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Wireless Competiton in Canada Dying

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 17th, 2013

Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail. Mobile Service in Canada is Overpriced and Anti-Competitive, according to numerous studies. Mobilicity is one of three small [...]

Massive Shift to No Contract Cellular in Q1

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 16th, 2013

New wireless customers are choosing no-contract over contract by 10 to 1, reports Fierce Wireless. The 10 to 1 margin in favor of prepaid in the first quarter is quite significant, says Roger Entner. Tracfone, a no contract operator, became the fastest growing carrier in the United States with 839,000 new customers, in the first [...]

Google I/O Announcements

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 16th, 2013

There were so many new things announced at Google I/O opening keynote yesterday, it’s hard to keep track of them. Let’s review the stories from C/Net, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, ComputerWorld, GigaOm, and TechCrunch. Engadget has a recap of the announcements: Android There have been 900 million Android activations, 48 billion app installs to [...]

Google I/O Live Today

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 15th, 2013

Google I/O kicks off with a three-hour-long keynote address Wednesday morning. Here’s the live Google I/O 2013 Keynote. Among the rumored announcements are a new Google Maps interface, Bluetooth 4.0 support for the Nexus 4, tracking sensors, new subscription music services and Google Glass apps. According to a blog post from Google, the company will [...]

Mobile Phones Equal World Population

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 14th, 2013

Next month we will reach the milestone where the number of active Mobile devices is equal to the number of people in the world, says Zahid Ghadialy in the 3G and 4G Wireless Blog. There are many people with more than one active mobile device and there are others who have no devices so it [...]

New Zealand Installing 3,000 WiFi Phone Booths

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 14th, 2013

Ruckus Wireless today announced that it was selected by Telecom NZ, the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, to transform conventional payphones into outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Telecom’s initial pilot project, completed in less than 12 weeks, outfitted phone booths in holiday locations over this past Christmas in December 2012 [...]