The world’s biggest mobile operator, China Mobile, released its first corporate social responsibility report this month, outlining its commitments to help sustainable economic and social growth in China, as well as pledging to reduce its impact on the environment through energy efficiency and waste management programs.
Commenting in the report, China Mobile’s president, Wang Jianzhou, [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) says that operators installing cell sites in remote locations will select renewable energy as their first choice by as early as 2011.
Pointing to the requirements of operators in fast growing emerging markets where electricity grids are not always available, NSN says that renewable energy such as wind and solar is now [...]
A new survey by Greenpeace to find ‘green’ electronic devices available on the market in 2007 yield overwhelmingly disappointing results, with only three out of 37 products tested scoring higher than then the half way mark of 5 out of 10 possible points, with the highest score from all the products maxing out at 5.3 [...]
A team at the world’s biggest handset maker Nokia has developed a new model made entirely of recycled materials.
The “remade” was unveiled at the GSM World Congress in Barcelona in early February and is constructed of 100% used materials. Recycled plastics
Remote communities in the former French colony of Senegal can now use mobile phones as a result of the installation of Alcatel-Lucent’s 200th solar-powered cell site.
The French equipment maker installed a GSM site, including the base station, microwave and other electrical components, is powered entirely by solar energy. The site now enables residents on the [...]
Telwares, a consultancy that helps Global 2000 corporations manage telecommunications spending, has announced a new initiative to help its customers manage the recycling of old handsets. Launched as part of Telwares’ Mobile Lifecycle Management solution, the new cell phone recycling service offers a secure and green way to dispose of old phones.
“It is estimated that [...]
The Telenor Group has been ranked the best Mobile Telecom company in the world by the Sustainability Yearbook 2008. PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) invite the 2,500 largest companies based on the Dow Jones Global Index every year to participate in SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment.
Telenor was awarded both titles for the Mobile Telecom sector, [...]
China’s Huawei Technologies has launched a new solution that promises to reduce base station power consumption by 60%.
Huawei’s Green Site Solution uses optimized hardware design, an innovative power amplifier and power consumption management, to help operators realize a high level of power saving.
The solution adopts leading power amplifier technologies, including DPD and A-Doherty, that boost [...]
After the conclusion of a successful trial of a base station powered by wind and solar energy with Namibia mobile operator last year, Motorola says such solutions will be ideal for Asian operators faced with geographically-challenged locations.
The Namibia trial, conducted in conjunction with the GSMA, consists of a commercial base station in a 6 carrier [...]
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Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]