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Report: Prepaid iPhone Set to Disrupt Industry
Wireless Week
By Andrew Berg Monday, February 6, 2012 BTIG expects Walmart's exclusive prepaid brand Straight Talk, which is owned by America Movil, to launch a new SIM card that will work in any AT&T or T-Mobile GSM phone, excluding BlackBerry, creating a place for ...




Straight Talk Sets $45 Monthly Pre-Paid Plan For Used iPhones
Forbes
The service will work with any AT&T or T-Mobile GSM phone except for the Research In Motion BlackBerry. Which means you can use it for GSM-based Apple iPhones. “This could not only change the landscape of the unlimited pre-paid market in the United ...

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Alarm-clock programs make staying on task easy
San Francisco Chronicle
A: Verizon doesn't use the GSM technology found throughout Europe. However, the iPhone 4S has a built-in GSM chip, making it compatible with GSM networks everywhere (including AT&T's here in the United States). If you take your phone to Europe, ...

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Money Power: Pay less for cellphone services overseas
Tulsa World
Note that Sprint and Verizon don't use GSM cellular technology - the most common type worldwide - but AT&T and T-Mobile do. Some non-GSM phones, however, may function abroad. If you're not sure about your cellphone, you could buy an "unlocked" GSM ...




Subscribers Warn GSM Companies
AllAfrica.com
Mobile phone subscribers here have warned GSM companies to stop spreading falsehood against the International Gateway Measuring Calls System introduced by the Liberia Telecommunication Authority (LTA). The leaders of the local consumer group under the ...

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Voice and video calls via Wi-Fi from 30000 feet?
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Federal regulations forbid making calls from cell phones while aboard US commercial planes in-flight, but Wi-Fi services could eventually permit voice and video calls over the Internet for a fee.

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TIME

Google abandons CDMA
TechEye
Google has decided to pull all references to CDMA phones and tablets from its Android website. This includes source code and factory ROMs for Verizon's CDMA version of the Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Xoom, as well as the Nexus S 4G.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus White official: On sale Feb 13SlashGear
White Galaxy Nexus hits UK February 13thPhandroid.com
Google Wallet payment option available on Samsung Galaxy Nexus on AT&T, VerizonTechnology Bloom News
Android Authority -Technorati -International Business Times
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Android Central

Android distribution: Gingerbread gains slightly, ICS breaks the 1% mark
Android Community
One month later the number of Ice Cream Sandwich phones and tablets has almost doubled! …which is a nicer thing to say than “it's got a whole percent of devices.” Between the handful of official releases of ICS, one in every hundred Android devices is ...
The best UK/European Android Phones - As of Feb. 2, 2012Android Central

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Simple Mobile, Fry's Electronics partner on in-store display
Telecompaper (subscription)
US GSM service provider Simple Mobile has collaborated with US -based Fry's Electronics for in-store display system that will change how mobile consumers select their phone and carrier options. These displays showcase unlocked mobile handsets alongside ...
SIMPLE Mobile(R) And Fry's Electronics(R) Partner On "Build Your Own Bundle ...MarketWatch (press release)

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Telegraph.co.uk

Satellite phones lift skirt, flash cipher secrets at boffins
Register
GSM cryptography is almost all done in hardware, the quantity of GSM phones makes it economical to fabricate specialist silicon for the job, but satellite phones do the same work in software so the ciphers can be found within firmware updates.
Security researchers break satellite phone encryptionInfosecurity Magazine (US)
Don't Trust Satellite Encryption, Say German ResearchersInformationWeek

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