Monthly Archives: March, 2007

Kyocera, Cellular South trialing Wireless Wallet with consumers

Kyocera Wireless Corp. and regional wireless operator Cellular South are set to test near field communications technology in May with consumers in Memphis and...

VZW 30-day ‘test drive:’ We’ll foot the bill

Verizon Wireless is making new moves toward customer friendliness with an expanded "test drive" period of 30 days, during which customers can opt to...

FCC: Wireless broadband is ‘information service’

The wireless industry cheered the Federal Communications Commission's decision to classify wireless broadband as an information service, while Commissioner Michael Copps said the agency...

Worst of the Week: The Zander CTIA keynote papers

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...

Amp’d Q attacks walled garden with Orb, Sling software

Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. announced it will begin selling Motorola Inc.'s Q smartphone starting next month. And the device has the...

Motorola overhauls operations on expected Q1 losses

Motorola Inc. said its ailing mobile-phone business is faring worse than the company had expected, and as a result the world's No. 2 handset...

InnerWireless, PanGo announce merger

Wireless network-management company InnerWireless Inc. announced it will merge with PanGo Networks Inc., which offers various location-services technologies. The companies explained that the move...

Sprint Nextel adds location services to data plans

Sprint Nextel Corp. is hoping to push its new location-based offerings by adding them to some of its high-end data plans.The carrier added a...

Americans reticent on mobile music, study finds

Carriers are falling flat in their efforts to become a kind of wireless iTunes, according to new figures from M:Metrics.Less than 1 percent of...

T-Mobile to add myFaves service to Sidekick 3 via OTA update

T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will begin offering its myFaves service to its Sidekick 3 users through an over-the-air software update. Once loaded, the...

$100 Moto Rizr rises at T-Mobile USA

The procession of handset announcements coinciding with next week's CTIA Wireless 2007 conference is underway, and Motorola Inc. just threw a new phone at...

Red Bend racks up Moto as OTA customer

Motorola Inc. announced it will use technology from Red Bend Software in its phones in order to remotely update the software in the devices....

Genband buys Tekelec’s switching biz

Genband Inc. announced it has entered a definitive agreement to purchase Tekelec Inc.'s Switching Solutions Group division in a transaction that is expected to...

Kajeet goes live with Best Buy, Limited Too distribution

Tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. has officially announced its retail launch, with its service and handsets to be available in Best Buy...

T-Mobile USA joins crowd, raises texting fee to 15 cents

It appears T-Mobile USA Inc. has held out long enough. The No. 4 carrier has fallen in line with its three larger rivals and...

Nokia leads in smartphones, Linux rising

Nokia Corp. sold more than half the 71 million smartphones purchased last year and Motorola Inc. followed, with less than 9 percent of the...

Verizon Wireless, Cingular spar over handset promotions

Verizon Wireless and Cingular continued their retail battle this week with dueling promotional efforts centered on popular handsets. AT&T Inc.'s Cingular division is offering...

AT&T, Qwest block calls, file lawsuits in battle with LECs

AT&T Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc. are embroiled in a legal tussle with several small local exchange carriers and Web companies over call...

Sanyo-Beceem deal hints at dual-mode WiMAX/CDMA phones

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. announced it will use chips from Beceem Communications for its planned dual-mode CDMA/WiMAX mobile phones. The agreement is notable as...

EarthLink targets cellphones with Wi-Fi phone initiative

EarthLink Inc. announced the start of its Wi-Fi phone initiative, a move that puts the Internet service provider directly up against wireless and wireline...

Dobson, RCC ink clearinghouse deals

VeriSign Inc. announced it will handle regional wireless carrier Dobson Communication Corp.'s voice and data settlement operations, starting in April. In a separate but...

Yahoo’s oneSearch goes WAP

Yahoo Inc. announced it developed a WAP version of its new oneSearch service. The search service, which originally launched as the Yahoo Go for...

Lasky steps down at EA, joins VC firm

Mitch Lasky has left the world of game publishing and settled in the comfortable digs of venture capital.Lasky stepped down from his post as...

Cingular-Sprint Nextel quibbles spill onto NASCAR racetrack

AT&T Inc., owner of the largest U.S. mobile phone carrier, sued the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Inc. after meeting resistance to...

Pocket plans nationwide roaming

Pocket Communications, a regional flat-rate carrier in Texas, said it will soon begin offering national roaming. Pocket said that as of April 1, all...
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