Saudi Arabia’s second cellular operator has reported a 162% year-on-year jump in quarterly net income for the three months to the end of June. Mobily says that profits rose from USD30.9 million in the second quarter of 2006 to USD81 million in the same period this year. Operating profit was up 40% to USD541 million […]

The second largest US cellular operator, Verizon Wireless, added 1.6 million net new customers in the three months to the end of June, taking its total subscriber base to 62.1 million including wholesale accounts. The growth was achieved through strong gross add performance and continued low retail post-paid churn, it said. The cellco claims that

Cellcos T-Mobile and Vodafone Germany are teaming up with the German government, universities and vendors in a project to develop and trial new technologies capable of producing faster wireless broadband speeds for the future. The partners, with financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, will evaluate ways to increasing the throughput and