Overview

Texting by American adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of text messages exchanged by adolescents. Some 72% of adult cell phone users send and receive text messages now, up from 65% in September 2009. Fully 87% of teen cell users text. Teens text 50 messages a day on average, five times more than the typical 10 text messages sent and received by adults per day. … more

Blackberry’s Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies access to customer data, the United Nations telecommunications chief said. … more

A survey released Thursday found that U.S. adults are following teens in embracing text messaging, with 72 percent of adults saying they have sent or received text messages compared with 65 percent in a September 2009 survey. Adults, however, still have a ways to go to catch up to the 87 percent of teens who reported using their mobile phones for texting. … more

Israel’s telecom regulator on Thursday ordered mobile phone operators to cut fees they charge each other to connect calls by nearly 80 percent, a move the companies say will hurt profits and revenue. … more

The global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost has been revealed by UN figures. … more

American net users are being asked to help decide what ISPs can do to the web traffic flowing over their networks. … more

In a continuing trend, more businesses are shifting loyalties from Blackberry to iPhones and Android devices as the relative newcomers make inroads into the corporate world. Three-quarters of the 200 businesses surveyed in the United States and the U.K in the study reported that their employees are choosing other than Blackberry, Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. reported to Bloomberg. The number was 83 percent for U.S. companies. … more

Networking giant Cisco today announced an alliance with Itron, a Liberty Lake, Wash.-based utility metering technology company, to develop secure Internet Protocol (IP) communications technology for so-called smart energy grids that connect wired and wireless networks. … more

The authority that controls New Zealand’s numbering plan is embarking on a fact finding mission to Europe, to determine how numbers should be allocated in the transition from traditional fixed-line PSTN voice services to VoIP. … more

On the Internet, data moves at the speed of light. The Federal Communications Commission, not so fast. … more