Cox is outsourcing the design and construction of its new 3G network to Berliner Communications Inc. (BCI), a service vendor that has been advising operators and building wireless networks for 14 years. BCI will help Cox with the unique task of building a CDMA network at 700 MHz, licenses that Cox won at last year’s FCC auction. more

If you are like most consumers and don’t regularly call more than 25 people, Alltel’s latest MyCircle plan will – for all intents and purposes – be an unlimited plan to you. The carrier, recently acquired by Verizon, today expanded its My Circle calling feature to include five additional numbers for unlimited calling. Without raising the cost, Alltel upped the number of friends a subscriber can call by five – totaling 25 for those on My Circle 20 and 15 for those on MyCircle 10. more