Are we paying too much for cell service?

Do Americans overpay for cellular service? Consumer-oriented organizations answered a forceful "yes" in a July federal filing with the FCC.

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US Cellular lost 59,000 retail customers in 2Q

Wireless carrier United States Cellular Corp. said Thursday it lost 59,000 net retail customers in the second quarter.

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Estonia to vote by mobile phone in 2011

Parliament has approved a law making Estonia the first country to allow voting by mobile phone.

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Cell phone costs slashed for Cubans

It's now a little bit easier to activate a cell phone in Cuba.

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Gadgets Affected by Analog Shutdown

Carriers will start shutting down the country's oldest cellular network, for analog devices, in February. How to know if you will be affected:

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Users Left in Lurch by Network Shutdown

When Adele Rothman bought her 16-year-old son a car in 2003, she made sure to pick one that had OnStar, the onboard communications and safety system.

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Niche Cellular Companies Stay Optimistic

It sounded like a can't-miss idea: An ESPN-branded cell phone that brims with scores and video highlights for sports fanatics.

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AP: MLB Audio Coming to Sprint Phones

Baseball fans will soon be able to use their cell phones to take them out to the ballgame.

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Cos. to Test Balloons for Cellular Service

Why put up costly cell phone towers in thinly populated areas, when a few balloons would do? In North Dakota, former Gov. Ed Schafer is backing a plan to loft wireless network repeaters on balloons high above the state to fill gaps in cellular coverage.

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[Manila, Philippines] Consumer group TXTPower today called on consumers to prepare for a taxpayers' revolt over a new tax to be imposed on text messaging and warned reelectionists in Congress they will pay dearly for making life even harder amid the worldwide economic crisis …

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With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone—office, home or cellular—rings. You can screen calls, listen in before answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free conference calls.

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It's easy to imagine the cells in our bodies like bricks in a house, all cemented into place. But we are actually seething with cells that creep, crawl, and squirm.

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In the germline cells that produce eggs or sperm, biological time stands still. This is why babies are all born with the same age, the clock set to zero, regardless of the age of their parents.

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Google's Legal team purports there is no conflict of interest, yet the two companies are direct competitors. How the heck is that NOT a conflict of interest.

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As customers leave Sprint in droves, the wireless carrier needs all the help it can get.

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The privacy invasion creeps even farther into our personal lives with the advent of this new - soon to be released application that offers more than geolocation, it tells you when your friend's line is free.

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Pinch Media, whose analytics engine can be used to track the performance of participating iPhone apps, has found that merely 30 percent of people purchasing iPhone apps use them the next day, and free apps clock in at a miserable 20 percent.

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A piece explaining the difference between TDMA and CDMA cell phone technologies.

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Telus to Jump to GSM?

Word on the street is that Canadian Telecommunications Giant Telus will be making the switch from the CDMA Network to the GSM side of the spectrum.

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In almost every industry, companies find reason to dislike their customer base. And although it's no different in the technology space, it's as if cell phone carriers and ISPs aren't afraid of hiding it.

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Growing interest in this topic. In North Carolina, we have the Project K-Nect project where a study is going on with 9th graders using a smartphone in Algebra classes.

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Those early termination fees (ETFs) that consumers pay for switching cell phones in mid-contract are a great deal, an attorney for AT&T told the Federal Communications Commission yesterday.

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T-Mobile is suing Starbucks over its free Wi-Fi from AT&T. The gist is that Starbucks and AT&T are promoting free Wi-Fi in markets where T-Mobile still has the exclusive right to "sell, market and promote its services" since the infrastructure transition to AT&T isn't complete.

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Verizon Communications agreed on Thursday to buy Alltel for about $28.1 billion, including the assumption of debt, creating the nation's largest cellular telephone provider.

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Verizon Communications is near a deal to buy Alltel for about $27 billion, including the assumption of debt.

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Samsung Instinct Requires a $70 a Month Plan

If you are like me, you are dieing to get a Samsung Instinct from Sprint on June 20th. But to those who want a cheap SERO plan with their shiny new Instinct, sorry.

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Cell phones have become a necessity. But what happens when you're not happy with your current provider or have been offered a better deal by another company.

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Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones.

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Lines stretched for blocks outside phone centers Monday as the government allowed ordinary Cubans to sign up for cellular-phone service for the first time.

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The Cuban government made headlines worldwide when it announced recently that its citizens finally would have unrestricted access to cellphones, ushering in a new era in telecommunications for the economically challenged island.

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The systems of propaganda are getting ramped up. Are you ready for an October surprise? United States of Americans have heard so much about their television service going out but how much have they heard about the new cellular telephone emergency alert system?

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Marking the end of a remarkable era in cellular technology, the FCC is officially letting American carriers decommission their legacy analog networks as of today, February 18, 2008.

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Monday marks the day that cellular providers may shut off their old analog services, and most providers plan to take advantage of the opportunity .

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With media and VIPs from companies like Nokia, Navteq, General Motors, BMW, and CalTrans looking on, wave after wave of students left the parking lot to drive a 10-mile stretch of the nearby 880 freeway as part of a large-scale experiment to test how cell phones can monitor and p …

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