T-Mobile USA's really kicking things into high gear, coming from behind (way behind, actually) on its 3G launch to become the first to bring 21Mbps HSPA+ here -- and possibly the only one to do it, considering that its closest GSM rival is leapfrogging from 7.2Mbps HSPA to LTE. Speaking at 4G World in Chicago, T-Mobile's Neville Ray has gone on record saying that its 3G footprint will be blanketed ... Read More

Vodafone's chief executive, Vittorio Colao, isn't sitting around the sidelines anymore watching things go by without any say in the matter of their stake in Verizon Wireless. It seems that he is frustrated that Verizon, which has about 87.7 million customers and took in $58.6 billion in revenue last year, has not come out to show even one paid dividend in four years. Vodafone of course has a major stake ... Read More

Nokia Siemens claims to have made the first voice call using Long Term Evolution commercial components and industry compliant software, putting the fourth generation wireless technology closer to a commercial reality. The company utilized its Flexi Multiradio Base Station to complete the call from a Nokia Siemens research and development center in Ulm, Germany. The Flexi Base Station, which is fully compliant to the 3GPP Release 8 LTE standard and supports ... Read More

Trigcom AS and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone for customers in Norway. The handset, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, is now available from Trigcom AS. The slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an incredibly approachable smartphone that will come to the Norweigan market in black and frost blue. For people who like to be connected, it provides easy mobile ... Read More

Reuters reports that Comcast is planning to offer its customers the ability to watch cable subscription services on mobile devices through its wireless WiMAX network, quoting Comcast Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis. The company is also considering delivering voice services over the network, but Angelakis says that it is too early to reveal details on that possibility. It would be the second time that Comcast attempted to launch mobile voice services, ... Read More

T-Mobile doesn't get to have all the fun with the CLIQ -- we know with some certainty that the Sholes is destined to bring Motorola's Android push to Verizon, and if CEO Sanjay Jha has anything to say about it, the fun doesn't stop there. Speaking at an analyst conference, Jha mentioned yesterday that his company is "in talks with all large operators in the US," meaning that Cellular South ... Read More

The Telegraph reports that Deutsche Telekom, owners of T-Mobile, could submit a multi-million dollar bid for Sprint Nextel in the U.S. After announcing a joint venture between T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to create Britain's largest mobile phone company, which we covered, it is said that the company has called in banking advisers to assess the value of a U.S. deal. If the two companies did merge, the new entity would ... Read More

NEC Corporation, Casio Computer Co., Ltd. and Hitachi, Ltd. today announced an agreement to integrate their mobile terminal businesses in April 2010 through the establishment of a joint venture company named NEC Casio Mobile Communications. Shares will be: NEC: 66%, Casio: 17.34%, Hitachi: 16.66%. 1. About the Business Integration NEC develops and manufactures mobile terminals for NTT DOCOMO, INC. and SoftBank Mobile Corp. that capitalize on the company’s core competencies and incorporate ... Read More