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The speeds of EV-DO and HSDPA networks do well for their decent-speed wireless connections almost anywhere in the U.S. It became known that German researchers have modified some regular UMTS equipment, instead changed it to use MIMO (which is the current cutting-edge technology used in modern WiFi devices) in order to achieve 100Mbps downstream data speeds.

The Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) accepted the offer from cellular providers to establish service in the city's 277 underground subway stations in the beginning of the year. Although nothing has happened and the process has stopped.

MTA representatives comment that establishing this kind of system is "complex" and would be very expensive to implement the system which would allow for service in stations but not into subway tunnels.

Japan-based NTT DoCoMo Inc. got the permission from U.S. law enforcement and homeland security officials to purchase Guam Cellular & Paging Inc. and Guam Wireless Telephone Co. L.L.C. The security agreement was signed on Oct. 19 between the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security with the Federal Communications Commission. This deal provides shows the future telecom deals involving foreign investments into or outright purchases of American telecom carriers in the post-9/11 world.