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Well, it’s not much of a surprise but Netflix said it would officially be bringing its instant streaming video service to the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform via an app. We’ve seen the app in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile and found the quality to be quite good so far. Netflix made it official in…
In addition to four new handsets, T-Mobile also unveiled new tiered data plans and a new WiFi-sharing and tethering option for select smartphones. Customers with a smartphone will now be able to chose an affordable $10 plan that includes 250MB of data. This $10 plan requires a new two-year contract or a two-year contract extension. A…
The next generation of mobile communications maybe driven by small sensors carried by people in their handsets or other mobile devices. This idea of a cellular body-to-body network (BBN) is being researched by a team of engineers at Queen’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology in Belfast. This distributed-style network could ease many of…
We knew that Verizon would be rolling out tiered data plans this month and the nation’s largest carrier has finally started offering these plans. If you hop on over to Verizon’s website, you’ll be able to see the tiered data plans you can choose from. As expected, you’ll now be able to pay $15 a…
Nepali wireless operator Ncell and Swedish carrier TeliaSonera have constructed the first 3G wireless network for Mount Everest. The pair built a network at an altitude of up to 5,200 meters that blankets the Everest basecamp area and extends all the way to the summit of the world’s highest mountain. The proof is in the pudding…
The iPad has gone on sale at Verizon and AT&T this week, but the Apple tablet has been helping Sprint all along, too. After coming up with a few clever ads showing the iPad running on 4G thanks to Sprint’s hotspot devices and combo cases (holding the iPad and mobile hotspot devices at once), it…
Verizon is finally settling with the FCC for $25 million to pay for erroneous data charges that customers were hit with over the last few years. Some customers owned phones without data plans, but were charged with data fees anyway. To avoid issues like this in the future, Verizon has given every customer a 50KB…
Sprint is launching WiMax in New York City next week, which is one of its biggest markets to date. Its 4G network will cover all five boroughs, from the Bronx all the way down to Staten Island and everywhere in between. However, coverage will vary dramatically even from street to street and depending on the…
Have you ever wondered why Wi-Fi devices can’t just connect straight to each other without the need for a hotspot? Say you want to transfer content from one device with Wi-Fi to another similarly equipped device, but there isn’t a hotspot around to connect the two. That will all soon change as the Wi-Fi alliance…
The Federal Communication Commission has previously warned us that we are facing a lack of spectrum mobile data networks which could hamper the country’s ability to innovate at a high level but the latest forecast predicts the situation may be even more dire than previously thought. “The explosive growth in mobile communications is outpacing our…