I was speculating a few weeks back that it would be pretty spooky to listen to a voice mail from someone who had died. Well, it seems that not everyone thinks along the same lines.I picked up this story on Forum Oxford - the free-to-join discussion group with many of [...]

AT&T held a media event earlier, the star of which was undoubtedly the Microsoft Surface unit it showed off. AT&T is initially rolling the devices out in four cities, but hopes to expand them across its retail channel. AT&T's implementation of this is pretty damn cool: shoppers can set a [...]

What, me late? Lost and couldn't find the room? Never. Anyway, the upside is that I missed CTIA head honcho Steve Largent's standarized bitching about taxes and regulation. Downside: I wasn't so late as to miss Verizon Wireless boss Lowell McAdam bitching about taxes and regulation. To hear these guys [...]

It's still early in the year, but I think my prediction about "open" being the buzzword for 2008 is going to score me a point in our annual review. And, as I also predicted, a lot of it's BS. First, you've got Sprint's new transcoder, called "OpenWeb" (from OpenWave, natch). [...]

The FCC's auction of some nice 700 MHz spectrum licenses began last week - you'll remember these as including the ones in which Google has been interested. In particular, the big G played a role in getting open-access requirements attached to the C block nationwide license, meaning that if bidding [...]

US satellite TV provider DirecTV has launched a new feature that allows its DVR subscribers to remotely schedule recordings. Users can do it via the DirecTV.com web site, but the company is also prominently advertising the mobile version of the service, available at m.directv.com. Similar services have been available in [...]

TheStar.com | Business | Telus considers dumping its `Betamax' of wireless networks: With more wireless competition looming, executives at Telus Corp. are believed to be mulling a pricey swap of the firm's network technology in a bid to offer subscribers a bigger selection of mobile devices and grab a larger [...]

Open, open, open. It's the buzzword of the moment in mobile, thanks to the likes of Google and Verizon. Operators are talking about how they're open, how they want to foster innovation and new business models, and how they love openness and so on. But then pops up BusinessWeek with [...]

I've been thinking some more about yesterday's announcement from Verizon that it will open up its network to any compatible device, and let users access any service they want. There's been a lot of analysis saying that this is Verizon's response to Google's recent launch of the Open Handset Alliance. [...]

From Cellular-News today: Many mobile service providers are failing to capitalise on potentially lucrative corporate contracts because they don't focus enough on client's business needs, according to Gartner. Service providers that don't update their sales strategies to provide tailored solutions to businesses risk losing valuable corporate customers and becoming chiefly [...]

If you've been online today, you've probably noticed that Verizon Wireless has announced that it will "open" its network to "any app, any device" next year. It will maintain its current business model, but will also offer network-only access to users with compatible devices that meet some as-yet-unnamed technical standards, [...]

The title says it all, really: both T-Mobile and Sprint have announced they'll begin prorating the early termination fees they charge customers who want out of their contracts before they expire, meaning the top four US operators now all have such policies. We've still got to wait for details, though, [...]