Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, GSM, EV-DO, CDMA Motorola's Z6 keeps losing features. No, seriously, hear us out: it all started out as the Z6tv, a decent slider with support for Verizon's MediaFLO-based VCAST TV. Fair enough, a solid consumer phone. Then Moto had to check the TV tuner [...]

Russ Mitchell has a must-read interview with Eric Schmidt in the April issue of Portfolio. It gets off to a cracking start, with Schmidt saying that a combined Yahoo-Microsoft would have "certain applications--like instant messaging and email--that could be used essentially to break the internet". And there's lots of other [...]

SAI: BitTorrent CEO: Rethinking Media Store, No Business Impact from Comcast CNet: Verizon Touts Smart P2P Technology ArsTechnica: $5 a Month for Legal P2P Could Happen Sooner Than you Think Broadband Reports: Comcast Sues FCC Over 30% Cap Reuters: U.S. Video Games Sales Jump 34% in Feb. The Globe and [...]

Telmex Chile has filed a lawsuit with the Chilean antitrust commission TDLC, accusing Telefonica Chile of maliciously delaying its (Telmex’s) rollout of WiMAX infrastructure by a year. The Mexican company was awarded a national fixed wireless access licence by Chilean regulator in December 2005, with twelve regional licences awarded to [...]

German fixed line provider Arcor, a subsidiary of the UK’s Vodafone Group, and ISP 1&1 Internet, part of United Internet, have reportedly inked a wholesale deal under which 1&1 will market Arcor’s DSL connections under its own brand name. The ISP has become the second of Arcor’s major wholesale DSL [...]

News site The Hindu Business Line reports that Reliance Communications (RCOM) has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to allocate it GSM spectrum in the more cost-effective 900MHz band instead of the 1800MHz 'start-up' frequency blocks which it has been allotted for its planned national expansion. According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms [...]