Telus (wikipedia), Canada’s No. 2 phone company, said today that it will build a next-generation wireless network with Canada’s biggest telecom company, BCE (Bell Canada), as they fight for market share with rival Rogers Communications.
Bell Canada and Telus currently provide CDMA/EVDO 3G service across the country. The new GSM upgrade will overlay this network.
“Bell’s [...]
Apple’s iPhone 3G is now the second best-selling mobile handset in the US, just behind the Motorola Razr 3, according to market researcher NPD Group.
Mac Observer, which has tracked IMEI numbers on iPhones, has determined that Apple has drastically surpassed analyst’ Q4 iPhone sales estimates, and has already reached its goal of selling 10 million [...]
C/Net’s Marguerite Reardon says Sprint’s new 4G network could be heading down the same doomed path as EarthLink’s citywide Wi-Fi networks.
It may only be a test bed for future WiMax deployments, but I think the business model Sprint is using in Baltimore looks eerily similar to what EarthLink attempted to do with its citywide Wi-Fi [...]
Nokia has just released its 5800 Express Music phone, an “iPhone killer” previously known as “Tube”. The 5800 will be available from a range of telcos, in contrast to the iPhone. It will only be available in Europe, at first.
The Nokia 5800 Express Music phone costs about $390, simfree. Nokia will test the waters [...]
About half of National Public Radio’s mobile visitors (about 700,000 to 800,000 per month) use iPhones, writes American Journalism Review. NPR Mobile, on the iPhone, provides new user-friendly options for listeners. “We’re thinking ahead to certain kinds of experiences we would design specifically for iPhone users,” says Associate Producer and blogger Lee R. Hill.
They’re distributing [...]
Dailywireless asked our friend, Joe Christenson, what’s new and exciting in streaming media.
We got an earful. Joe is developing a streaming media business, and attended the Streaming Media West 2008 conference last week. Here’s what he had to say about the show:
Streaming Media West 2008 was held at the San Jose Convention Center. It [...]
Nokia’s “Apple iPhone killer” touch-screen phone is expected to be unveiled today. Nokia’s “Tube” will feature a sleeker design than the T-Mobile G1 device and is expected to be packed with a variety of services and applications supplied by Nokia.
Analysts say the market has been waiting for Nokia to respond to Apple for 18 [...]
WiMAX World 2008, running Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. This is the big one — where Mobile WiMAX gets launched — both in press releases and in the real world. It is the world’s largest event showcasing WiMAX technology, and is projected to draw 10,000+ attendees from [...]
The government of Venezuela has announced plans to order more than one million Classmate PC laptops from Portugal as part of a broad economic agreement between the two countries. The government of Venezuela aims to boost technical literacy by distributing the computers to schools. The Classmate PC units that will be distributed to schools in [...]
Nielsen Mobile says the typical U.S. mobile subscriber sends and receives more text messages than phone calls. During the second quarter of this year, Nielsen found domestic wireless subscribers sent or received an average of 357 text messages each month, compared with an average of 204 phone calls placed or received.
It was the second [...]
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