Pat Phelan's MaxRoam saved my wallet in Barcelona at MWC earlier this year. Pop one of his SIMs into an unlocked GSM handset, and bob's your uncle… you're calling at reasonable roaming rates rather than inflated. For comparison purposes, I was paying somewhere under 40 eurocents (60 cents) per minute [...]

Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM, EDGE Handset manufacturers -- particularly Samsung, LG, and lately, Huawei -- have a tendency to barrage the FCC's approval process with countless models, most of which we'll never see, much less pay any mind to as they're quietly launched in some corner of the world [...]

Is the world ready to buy their IP PBXs from Costco? We are about to find out as the warehouse club with 537 worldwide stores and over 51 million card holders will be carrying Syspine/Microsft's Response Point, the entry level PBX that is not short on features like mobility and [...]

Earlier this week, I received a home phone offer that was mailed to the attention of one of my college kids. It reads: You're currently enjoying Internet service from [us], and we're delighted to have you with us. In appreciation, we'd like to extend a special offer on our new [...]

Mobile advertising start-up X-tract has raised 3.5 million euros ($5.4 million) from Nordic VCs Creandum, who were joined by existing investor Eqvitec. The Helsinki-based firm says it has some 50 customers, including Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Telia Sonera and T-Mobile, who use their technology to hone their advertising on social networks. [...]

Regulator SeCom has put together a committee that will manage the country's universal service fund, reports BNamericas citing local paper La Nacion. The fund was due to be created before 1 January 2001, but the government never published regulations regarding management and the decree in 2000 calling for the fund's [...]