If you’ve got anything but Verizon, full cell phone service in Metro is still a few years off.

U.S. Olympic sprinters Carmelita Jeter and Justin Gatlin will be at the National Zoo this week to meet the cheetah cubs that were named after them.

Law enforcement agencies’ requests for customer information from mobile phone carriers reached at least 1.3 million in 2011. A Congressional inquiry found a staggering increase in the amount of cellphone surveillance conducted over the last five years by police across the United States.

While all your friends were flipping out about the “death grip” on their iPhone 4 or maybe showing off their Evo 4G, everyone’s favorite local cable monopoly quietly began offering 4G wireless service in D.C., Baltimore and Richmond, through a partnership with Wimax provider Clearwire (also known as Clear).