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There’s some creative license being taken by AT&T in its announcement of upgrades to its 3G cellular network today. While the lead paragraph in the company’s announcement claims its implementation of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology “will provide a considerable speed boost” to its existing network, buried down farther in the release is the sobering fact that current 3G customers (except for those who bought an iPhone 3GS) will have to “upgrade” their own devices to enjoy the new…

Before you go out and buy the new 3G iPhone from Apple, read the reviews by David Pogue and Walt Mossberg. In summary: if you already have an iPhone, it’s not worthwhile getting the latest version. Apple is opening its iPhone applications store tomorrow in connection with the 3G iPhone launch, but those applications will also be available to existing iPhone users. One application I’m keen on using is iCall, a VOIP program that allows you to make calls via…

Last week I complained about T-Mobile’s not-so-unlimited, “flat-rate” data plans for iPhone users in Europe: the nasty roaming charges, the unnecessary extra fees for using T-Mobile’s own networks in other countries.

Today, T-Mobile UK announced that it would be slashing European data roaming charges by 80 percent starting in August 2008, just in time for the summer holiday season (at least for the French, Spanish and Italians; Northern Europeans, like the British, the Germans and the Dutch, tend to go on holiday…