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South Korea has become a defacto test bed for anything broadband, and what it decides does have major implications around the world. The Korea Herald is reporting that the going might be tough for W-CDMA in that country, which does not bode well for the technology that is supposed to replace the GSM standard in [...]

Dennis Berman over at The Wall Street Journal is taking phone companies to the task and calling their bluff on the so-called next generation services. In this story, he writes:
bq. All these forces are pushing the big telecom companies to do something at which they’re pretty crummy: innovate. Here’s where telecom executives start to talk [...]

Bluetooth, the much maligned personal are network technology is not as much of a laggard as you might have thought. It is a fast growing business, and is providing some hope for the chipmakers and cellphone companies that have placed their bets on the technology named after a viking king. Click here to read the [...]

Bluetooth, the much maligned personal area network technology, is good enough for me to make the desktop clutter disappear, as I explain in this essay, My Bluetooth Life. I am quite sure there are many who will disagree, but I am totally sweating the “nordic king” and loving the second phase of my wireless life. [...]

And you thought FCC Chairman Michael Powell had it bad! The Office of Communications, Ofcom for short, is the new regulator for the media and telecommunications industries is facing some testing times, reports this morning’s The Guardian.

Well if you are feeling perplexed by the headline, then you understand how I felt about the doublespeak in this Boston.com interview with Verizon’s regional president, Donna Cupelo.
bq. Not only in Massachusetts, but nationwide, we are transforming our network into one that is based on Internet Protocol technology. Our plan is to dramatically accelerate that [...]