Stepping up to the plate in it’s community support role, T-Mobile on Friday announced its plans for supporting the areas targeted by Hurricane Gustav. In the press release, they shared the following:

Portable generators and the fuel to run them to power mobile cell sites.
Microwave equipment for back links in case of T1 outages to [...]

Phone Scoop is reporting that Cingular has released it’s first standard headset that supports 3.6Mbps HSDPA 3G services.  Previous handsets only supported up to 1.8Mbps HSDPA services, and only their PC Card offerings included a 3.6Mbps 3G data card.
The caveat to potential buyers at this time is that Cingular’s network is still capped at [...]

Much ado about the lack of color.  It’s pretty cool though, T-Mobile announced the White BlackBerry Pearl availability on Monday.  The new unit to be sold alongside it’s shiny black counterpart has several popular items including the new myFaves feature that T-Mobile has recently rolled out allowing you to name up to five numbers [...]

Good news for my fellow T-Mobile customers!  Looks like Tmo has taken the top spot on the latest VocalLabs customer service survey.  With Verizon a close second and Cingular and Sprint following in that order.
Congratulations to T-Mobile!
Via: The Wireless Report - T-Mobile takes top spot in VocalLabs customer service survey

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Ouch! Cingular has upped the fee for sending a text message to $0.15. Better look into one of those messaging packages!
Via: Engadget Mobile - Cingular follows Sprint, ups pay-per-use texting fees to $0.15

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Pre-paid wireless carrier TracFone takes issue with the recent ruling that allows consumers to “unlock” their expensive mobile phones from the carrier’s control.
According to TracFone:
The company asserts that the copyright office wrongly excluded consideration of TracFone comments. “Accordingly, TracFone is seeking to have the resulting ruling, which is vague and overboard, repealed or nullified [...]