AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and four other telecom companies are offering a proposal to overhaul the $8 billion federal phone subsidy program to pay for high-speed Internet connections in rural and other underserved areas.
They say the plan, which was filed with the Federal Communications Commission Friday, would bring broadband service to nearly all Americans within five years.

Mobile users in the US an Canada tend to pay more for a complete cell phone package than anyone else in the world, according to a new report from the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI).

Concerns over Israeli access to BlackBerry data, and the use of the device by the United States to spy on the United Arab Emirates are behind the Gulf state’s moves to curb the smartphone, Dubai’s police chief said.