News

• Southern Phone calls on Utilibill for Telstra wholesale 3G management

  By Spandas Lui | 28 May, 2012 12:26

  Regional telco, Southern Phone, has signed up as a Telstra wholesale 3G mobile customer and has picked Utilibill to help manage the new services.

• Obama orders agencies to optimize Web content for mobile

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 20:06

  U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

• Obama orders agencies to optimize Web content for mobile

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 17:58

  U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.

• Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 May, 2012 02:35

  Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the company said on Monday.

• New coalition opposes Verizon and cable spectrum deals

  By Grant Gross | 15 May, 2012 06:25

  A proposed sale of mobile spectrum from a group of cable providers to Verizon Wireless, along with accompanying marketing and research agreements, will lead to higher prices for broadband and mobile customers, a coalition of groups opposing the deal said Monday.

• Nokia loses UK patent appeal against IPCom, repercussions debated

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 21:32

  London's Court of Appeal has dismissed Nokia's attempt to overturn a ruling that it infringed on an IPCom patent. Nokia said the decision won't affect its current products, but IPCom doesn't agree and is continuing to seek an injunction against all Nokia 3G phones, it said.

• For LTE network slow but thorough will win the day, Sprint says

  By Stephen Lawson | 10 May, 2012 04:19

  Sprint Nextel's methodical rollout of new cell sites with LTE may not win the deployment race, but each market that gets the upgrade will see competitive speeds and more complete coverage than other carriers may offer, executives said Wednesday.

• Ericsson lets operators speed up mobile, fixed networks using caching

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 00:42

  Using caching technology from Akamai Technologies, Ericsson's Smart Cloud Accelerator, announced Wednesday, is designed to allow operators to improve performance in both fixed and mobile networks.

• Mobile experts disagree on who should protect privacy

  By Grant Gross | 04 May, 2012 03:46

  Users of mobile apps need more information about the ways those apps use their personal information, a group of experts agreed Thursday, but they didn't agree on who is most responsible for protecting user privacy.

• Optus and Vodafone strengthen shared network agreement

  By Spandas Lui | 03 May, 2012 12:11

  Optus and Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) have fortified their existing network partnership by agreeing to share even more mobile sites.

• FCC launches new mobile broadband subsidy

  By Grant Gross | 03 May, 2012 06:23

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun the process to get competitive bids for new mobile broadband subsidies designed to bring 3G or 4G service to areas in the country that do not have it.

• BART defends mobile service shutdown to the FCC

  By Grant Gross | 02 May, 2012 06:51

  Disrupting mobile phone service is a legitimate tool for law enforcement authorities working against terrorism or other dangerous situations, a mass transit agency has said in defending its own mobile shutdown last August.

• Public Knowledge asks providers for details about data caps

  By Grant Gross | 24 April, 2012 04:50

  Mobile and wired broadband providers should disclose detailed information about data caps, and the U.S. regulators should "vigilantly monitor" so-called usage-based pricing for abuses, digital rights group Public Knowledge said in a white paper released Monday.

• Verizon plans to sell off some mobile spectrum

  By Grant Gross | 19 April, 2012 02:32

  Verizon Wireless plans to sell off two 12MHz blocks of mobile spectrum in the 700MHz, if its proposed purchase of spectrum from a group of cable providers is approved by federal regulators, the company announced Wednesday.

• US mobile phone carriers to launch databases to identify stolen phones

  By Grant Gross | 11 April, 2012 02:37

  Five U.S. mobile phone carriers will launch databases allowing customers to report stolen phones and prevent them from being reactivated, in a wide-ranging effort also supported by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and police chiefs to attack a growing problem of smartphone thefts.