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Cellular tech to dominate wireless-broadband market
News Analysys Mason predicts a massive growth in wireless-broadband services by 2015, with HSPA and LTE taking the lion's share of customers [06 Aug 2008]
Gov't puts next-gen telecoms network out to tender
News The £2.5bn network will replace the Government Secure Intranet and encourage data sharing and collaborative working in the public sector [06 Aug 2008]
Cisco eyes new markets as downturn curtails profits
News The company is planning to invest across its portfolio in 'adjacent markets', while it waits for the economy to turn around [06 Aug 2008]
Orange ramps up 3G network in north
News The operator is moving to a new network infrastructure in the north-east of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, boosting its 3G services [05 Aug 2008]
China's homegrown 3G may overcome bumpy start
News Analysts say TD-SCDMA's head start over its competitors may mean it takes off in China despite early problems with deployment [05 Aug 2008]
LiMo Foundation gets more handsets, members
News Seven mobile phones have passed the LiMo Foundation's certification process, while 11 more companies have joined the project [04 Aug 2008]
Nortel shares dive after second-quarter loss
News The company posted a quarterly loss of £57m, compared to £19m a year ago, sending shares down by 17 percent [04 Aug 2008]
Movial brings browser-based UI kit to LiMo
News Joining the LiMo Foundation, Movial will open up its Browser D-Bus Bridge toolkit, which helps developers create browser-based user interfaces [04 Aug 2008]
O2 announces 'free' broadband offer
News Customers who buy a £20-a-month mobile broadband package will receive the 'up to' 8Mbps home service free for a year, plus a wireless router [01 Aug 2008]
Faster FireWire on way for gigabit generation
News A wider, faster bandwidth standard for FireWire and iLink has gained approval by standards body IEEE [31 Jul 2008]
Siemens to sell 51pc of enterprise comms business
News The company will sell a majority share of its enterprise communications business to private equity firm the Gores Group, with whom it plans to start a new joint venture [30 Jul 2008]
Nortel to provide London 2012 network infrastructure
News The communications equipment firm will supply BT with the infrastructure it will need for WANs, LANs, call centres and fixed-line telephony at the Olympic and Paralympic Games [30 Jul 2008]
Fear of huge bills prevents mobile-internet takeup
News The Mobile Data Association has warned that operators need to address consumers' concerns in order to accelerate the growth of mobile-internet use [30 Jul 2008]
Meru shields wireless networks from eavesdroppers
News The company's RF Barrier tech uses antennas placed around an organisation's physical perimeter to disguise legitimate network data [29 Jul 2008]
BT guns for Android and Skype with Ribbit buy
News Ribbit, which provides an 'open platform' for developers looking to combine web and voice tech, has been bought by BT for £53m in cash [29 Jul 2008]
Alcatel-Lucent to lose both CEO and chairman
News With the company announcing its sixth consecutive quarter of losses, CEO Pat Russo and chairman Serge Tchuruk will step down later this year [29 Jul 2008]
The future of social networking on mobile phones 
Video At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, moderator Adam Zawel of INmobile.org leads a discussion on mobile social networking [29 Jul 2008]
AT&T challenges WiMax joint venture
News The US phone giant has filed a petition with the FCC to stop Sprint Nextel and Clearwire from combining WiMax assets to build a competing nationwide wireless broadband network [28 Jul 2008]
Nokia throws BlackBerry Connect off new handsets
News The Finnish manufacturer's new E-series business handsets will not work with the BlackBerry email client, as Nokia wants to give users a 'proper choice' of email software [25 Jul 2008]
Negroponte brings wireless meshing to Greek island
News Patmos will soon enjoy island-wide Wi-Fi thanks to One Laptop per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte's passion for the web [25 Jul 2008]
Asia outstrips Europe, US in fibre rollout
News FTTH Council research shows Asian countries taking the top four spots for fibre-to-the-home penetration, with Scandinavia and the US behind [25 Jul 2008]
Major ISPs to issue file-sharing warnings
News The BPI has signed a deal with the six largest internet service providers in the UK that will see 'hundreds of thousands of informative letters' sent to customers suspected of illegal file-sharing [24 Jul 2008]
BT joins enterprise open-source community
News As a strategic partner to FossBazaar, BT joins companies like Google, HP and Novell in promoting free and open-source software in the enterprise [24 Jul 2008]
UK comms-snooping requests top half a million
News In 2007, 519,260 requests for communications data were made by public authorities — an increase of over 50 percent on 2006 [24 Jul 2008]
Orange bundles mobile broadband with Eee PC
News The operator's 'Connected Laptop' packages bundle HP and Asus laptops with the 'Internet Everywhere' mobile-broadband package [24 Jul 2008]
