Top StorynnWashington Post -- Congress passed legislation requiring mapping and other data collection on broadband availability and use.nnAmong OthersnnWall Street Journal* -- The liberal advocacy group Free Press protested use limits on Sprint's Xohm WiMAX service.nn -- An AT&T reorganization put wireless chief Ralph de la Vega in charge of all consumer businesses (Bloomberg News).nn -- Virgin on Wednesday offered its first mobile broadband service in the U.K. nnCommunications Daily* --- Carriers told the FCC that long delays in local approvals of cell towers justify a time limit (p1).nnBurlington Free Press -- Fairpoint promised to offer broadband to all residents of 51 additional Vermont towns before 2011. nnAssociated Press -- CEO Randall Stephenson said the debt market got so bad that last week that AT&T couldn't sell commercial paper for longer than overnight, and it's still tough.nnDenver Post -- Communications Workers of America members rejected a proposed contract covering 20,000 Qwest employees (Rocky Mountain News; WSJ). nnKansas City Star -- Sprint's launch of Xohm WiMAX service, in Baltimore, attracted a great deal of interest from technology and general news media. nnSilicon.com -- T-Mobile's Web site interrupted and then resumed pre-orders for the first Google Android phone, G-1, blaming its "overwhelming popularity".nnGlobe and Mail (Toronto) -- The Web site and the phone line to sign up on for Canada's new do-not-call were jammed their first day (CBC). nn -- Nokia said it will buy Oz Communications, a Canadian mobile-messaging company (Silicon.com). nnReuters -- Samsung Electronics said it aims to increase its market share in handsets two-thirds in India, to 15 percent, by mid-2009.n n_____________________nn*Access by paid subscription only. Free trials of Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily are available.
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