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• The holy hype around 3G

  Have third-generation services failed the wireless industry? So thinks Marty Cooper, the man who's credited with inventing the cell phone.

• Australian 2002 3G launch -optimistic"

  Despite DoCoMo's recent rollout of 3G in Japan, Australian mobile telephony carriers are reluctant to set a date for a local launch but a 2002 deadline has been described as -optimistic".

• Optus' parent sees big things for 3G

  Lee Hsien Yang is one of those rare individuals who don't own a television. The head of Asia's leading telecoms company gets his TV fix off a company 3G mobile handset and from one of the eight broadband-connected computers lying around his house.

• UK mobile carrier halves value of 3G license

  The perceived viability of 3G networks has taken another blow with UK mobile company mmO2 announcing it had made a pre-tax loss of 10.2bn, and admitting that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.

• ACCC tackles mobile telephone service pricing

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to review the pricing of mobile phone services, with a view to updating regulations governing the area.

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  Weighing the price of separation

  A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.

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• What Telstra, others can learn from South Africa

  A mobile telecommunications revolution in Africa is bringing new economic opportunities to the world's most impoverished continent, while providing lessons that can help carriers around the world push into other low-value markets. Brad Howarth reports.

• Tech strategy for 2003

  Web services, wireless and PC platforms, TechRepublic takes a punt on 2003's most influential technologies.

• Wireless tech liberates your network(ers)

  Now that wireless is becoming technologically and financially competitive with its wired equivalents, the strongest argument of all to cut the cable is convenience. New standards in speed make wireless networking a valid choice.

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• The holy hype around 3G

  Have third-generation services failed the wireless industry? So thinks Marty Cooper, the man who's credited with inventing the cell phone.

• UK mobile carrier halves value of 3G license

  The perceived viability of 3G networks has taken another blow with UK mobile company mmO2 announcing it had made a pre-tax loss of 10.2bn, and admitting that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.

• ACCC tackles mobile telephone service pricing

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to review the pricing of mobile phone services, with a view to updating regulations governing the area.

• Wireless Technology On The Move

  You say you want a revolution? Emerging wireless technologies will make the Internet quicksilver-fast, more personalised and a whole lot easier to navigate, experts say. And Australia and Asia are leading the race.

• Mobile phone carrier technology chart

  Head spinning from all the cell phone acronyms and wireless tech jargon? Forget the Valium and chill out instead with our handy carrier technology chart. In seconds, you'll know what phones work with which networks and what it all means.

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