Deluca-Smith, a vice president for marketing at WDS Global, a company in Poole, England, that provides technical support for 40 wireless operators and mobile makers in Europe and North America.
Mostly, the wireless operators evaluating 4G see it as the first, and fixed-line telecoms operators as the second.
SHOULD regulators tell wireless operators which technologies to use, or let them decide for themselves?
