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.

Boston Underground Railway Gets Cell Phone Coverage

Accoding to a report by the Boston Globe, passengers on Boston's public transport train service can now use their mobile phone in selected areas of the underground network. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas announced that wireless services are available, for the first time ever, in the train tunnels connecting the four downtown Boston stations that comprise the core of the nation's first subway.

Customers can also use their mobile phones from the eight train platforms at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street Stations. The service is currently limited to customers of T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Additional stations and tunnels are expected to be added to the underground wireless network in 2008 and 2009.

A company by the name of Transit Wireless recently struck a deal with New York City Transit to spend up to $200 million to wire (or unwire as the case may be) all 277 NYC subway stations.

(December 28, 2007)

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