Broadband / Network Services

Singapore: StarHub offers pre-paid mobile broadband

DPI-based ad targetting is struggling with NebuAd effectively out of business

FierceWireless Top 15 Wireless Innovators

FTTH

Australia: NBN to cost less that A$43b, also at Light Reading

Portugal Telecom reveals details of its NGN plan, aiming to reach one million households by eo2009

Light Reading: Spain Set for FTTH Surge, "Almost half of Spain's 14 million households could have fiber-to-the-home connections by 2023"

Public WiFi

Virgin America offers WiFi on all flights

WiMAX

Juniper report: WiMAX revenues to exceed $15 billion by 2014 and 12% of DSL users will switch to WiMAX by 2013

Clearwire focuses hiring on IT enginners for their non-legacy, flat network

Kulacom launches WiMAX in Jordan

LTE vs WiMAX: The 4G Wireless War

Mobile / FMC / VoIP

Palm Pre: ready for launch on June 6th, 2 days before Apple's WWDC although an iPhone launch is not necessarily a given. Sprint will be offering it for $199 after $100 MIR. US only. Further details may be in this apparently leaked Sprint launch guide.

iPhone: AT&T mulls cut-rate plan with limited data. Distimo says iPhone apps are getting cheaper. Rumours of the new iPhone are firming up. 50% faster CPU (600MHz vs 400Hz) but Daring Fireball has an excellent composite of prredictions, supported by such leaks as 32GB iPhone listed as AT&T trade-in

Gizmodo: Pre vs iPhone vs G1

Nokia offers its unused patents to other Finnish companies to boost the economy.