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Mobile 3G wireless has had more ups and downs than a Six Flags thrill ride. First, it was built up as a fast-approaching broadband panacea that would keep us connected, outdoors and in, all the time. Then it plunged into ridicule and ultimately obscurity thanks to infrastructure delays, the economic downturn, and competition from coffee shop Wi-Fi.

The trickle of Wi-Fi phones is becoming a flood, with two new products coming from Panasonic and Linksys, but they still look expensive.

By now, basic interoperability is generally a given in multivendor VoIP settings. What happens, however, when VoIP devices go to work in decidedly unfriendly environments, such as through security devices and across wireless LANs?

Qualcomm and The Boeing Co.'s Connexion have joined forces to test in-flight mobile phone communications in a specially equipped Boeing 737-400 aircraft, the companies said Monday.

The CommunicAsia 2005 exhibition got under way Tuesday in Singapore, with thousands of exhibitors on hand to show off the snazziest of handsets and new equipment for building high-speed 3G (third-generation) networks.

Vonage Holdings Corp. on Tuesday announced it has partnered with two companies to offer wireless telephone handsets for its VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service.

Optus has announced plans to trial wireless broadband in Sydney in a bid to take on rivals such as Unwired Australia.

Cisco Systems this week announced plans to acquire Dynamicsoft, a maker of carrier VoIP software based on Session Initiation Protocol.

The DSLAM market is undergoing a correction.

The growing use of XML and Web services is fueling development of hardware that promises to accelerate the processing of XML traffic and eventually become a staple of network architectures.

Networking vendor 3Com is shedding about 10 per cent of its worldwide workforce to reduce costs amid what it called “a continued weak demand for networking equipment”.