Yearly Archives: 2006

VC firms cheer Digital Chocolate in $22.5M round

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Mobile game publisher Digital Chocolate Inc. welcomed six new investors as it scooped up $22.5 million in Series C funding. New investor...

Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA top customer care survey

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. tied for the top spot in the most recent J.D. Power & Associates survey of wireless...

Hedgehogging

Welcome to Hedgehogging. As you know from your own jobs, there is always something happening in the wireless industry. Some of it makes us...

Sprint Nextel offers AA portable battery charger

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Forget the car charger. Sprint Nextel Corp. is the first to market with a portable charger from Energizer, the Energi To Go,...

Alltel takes steps to reduce debt

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. announced plans to purchase up to $1 billion of its outstanding notes, as part of the carrier’s strategy to reduce...

Tellabs to buy back shares

NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Tellabs Inc. announced that its board authorized a new share buyback program for up to $300 million of the company’s outstanding common stock....

Chocolate finally available from Verizon Wireless, while Alltel taps Fastap

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless hopes that, as it claims, "everybody loves chocolate," especially the $150 variety from LG Electronics Co. Ltd. that provides multimedia...

India may not need handset imports by 2Q 2007

CHENNAI, India—India has become so attractive to foreign mobile-phone vendors that by next year it may no longer need to import handsets. The two...

SmartVideo enabling MSNBC.com ad-supported service

ATLANTA—SmartVideo Technologies Inc. is powering a new, ad-supported mobile news service from MSNBC.com. The wireless TV provider said the free service will support ad...

U.S. Cellular, TDS report 2005 results

CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Corp., reported their much-delayed fourth-quarter figures for 2005 and updates to their 2006...

Virgin Mobile USA links debit card, airtime

WARREN, N.J.—Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. is expanding it customers’ ability to earn free airtime by launching a prepaid Visa debit card that will be...

Mobile WiMAX to outpace fixed solutions, Juniper says

HAMPSHIRE, England—Mobile WiMAX is set to outpace fixed WiMAX technology, according to a new report from Juniper Research, which claims that mobile WiMAX will...

Colleges: The textbook MVNO target

A growing number of colleges and universities around the country are grappling with how to communicate with and provide services for students who are...

Motorola swaggers toward post-Razr world

ROSEMONT, Ill.-The answer to industry's and investors' lingering question-what the heck is Motorola Inc. going to do to follow up its monster handset hit,...

Etc.

Inspired by the U.K.'s renowned V Festival, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Who will headline a U.S. concert for Virgin Mobile USA....

FINGERTAP: Digit, Alltel, LG focus on easier data connections

From carriers to content providers to messaging companies, everybody in wireless wants to drive data revenues. And a couple of companies are focusing on...

Motorola-Huawei JV greeted with skepticism

As news of Motorola Inc.'s joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. sinks in, analysts offered insights as to what the partnership means to...

Motorola’s vision going forward

ROSEMONT, Ill.-Though much pent-up interest was focused on Motorola's handset announcements, company execs talk about operations, supply chain, finances, product roadmap and whether Motorola...

EF Johnson opposes Motorola’s 800 MHz plans

WASHINGTON-EF Johnson Inc. protested Motorola Inc.'s proposal to allow 800 MHz licensees to replace their radios before they complete rebanding negotiations with Sprint Nextel...

Toyota dives back into mobile TV

LOS ANGELES-Toyota Motors North America plans to expand its mobile marketing efforts with a new wireless TV series from Fun Little Movies. The automaker...

Russian reseller picks up Aperto solution

WiMAX base-station and subscriber unit developer Aperto Networks Inc. inked a deal to ship its WiMAX Forum-certified products to Alvacom, a leading systems integrator...

Carrier Access trims loss

BOULDER, Colo.-Equipment manufacturer Carrier Access Corp. reported second-quarter net losses of $903,000 from revenues of $24.9 million, vastly improving on the company's year-ago net...

Manx Telecom, Lucent, Qualcomm test 900 MHz 3G on Isle of Man

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of O2 Group plc, has partnered with Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. on a UMTS and HSDPA...

Asian vendors join Texas Instruments in cell-phone JV

Many are asking what Nokia Corp.'s and Motorola Inc.'s ascendancy is doing to all the other handset vendors-the two together hold 56 percent of...

Nokia begins UMA network trials in Finland

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it had begun real-world testing of Unlicensed Mobile Access software on its 6136 device in the Finnish city of Oulu,...
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