Apparently there isn’t enough to do in Washington these days. 20 House of Representatives lawmakers have pressed the FCC to investigate how and why Google decides to block certain phone numbers with its Google Voice service. After numerous complaints were filed by said Representatives, mostly from rural areas, the FCC has sent a formal inquiry to Google and asked for a response by the 28th of this month. Google insists ... Read More

T-Mobile USA is expanding its WiFi offerings into the enterprise market in a move that will put the generally consumer-focused company up against larger rivals AT&T and Verizon that have significant presence in both the consumer and business segments. T-Mobile is launching a new service called Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice that will allow users with T-Mobile BlackBerry devices from Research In Motion to use WiFi while in the office and have ... Read More

Nokia is ready to take phone charging to the next level. Naturally that next level seems to be wireless power otherwise there wouldn’t be any point for Nokia to join the Wireless Power Consortium. Other important members are Philips, Sany and Duracell so we’re thinking that wireless charging is going to become more and more popular in the near future. Don’t expect to see Nokia phones ready to charge Palm ... Read More

NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Panasonic and Fujitsu announced today that they are making progress with their joint development of “LTE-PF”, a mobile-terminal platform based on Long Term Evolution (LTE), a coming mobile communication standard for super-fast downlinks above 100 Mbps and uplinks above 50 Mbps. The four companies have completed the development of an LTE-PF chipset engineering sample and are now evaluating its main functions. The sample will be exhibited at the ... Read More

Energy drink maker and F1 car sponsor Red Bull is looking to get into the mobile phone business, according to reports. T3 has managed to uncover some interesting information about something called Red Bull Mobile. Although little is known about what it actually is, a website has popped up regarding Red Bull mobile with the tagline: "the latest handsets, competitive tariffs and a complete package of mobile communication features." Two tariff types Although the ... Read More

At Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) in Berlin (September 21 – 24, 2009) Nokia Siemens Networks will display a complete, live Ethernet-based wireless mobile backhaul solution. The new approach provides a cost efficient, environment friendly answer for operators who need to dramatically increase capacity and switch to a simpler, packet-based transport network. The demo is fully incorporated in the interoperability test bed of the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). The ... Read More

Orange Armenia may become the second biggest mobile company in Armenian market in terms of number of subscribers very soon, Orange Vice-President for Europe Olaf Swantee said in Paris in responding to ARKA Agency. Despite the fact that we are coming to the Armenian market as the third operator, we can become the second in terms of number of subscribers very quickly,” Swantee said. According to experts, mobile coverage is currently about ... Read More

Huawei has just announced its plans to launch a 56Mb/s HSPA+ commercial solution in 2010. This initiative will allow operators to provide download speeds twice faster than the ones available today. The new technology was demoed in Beijing during P&T Wireless & Networks Comm China 2009. Huawei_Logo The HSPA+ solution features multi-carrier and MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) technologies, that’ll generate record breaking data speeds. The operators that use Huawei’s 4th gen and 38xx series ... Read More

AT&T's new A-List plans, which let customers talk with up to five people on any network for free, including landlines, is now live. The service is similar to T-Mobile myFaves, which provides free and unlimited calling to customers' five favorite people.Announced earlier this month, A-List provides unlimited calling to 5 phone numbers that users select. The feature is available on individual Nation plans that cost $59.99 or more, while FamilyTalk ... Read More

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of the speech said on Friday. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce plans to ask his fellow commissioners to adopt as a rule net neutrality and four existing principles on Internet access issued by the agency in 2005, one of the sources said. ... Read More