Cellular Phones News

China’s Cabinet said Wednesday it has approved licenses for next-generation mobile phone services in a long-delayed step that is expected to trigger billions of dollars in equipment sales.

China is one of the last major markets to roll out third-generation, or 3G, services and the step comes at a critical time for global equipment suppliers as demand elsewhere weakens amid economic turmoil.

The government will issue licenses for two global 3G standards and a homegrown Chinese standard, the Cabinet said on its Web site.

KARACHI: Cellular base declined by 0.1 percent on month-on-month basic in November 2008, as Pakistani consumers pay the highest level of taxes compared to international benchmarks. It is the first time ever (data available since 2000), that the total …

It is Jan. 1, and I suppose I could do the obligatory thing and write about the new year. Our hopes and aspirations and whatnot. But that’s such a bore, isn’t it? I can barely think about some nebulous event that might happen some months from now …

Pakistan’s investigations into the 26/11 terror attacks have a top LeT operative confessing his involvement in the Mumbai strikes, while Washington is pressing Islamabad to extradite Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, LeT operations boss, to India. Listen to …

Stand-up comic Lee Hurst has pleaded not guilty to smashing an audience member’s mobile phone at one of his gigs.

Chris A. Courogen, The Patriot-News Karen Sgrignoli, left, of Grantville, and Carolyn Liddick, of Hampden Township, use their cellular phones to take pictures of the damage to Sgrignoli’s car after gusty winds dropped a tree on top of it as they …

There’ a change coming for county employees who carry cell phones on the job. No longer will those phones be supplied by the county. Instead, employees will receive a stipend, based on usage for county business, for the use of their personal phones …