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Breakthrough BlackBerry Smartphone Is Coming to Nation's Fastest 3G Network; Arrives in Stores Nov. 4

Cox Communications, the cable TV provider for a good chunk of Orange County, added two Indian-language channels for local viewers. The channels, STAR India Plus and Sony Entertainment Television Asia (or SET Asia), are now available on channels 411 and 412, respectively. 

Both can be ordered individually or as part of a package. A la carte prices for international channels are available HERE (the a la carte price for SET Asia is $14.95/month, while STAR India Plus appears to be $11.95).

Orange has announced the launch of the world’s first 3G unlicensed mobile access (UMA) platform, opening up a new world of multimedia services to its Unik customers.

Launching first with two exclusive Orange handsets from Samsung and Sony Ericsson, UMA and 3G network technology will be combined in one device for the very first time. Orange’s UMA service (Unik) allows customers to use a single handset to make calls by seamlessly switching from fixed WiFi to mobile cellular networks as they leave or enter their home or office.

AT&T Inc. announced today it has deployed assisted GPS technology (A-GPS) within its wireless network to enhance existing and planned location-based services (LBS) used with A-GPS capable devices.

The company also announced it will launch two new navigation applications in the coming weeks, MapQuest Navigator and AAA Mobile navigator. The new applications add to the company's AT&T Navigator and AT&T Navigator Global Edition offerings, underscoring its focus on providing superior navigation tools and customer choice.

Sprint and Research In Motion today announced plans to deliver the BlackBerry Curve 8350i, the newest Nextel Direct Connect-capable BlackBerry smartphone, by the end of 2008.

Orange UK has enabled a new MVNO to run on it’s network - called Globalcell, the service is targeted at Eastern Europeans, who are living and working in the UK. The service offers customers a SIM-only pre-paid deal, with all customer interaction being delivered in native languages, such as Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak (and English).

Exclusive 4-day pricing of $99.99 available starting August 29 at company-owned stores

FORT WORTH, Texas - RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH), one of the nation's most trusted consumer electronics specialty retailers, announced it will launch Sprint's Samsung Instinct nationwide this Labor Day weekend. As part of the nationwide launch, RadioShack will be offering a 4-day exclusive retail price of $99.99 in more than 4,400 convenient neighborhood RadioShack stores. The special pricing will be available to new Sprint customers only starting Friday, August 29 and running through Labor Day weekend.

New Geobrowsing Services Will Customize, Localize and Enrich the Personal Mobile Broadband Experience

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XOHM(TM) WiMAX mobile broadband customers can have information customized for their locations and personalized to their needs with new Sprint (NYSE:S) ecosystem agreements that help pioneer subscriber location services.

It's happening all over again. A few months ago we saw AT&T offering their iPhone customers free access to all 17,000 nationwide AT&T WiFi HotSpot, only to abruptly take the page offline.

3 is apparently aiming to double it's customer base to nearly 7m by 2012. Kevin Russell recently spoke to the Financial Times and laid down the gauntlet with this challenging stat.
Russell has apparently spent his first year cutting costs, and it now looking to boost profits - and a good part of that is adding customers. Interestingly, the latest data on 3UK shows 3.4m active customers and £1.6bn of revenue (in 2007).

O2 Ireland has boosted its mobile broadband service, giving customers HSUPA up to 1.4 Mbps. The HSDPA (downstream) rolls in at 7.2 Mbps - that's faster than my fixed line broadband! Customers will be able to get this online or at stores, and the The devices which are HSUPA capable include the USB Modem E270, USB Stick E170 and Express Card E870.
[Via: Telecom Paper]

So, we all know by now the gist of Telstra’s price plans for the Apple iPhone 3G. Now it’s Optus’s turn to reveal its own iPhone 3G price plans, and unlike Telstra’s announcement, this one lays it all out for everyone to see.

Yesterday we got word that O2 would be offering their UK iPhone 3G customers the option to go pre-paid with the next-generation iPhone 3G. The UK O2 website indicated that the 8GB iPhone 3G would be available for £299.99 (about $600) without contract, while the 16GB iPhone 3G would command a £359.99 (about $700) price-tag for the privilege of using the handset on O2's pay-as-you-go calling plans.

T-Mobile will be joining the various other wireless providers in providing prorated early termination fees. I use the term “prorated” loosely, as you won’t actually save any money until you’ve been a customer for a year and a half. At 180 days from the end of your contract, though, your early termination fee will drop from $200 to $100 and at 90 days, the fee will drop to $50.

The new fee policy will begin on June 28th and will only apply to new customers or those customers that renew their contracts after June 28th.

Full release after the jump.

I guess you have no choice but to announce a few handsets that have been leaked all over the place or it was all just coincidence. Whatever the case, Verizon Wireless has just pulled back the covers on the LG Decoy, Dare and Chocolate 3. Pricing was not disclosed, but we do know the Dare is coming later this month. The Decoy will launch on the 16th (we already knew that) and the Chocolate will find its way out in July.

LG Dare

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