Two UK mobile operators are reportedly fuming at Nokia for including a mobile version of Skype on its N97 handset. Both Orange and O2 are so terrified that the popular VoIP service will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls that they are supposedly threatening not ...

Verizon Wireless's chief technical officer stepped up to the plate with a commitment for the cellular carrier to equip two US cities with LTE (Long Term Evolution) data networks by the end of 2009. CTO Dick Lynch characterized these as "pre-commercial deployments" in a presentation at the Mobile Wor...

Legislators in conference committee have reportedly reached agreement on a final $790 billion stimulus package, and while some details of the final broadband subsidy package are still being hammered out, word from the Hill is that a "network management" amendment proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D...

Some network neutrality advocates fuel their brains with wild-eyed worries: ISPs slashing access to Web sites and applications with the abandon of Huns sweeping down from the steppes. Those in the ISP community tend to see these as mere fever dreams, dystopian visions that have little correspondence...

Just as we reported earlier this week, France Telecom-TeliaSonera saga is now officially over. France Telecom, Europe's third-largest telecommunications company, said it's decided not to submit a firm offer for TeliaSonera because it couldn't reach an agreement with the Swedish compan...