2006

The data on mobile devices and data is clear and simple: smart-phone users consume more data because their devices are optimized for games, video, music and e-mail. Even the most …

Time to play “Guess the mobile virtual network operator.” Your clues: U.S.-based, postpaid but requires no contract and relies on Internet sales and telephone sales for distribution. The MVNO is …

Score a hit in the global marketplace with a sleek handset that spawns imitators and you can crown yourself a design innovator and refer to your designs as “iconic.” This …

With several mobile virtual network operators targeting ethnic or immigrant markets, low-cost international calling is one of the key potential differentiators in a marketplace that demands differentiation. It’s a space …

The competitive landscape for the world’s top five mobile-phone vendors at mid-year has come into clearer focus with second-quarter earnings already reported or expected this week. The plot has thickened …

The June 26 Focus article on backhaul for mobile broadband misstated information about IPWireless’ mobile TV platform. IPWireless counts three trials of its mobile TV platform, and 15 deployments of …

The nation’s wireless carriers are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to net neutrality. When net-neutrality proponents make passionate cries for a “free and open” …

Two recent Wi-Fi network announcements reinforced the notion that Wi-Fi business models vary from place to place. In Pittsburgh, a free outdoor Wi-Fi network is in the works to provide …

Business forecasts are integral to industry, wireless or otherwise. Vendors crunch them, analysts parse them, investors fret over them, bloggers disparage them and reporters write about them. Early in the …

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-MobiTV Inc. said it snared a whopping $70 million in a Series C financing round led by Oak Investment Partners. The three-year-old wireless video provider said it will use …

Obopay inked its first carrier agreement last week, announcing a deal to provide wireless payment services for mobile virtual network operator Amp’d Mobile Inc. But most operators aren’t exactly embracing …

Although much attention has been focused on the network transitions and upgrades of national carriers, many regional operators around the country also are deciding how to implement new technologies and …

Given all the recent WiMAX announcements, it seems that the communications infrastructure community has convinced the rest of the world to invest in WiMAX technology, whether for fixed or mobile …

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it filed a lawsuit against Mobile 356 Inc. and WiderThan Americas Inc. claiming the companies infringed on its patents. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum-sharing test-bed proposal attracted a mix of responses that appear to support parochial agendas among incumbent telecom carriers and others looking for a platform to leverage …

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s 2004 decision to reconfigure the 800 MHz band to fix interference caused by …

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its UMTS/HSDPA mobile broadband network in the hometown of parent company AT&T Inc. The wireless carrier announced that it has added San Antonio to …

Motient Corp. scored a solid win against Highland Capital Management L.P. and its president, James Dondero, with news that Motient stockholders voted to elect all of the company’s six nominees …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. has modified how its customers reach an automated service line and how their identities are verified following concerns raised by customers about their privacy on …

BRUSSELS-The European Union has announced plans to cap the international roaming rates that carrier charge one another, which could end up cutting those prices by as much as 70 percent. …

LOS ANGELES-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has teamed with HBO to offer made-for-mobile episodes of the cable operator’s hit show “Entourage.” The 4-minute episodes are designed to complement the TV series and …

IPSWICH, Mass.-The Consumer Respect Group, which examines how companies treat online customers, has found that the telecom industry-particularly traditional landline and wireless companies-does a better-than-average job of interacting with customers …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission fined LocateCell.com $97,500 for repeatedly failing to respond to subpoenas to provide information in connection with the commission’s investigation of data brokers that deceptively gain access …

TCS sues WiderThan, Mobile 365 over patents TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it filed a lawsuit against Mobile 356 Inc. and WiderThan Americas Inc. claiming the companies infringed on its patents. …

IPSWICH, Mass.—The Consumer Respect Group, which examines how companies treat online customers, has found that the telecom industry—particularly traditional landline and wireless companies—does a better-than-average job of interacting with customers …