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Gadget Round-Up: Kindle’s 2010 Estimates; BlackBerry Gets Touchy; Palm Downgraded To Sell - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 05:38 PM PST

-- Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle: There’s some big expectations for Amazon’s Kindle, which allows people to buy books and access other content over Sprint’s (NYSE: S) wireless broadband network. Citi…

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AT&T Says It Will Dramatically Increase Network Speeds In 2009 - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 01:07 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) sounded defensive about the speed of its network during a presentation to Wall Street analysts this morning. Currently, AT&T offers DSL-like speeds where it has HSDPA deployed,…

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iPhone Round-Up: Launches In Asia; Rumors Of Black iPhone And Jobs’ Upcoming Keynote - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 11:32 AM PST

-- Australia-Asia Availability: SingTel will bring the iPhone to its 2.3 million subscribers in Singapore; Bharti Airtel will offer it to its 64 million customers in India; Globe Telecom will…

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Mobile Content Bits: Indiana Jones; Yahoo Go 3.0; Australia 3G - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 May 2008 05:42 PM PST

-- O2 and Samsung are teaming up to sell exclusive content for the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. Wallpapers, true tones, voice tones and…

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Sprint-Clearwire: Sprint’s SVP Atish Gude: “We Know We Are The Pioneers” Of The Mobile Internet - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 12:50 PM PST

After speaking to Clearwire’s Ben Wolff, I also interviewed Sprint’s (NYSE: S) Atish Gude, the SVP of Sprint’s Xohm mobile broadband operations, about the pending deal that would create a…

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Sprint-Clearwire: First Reactions To JV Are Mixed: ‘Spaghetti-like Mess,’ Google, Intel ‘Good Signs’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 08:00 PM PST

A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Google…

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Nortel Adds Another License To LTE - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 05 May 2008 03:01 PM PST

Nortel has come out saying it will charge “about” a 1 percent royalty rate for its Long Term Evolution patents, although RCR News points out that there’s a fair bit…

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Cox Communications May Build Out Wireless Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 05 May 2008 10:48 AM PST

After Cox Communications spent around $304 million in the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction, now several reports are speculating that the company will build out a wireless network through a…

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Updated: T-Mobile USA Turns On 3G Today In NYC; Most Major Markets By Year-End - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 05 May 2008 09:00 AM PST

T-Mobile USA confirmed in a release today what has been rumored for some time—it is launching 3G in New York City today. T-Mobile said the network, based on UMTS and…

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Updated: T-Mobile USA’s 3G Coming Soon; But Rumored Limitations May Disappoint - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 01 May 2008 05:05 PM PST

T-Mobile USA is expected to turn on its 3G network sometime in the next week, according to several rumors, which is not exciting in itself since it’s pretty much the…

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iPhone Round Up: Apple Seeks Wireless Domination; Subsidy Will Boost Sales; Free Wi-Fi - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 01 May 2008 12:39 PM PST

It seems a day doesn’t go by without someone writing something about Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone and its influence on the mobile industry. Today, there are three items worth noting:…

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3G Services In China Up And Running On China Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:25 AM PST

That was fast. Four weeks after launching a trial for its 3G service, China Mobile has determined that the high-speed phone service based on the country’s homegrown 3G standard TD-SCDMA…

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British Networks Vodafone And O2 Threaten To Sue Regulator Over Upcoming 3G Auction - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Apr 2008 03:17 AM PST

Mobile phone networks say they will sue Ofcom to stop September’s upcoming auction of airwaves—the so-called 3G expansion band—until the regulator tells them explicitly how their existing 3G spectrum can…

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3G IPhone In Italy Without Exclusivity, Revenue-Sharing: Rumor - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:33 AM PST

The latest iPhone rumor has been sparked by an article in Italian paper La Repubblica, which claims that the 3G UMTS iPhone will hit Italy in the summer of this…

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Vodafone’s Arun Sarin: No Immediate Need for LTE; Baking A Bigger Mobile Services Cake - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 16 Apr 2008 04:12 AM PST

Nobody’s ever accused Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin of being a shrinking violet. In an interview with Businessweek, Sarin is typically forthright, admitting that the global telecoms company had…

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China To Delay 3G Licenses By Up To 2 Years? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:24 AM PST

The waiting game for 3G licenses to be issued in China looks like it will drag on, despite the recent launch of China Mobile’s trial for the standard—involving up to…

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O2 Caps 3G Speeds At 128 Kbps, Unless Requested Not To - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 09 Apr 2008 01:48 PM PST

UK operator O2 has admitted limiting the speed of most of its customers’ 3G connections to 128 kbps, instead of the 384 kbps the technology is capable of, reports The…

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3.5G Wireless Broadband Devices Are Fast, But They Are Selling Quickly, Too - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 08 Apr 2008 04:46 PM PST

The number of 3.5G-enabled mobile phones and other devices available for sale jumped 150 percent compared to the year-ago period, making it one of the more quickly adopted wireless technologies,…

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iPhone Shortage: Runaway Gray Market In Emerging Markets To Blame? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Apr 2008 03:09 AM PST

The mystery of the missing iPhones has reached a fever pitch, and several pundits including Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster have interpreted the shortage to mean that a 3G model…

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3G iPhone Update; Rumors Of 10 Million Orders May Not Be True - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 28 Mar 2008 10:10 AM PST

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision, which also goes by the name of Foxconn, has secured an exclusive contract with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to assemble a new iPhone, an unnamed person familiar…

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China Mobile To Begin Testing Homegrown 3G Standard TD-SCDMA - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 28 Mar 2008 05:21 AM PST

Can China get it together with 3G in time for the Olympics? China Mobile Communications, parent company to the country’s largest mobile network China Mobile, will begin testing China’s homegrown…

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Japan Is Saying No To New 2G Phones, Meanwhile The U.S. Is Just Getting Over Analog - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 18 Mar 2008 01:10 PM PST

While most Japanese users have advanced handsets capable of surfing the Internet, watching TV and other high-end applications, tons of U.S. users are still trying to wean themselves off of…

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Mobile Broadband Is Soaring; Will Wi-Fi Become As Hard To Find As A Phone Booth? - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 17 Mar 2008 08:00 AM PST

Reports and opinions are all over the map when it comes to the debate on whether mobile broadband will replace Wi-Fi, or if Wi-Fi will continue to play a role…

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Ofcom Warns O2 To Fulfill 3G License Coverage Obligation - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 27 Feb 2008 04:02 AM PST

UK regulator Ofcom issued mobile operator O2 with a warning today that if it fails to meet the terms of its 3G license to cover 80 percent of the country’s…

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Orange And Vodafone In UK Network Sharing Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Feb 2008 06:36 AM PST

More UK operators sharing their networks to cut costs and extend their network reach. The Guardian reports that Orange and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) have agreed to a UK network sharing…

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