Monthly Archives: March, 2007

Reports: Palm evaluating strategic options

Treo maker Palm Inc. is considering strategic options ranging from acquisitions to a full-out sale of the company, according to media reports. The news...

MediaFLO gets trialed in Taiwan

Qualcomm Inc. announced that China Network Systems (CNS) and Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd. (TTV) have signed an agreement to conduct a technical trial of...

Motorola works to block Icahn

Motorola Inc. does not plan to support billionaire investor Carl Icahn's plan to join the company's board, according to media reports.The handset vendor is...

Monday, March 5, 2007

Analyst Angle: When Telecom Galaxies Collide

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Mobile money: priceless: Citi, Obopay test wireless wallet

Obopay Inc. continued to gain ground in the mobile payment space, inking an impressive deal for a pilot program to allow Citi customers to...

Leap shows strong growth

Leap Wireless International Inc. plans to offer CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service in its markets by the end of 2007, and expects to introduce new...

Spam takes on blue tint

Some attendees at last month's 3GSM World Congress in Spain got an unexpected come-on as they entered the show: a Bluetooth-transmitted inquiry asking if...

ETC debate overshadows FCC inaction : Reverse auction has lukewarm support, skepticism and opposition

Wireless carriers providing government-subsidized service to high-cost rural areas have become the villains in the debate over how to rein in the ballooning universal...

Verizon Vcast Mobile TV details

Verizon Wireless launched its streaming mobile TV service last week with little of the expected fanfare. The service, dubbed Vcast Mobile TV, uses MediaFLO...

More offers to mend public safety at 700 MHz: Wireless veterans, McCain put forth novel solutions

A TRIO OF WIRELESS VETERANS UNVEILED A NEW PLAN for a national public-safety broadband network that would use auctioned 700 MHz spectrum to supplement...

VCAST TV SHOWS PROMISE

Despite Verizon Wireless' attempt to downplay the launch of its Vcast Mobile TV service, the availability of the streaming TV service in the Denver...

Zander: Moto knows what to do: Profits over market share, re-energize portfolio and marketing

ED ZANDER, MOTOROLA INC.'S CEO, is under pressure. And it shows. The first statement is a widely recognized fact and the second is an...

Snoop Dogg: from gangsta rap to laying MVNO tracks

Snoop Dogg took the music world by storm in late 1992 when he helped propel gangsta rap to the most commercially successful subgenre of...

Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA push pre-emption to Supreme Court

Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that reversed a Federal Communications Commission decision...

ASCAP’s ringtone squeeze play

The mobile-phone industry has jumped into a major Internet music rate case in a New York federal court. The outcome could determine whether cellular...

Bad cake

What is it about the wireless industry that causes everyone outside the space to think that they can have their cake and eat it...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--Verizon Wireless put out two press releases...

Mobile TV space draws new entrants, contrasting models

California is sprinkled with television studios, and while many of the traditional Hollywood studios already have or are in the process of creating separate...

Executive Interview: D.P. Venkatesh

The mobile handset has become something of a looking glass in Wonderland. And mPortal Inc. was founded in 2000 to help clients-network operators, mobile...

Sprint Nextel’s bumpy ride continues as T-Mobile USA gains parental pride

Sprint Nextel Corp. confirmed its dismal fourth-quarter customer numbers, which reflected an increasingly schizophrenic performance: reasonably healthy performance of its CDMA offerings, dragged down...

U.S. Cellular justifies plan not to use DO

U.S. Cellular Corp. executives told analysts that they continue to be skeptical about the value of upgrading their CDMA 1x RTT network to EV-DO,...

Price-fixing case could impact wireless distribution channels

The cellphone industry, the Bush administration and others are urging the Supreme Court to abandon a century-old antitrust standard in favor of one that...

Mozes snags $5M in funding

Mobile marketing startup Mozes Inc. picked up $5 million in a first round of funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.Mozes'...

House in-building contract up for re-bid

The U.S. House of Representatives canceled MobileAccess Networks' in-building wireless license and add-on business to improve cellphone coverage in the House because of concerns...
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