The rollout of 3G (third-generation) wireless data networks began in Japan as early as 2001, but the first 3G network didn’t appear in the United States until 2002. Major rollouts began here a few ...

Thought iPad-mania was over? Not quite. The first wave may have passed, but today Apple is making available the newest iPad: iPad 3G + Wi-Fi. This model, as you well know, comes loaded with the same ...

After years of fiddling with mobile phone hook-ups just to dawdle along at GSM speeds, hunting down hotspots or just making do without Net access on the road, the arrival of 3G is like manna from ...

5G may be coming, but 3G is going away. It was the first really useful mobile data service, holding so much promise in its initial years that the very first iPhone was dinged by critics for not ...

It's a sad fact of life that unlimited Internet access, particularly for smartphone users, is fading into memory. The wireless carriers are doing what they can to move their customers to capped and ...

Despite advances in wireless technology, connecting to the company network or getting online is still a struggle. The randomly dispersed public wireless networks known as Wi-Fi hot spots have made ...

As Verizon has stepped up its efforts to portray AT&T's data network as sparse and largely unavailable, AT&T has published information that shows Verizon isn't telling the whole story. Verizon began ...

Amazon Kindle's 3G will lose its internet access by December, as the company favors the support for 4G LTE and 5G for download of e-books on the tablet. This does not mean that the Amazon Kindle 3G ...

The age of monolithic cell-tower networks with a few Wi-Fi hotspots and home femtocells sprinkled in may come to an end at this year’s Mobile World Congress, where a diverse range of small cells and ...

After years of fiddling with mobile phone hook-ups just to dawdle along at GSM speeds, hunting down hotspots or just making do without Net access on the road, the arrival of 3G is like manna from ...