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Yahoo is now using Google search in the UK. Confused? So was I, when I first read this post on Connected Internet. After all, didn’t Yahoo just sign a comprehensive search deal with Microsoft? Actually Google has replaced Yahoo search on BT Yahoo, an online portal… Read More »

Clearwire has enough money to provide 4G wireless broadband service to 75 million people this year, and hopes to raise enough to boost that to 120 million by 2010. Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow tells The Seattle Times today that the $2.5 billion the company has allocated… Read More »

Verizon and Qualcomm said today that their new joint venture, which will provide access to Verizon’s network for machines and other embedded wireless applications, will be called nPhase. The name comes from the original M2M company that Qualcomm acquired in 2006, and the service provided by… Read More »

After years of breakneck growth, U.S. broadband is in slowdown mode. During the second quarter of 2009, U.S. service providers added less than 650,000 new accounts, down more than 50 percent from 1.6 million additions in the first quarter. (Stats below the fold.) To be fair, the… Read More »

Later this year in Boston and Seattle, Verizon will test a wireless technology capable of delivering speeds that are comparable to those of basic cable modems and exceeding basic DSL. And the local Boston papers want to know if this means consumers should dump their wirelines… Read More »

Ericsson chief technology officer Hakan Eriksson tells me that the Swedish wireless gear maker is really big in the US, why WiMAX really isn’t 4G, and a world where 4G wireless broadband is a norm, we will soon need a device that is a cross between… Read More »

For the top 10 global phone companies and equipment makers, the second quarter of 2009 wasn’t too bad, even despite the struggling economy. Thanks to growing demand for wireless data and broadband, things are looking up for the telecom industry. The data aggregated by Telegeography, a market… Read More »

San Francisco to Get Clearwire WiMAX in 2010

Silicon Valley might be the hub of technology innovation, but that doesn’t guarantee its residents access to the latest in wireless broadband. Clearwire’s WiMAX service, like competing 4G wireless broadband technology Long Term Evolution (LTE), isn’t going to arrive in the San Francisco Bay Area until… Read More »

State of U.S. Wireless Data: Q2 2009

Our friend Chetan Sharma, who is a member of the GigaOM Pro Analyst Network, has put together a report on the state of the wireless industry for the second quarter of 2009. Here are some of the highlights that show that the demand for wireless data… Read More »

Q2 Wireless Scorecard: When Prepaid Attacks

The second-quarter results are in, and the big carriers continued to to rake in the bucks from data, with AT&T managing to win over the most new subscribers and the biggest spenders. Thanks, iPhone! But outside of the staid world of the larger carriers, as the… Read More »

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