SF Chronicle |
August 30th, 2008 |
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The California Public Utilities Commission is investigating claims that cell phone giant T-Mobile has been improperly putting up new cell transmission sites throughout Northern California without complying with local building laws, The Chronicle has learned.[...]
mocoNews.net |
August 29th, 2008 |
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GetJar, which distributes free mobile applications to consumers on the Internet and over the phone, said it is branching out its business by building application storefronts for wireless carriers. A few months ago, that would have been unheard of because carriers typically want to own the relationship with their subscribers. [...]
mocoNews.net |
August 29th, 2008 |
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-- AT&T; (NYSE: T) Brings Back College Football SMS Voting: AT&T; is reminding college football fans that they can once again begin voting for their AT&T; All-America Player of the Week via SMS. The carrier is also putting up video highlights and photos of each candidate on its mobile NCAA [...]
Gizmodo |
August 29th, 2008 |
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The Gadget: Sony Eriscsson's TM506 is the first phone to be sold by T-Mobile that supports its still-rolling-out HSDPA network on the 1700/2100 MHz band. The Price: Still not official, but T-Mobile says it will be less than $100 with contract when it drops in early September. The Verdict: Solid, [...]
Ars Technica |
August 28th, 2008 |
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T-Mobile has won its request for testing to see whether the FCC's proposed smut-free broadband plan will mess with its nearby services.Read More[...]
mocoNews.net |
August 28th, 2008 |
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) shared its plans today for how it will distribute applications mobile phones running its Android operating system, and it sounds startlingly similar to Apple's (NSDQ: AAPL) App store. Google wrote today on the Android developer blog that it will be called Android Market, "an open content distribution [...]
The FCC, champing at the bit to auction spectrum in the AWS-3 band for a nationwide broadband network that will offer free service, is sending its engineers to Seattle next week to commence tests that will determine whether signals coming from this band would interfere with T-Mobile's WCDMA network in the adjacent [...]
TeleGeography |
August 28th, 2008 |
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T-Mobile Netherlands has announced that it will launch a live streaming mobile TV service next month for its UMTS/HSDPA network users, reports Broadband TV News. For a monthly fee of EUR14.95, subscribers will receive five channels, Nederland 1 and 3, RTL 4, SBS 6 and MTV Music as well as [...]
mocoNews.net |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Last week, I caught up with Jeff Holden, the CEO of Pelago, which is developing Whrrl, an application for mobile phones that lets people share opinions about events and restaurants and organize meet-ups with friends. Pelago has the distinction of being the first investment of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer's [...]
The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between wireless access points (WAP) and which improves the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs. Traditionally, 801.11 devices can roam from one access point to another, but it takes about 100ms to re-associate, and several seconds to [...]
TeleGeography |
August 27th, 2008 |
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Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), the infrastructure joint venture between T-Mobile UK and 3 UK, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) as its technology partner for 3G network integration; no financial details of the deal have been revealed. NSN said that, in addition to 3G radio hardware, it would provide [...]
Gizmodo |
August 26th, 2008 |
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Android Guys has an as-of-yet unconfirmed spec sheet on the HTC Dream (which they say is called the T1 on T-Mobile), supposedly one of the first Android phones to hit the market later this year. The most notable specs are the 528MHz Qualcomm 7201 CPU, which is a fairly decent [...]
Nerd Vittles |
August 26th, 2008 |
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What do Asterisk calls to Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile cellphones plus 40 million Asterisk systems around the world have in common? They're all free calls! And today we'll show you how[...]
Gizmodo |
August 25th, 2008 |
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AT&T; was calling me to set up an interview with their CTO, but all I could hear was garbled noise on my AT&T; iPhone. "I can't really hear you!" I shouted, as if volume would clear the channel. It's always been like this, in my home in San Francisco. While [...]
mocoNews.net |
August 25th, 2008 |
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Two separate reports released today confirmed that the iPhone is selling well despite initial activation problems, and that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) believes that it will continue to sell well after launching in various countries. -- T-Mobile International said it has sold more than 120,000 iPhone 3G devices since it went [...]
Om Malik is reporting that Nokia removed VoIP from their latest N-series models. Both the N78 and the new N96 are not VoIP enabled, so that also services like Truphone or Gizmo5, which rely on Nokia's SIP stack, are not working on those devices (as Om verified by himself). This [...]
Portfolio |
August 22nd, 2008 |
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Sam Gustin says: It's good to be the (search) king.When it comes to Web search, size matters. Verizon is close to picking Google for mobile search after considering rival offerings, including from Microsoft, because it concluded that people now "reflexively" use Google for search, according to the Wall Street Journal.For [...]
TeleGeography |
August 22nd, 2008 |
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UK mobile operator 3 will continue its legal challenge to regulator Ofcom’s ruling requiring the cellco to cut connection charges last year, the Financial Times reports. Ofcom’s March 2007 ruling called for a 45% cut in mobile termination rates across 3’s network by 2011. The ruling was the first time [...]
Motorola, the world's third-largest handset maker, has just unveiled two new low-end phones on that allow users to listen to songs and surf the Web. Facing stiff competition from handsets such as Apple's iPhone and the Nokia line, Motorola has said it would launch 50 new devices this year, including [...]
Wireless Week |
August 21st, 2008 |
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T-Mobile will expand its handset portfolio to include Sony Ericsson next month, the companies said today.[...]
Phone Scoop |
August 21st, 2008 |
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Sony Ericsson today announced the TM506, a thin clamshell phone for T-Mobile USA. The TM506 - Sony Ericsson's first 3G phone supporting the AWS band - marks the return of Sony Ericsson to T-Mobile's lineup, after the T610 debuted ...(follow link to read)[...]
