Monthly Archives: February, 2007

Ron Garriques leaves Motorola for Dell: The Humpty-Dumpty Question: Did he fall or was he pushed?

Ron Garriques, an eight-year Motorola Inc. veteran who rose to lead the company's mobile device division, itself responsible for the company's resurgent fortunes via...

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

New Samsung phones cover the low end

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. touted a handful of high- to mid-tier handsets at the outset of the 3GSM World Congress and duly gained attention...

Cox joins Time Warner, Comcast in offering wireless

Cox Communications has launched converged services in two markets in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp., offering consumers in Arizona and San Diego a bundle...

Linktone posts rival bid to acquire MonsterMob

Chinese wireless vendor Linktone Ltd. said it plans to make a competing offer for U.K. mobile content company MonsterMob Group Plc.Spain's LaNetro Zed has...

Sprint Nextel presses pause on mobile TV plans, Alltel gears up for MediaFLO test

Sprint Nextel Corp. wrapped up its trial of Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO service last month, and has decided not to use the MediaFLO network to...

Visto adds another $35M in VC funding

Wireless e-mail company Visto Corp. announced it raised another $35 million in venture-capital funding, this time scoring money from Altitude Capital Partners L.L.C. The...

Rogers stock up on positive results

Canadian telecom company Rogers Communications Inc. boosted its wireless ARPU more than 6 percent year-over-year and posted its lowest churn rate ever: 1.24 percent.Rogers...

Apple-Cisco iPhone spat extended to next week

Apple Inc. has requested more time to respond to Cisco System's lawsuit over the iPhone name, according to Cisco.The new deadline for an agreement...

Calling all attorneys: Qualcomm bulking up for the year ahead

Having doubled the money it sets aside for legal issues-from $100 million last year to $200 million for the year ahead-Qualcomm Inc. announced that...

Weekly wireless ratings wrap-up

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier Standard & Poor's Ratings...

T-Mobile USA marketing chief resigns

T-Mobile USA Inc.'s chief marketing officer, Mike Butler, has resigned.A spokesman for the wireless carrier said Butler was in route to the T-Mobile USA-sponsored...

Florida to study wireless for warning systems

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) wants to examine alternative emergency warning systems-including those based on wireless technology-in the aftermath of the Feb. 2 tornado...

Bell Mobility offers movies to cellphones

Bell Mobility announced it will offer full-length, pay-per-view movies for video-capable mobile phones. The service, Mobile Movies, streams movies directly to the user's handset...

MINO snags $7M for mobile VoIP

Mino Wireless, a voice-over-IP mobile and wireless communications provider, announced that it has received $7 million in funding from the venture-capital firm Canaan Partners....

Wall Street cheers Dobson’s quarter

Dobson Communications Corp. reported solid quarterly results for the final period of 2006, growing its subscriber base and increasing its average revenue per user....

MVNO Kajeet goes live with service

Tween-focused mobile virtual network operator Kajeet Inc. has begun selling phones and service via its Web site, with coverage maps that appear to match...

3GSM: EYEING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

BARCELONA, Spain-Adding to the somewhat surreal nature of this year's 3GSM World Congress was the presence of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CTO Barry West, who...

Worst of the Week: Schizoringtonia

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so...

Windows Mobile update to counter change in daylight savings time

Due to the infinite wisdom of a Congress that, rather than tackle the United States' real energy issues, decided to futz about the margins...

Alltel submits to Katz patent-licensing deal

Alltel Corp. has settled a patent suit with Los Angeles-based Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing L.P., and agreed to pay an unspecified sum for...

Nokia joins slimming trend with 700 job cuts

Late winter is always a good time to slim down, it seems. Nokia Corp., which employs some 68,000 people worldwide, announced it will cut...

‘Function fatigue’ plagues cellphone users, study finds

Cellphone users are increasingly overwhelmed with the assortment of advanced features and functions on their phones, so much so that they rarely make use...

Clearwire details IPO pricing

More details emerged about Clearwire Corp.'s planned initial public offering, with the company's most recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings showing an offering of...

Net neutrality debate spills into wireless

The debate over net neutrality has moved full force into the wireless space.A new paper by Columbia University law professor Timothy Wu claims mobile-phone...
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