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But service providers fear violating a customer's privacy Your cell phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's biggest phone company, forecast subscribers to its Internet television service will more than triple by the end of next year, boosted by coverage of the Olympic Games to be held in Beijing in August.

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Consumers getting content through a PC is fading model The world may change for people like George Graves, who takes his laptop computer to the Western Springs library, which has free broadband service. Graves' household is among an estimated 10 percent of residences in the Chicago market too far from the phone company's central offices to get DSL broadband.

THE number of Chinese broadband users has hit 122 million, the highest in the world, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, citing an official from the information industry authority. Sixty percent of the netizens surfed on the Internet via broadband, said Jiang Yaoping, vice minister of the ministry of information industry, at a work conference of China Telecommunications Corporation on Saturday. Last year, more than 30 percent of China Telecom's income came from non-phone services, rising from 5.5 percent in 2002, the report said. One-third of the new broadband users are farmers, where the demand for the service is high, China Telecom officials said. The increased user number boosted the non-voice income of fixed-phone carriers, accelerating the transformation of traditional phone carriers into comprehensive information service providers, the report said.

Eckoh, the phone service provider embroiled in the TV phone-in scandals, has received a number of bid approaches.

NEW YORK - Air France has become the first airline to offer international passengers e-mail and text-messaging service that's based on standard cell phone technology.

Sprint Nextel said Tuesday that it has named Daniel R. Hesse, an industry veteran, as its new chief executive, settling questions about the phone service provider’s leadership. Mr. Hesse, formerly the chairman and chief executive of Sprint spinoff Embarq, will succeed Gary D. Forsee, who resigned in October amid pressure from the board. Before Embarq was spun [...]

O2 is to trial an internet-based TV service next year after trialling a similar product in the Czech market, a test bed for the mobile phone company's wider ambitions.

The Internet communications service wants to restore trust with its business customers after it withdrew thousands of London phone numbers

They knew it was coming, if not quite like a freight train, and the cellular companies prepared for the big day. Portability reform removed a major barrier to switching cellular service providers - people could change from say Partner to Pelephone and keep their personal number. So ahead of the day, the cellular operators blitzed the Israeli consumer with campaigns designed to lock them into a long-term relationship. In exchange for various gratifications, such as a bargain rate on a state-of-the-art phone, consumers undertook to remain with the company for years. ...

The YouTube service on the mobile carrier's high-end Ocean handset is beefed up to allow GPS geotagging and easy uploads straight from the phone.

NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. on Tuesday raised its dividend 12.7 percent, announced a share buyback and set a long-term target for its TV service, which is delivered over phone lines, saying it will be available to 30 million customers by 2010.

AT&T Inc. on Tuesday raised its dividend 12.7 percent, announced a share buyback and set a long-term target for its TV service, which is delivered over phone lines, saying it will be available to 30 million customers by 2010. Shares of the...

VODAFONE'S Indian joint venture is transferring all of its information technology-related work to IBM Corp under a five-year contract that will help reduce costs and improve services, the company said yesterday. The company did not disclose the deal's value, but IBM said a similar contract earlier this year from Idea Cellular, whose network and subscriber base is half that of Vodafone Essar Ltd, is expected to be worth between US$600 million and US$800 million over 10 years. Vodafone Essar is India's fourth-largest cellular phone company, in which the British company acquired a controlling stake for US$10.9 billion in May. "Under the deal, IBM India will assume responsibility for the management of all Vodafone Essar's IT (information technology) operations with the exception of network service platforms," Vodafone Essar said in a statement. The deal will include maintaining billing, data centers and financial systems. The pact builds on Vodafone's existing

The Samsung cell phone also works with the carrier's HotSpot @Home Wi-Fi service and at T-Mobile Wi-Fi hotspots at about 8,500 locations nationwide.

A new crop of Internet phone providers wants to let you make cheap - or even free - calls to pals around the globe from your cell or home phone without a fast Web connection.

AT&T Inc. on Tuesday raised its dividend 12.7 percent, announced a share buyback and set a long-term target for its TV service, which is delivered over phone lines, saying it will be available to 30 million customers by 2010.

MONTREAL–Canada's cable operators made strong inroads in the phone business in its first year of service in 2006, quadrupling their combined customer base to nearly one million clients, Statistics Canada said yesterday.

A new service will let cell phone users find public restrooms from their handsets. The service is called...wait for it... MizPee . When you're done laughing and can pick yourself up off the floor, please continue reading...