FCC votes to open airwaves’ white spaces’ (The Kansas City Star) WASHINGTON | The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted to open unused, unlicensed portions of the TV airwaves known as “white spaces” to deliver wireless broadband service. Source: www.kansascity.com
FCC approves New Clearwire venture (The Kansas City Star) Federal regulators on Tuesday […]
Komputer Klinic: Trim your broadband fees painlessly (East Valley Tribune) For many people, having a speedy Internet connection is a necessity like food and water. We use the Internet for work, school and communicating with family and friends. Fortunately, you may be able to lower how much you pay monthly without much effort. […]
Families with cell phones keep in touch all day long (Detroit Free Press) Today’s families with minor children are much more likely than any other household types to have cell phones and use the Internet, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported last week. Source: www.freep.com
Home computing (BBC News) Why the […]
Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 (PC World) Prediction: The era when subnotebooks are subsidized like cell phones is here — almost. Source: www.pcworld.com
Families with cell phones keep […]
Nujira amplifies handset development efforts (Microwave Engineering Online) LONDON Power amplifier technology specialist Nujira (Cambridge, England) is powering ahead with plans to extend its technology from the wireless infrastructure space to handsets, trebling the size of its development team targeting chips and IP for mobile phones. Source: www.mwee.com
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Mobile Broadband Operators Face Capacity Crunch (Cellular-News.com) According to the findings of a new report commissioned by policy control vendor, Camiant - mobile broadband affords tremendous growth opportunities for operators; however, given the popularity of data cards and smart phones and the substantial capital expenses involved in building additional network capacity, operators can expect to […]
European and North American Mobile Broadband Study Finds Change Is Key to Maintaining Profitability (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Camiant, Inc., the leading provider of policy control and application assurance technology, today announced a newly published study, “Mobile Broadband in North America and Europe: Change is Key to Maintaining Profitability,” that explores mobile broadband adoption […]
U.S. Cellular launches mobile broadband in Wisconsin (Small Business Times) U.S. Cellular today is launching Mobile Broadband, enabling customers in southern Wisconsin to surf the Internet at DSL-like speeds and bring faster service and capabilities to customers through EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized) technology. Source: www.biztimes.com
Verizon Wireless Launches High-Speed Wireless Broadband Network Throughout Athens, Vinton, Jackson and […]
CenturyTel to Acquire Embarq in $5.8B Deal (CommunicationsDirect) MONROE, La. — Phone company CenturyTel Inc. will acquire larger peer Embarq Corp. in a deal valued at $5.8 billion, the companies said today. The deal continues a trend of consolidation in the market for traditional local phone service, which is shrinking as people turn to cable […]
Mobile phones up, landlines down in India (CIOL) NEW DELHI, INDIA: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said on Friday that a total 9.79 million telephone connections (Wireline and Wireless) have been added during September 2008 as compared to 9.03 million connections added in August 2008. Source: www.ciol.com
Africans and Their Mobiles, Part 1: Numbers and […]