In order to provide comparability with the results of other US wireless carriers, all financial amounts are in US dollars and are based on accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP").
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In the US, Verizon Wireless, in which Vodafone has a 45% stake, saw its service revenues grow by 8.7%, thanks to the strong addition of new customers.
We're so there, which is why we harrassed Verizon Wireless into sending us LG's VX8000 cameraphone so we could check out their new V CAST wireless video-on-demand service.
In the meantime the Europeans might run over us with their 3G wireless.
Our customers think of us a mobility, wireless company first and foremost.
"Bringing the Nokia Lumia 822 to Verizon Wireless allows us to expand our award winning Lumia brand to even more customers here in the United States, " said Olivier Puech, President of Nokia Americas.
But there was better news from Verizon Wireless, a US business of which Vodafone owns 45%.
Rhapsody's "mature" desktop player is really starting to show its age, and Zune 3.0's addition of wireless downloads has us ready to make the switch.
And help is on the way for the rest of us in the form of wireless 4G LTE offerings, satellite broadband connections, and further telco deployment.
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"Early in 2007 we announced a nationwide deal with Cable and Wireless which will enable us to run a nationwide service through their network, " he said.
Finally, whenever possible, you'll now find prices from Amazon Wireless, which allows us to provide you with more compelling budget selections and highlight the substantial savings that you can score by circumventing the carriers.
Data on US mobile subscribers is taken from CTIA Wireless Association Year-End Survey Report.
After college, she spent three years at McKinsey, launching wireless Internet companies in the US and abroad.
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We've seen weak retail reports this month, and just before Christmas (US chipmaker) Cypress warned about weak wireless chip sales.
It was then that Rex Woodward, Chairman of our Wireless Waterway Committee, introduced us to Tom Dauer, a Pittsburgh native loaded with communications experience and with a vision of integrating the newest communications technologies into layered services linking towboats, terminals, truckers, first responders, government regulators, and government service providers into an integrated, safe, secure system.
We're not quite sure what to make of this, but it looks like there might be quite the legal battle, which just means more months between us and that golden dream of free national wireless broadband.
Now, with wireless adoption in the United States and elsewhere passing the 100% mark (many of us have several devices) and with smartphones and tablets accounting for more of the devices populating the wireless networks, non-traditional players are beginning to lust after this huge market.
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"There are about 150 carriers in the US, " says Jonathan Linner, chief executive of wireless marketing firm Enpocket.
When Eye-Fi first launched its wireless SD cards back in 2006, most of us weren't carrying smartphones, much less tablets.
There aren't many around that're bigger fans of free over-the-air HD than us, but we're also really big fans of wireless technologies.
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We also like the US West media group, which is a combination of cable and wireless assets.
Unlike most Wi-Fi routers, Airport Extreme uses the Wireless Distributed System (WDS) protocol which should let us daisy chain base stations wirelessly.
In the US, it will be available before the holidays on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network as DROID RAZR HD by Motorola.
Bob Mansfield will lead a new group, Technologies, which combines all of our wireless teams across the company in one organization, allowing us to innovate in this area at an even higher level.
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The freed-up airwaves in the proposal would mostly be unlicensed spectrum with "WiFi-like uses, " but at a much lower frequency than the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands that WiFi needs today: as the first consistent, unlicensed spectrum at that range in the US, it could create opportunities for longer-ranged, free wireless that aren't even on the table in 2012.
One group of scientists hailing from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and universities in the US, Israel and China isn't so impressed, having generated a wireless signal clocking in at 2.56Tbps.
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The same company that brought us the original locoGPS is back at it again, this time with a wireless module that looks fit 'n trim enough to stow away neatly on a key ring.
But it's also good for the long run, because if we've got the best roads, the best bridges, the best airports, the fastest broadband lines, the best wireless networks, the best transmission lines -- all that makes us more productive, and it means our economy is going to grow in the future.
Suddenly Wi-Fi wireless networking, which is beginning to act like The Great Enabler, gives us a glimpse of how it might happen.
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