Japan’s largest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, will showcase some LTE stuff at the big Mobile World Congress (15 – 18 February), in Barcelona, says Unwired View. NTT docomo has more than 53 million customers (as of March 2008), which is more than half of Japan’s cellular market, according to Wikipedia. According to IDG, DoCoMo will showcase [...] Full story...
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India will begin 3G spectrum auctions on April 9, with a “4G” auction for LTE and WiMAX services beginning on April 11, reports the Indian Department of Communications.
T-Mobile USA is looking at possible joint ventures with cable companies and network providers to boost its spectrum capacity, reports Reuters.
Sprint Nextel will sell the Google Nexus One phone and will also unveil its first WiMAX handset next week.
eMarketer says wireless usage and advertising in Brazil, Russia, India and China is expected to explode in the next few years.
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Google, Intel and Sony have teamed to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes, reports the NY Times.
Portland, Oregon commissioners voted unanimously today to back the city’s pitch for Google’s fiber project.
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Neither AT&T nor the City of Riverside want their WiFi network, notes Broadband Reports. Wireless Riverside which covers some 55 square miles, started with the best intentions, as did most of the 300-odd municipal WiFi networks launched in 2007-2008.