The FCC is thinking about developing a nationwide emergency alert system that would send out text messages in a crisis, USA Today reports. The system would likely reach more people…

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T-Mobile Germany has slashed the cost of an 8GB iPhone to a mere 99 euros ($156) from 399 euros ($628), in what analysts are saying is an attempt to clear…

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Ad-funded content models could be gaining ground, according to new research from Ipsos Mori commissioned by T-Mobile that found over a third of 16 to 34 year-olds who own a…

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-- Greystripe and Vivedi to offer for-pay games: Greystripe is partnering with Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile to offer for-pay games that can be trialled before purchase. Greystripe has been…

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—AOL (NYSE: TWX) Offers WAP Games: AOL plans to announce today that it is offering free WAP-based mobile games to wireless subscribers, so they don’t have to download anything to…

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China Mobile’s has been on a growth streak for some time. IDG News reports the country’s largest operator--and indeed the world’s--China Mobile grew by 68.1 million new subscribers last year--about…

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Of course logically both could happen...rumors are flying that Sprint (NYSE: S) may sell off Nextel, and has hired Morgan Stanley, reports SeekingAlpha. Then Merrill Lynch analysts had a field…

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Deutsche Telekom’s VC arm T-Mobile Venture Fund has made an undisclosed strategic investment in British femtocell technology firm Ubiquisys. The firm creates technology that could potentially improve signal coverage, while…

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A few weeks after T-Mobile International head expressed unhappiness over Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) efforts to launch its own music and media services, the company may be planning to dump all…

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Advertising is the next big opportunity in mobile—by some estimates released this week, it will be a burgeoning $250 billion industry within two years, but other more conservative estimates predict…

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With Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel unveiling its unlimited wireless plan today, all four of the major U.S. wireless carriers have released comparative offerings, giving us a chance to step back,…

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Fourth quarter earnings are out today for Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT). Europe’s largest telecoms group reported a loss of 757 million euros ($1.14 billion) for the period ending December 2007,…

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The U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing Wednesday on legislation that would require carriers to offer wireless service without contracts when devices are not subsidized.. The Wireless Consumer…

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T-Mobile USA was one of the first carriers in the U.S. to allow subscribers to roam on to a Wi-Fi Hotspot to avoid using the minutes from their plan. Today,…

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One after another, three of the major U.S. carriers this week rolled out flat-rate calling plans. AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) unveiled $99.99/month unlimited calling plans, and…

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So now I may not have to change to AT&T (NYSE: T) after all: T-Mobile USA, which is the carrier I have been using for a long time (and Staci…

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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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Following the news earlier this week that T-Mobile would no longer be the exclusive Wi-Fi provider at Starbucks, the carrier quietly made a few changes to another one of its…

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Social media network Bebo and mobile technology firm Intercasting have partnered together to enable Bebo members to produce and share content on their mobile phones. Bebo.com will now be available…

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T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier and the only one that has yet to roll out 3G, said at Mobile World Congress that it will start turning on the faster…

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When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced that it was buying Danger, the maker of the pop-culture cellphone icon, the sparse press release failed to mention anything about how much it might…

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Germany’s T-Mobile will cut data roaming charges and offer “enhanced web services” in a bid to boost data revenues, according to Reuters. At the MWC T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan told…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is to become T-Mobile’s exclusive web search provider across much of Europe from March, the pair announced in Barcelona. T-Mobile had already started using Yahoo’s oneSearch in…

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The idle 3G spectrum in UK has been the subject of idle speculation for some time, and mobile TV trials have been promised, and now Orange and T-Mobile UK will…

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AT&T said today that it will start providing WiFi to more than 7,000 company-owned Starbucks in the U.S. ditching the long-standing partnership Starbucks had with T-Mobile USA. The two companies…

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