Monthly Archives: October, 2007

Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alvarion, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent and more

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...

Margins Check: Gaming acquisitions, online premiers and more

Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the...

Nokia resumes CDMA efforts

Nokia Corp. will offer a new CDMA handset in North America this fall, though details about possible carrier deals and pricing were not given....

Struggling Motorola restructures ad agency relationships

PHOENIX-With rival Nokia Corp. moving aggressively to build its worldwide lead through marketing, and the iPhone rattling the handset marketplace, struggling Motorola Inc. has...

Motricity acquires InfoSpace’s mobile division for $135M: Deal signals InfoSpace’s exit from wireless biz

Shares of InfoSpace Inc. shot skyward after the company said it will sell its mobile services division to Motricity for $135 million in cash.Motricity...

Verizon Wireless banks on Firethorn: Deal signals carrier’s preference for mobile banking partner

Verizon Wireless is betting on Firethorn Holdings L.L.C. for its mobile banking service, and the two companies said they will work with financial institutions...

Sprint Nextel produces its own video content: Carrier opens Chicago studio to supply short clips

Sprint Nextel Corp. is producing its own made-for-mobile video content.The carrier launched the Sprint Exclusive Entertainment (SEE) network, an in-house effort set to deliver...

VZW lands Zeppelin: Carrier snares mobile rights to rock band’s content

Verizon Wireless landed the exclusive rights to distribute Led Zeppelin's songs over-the-air, with ringtones, ringback tones, alert tones and wallpapers available immediately and full-song...

Monday, Oct. 15, 2007

AT&T Mobility digs deep for spectrum: Carrier writes $2.5B check for Aloha’s 700 MHz portfolio

AT&T Mobility left nothing to chance in its quest for 700 MHz spectrum. The nation's No. 1 carrier agreed last week to shell out...

MediaFLO alone on top in mobile broadcast TV

The domestic broadcast mobile TV space has gone from three potential providers to one in less than three months.AT&T Mobility's announcement last week to...

New low for Sprint Nextel: Carrier loses CEO, 337,000 customers

SPRINT NEXTEL CORP.'S OPERATIONAL STRUGGLES sunk to new lows last week as the nation's No. 3 carrier had its CEO step down and the...

Public-safety starts task list to get 700 MHz spectrum

WHILE THE 700 MHZ OPEN-ACCESS COURT BATTLE ESCALATES into a brawl among major stakeholders eyeing the upcoming auction, the public-safety community is methodically laying...

Bidding to simplify mobile Web: DotMobi rakes in more than $850,000 during first online auction

Want one of those ".mobi" suffixes for your wireless Web site? Get out your checkbook.The company behind the mobile-only top-level domain closed its first...

What’s in a name?: Verizon Wireless introduces opt-out policy to share calling records

Verizon Wireless is requiring customers to opt out of allowing the carrier to share their customer proprietary network information (CPNI), a new policy that...

MVNO model not dead, just adapting: Players in beleaguered space sharpening aim

With the content-centered, postpaid mobile virtual network operator market in decline, analysts have already begun talking about the next evolution of the MVNO model....

Back to the Bay: CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2007 set to kick off in San Francisco

After a one-year hiatus when the show visited Los Angeles, the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment event is back in the city by the...

Multimedia not limited to developed markets, chipmaker contends

Multimedia capabilities in phones are not just in demand in mature markets, but are also sought after in developing markets, according to Raj Talluri,...

The best show on mobile TV

The mobile TV market in the United States sure has been interesting to watch.Three years ago, it was DVB-H vs. MediaFLO. Nokia was backing...

X(ohm) marks the spot

It's all well and good that some telecom analysts feel Sprint Nextel should reconsider its multibillion-dollar bet on WiMAX Nation in the wake of...

Etc.

Content for puckheads Airborne Entertainment Inc. and NHL Interactive Cyber-Enterprises L.L.C. announced the release of NHL Clubhouse, a mobile storefront that offers NHL-branded ringtones...

Jacobs: ‘Merging’ chipsets to push technologies

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. CEO Paul Jacobs gave a keynote speech to a room of friends here at the 2007 3G CDMA North America Regional...

Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment

This must have slid under the radar, but AT&T last month announced that Fredericks of Hollywood had awarded the company its networking and voice...

Mobile ads hitting target: Mobile advertising effective at attracting prime demographics

Mobile advertising recently got a boost from two announcements: the launch of advertising-subsidized mobile access to MySpace.com, and the advent of a U.K. mobile...

Report: Quad-play unproven strategy

Triple-play bundles work, but the quadplay is as yet unproven as a strategy by which operators can improve revenues and reduce churn, according to...
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