Yearly Archives: 2007

Wrestlers’ ringtones? TNA Wrestling and New Motion sign licensing deal

Wrestling franchise Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling signed an exclusive mobile content deal with New Motion Inc., an agreement that includes multimedia integration with...

Mobifusion completes Town Compass buy

Mobifusion, a developer, publisher and distributor of mobile applications, has expanded its reach into reference content for mobile devices and smartphones with its now...

Alltel extends Amdocs deal

ST. LOUIS-Alltel Corp. announced extended its content-billing deal with Amdocs Inc.Terms of the multi-year contract were not disclosed. Amdocs' Qpass Digital Commerce platform allows...

T-Mobile USA data highlights consumer appeal of BlackBerry Pearl

T-Mobile USA Inc. offered data this week purporting to demonstrate the consumer appeal of the Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry Pearl. The tidbits suggest...

Analyst Angle: 3GSM and the booths of Spain

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

Verizon Wireless joins the party, raises texting fee to 15 cents per message

Verizon Wireless plans to join its compatriots in raising the price of per-message texting, bumping the rate for sending and receiving messages from 10...

Monday, Jan. 15, 2007

iCANDY: iPhone looks tempting, but users have to wait until June to see if it satisfies

IN A GAHAN WILSON CARTOON several presidential campaigns ago, an alien steps from a flying saucer and a crowd of humans surge forward. At...

Sprint Nextel considers flat-rate pricing like Leap, MetroPCS in some cities

Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to target the growing prepaid/sub-prime wireless market by launching an unlimited local calling service through its Boost Mobile L.L.C. sub-brand,...

Mobile TV moves forward: Verizon Wireless debuts channel lineup, Modeo turns on New York City trial

The nascent mobile TV market received a jolt last week as Verizon Wireless released more details of its forthcoming Vcast Mobile TV service, while...

RATTLING THE CAGE: Handset vendors aim to satisfy carriers, but also explore alternative channels

Shiny gadgets, big and small, drive the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In that sense, the show levels the playing field for a...

Headsets, EV-DO cards sell well

Editor's Note: In this new monthly feature, RCR Wireless News will talk to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of...

Device pricing akin to buying airline tickets: Strategy nearly impossible for

It's easy to see the carriers' logic in dropping the online price of handsets in the holiday season: fire sales attract consumers in droves....

Kerry, Sununu push unlicensed white space: Lawmakers criticize Bush administration, FCC for lack of progress on broadband

Lawmakers staked claim to pet telecom issues, with bipartisan support emerging out of the gate for legislation forcing the Federal Communications Commission to exploit...

FCC could fine Sprint Nextel, others for failing to meet E-911 mandate

The Federal Communications Commission rejected the mobile-phone industry's petition for regulatory relief from an already one-year-old deadline for meeting enhanced 911 handset-based location requirements,...

Retail experience tug-of-war

There used to be essentially two types of places to buy wireless: directly from the carrier store, or through an indirect retailer. But as...

Warner Music snags two new distribution deals

Warner Music Group struck its second mobile deal in as many days, announcing an agreement to distribute videos through MobiTV Inc. The music company...

Inmarsat: FCC should not reward ICO ‘manipulation’

Inmarsat Global Ltd. is fighting a request by New ICO Satellite Services G.P. for another deadline extension on its planned launch of a 2...

Etc.

Sprint Nextel service to track school busesA Global Positioning System service offered by Sprint Nextel Corp. will allow school districts to track the locations...

XE inks handset, distribution deals

Mobile virtual network operator XE Mobile has worked out a distribution deal with Office Depot stores, aiming to land college-age customers as they shop...

Ringback tones continue modest growth: But operators see more potential for big payback

Full-track, over-the-air downloads have yet to gain any serious traction, and ringtones are so 2006. But when it comes to mobile music applications, U.S....

Yahoo aims to pass Google in growing mobile search space

Internet behemoths and pure-play startups are hastily inking deals and positioning themselves for a long, hard slog on the mobile search battlefield.Yahoo Inc. continued...

Hedgehogging

What did the RCR Wireless News staff spend the week hedgehogging about? The iPhone, MediaFLO TV and TVs in general Evidently the only thing...

Live free or die

And Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin thought he had only Democrats like House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) to worry about. ...

Big 3?

As a self-proclaimed impartial observer of the wireless industry-I criticize all companies equally-I have to say I have been getting little pleasure out of...
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