Posts Tagged ‘FCC’

AT&T gets FCC approval for purchase of Centennial Wireless

If you’re a big telecommunications company there is the hard way to add 893,000 customers to your portfolio — by working to provide hardware and services that people value and want — then there is the easy way. Cutting a…

3G and Wi-Fi toting Dell Mini 3iX party it up with the FCC

It looks as if Dell’s Android handset is getting ready for prime time with AT&T as a new filing found on the FCC’s website has revealed the Mini 3iX. With both 850/1900 MHz bands of UMTS as well as Wi-Fi…

House of Representatives want FCC to regulate Google Voice

Apparently there isn’t enough to do in Washington these days. 20 House of Representatives lawmakers have pressed the FCC to investigate how and why Google decides to block certain phone numbers with its Google Voice service. After numerous complaints were…

AT&T gives VoIP over 3G apps its blessing, iPhone included

Could today have been a more exciting day? AT&T certainly thinks so, which is why it just announced it’s informing both Apple and the FCC of its network’s readiness and willingness to allow VoIP apps to operate over its 3G…

Motorola Sholes passes the FCC with EV-DO and Wi-Fi on board

If you’re a Verizon fan and a lover of all things Android, you were probably pretty upset earlier this month when Motorola’s Android event came and went with nary a peep about the Sholes. Don’t fret however, as relief is…

Nokia’s mysterious RM-559 “Alvin” passes the FCC

Kudos to Nokia, for doing something not many manufacturers have been able to do in recent history — get a device certified by the FCC without us pesky bloggers already knowing practically everything about it. The phone in question is…

Apple says it didn’t reject Google Voice app, it’s just “reviewing” it; AT&T says leave us alone

It looks like the FCC’s bravado move to lay some smack down on both Apple and AT&T has pretty much unearthed a whole heap of nothing. AT&T and Apple have just released their responses to those now infamous letters the…

CDMA-toting HTC Hero earns FCC’s love, yearns for Sprint’s love

It shouldn’t be long now, Sprint fans. Android, Google’s emerging OS that was once scoffed at by Mr. Hesse-if-you-please, is seemingly getting ready to make its debut on the Now Network. As for the vehicle with which it will likely…

All 12 megapixels of Sony Ericsson’s Satio get poked and prodded by the FCC

Mmmmmmm, Satio. If Symbian is your thing, it pretty much doesn’t get any better than this forthcoming beast from Sony Ericsson. Hell, even if Symbian isn’t your thing, you still have to respect this monster of a handset. While the…

FCC opens investigation into Apple’s rejection of Google Voice apps

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FCC has begun investigating Apple’s rejection of Google’s official Google Voice application and the subsequent removal of similar third-party apps from the App Store. You know the story by now — Google…

FCC approves Nokia 5800i; don’t get too excited, it’s headed to China

As Apple’s effort to launch the iPhone in China continues, it looks like Nokia’s ever popular 5800 XpressMusic may find its way there first. This new version of the handset, dubbed 5800i, has just cleared the FCC with specs that…

Motorola Morrison slides through FCC, AWS on board

Everyone is waiting for Motorola to finally start dealing a few Android-powered handsets and it looks like we’re now a big step closer to seeing one of its first offerings. Hardly the most interesting Moto/Android phone we’ve been privy to,…

Verizon Wireless deflects heat by shortening exclusivity terms, sort of

Take that, FCC. Just as big brother starts to turn up the heat and examine wireless carrier exclusivity deals more thoroughly, Verizon Wireless has announced a new policy. Moving forward, any device Verizon negotiates exclusivity for will be a VZW…