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Our daily look at telecom news around the Web (Paris Hilton-free!):

Costa Rica may criminalize VoIP--Techweb

Wireless companies turn their eyes to TV--Investor's Business Daily

Facial recognition secures cell phones--PC World

Mobile spam alert: Covering the same report, Information Week notes that wireless spam has doubled and Telephony Online's jaw drops on hearing that it totals 43 percent of all text messages.

Public Wi-Fi networks slow to take off at airports--USA Today

Skype delivers text messaging for global wireless networks--Newsfactor

Cablevision's Voom deal falls through--The Street

Pre-WiMAX ISP to trial citywide voice service… Read more

Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

Why your broadband sucks: Telecom toadies (ahem, state officials) stifle competition to keep prices high--Wired

Louisiana fiber and 'economic blackmail'? BellSouth clarifies call center comments--Broadband Reports

Big telecom takes on public-sector competition--Associated Press via Networking Pipeline

Motorola's mesh cloud links police cruisers--Daily Wireless

Motorola merges its plan for faster Wi-Fi--PC World via Yahoo

Known hole aided T-Mobile breach--Wired

Mobile marketing comes to North America--TechNewsWorld

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Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

Researcher questions demand for mobile TV--Mobile Pipeline

Skype users may soon be sending text messages--Infoworld

China walks out of WLAN security talks--EE Times

Mobile users get touchy with their feelings--Hindustan Times

BellSouth: Lay fiber, we yank jobs -- Louisiana exec issues employment threat--Broadband Reports rounds up the lastest.

NYC Council adopts resolution to provide broadband to affordable housing residents--Yahoo has the press release.

The state of handhelds & VoIP--Wi-Fi Planet

NTT develops hydrogen fuel cell for mobile phones--Infoworld

Spam arrives on a new front: Instant messaging… Read more

We surf the Internet for telecom news so you don't have to. Our daily snapshot:

Cable operators embrace VoIP--TechNewsWorld

Judge slams FCC's 'broadcast flag' -- FCC 'crossed the line', 'not TV salesmen'--via Broadband Reports

Lobbyists testify in favor of Texas' anti-muni-wireless bill--Muni Wireless

Time Warner launches VoIP service for PBXs--Networking Pipeline

Voice-over-WLAN comes to the highway--Mobile Pipeline

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Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

FreeFi: The return of free Internet?--a collection of links via Slashdot

Cisco heckles Juniper's Infranet initiative--Light Reading

Payments via cell phones to grow rapidly this year: study--Mobile Pipeline

BT sinks its teeth into IP--Light Reading

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Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

Finnish study shows handset radiation within limits--eWeek

Ad-supported FreeFi--Daily Wireless

Pebbles, clams and razors; the hottest phones around--AFP

Merged telcos will sport different looks--Light Reading

Virtual keyboard could empower mobile devices--Information Week

Camera-phone boundary blurs, but images get sharper--Infoworld

Sony Ericsson plans phone update kiosk for stores--Infoworld

Boingo adds voice--Daily Wireless

China mobile phone production capacity to hit 500 million in 2005--AFP

Freescale demos phones with UWB--Wi-Fi Planet

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Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

Will your mobile phone reorganize your life?--AFP

Indiana anti-muni bill dies in committee--Muni Wireless

Cisco's self-defending network strategy doesn't have all the answers--Information Week

Satellite ISPs gain ground--TechNewsWorld

Budget motel chain offers free long distance, Wi-Fi--Associated Press via USA Today

NTT DoCoMo to quit money-losing handyphone business: report--AFP

Qwest filing details $8 billion MCI bid--Light Reading

Boingo hotspot users roam in jets--Networking Pipeline

At least 20 vendors building Linux mobile phones, vendor claims--Mobile Pipeline

Consumer Ultrawideband: coming soon--Wi-Fi Planet … Read more

Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

WiMax could blanket U.S.--WiMax Trends via a Slashdot post.

Volume lowered on Wimax hype -- will constitute 3% of broadband users by '09--Broadband Reports provides links aplenty on the topic, and Daily Wireless summarizes the new InStat report.

Cellular companies aim to cut phone porn--Associated Press

T-Mobile hacker pleads guilty--TechNewsWorld

Telecom deals may take cable companies off the hook--USA Today

Updated muni Wi-Fi creates nets within nets--Mobile Pipeline

Cisco bolsters security with Adaptive Threat Defense--Infoworld

Spectrum auction falls short of expectations--Telephony Online … Read more

Our daily look at telecom news around the Web:

Nokia introduces new phones--eWeek

T-Mobile ups focus on mobile workers--Infoworld

How Verizon-MCI deal may affect business customers--Information Week

Qwest CEO 'disappointed' at MCI-Verizon deal--Information Week

Alcatel, Intel agree to WiMAX development effort--AFP

Texas bill would restrict municipal broadband--Muni Wireless

Broadcom aims multimedia chip at phones--Infoworld

TI: Technology could cut cell phone prices--Associated Press

3Mbps data speeds predicted as mainstream in 2006--Mobile Pipeline

NJ in line for speedy fiber optics--NorthJersey.com

NTT DoCoMo confronts 'dark side' of mobile phones--Mobile Pipeline

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