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Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.
Operators back Firefox open mobile OS plans.
Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica
and Telenor are supporting Mozilla’s planned HTML5-based platform for
mobile handsets, which it was today revealed will use the Firefox OS
brand.
The first devices powered by Mozilla will be manufactured by TCL (under
the Alcatel One Touch brand) and ZTE, running on Qualcomm processors.
Initial launches will take place in Brazil early in 2013, through the
Vivo arm of Telefonica.
According to a statement, the operators are supporting Firefox OS
because of “the potential of the technology to deliver compelling
smartphone experiences at attainable prices.”
Mozilla first announced its intentions to move into the device platform space with its Boot to Gecko project. The company picked up support from Telefonica
at the GSMA Mobile World Congress this year, when Telefonica Digital
said it would work with the company to showcase an architecture where
every phone feature is delivered via HTML5.
The web technology company said that it and its partners are “committed
to ensuring the project is fully open and the reference implementation
of the required web APIs is being submitted to W3C for standardisation.”
Matthew Key, chairman and CEO of Telefonica Digital, said: “The breadth
of support for this initiative across the industry makes it clear that
there is an opportunity in the market for a new, open mobile ecosystem.”
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