Following a meeting last August by the National Advisory Committee for the Standardization of Air Transport, Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transport overturned a law from 2001 that banned mobile phones from being used on aircraft. The new regulation still forbids phone use on planes that have not been fitted with specific equipment. Now, we’re…

Virtually every operator in the U.S. now have its unlimited offering. Prepaid mobile phone service provider Page Plus Cellular is the latest one to jump on board with the announcement of their new Unlimited Talk n Text plan for $39.95 a month. The plan includes unlimited voice, unlimited text messaging, and 20 megabytes of data.…

August 23rd, roughly two weeks from now, Best Buy Mobile will start selling a slew of cool phones (and some which are not that cool, honestly). Here’s what we caught thanks to always highly-informed Boy Genius: Samsung Gravity 2 (berry) – T-Mobile Samsung Solstice – AT&T LG Xenon (red) – AT&T Global AirCard (G2) –…

Cricket Communications is full of news these days. In a single release, they announced enhanced service plans, new features and additional coverage. Cricket’s popular $40 monthly plan — which already includes unlimited voice, long distance, domestic and international text and picture messaging, and nationwide coverage — will expand to include unlimited Web, unlimited 411 and…

Japan’s fourth largest operator, eMobile, announced that they are the first carrier to upgrade the network to HSPA+, bringing download speeds to 21Mbps. Of course a compatible handset or a USB modem is required to take advantage of those speeds, but that shouldn’t be the problem — I guess they added some new devices to…

Australia’s Woolworths is joining the likes of Carefour and Tesco to go beyond retail business. They’ve announced plans to set up its own MVNO pre-paid service called “Everyday Mobile” with Optus. The service will be offered to the customers in Woolworths and Safeway supermarkets, as well as BIG W and Dick Smith stores. Moreover, aside…

Joakim from Mobispine sent me an interesting announcement – he’s now a CEO of the company! I first met him at Mobile World Congress in 2006 (at that time it was still called 3GSM), when he was responsible for marketing and public relations at Mobispine. Three years later, he’s a CEO! Kudos to the new…

India is set to grant Telenor the necessary security clearance to increase its stake in Unitech Wireless to the legal maximum of 74%, with the condition that no employees from Telenor’s Pakistan subsidiary work for the Indian company. According to the Economic Times newspaper, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) was due to approve the…

The French government has finally opened the bidding for the country’s fourth 3G license! Reserve price is set at 240 million EUR (about $339 million), and France Telecom said it will appeal against the license fee, because it’s too low compared to what the incumbent operators have paid. I don’t buy the argument, as the…

India’s BSNL is in talks to take a 10-15% stake in Essar Group’s Kenyan subsidiary as part of its plans to expand into the African market. “Valuations are being discussed. We are doing the due diligence,” the official told the Economic Times, requesting anonymity. The Essar Group declined to comment For the record, in January…