Vodafone Looks to Save £1 bil. with Orange Deal—Report
Vodafone is close to signing a network-sharing deal with rival Orange in the United Kingdom, as the operator launches its drive to save £1 billion (US$1.46 billion), the Observer newspaper has reported. The Sunday paper reports th

The Best and Worst of 2008
2008 WILL BE MOST REMEMBERED AS…THE YEAR THE ECONOMY STOPPED — aka Worst. Christmas. Ever.THE YEAR MAJOR VENDORS REBOOTED. CEO Pat Russo left Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel purged officers and optical, Juniper got a new CEO, and Tellabs ret

2008 Top Ten: Wireless Stories
These hot tech tickets are all well represented in our top 10 stories of the year. Some we picked because you liked 'em, dear readers, some we liked, and a couple got in just for hell of...

Alvarion Wins Italian Nationwide WiMAX Contract
Alvarion says that it has won a contract from Italian leading wireless broadband service provider and nationwide WiMAX license holder, Linkem Spa to deploy WiMAX across Italy using its 4Motion solution for the 3.5 GHz frequency band.

Cell phones using lens-free imaging promise to improve health monitoring
Cell phones have already revolutionized the way people around the world communicate and do business. Thanks to advances being made at UCLA, they are about to do the same thing for medicine.

Reboot the FCC by Lawrence Lessig
We’ll stifle the Skypes and YouTubes of the future if we don’t demolish the regulators that oversee our digital pipelines, writes Lawrence Lessig in Newsweek. Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is practically designed to res

Bringing Broadband to America’s Urban Poor
To make good on a pledge to prioritize high-speed Internet access, President-elect Obama must address inner cities, where many go without a connection Anthony Celestine was a latecomer to the Internet Age. The 40-year-old Harlem resident has owned a

Vodafone set to sign deal with Orange in UK to share costs
Vodafone and Orange are close to signing a deal that will see the two companies share the costs of technology, engineering and maintenance at their network base stations in the UK, reports The Observer. The move, which could be announced shortly, is

Mobiles give Africa’s farmers the chance to set out their stall
The latest technology is enabling villagers to bypass middlemen and find out the prices their crops will command Mobile phones are charged using a car battery, at a Katine market Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian Every week without fail, sellers c

Europe has a chance to unite on broadband
For seven years, AirData, a small wireless operator in Stuttgart, did something the largest German mobile operators, including T-Mobile, were unwilling to do: It delivered broadband Internet to consumers in remote corners of the country. But at the

In Cuba, Cellphone Calls Go Unanswered
Tatiana González stood transfixed before the glass display case watching a single cellphone spin around and around on a carousel at the government-run store. It was a Nokia 1112, a simple, boxy gray workhorse of mobile telecommunications technology

Mena Telecom reports high demand for WiMAX in Bahrain
Mena Telecom, the first WiMAX operator in Bahrain, is reporting high demand for its services across the Kingdom. The operator, part of Kuwait Finance House, says that its retailers have been restocking WiMAX antennae at a fast rate, and that it plan

Unless TV networks adapt they will be eaten alive by the internet
The commercial television networks are quietly delighted by Telstra’s exclusion from the $10 billion national broadband network (NBN) tender, write Allan Fels and Fred Brenchley. As both an owner and content provider to the NBN, Telstra would have g

Mobile booms in India even as PC growth flattens
India’s mobile market continues to boom despite the global economic downturn, though its PC market is seeing flat growth. The downturn has as yet to affect consumer spending in India but enterprises, which account for the bulk of PC demand, have cut

Fresh delay in auction of 3G licences in India
India’s auction of third-generation (3G) telecommunications services faced fresh delays on Friday after its finance ministry recommended doubling the base price of the sale. The auction of pan-India 3G spectrum licences had been planned for Januar