Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap

Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.

Is Vietnam’s 3G too cheap or too expensive?

Is Vietnam’s 3G too cheap or too expensive? VietNamNet Bridge – 3G services have been supplied by Vietnam’s three largest telecom networks for nearly one year, but they don’t meet user expectations.

Ask Maggie: On wireless-contract fine print

CNET's Maggie Reardon also addresses buying an e-reader in her weekly advice column responding to readers' wireless and broadband questions.

It's time for universal data plans

If you've got a couple of cell phones, an iPad, or maybe a FIOS or U-Verse connection, you're probably paying for "data" several times over. It's time carriers charged us once for network access and quit ripping us off with multiple "data plans."

Eircom must cut its cloth to fit a shrinking market

ANALYSIS:Losing 1,300 customers a week, the debt-laden telco desperately needs to reduce costs, writes CIARÁN HANCOCK