Cell phones

May 23, 2008 -- Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced a settlement with the Delaware-based wireless provider of cellular phones and service, United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular), operating out of Illinois, and its subsidiary, United States Cellular Operating Company of Medford, an Oregon corporation. An Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) was filed by Myers in Multnomah County Circuit Court. The AVC admits no law violation.    » read more »

Encouraging Donation of Used Cell Phones; Employee, State Cell Phones Headed to Soldiers

April 28, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is encouraging state employees to donate used cell phones to the Cell Phones for Soldiers project.

Cellphones for soldiers: Photo by Tom Eppenberger (CC)

In addition, Department of Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer will ensure that state cell phones that are no longer serviceable or in surplus will be donated to the project.    » read more »

April 18, 2008 -- HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett urged consumers to be alert for scam and "spam" text messages on their personal cell phones and urged consumers to never divulge personal information in response to an unsolicited text message.

Cellphone messages: Photo by Juli (CC)

Corbett explained that the Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection has been receiving a steadily increasing number of complaints about unwanted cell phone text messages - primarily involving advertisements for prescription drugs and pornography.    » read more »

Disclosure to be Improved; Charitable Programs to Benefit

BALTIMORE, MD (April 4, 2008) - Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler today announced an agreement with all of the major United States wireless carriers as well as Asurion Protection Services, a provider of cell phone insurance protection policies to the customers of the carriers.    » read more »

December 12, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Arlen Specter (R-PA), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Wireless 411 Privacy Act, legislation to protect wireless telephone customers from having their cellular phone numbers listed in a national directory without their consent.    » read more »

Enhanced mobile search for Sprint features GPS and open Internet.

2007-09-04 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch today issued the following statement regarding SmartLimits for Wireless, a new web-based parental control feature for wireless service that AT&T is offering to its customers. The safety feature allows parents to block calls and text messages to and from numbers they don't approve, filter access to inappropriate Internet content, and teach their children to use their cell phones more responsibly.    » read more »

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Orlando, Fla., 8/14/2007 -- AAA’s well known proprietary travel information, mapping expertise and road service is now available on select GPS-enabled mobile phones via a newly launched service called AAA Mobile®, AAA announced today.

The service provides audible, turn-by-turn directions as well as information such as Diamond Ratings® for hotels and restaurants and points of interest found in AAA’s famous TourBook® guides.    » read more »

Company Marks Milestone in Enabling Navigation, Community and Personal Location Services on Cell Phones

IRVINE, Calif., Aug 08, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that Nokia Corporation has selected Broadcom's advanced single-chip cellular baseband processor and its companion power management unit (PMU) for selected future EDGE mobile phones.    » read more »

Ericsson New WCDMA/HSPA Network Supplier for Elisa in Finland
August 13, 2007, 13:00 (CET) -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has been chosen by Finnish operator Elisa to deliver WCDMA/HSPA network equipment, taking the longstanding relationship between the two companies to a new level. The expansion will virtually double the coverage and capacity of Elisa's existing WCDMA/HSPA network.    » read more »

Feingold Legislation Would Allow Servicemembers to Terminate Contracts Free of Penalties While Assigned Overseas or to Areas Without Coverage

May 8, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) has reintroduced a bill that would allow servicemembers who are transferred or called up to active duty to terminate cellular phone contracts without having to pay termination fees or reactivation fees.    » read more »