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Juniper releases report on Barcelona Mobile World Conference

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Juniper research has released a report covering the highlights of this week’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona.

The report, which is available for free on Juniper’s Web site, is split up into the following sections:

  1. Flurry of launches to increase competition in the smart phone space
  2. Operators announce Apps Community
  3. GSMA embarks on LTE interconnection standards
  4. NFC payment trial at Mobile World Congress to presage widespread NFC adoption?
  5. Android platform gains critical mass- the rise of the open source OS

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