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Analog Cellular Networks Closing Down Next Week

We previously told you analog cellular networks were soon to be terminated. Well, now it is happening, with many of the major US mobile operators, including AT&T and Verizon set to put a stop to their analog networks this Monday. You might want to...


Boeing Wants Piece of Cellular Business

How 'bout that. After years of the same players in the cellular service business, it looks like someone else is joining the fray. Boeing, of all companies, has ordered over $500 million worth of satellites to build what will eventually become a...


Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled

eWeek has an interesting article talking about the hurdles the new VoIP Wi-Fi and cellular-switching phones may have penetrating the market. Even though companies like Motorola are developing systems that allow cellphones to switch seamlessly to...


Junxion: Shared Internet Over Cellular

Although they're still in the prototype stage, a Seattle company called Junxion is doing something potentially very useful. By plugging any number of cellular network PCMCIA cards into their 'Junxion' box, which then acts as a router over Ethernet...


Kineto's WiFi cellphone

This is something really aimed at businesses, but Kineto has a new WiFi cellphone that can make voice calls over both cellular networks and wireless 802.11b networks. The cool thing is that calls made over WiFi get better indoor coverage and have...


Nokia to build cellphones with WiFi

Nokia is going to start making cellphones with built-in WiFi that can seamlessly switch between 802.11b and GPRS, the data network used by many cellular carriers. Read


4G field trials in Japan

We don't even have 3G here yet, and NTT DoCoMo is already field testing a 4G cellular network there in Japan. Read


Cingular goes down

Word is going around that there is something grievously wrong with Cingular's GSM cellular network, with lots of customers (concentrated mainly in the Midwest) not being able to get service. Read [Via MobileTracker]


Seamless

In a sign of what is surely to come, TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Radionet, and the Helsinki University of Technology were able to successfully demonstrate that its possible to seamlessly roam between commercial WiFi and cellular (in this instance,...


First commercial EDGE network

From Cingular, the first commercial EDGE cellular network. At the moment this high-speed 3G network is only available in Indianapolis, and isn't all that fast (the top speed is 170kbps, which is nothing to sneeze at, but still not exactly...