Students recognize reliance on cell phones in response to North Korean ban

By: Hannah Byrne One hundred days without 3G. A government that is already notorious for secluding themselves from the world, North Korea has announced that any citizen seen using a cell phone within the 100 days of mourning for previous leader Kim

China Unicom signs up 26 million for 3G phones

Number of the day 26 million That's how many new 3G smart-phone subscribers were signed up last year by China Unicom Hong Kong , the second-largest Chinese cell phone company. After previously courting high-end...

Review: Republic Wireless and its $19/month cell service

Republic Wireless is an upstart taking on some of the biggest behemoths in American industry—the major cell carriers—armed with WiFi as its main weapon. Republic keeps costs low by encouraging the use of WiFi on cell phones, though customers can still access 3G voice and data services, if needed. Though the service has some drawbacks, including a high startup cost, the previously limited service ...

Follow-Up: How France's "Free" Cell Phones Really Did Disrupt The Industry

Working across a clever meshed network of cell phone signals from the usual towers, 3G signals emanating from user's broadband set-top boxes which also double as femtocells and Wi-Fi signals, the idea of broadband vendor Free.fr's new contract-free cell phone offering was to get users on board for as little as €20 a month--or about $25--and less if you're one of Free's existing broadband ...

Upgrading from 3G to 4G to Create More Than 231,000 New USA Jobs Within a Year

A new economic study released today by NDN finds that the adoption and use of successive generations of cell phones supported by the transition from 2G to 3G wireless networks led to the creation of 1.58 million new jobs in the USA between April 2007 and June 2011.