Qualcomm and Teleepoch Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October 6, 2007

MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6, 2007

Brazilian government to publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007

KTF 3G service suffers from technical problems, October 6, 2007

Argentina’s Personal lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007

Russia has it's first 3G network, October 6, 2007

AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007

Enea Extends License Agreement with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007

LG to unveil premium handsets in Brazil, October 2, 2007

KTF 3G subscribers doubled in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007

3G policy in India will be non-uniform, October 2, 2007

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LG's Fingerprint Recognition Phone Flawed

August 19, 2004 - source: Telecoms Korea

The fingerprint recognition security function of LG-LP3800 that LG Electronics ambitiously rolled out 12th August in the Korean market turned out to be flawed.

LG Electronics boasted that the function would block persons other than the owner from unlocking the handset or accessing to mobile banking service. However, it turned out to be that anyone who knows password of the handset, regardless of his fingerprint, could unlock the handset.

If the handset fails to recognize fingerprint for three times in a row, the user is required to enter password of the handset. That means that anyone who enters the right password can unlock the mobile phone making the fingerprint recognition technology useless.

LG Electronics admitted the flaw saying that the handset can be unlocked in that way.