May 5, 2008

T-Mobile USA launched its first commercial high-speed wireless service in New York City, and plans to expand the service to 20 to 25 other major U.S. markets by the end of the year.

April 23, 2008

The battle over cell phones in schools ended with the state's appeals court voting to uphold a ban on cell phones in public schools in New York city.

April 15, 2008

Cuban government has eased restrictions on buying cellular phones for the first time and also allowed registering those they had held illegally.

April 10, 2008

The FCC has approved a new nationwide alert system that will send text messages to cell phones to alert Americans when an emergency, disaster or attack occurs. The plan itself will deliver three different types of charge-free text alerts to mobile phone users.

April 8, 2008

The European Union has approved in-flight cell phone use for all of its 27 member nations. An on-board base station will relay phone signals to either a satellite or ground towers.

April 2, 2008

AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega said that AT&T was expecting a 3G iPhone within the next few months., when asked about plans to sell a third-generation (3G) iPhone.

Speculation on Google's Gphone Continues.

The speculation on on Google Gphone continues. Lehman Brothers reported that we could see a Gphone by February 2008. However, Google has refused to confirm any plans for the GPhone

One speculation is that Google won't be making a physical mobile phone, but instead creating a Linux-based operating system and software which could theoretically work on a large number of mobile phones.

According to a report in The New York Times, GPhone will be an unprecedented marriage of online advertising and mobile internet, in software that can be downloaded onto a phone, .

The operating system will rival software like Microsoft's Windows Mobile, which comes built in to many phones already on the market.

But while Microsoft charges mobile phone companies a licensing fee for the system, Google will rely on advertising to turn a profit, the newspaper claims.

(October 11, 2007)