Yearly Archives: 2006

InfoSpace cuts 250 workers following loss of Cingular’s business

BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. said it plans to lay off about 250 employees as part of a restructuring plan. The move follows news late last...

FTC guide helps cities decide how to deploy muni Wi-Fi

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission issued a guide of sorts for municipalities considering wireless broadband, offering city planners and policy-makers a list of the pros...

FCC: Should government license, auction TV white spaces?

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it believes fixed-low-power devices can operate in the vacant TV spectrum after the transition to digital TV is completed,...

Tough choices

It's not a good sign when your name starts popping up in the press with the kind of foreboding and frequency otherwise reserved for...

Court rules in favor of T-Mobile USA in sales suit

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing a lawsuit by a former T-Mobile USA Inc....

Asia-Pac mobile music market to explode in 2007, 2008

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—The mobile music market in Asia/Pacific will top the $9 billion mark by 2010, according to new figures from In-Stat. The market for...

BCGI shakes up management in wake of stock-option review

BEDFORD, Mass.-Two top executives at Boston Communications Group Inc. have bowed out of their positions in connection with an internal review of stock-option grants,...

ITC judge rules against Qualcomm but stops short of taking action

SAN DIEGO-An administrative law judge with the International Trade Commission handed down a split decision in the acrimonious patent dispute between chipmakers Qualcomm Inc....

Supreme Court declines to hear Minnesota consumer protection law

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that voided a Minnesota wireless consumer protection law. Minnesota Attorney General Mike...

Sprint Nextel ups text messages to 15 cents

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. raised the price it charges users to send a text message to 15 cents, up from a previous price...

Report: Ultra-low-cost handset sales could total 48M by end of 2007

BOSTON-Rapid product development among semiconductor players could pave the way for nearly 50 million ultra low cost handset shipments by the end of next...

Hedgehogging

It was a fairly quiet week in the wireless world, but we still managed to share a few observations and kvetches-or as we like...

Sprint Nextel knows what’s good for it, to offer Mr. T content

NEW YORK-In a move showing the true maturation of wireless services, Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin offering access to content based on TV Land's...

FCC delays AT&T-BellSouth vote until November, AT&T proposes conditions

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's scheduled vote on AT&T Inc.'s proposed $69 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. imploded last Friday, with Chairman Kevin Martin delaying...

MediaFLO gets green light, Modeo idles

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission issued rules that will allow MediaFLO USA Inc. to begin operations next year as planned, but has yet to begin...

Lenovo gets stronger results with mobile ad campaign: Mobile click-throughs beat online averages

PC maker Lenovo posted positive results with a mobile marketing campaign it used for branding. The campaign, developed by OgilvyInteractive, New York, ran for...

Sprint Nextel can continue to operate iDEN network in iPCS territory

RESTON, Va.—Sprint Nextel Corp. has been granted a stay in its ongoing legal battle with PCS affiliate iPCS Inc. that will allow the national...

ROK shows off free, WAP-based mobile video with FreeBe TV

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-ROK Entertainment Group U.S. expanded its mobile video offerings with 13 free channels of news, music and sports. The subsidiary of the...

Nebraska town uses 4% cell-phone tax to offset declining landline revenues

WASHINGTON-A major fallout of Congress' failure to pass telecom-reform legislation this year is the continued imposition of new state and local cell-phone taxes, like...

Sprint Nextel: Dark before the dawn?

Sprint Nextel Corp. is doing a fair job of imitating a punching bag, getting pummeled left and right by sliding stock prices, gloomy predictions...

Analyst Angle: Trading Freedom for Security

Editor's Note: Welcome to a new weekly feature at RCRNews.com, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their...

GTP: We’re not for sale

BOCA RATON, Fla.—Global Towers Partners dashed speculation in the media indicating that the privately owned tower company is for sale. The company’s chief executive,...

RIM delays quarterly statements due to internal stock-options probe

WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. said it will delay filing its interim financial statements for the quarter that ended Sept. 2 until the company...

Amp’d Mobile intros aggressive family plans

LOS ANGELES-Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. continued to expand its offerings with the introduction of several family plans, which the MVNO is...

FCC to put AT&T-BellSouth merger out for public comment

WASHINGTON—AT&T Inc. offered to conduct a series of wireless broadband trials as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning Federal Communications Commission...
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