http://www.physorg.com/technology-news/telecom/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on telecommunications, telecom, telecom technology and telecommunications technology. (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday asked Verizon Wireless why it recently doubled the fees it charges customers when they break their contracts on "smart" phones. http://www.physorg.com/news179171423.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:30:01 EST news179171423 (AP) -- The 2010 World Cup is going 3-D. Sony Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal with FIFA, the international football governing body, to record up to 25 World Cup games in 3-D - a technology that gives viewers an illusion of depth on the screen. http://www.physorg.com/news179117888.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:20:02 EST news179117888 (AP) -- Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point is to give it a position of strength if fewer people sign up for its cable TV services and watch more video online. http://www.physorg.com/news179117964.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:59:51 EST news179117964 Mark Morgenthaler wants nothing more than to hire 15 people to help expand his wireless Internet service, Surfnet Communications in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He can't wait to start accepting applications, interviewing candidates, and making job offers. http://www.physorg.com/news179052810.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:20:01 EST news179052810 (AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the company's Nextel-branded phones. http://www.physorg.com/news178824354.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:40:01 EST news178824354 Owners of Roku's digital video player will soon have a bunch more channels to choose from. http://www.physorg.com/news178462170.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:10:03 EST news178462170 (AP) -- The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing. http://www.physorg.com/news178374890.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:50:02 EST news178374890 On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, tackled fires and evacuated as many people as they could in an area which contained an estimated 17,000 people. And making their jobs even harder was the problem of poor communications: frightened workers and their relatives jammed mobile networks with calls and the emergency services' own radio communications turned out to be incompatible with one another. http://www.physorg.com/news178369250.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news178369250 South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said. http://www.physorg.com/news178349448.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:32:56 EST news178349448 Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news178183201.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:30:01 EST news178183201 If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users. http://www.physorg.com/news177692830.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:08:04 EST news177692830 Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme, officials said on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177674728.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:20:03 EST news177674728 Sezmi, a Silicon Valley startup that's pioneering a new type of TV service, is opening up a public test of its system Monday in California. http://www.physorg.com/news177668418.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:03 EST news177668418 (AP) -- Ralph Roberts knew he was onto something big when people ran after his cable TV trucks in Tupelo, Miss., asking for a visit to their homes. http://www.physorg.com/news177615078.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:50:03 EST news177615078 (AP) -- Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline. http://www.physorg.com/news177592539.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:40:02 EST news177592539 Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to notice that there was a Wi-Fi signal available. I have no idea to whom the service belonged but I suspected it belonged to one of my neighbors. It had a generic name of "NETGEAR" and it was unlocked. I decided to see if it was accessible and it was. I was able to check my e-mail and download the important document that was attached to it. Now my question to you is if I did anything wrong by using my neighbor's unlocked Wi-Fi signal to get my email and do a little web surfing afterward. http://www.physorg.com/news177157733.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news177157733 Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps away, they also pose new security and privacy risks. http://www.physorg.com/news177089641.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:01 EST news177089641 (AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places. http://www.physorg.com/news177084145.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:40:02 EST news177084145 (PhysOrg.com) -- NICTA, Australia`s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with femtocells. http://www.physorg.com/news177060560.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:02 EST news177060560 (AP) -- Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers. http://www.physorg.com/news176533519.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:05:49 EST news176533519 (AP) -- AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials, saying in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the ads are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices. http://www.physorg.com/news176526671.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:20:01 EST news176526671 Mobile operator China Unicom said Tuesday it aimed to boost the number of its 3G mobile phone subscribers in China by one million per month, following its launch of Apple's iPhone there. http://www.physorg.com/news176449634.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:47:50 EST news176449634 Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand. http://www.physorg.com/news176403565.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news176403565 US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news176138525.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:00:01 EST news176138525 Internet giant Google is considering entering India's third-generation (3G) telecommunications market, a report said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news175870553.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:56:45 EST news175870553 India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign companies. http://www.physorg.com/news175693182.html Technology - Telecom Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:40:14 EST news175693182 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published yesterday. http://www.physorg.com/news175519235.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:22:37 EST news175519235 The federal government this week is stepping squarely into a high-stakes technology battle with this seemingly straightforward question at its core: Should Internet providers such as Comcast and AT&T be allowed to control what you do online once you buy access to their networks? http://www.physorg.com/news175454102.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:02:15 EST news175454102 (AP) -- Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic. http://www.physorg.com/news175433274.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:28:35 EST news175433274 For the first time in the U.S., unused TV broadcast channels freed up by the transition to digital TV are being used to wirelessly deliver high-speed Internet connectivity to business, education and community users. These unused frequencies are commonly referred to as TV white spaces. http://www.physorg.com/news175370351.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:01 EST news175370351