On Monday, Nokia introduced an enhanced, third-generation cellphone network version of the Lumia 900 that will sell globally outside the United States and an LTE version for Canada.
During his stint as the communications minister under Netanyahu, he won the admiration of Israelis for leaning on cellphone networks to slash the price of their services.
CompUSA alone is setting up more than 10,000 networks a month, while companies as various as Dell, Whirlpool, Philips, Cisco and Salton are using both Internet and cellphone networks to enable all sorts of devices to talk to one another.
The entrance of the centrist Kulanu party led by Moshe Kahlon, a defected Likud minister who won Israelis' affection in 2013 by forcing cellphone networks to slash the price of their services, has also played a role, stealing a sizable number of votes from Likud even in its strongholds.
The former British telecom monopoly agreed on Thursday to buy EE, Britain's largest cellphone network, from Orange of France and Deutsche Telekom of Germany.
An article on Monday about the expectation that the inauguration crowd would test the capacity of the cellphone network misstated the amount of traffic on Twitter on Election Day.
Sprint Nextel and its Japanese suitor, SoftBank, have assured lawmakers that they would not use equipment from China's Huawei Technologies in Sprint's cellphone network, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said on Thursday.
Many analysts initially predicted that Wi-Fi would undercut the expensive effort of major carriers to build out new cellphone networks capable of delivering video and other streams of data to hand-held devices.
Can we use these cellphone networks to access the Internet?
Think of a cellphone network as one giant airplane that costs tens of billions of dollars to build.
