We mentioned it yesterday, but now Verizon Wireless is kissing and telling: It will pay around $6 billion for Alltel, adding 13 million customers in 34 states to the Verizon subscriber ranks. That should put Verizon's total at 80 million—high above AT&T;'s last-reported 71 million customers. Though Alltel and Verizon [...]

After BT recently back-burnered provider backbone transport technology, Verizon Communications is now said to be favoring widely deployed VPLS over new tech flavor PBT. The U.S. telco is looking to Read more[...]

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE Well, this certainly looks familiar, doesn't it? Yep, this had been rumored to go down for a couple weeks now, which dovetails nicely with the launch of Rogers' Home Calling Zone service, offering up unlimited long-distance Canadian calls via WiFi for $20 [...]

The European Commission has nodded through Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) acquisition of Oslo-based embedded software firm Trolltech, first agreed in January. The EC's antitrust authorities found that the companies "are vertically related, as Trolltech's products can be used in the development of software for mobile handsets". But the merger passes because [...]

Forum Nokia published couple of interesting white papers on mobile design: The Value of Good Design: This article gives an explanation to what is good design and why it should be pursued in the first place. The article discusses the very core of design and the value that good design [...]

With Nokia (NOK) and InterDigital (IDCC) engaged in a prolonged legal battle over licensing issues, the title of this article is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows. I think that recent industry events make this an interesting but overlooked possibility. Here is why:The IDCC-NXP connection: NXP has licensed [...]