American Airlines passengers will now have Wi-Fi access on some flights.
Laptops packing 3.5G+ for mobile broadband access could be the answer to European mobile-phone operators' average-revenue-per-user prayers. But they could just as well prove a network nightmare, according to industry analyst Berg Insight.
3.5G is driving mobile broadband growth around the globe, with a rapid increase in the number of commercial HSDPA networks being rolled out.
High-speed packet access (HSPA) and not WiMax is set to dominate mobile broadband in the coming years -- if hardware makers get behind the technology.
Sales of mobile phones are on pace to reach a billion annually by the end of the decade, when nearly 40 percent of the world's population will own a mobile handset, according to a Gartner report.
With the CEO of US mobile operator and WiMax cheerleader Sprint, Gary Forsee, now leaving his job, questions are being raised about whether confidence in WiMax can recover from such a body blow.
Life may be like a box of chocolates -- but telecoms right now is gearing up to be a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as service providers seek increasingly novel ways to blend their offerings.
As the iconic BlackBerry goes from strength to strength in subscriber numbers, so do the threats to the device and the business model.
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
There are fewer and fewer places in the modern world where Internet access and mobile signals can't be found. The inside of an in-flight aircraft has remained one of the connectivity-free bastions -- but that's all about to change.
Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.
Because of bets NTT's Kei-ichi Enoki laid down years ago, the Japanese carrier is leading the way in mobile phone evolution.
Nokia and Ericsson have said they've each separately reached milestones for cell phone equipment that uses wideband-CDMA, the mobile phone standard expected to dominate its rivals by 2005.
The slick P900 smart phone gets a QWERTY keyboard and a few noteworthy additions.
The full-featured Nokia 9300 is a portable office in the palm of your hand.
It has a glow-in-the-dark case and features backlights that can flash with the rhythm of the ringtone. It's sure to be a hit with teenagers, but is does it have any practicality packed in with these cute gimmicks?
Siemens' SK65 smartphone has Research In Motion's Blackberry solution built in, plus an innovative 'cross-to-type' keyboard.
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