T-Mobile today announced a new service which allows home users to abandon their expensive home phone services without losing their phone numbers.  Is the end of wired line home phone service soon to be a thing of the past? The offering gives the customer a wireless router for a one time charge of $50 and [...]

Virgin Mobile, the embattled MVNO carrier,  fired a shot right across the bow of the major carriers today with the announcement of a new unlimited calling plan for just $79.99 per month.   The new rate will be available on July 1st.  This is a big drop from their previous $100 for 1000 minute plan [...]

It appears that the potential merger between Virgin Mobile and SK Telecom’s Helio have fallen apart. Gizmodo is reporting that Helio stores and kiosks will soon start shutting down. The companies have been in discussions since May.

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has acquired EIATrack.org from the defunct Electronic Industries Alliance and has re-launched the site. EIATrack is related to industry regulation regarding recycling and the environment. EIATrack.org keeps track of over 6,000 pieces of legislation from around the world. To keep the site humming, TIA has hired a project manager, Ellen [...]

We have a little phone corn for you today, two tasty tidbits about phones and  . . . well . . . corn! They’re biodegradable and made without petroleum, lead, mercury, cadmium, PVC and something called “brominated flame retardant.” No, the handsets aren’t edible but they also won’t spend the next million years in a [...]

The web has been abuzz since Steve Job’s announcement on Monday the 9th about the new 3G iPhone. Anticipation had been high and speculation had already covered every possible scenario in the months leading up to this announcement. Would there be video conferencing? Would the phone be good for enterprise customers? How much faster would [...]

AT&T is bringing down my Internet buzz. Vice president of legislative affairs, Jim Cicconi, recently spoke to the web 2.0 forum in London and warned that without significant world wide investment, the Internet would reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. He went on to claim that in just three years’ time, 20 typical [...]