The organization, which is agency in the United Nations, is calling for an international support for mobile broadband growth.
Frustrated with slow mobile Internet speeds and stalling videos, consumers are willing to dole out extra cash for better telecommunicaitons services, allowing more pricing room for operators, a global report showed on Monday.
Chip-maker Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) said future Android devices powered by its latest Snapdragon mobile processors will have access to instant streaming of movies and TV shows from Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX).
The United States plans to build high-speed 4G wireless services network and make it available to at least 98 percent of Americans households by 2016, President Barrack Obama said during a speech at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
President Obama announced his latest wireless Internet initiative, which aims to cover 98 percent of Americans.
Sprint Nextel Corp reported better-than-expected subscriber additions in the fourth quarter, adding customers for the first time in more than three years.
Despite much hype surrounding the Verizon iPhone launch, few customers were spotted purchasing the device this morning.
President Barack Obama will outline his plan on Thursday for expanding high speed wireless Internet service to 98 percent of Americans while reducing the U.S. deficit by $9.6 billion over the next 10 years.
President Barack Obama will unveil his plans to expand high-speed wireless service to at least 98 percent of Americans within five years, while reducing the U.S. deficit by about $10 billion over the next decade.
AT&T, which is losing its hold on the iPhone to Verizon, has introduced a new feature to its customers that offers unlimited calling to any mobile number in the United States. AT&T's new offer is an attempt to counter an impending switch of iPhone customers to Verizon, which will be debuting iPhone 4 starting today.
Wall Street was set for a lower start on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq futures were down 0.4 to 1 percent at 1010 GMT.
A National Advertising Review Board panel has urged Time Warner Cable to stop making claims in ads that the cable company's services are provided on a fiber or fiber optic network.
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed changes in the Universal Service Fund, in a bid to improve rural broadband services.
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Jefferies & Co. downgraded its rating on shares of Novatel Wireless Inc. (NVTL) to hold from buy and lowered its price target to $8.50 from $13.50.
The Federal Communications Commission will launch an initiative on Wednesday to spur broadband deployment by reducing regulatory barriers.
U.S. communications regulators proposed new rules on Tuesday that they say will help bring broadband to all of rural America.
As part of its strategy to bring broadband service to rural areas, the Federal Communications Commission will decide today how to reform the Universal Service Fund, set up in the 1930s to fund networks in underserved areas.
Alcatel-Lucent has developed lightRadio, a cube-shaped antenna that would fit in the palm of a hand, signaling an end to the current form of basestations and cell towers. lightRadio promises greener, simpler, lighter networks that the company says will radically shrink and simplify base stations and cell towers.....
India is probing two new cases involving the allocation of telecoms spectrum, increasing the pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government already hit by a telecoms graft scandal, local media reported on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event in Washington, F.C.C. Chairman Julius Genachowski said the U.S. needs to take action on its broadband problem.
AT&T is set to unveil a new mobile hotspot application that lets smartphone customers tether multiple devices via Wi-Fi connection. The feature will first be available on February 13 to select smartphone customers, starting with the launch of HTC Inspire 4G, the company said.
