NewsFactor - Japan's third-biggest mobile carrier has announced it will begin distributing Apple's new 3G iPhone later this year. What makes Apple's latest iPhone deal with Softbank so significant is that the Japanese have a long history of preferring locally made products over imports. -- read full article
Reuters - Researchers who spied on 100,000
people using their cell phone signals confirmed on Wednesday
that most human beings are indeed creatures of habit.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - This latest deal is important for Apple in reaching its goal of selling 10 million iPhones, or about a 1% share of the global cellular phone market this year. -- read full article
InfoWorld - AT&T said Wednesday it has upgraded its 3G wireless network to reach downlink speeds of up to 1.7Mbps, a 20 percent increase over previous top speeds. -- read full article
PC World - AT&T tries to steal some of Verizon and Sprint's thunder with somewhat faster downstream and much faster upstream rates on its newly updated 3G cell data network. -- read full article
Reuters - Softbank Corp (9984.T), Japan's
third-biggest mobile phone operator, has agreed with Apple Inc
to sell iPhones in Japan by the end of this year,
Softbank said in a statement on Wednesday. -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - China forged ahead with the restructuring of its telecom market Monday, as China Unicom, the country's No. 2 mobile phone company, agreed to buy China Netcom Group for $23.8 billion in stock and to sell off part of its wireless business to China Telecom for $15.9 billion. -- read full article
AP - China pressed ahead with a restructuring of its telecommunications market Monday as mobile phone company China Unicom Ltd. announced plans to take over a fixed-line provider and sell off a mobile business.
Reuters - Global sales of semiconductors
rose 5.9 percent in April on solid demand for personal
computers, mobile phones and products using flash memory, an
industry group said on Monday.
Reuters - Bangladesh's mobile telephone operators
must deactivate more than one million unregistered SIM cards
from Sunday as deadline for registration ended last night,
telecoms watchdog officials said.
Investor's Business Daily - Marvell Technology shares jumped 23.3% Friday to a six-month high after the company late Thursday reported better-than-expected results, buoyed by strong sales of Wi-Fi chips and of 3G chips to a smart phone maker that appears to be Apple. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - New technologies and pricing due by the end of 2008 have the potential to eliminate the problems of embedded wireless 3G notebook purchases, Gartner now suggests. -- read full article
USATODAY.com - The wireless industry added 23% fewer subscribers in the first quarter this year than it did last year. The overall growth rate - how fast the total is growing - dropped to 7.9% from 11.5%. -- read full article
