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1. Senate Pushes FCC to Investigate Exclusive Cell Deals

   [ Summary ] Topic: Government Agencies | Date Published: 06/16/2009

   Members of the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Communications Commission to review some of the exclusivity agreements among cell phone manufacturers and wireless carriers who provide service. The senators are concerned that such agreements limit consumer choice. Several criteria are to be...

2. IRS, Treasury Ask for Cell Tax Repeal

   [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 06/17/2009

   Because the tax is often ignored and has received uneven enforcement, the IRS, along with the Treasury, has asked for a repeal on the tax of company cell phones for personal use. It has become increasingly difficult for employers to require employees to document each business call made from a...

3. Mobile Carrier Debate Goes Before Senate

   [ Summary ] Topic: Antitrust | Date Published: 06/18/2009

   Smaller mobile phone carriers went before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to testify about how large carriers stifle competition in the wireless market. The committee is considering whether to regulate the wireless market to better promote innovation and competition...

4. Verizon to Shorten Exclusivity Deals

   [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 07/17/2009

   Verizon Wireless says it will cut its exclusivity deals on handsets to six months so that smaller wireless carriers can sell such handsets after the exclusive deal is up. Many see this as a big move by Verizon, but analysts also say that six months in the cell phone industry is a long time, and...

5. Sprint to Release Phone with OLED Display

   [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 08/07/2009

   Sprint announced that it would release its first phone featuring an AM-OLED display by the end of the year. The phone will be a high-end phone, but no further details have been provided. Analysts believe it could be the Samsung Instinct Q Android-based smartphone.

6. Cell Phones Immune to Viruses, but for How Long?

   [ Summary ] Topic: Viruses and Worms | Date Published: 08/12/2009

   Recent reports of iPhone vulnerabilities had many in the mobile industry fearing that viruses were on the horizon for cell phones. But for now, users need not fear. The strict controls placed on the mobile phone networks in the U.S. can be credited with making such viruses more difficult to...

7. Feature Phones Still Outsell Smartphones

   [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 08/20/2009

   Cell phones still outsell smartphones in the mobile device market. In the second quarter of 2009, feature phones accounted for 72 percent of mobile device sales, where smartphones claimed only 28 percent.

8. Verizon Escapade Allows World-Roaming on the Cheap

   [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 08/21/2009

   Verizon released its Escapade flip phone that offers dual-mode CDMA/GSM. The phone allows users to talk in more than 220 foreign locations. It also includes Bluetooth headset capabilities and a two-megapixel camera, and is capable of running the Verizon VZ Navigator app.
   

9. Exploding Phone Probably Not Cause of Worker's Death

   [ Summary ] Topic: Power Supplies | Date Published: 11/29/2007

   The South Korean man whose death was initially blamed on an exploding cell phone battery appears to have died from another cause. The National Institute of Scientific Investigation said the injuries were too substantial to have been caused by a battery explosion.

10. Korean Worker Killed by Construction Vehicle, Not Exploding Cell Phone

    [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 11/30/2007

    South Korean police say what they thought was a death caused by an exploding mobile phone was actually a ruse used by a co-worker to cover up an accidental vehicular homicide. The co-worker confessed that he hit the man by accident and lied about the mobile phone exploding. Police are investigating...

11. Mobile-Only Household Growth Slowing

    [ Summary ] Topic: Cell Phones | Date Published: 12/11/2007

    More than one in eight households have cell phones but lack traditional landline telephones, according to a federal study. The study suggested that the number of households relying solely on cell phones may be growing more slowly than it had in the past. The researchers said the slowdown might be...

12. Analysts Expect Spending on Cell Phones to Surpass Land Lines in U.S.

    [ Summary ] Topic: Consumer Electronics | Date Published: 12/19/2007

    With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell-phone services, industry and government officials say. While there are roughly 170 million land lines in use nationwide, industry officials estimate there...