The FCC is being urged to include rules that would ease the way for open, flexible cell-phone networks when it sets the rules for an upcoming auction of the wireless spectrum.

NPR: Groups Urge FCC to Open Wireless Networks

Johnson cut open a 12-volt dry-cell battery and crammed in two more cells in an attempt to get another 4 volts.

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Dazed but without any broken bones, Cornell flipped open his cell phone and madly dialed for help--not for himself, but for his Exile cycle.

FORBES: Hooligan Chic

Open airwaves are everywhere, but the businesses desperate to use them--cell phones and the wireless industries of the future--cannot.

FORBES: Can Lightning Strike Twice?

Reinares said French security services had asked their Spanish counterparts not to share intelligence on the suspected cell with the Spanish judiciary, fearing that open exposure of such information in court -- as required by Spanish law -- could blow the whole operation.

CNN: Spain 'al Qaeda cell' may have targeted Gibraltar