China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier with over 376 million customers, announced that it will begin testing the country’s homegrown 3G standard — TD-SCDMA — next week. The carrier said it will issue 20,000 handsets and 5,000 data cards to select customers with free airtime. China Mobile will also offer an additional 40,000 handsets [...]
Friend-finding cell phone service Loopt is now available on some Verizon Wireless, notes C/Net. Starting in April, Verizon will offer the Loopt service for $3.99 a month on 20 popular data-enabled phones Loopt uses GPS chips in phones to pinpoint a subscriber’s location; then users can broadcast that location information to friends or family. Subscribers [...]
AT&T Mobility has announced that it will offer MediaFLO mobile television service this May. AT&T originally planned to launch their mobile television service late last year. AT&T’s service will include the same eight-channel lineup that’s on Verizon’s Vcast, which launched a year ago — CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV, NBC [...]
The CTIA is aligning with television broadcasters, and urging FCC to license — and auction — TV white spaces, reports RCR Wireless News. The Cellular trade group floated the idea shortly after Google offered a compromise proposal to unleash propagation-friendly TV white spaces for unlicensed wireless broadband access. Google’s proposal relies on a Motorola technology [...]
Chrysler says it will be the first auto manufacturer to provide in-car internet access—and plan to offer a system by the end of this year. Frank Klegon, Chrysler’s product development chief noted: “we want to make the radio itself a WiFi port.” In order for the service to work, it would have to utilize a [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks today launched their downlink Dual Carrier EDGE software solution, ushering the first steps of EDGE Evolution into Nokia Siemens Networks’ GSM/EDGE radio portfolio. Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), was introduced into GSM networks in 2003. EDGE Evolution continues in Release 7 of the 3GPP standard providing doubled performance to complement [...]
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