A wireless telephone network maintained by Cingular Wireless LLC was knocked offline for much of the weekend, leaving about 900,000 mobile phone customers nationwide without service. The outage ...

Slashdot reports that Harald Welte is operating an open source GSM network at the Hacking at Random (HAR) conference. Welte writes: Here at the amazing HAR2009 hacker conference + camp, I have the ...

The end of GSM will free up more bandwidth for faster 3G and 4G network technologies—but will also force users of older devices that depend on GSM networks to upgrade or replace them. Carriers around ...

When GSM comes to mind, many initially think of its use as a mobile network used by over three billion people worldwide, according to the GSMA, an association that represents the worldwide mobile ...

The world's most popular wireless telephone technology, known as GSM, has won another convert: Cingular Wireless, America's second-largest wireless carrier. Cingular Wireless announced Tuesday morning ...

Equipment that lets wireless carriers using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks convert to Qualcomm's rival technology is set for its first trial, a company executive said Friday.

3G networks are being built in areas throughout the world. First introduced in Japan in 2001, they are being adopted by close to 150 operators worldwide. UMTS is the next evolution of the GSM/GPRS ...

Strengthening its foothold in China, its second largest market, Nokia today announced that it has signed a supply contract for the expansion of the Gansu Unicom's GSM network in the Gansu province.

An encryption algorithm designed to protect calls on GSM phones has been broken by three cryptographers using only a dual-core, Intel -based Dell Latitude PC running Linux. In a paper released Tuesday ...