2007

Perhaps no scenario has been more closely tied to mobile marketing than the story about customers walking by a Starbucks only to be pinged on their cellphones with an SMS …

Verizon Wireless restructured its pricing plans, adding a half-dozen new “premium” plans for data-hungry consumers.The plan restructuring now provides for three levels of options for individual plans: “basic,” “select” and …

House Commerce Committee leaders wrote the heads of the Department of Commerce and the Office of Management and Budget requesting by the end of next week the first progress report …

Madison Dearborn Partners L.L.C. is among a group of investors engineering the $48.5 billion purchase of BCE Inc., Canada’s biggest phone company, in the largest buyout ever. Madison Dearborn Partners …

It hasn’t taken long for mobile broadcast TV provider MediaFLO USA Inc. to scoop up exclusive premieres since its March launch. Last Friday the company broadcast the mobile premiere of …

AT&T Mobility saw a few bumps in activations with the massive demand for the Apple Inc. iPhone, but analysts estimated that eager customers snapped up between 500,000 and 700,000 of …

Shares of Local.com shot skyward after the online search company said it received a patent for ad-supported mobile search.The Irvine, Calif.-based outfit said the patent addresses “the method of responding …

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it sold its Mobitex subsidiary, Velocita Wireless L.P., to United Wireless Holdings Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Velocita Wireless operates a nationwide Mobitex wireless …

Global Tower Partners, which boasts 2,500 wireless communications towers and more than 4,600 rooftop sites, has been sold for $1.4 billion.GTP owner The Blackstone Group sold the wireless tower operator …

AT&T Inc. said it will acquire regional carrier Dobson Communications Corp. for about $2.8 billion.Dobson serves more than 60 rural and suburban markets in 17 states in the Midwest and …

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 hot topics in the wireless industry. …

AT&T Mobility said it put $50 million into data network preparations ahead of the launch of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, increasing network capacity and pushing its EDGE network from “good EDGE” …

Canada’s Wireless Age Communications Inc. pulled the plug on its troubled technology distribution business.The Toronto-based company declared the bankruptcy of mmwave Technologies Inc., a subsidiary that distributes components for wireless, …

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. saw its stock jump more than 20% in early trading after it reported a 76.5% increase in revenue from the same quarter a year …

The Supreme Court ruled manufacturers can set minimum prices for products sold by retailers without automatically violating antitrust law, setting aside a 96-year-old ruling that the cellular industry and others …

Apple Inc.’s iPhone goes on sale tonight at 6 p.m. The hype surrounding the device has reached a fevered pitch, as lines have begun forming outside Apple and AT&T Mobility …

Dear Editor,Every now and then the Federal Communications Commission has to do something very important. In the next two weeks this FCC has a chance to protect the homeland and …

The 700 MHz debate has suddenly turned both interesting and nasty in the lead-up to next month’s expected ruling by the Federal Communications Commission on auction rules.An AT&T Inc. official …

Sprint Nextel Corp. may be testing a “work-around” software patch from Qualcomm Inc. to avoid a government ban on the importation of new 3G handset models with certain Qualcomm chips. …

MetroPCS Communications Inc. named a successor to current chairman and CEO Roger Linquist. The carrier said Linquist is expected to cut back on his schedule due to health reasons, and …

The wireless broadband industry opposes on interference grounds Globalstar Inc.’s push to have federal regulators consider an ancillary terrestrial component rule change that the mobile satellite service operator claims would …

Worldwide mobile content revenues are expected to surpass $44 billion in 2011, more than double the expected $20 billion in revenues generated this year, according to iSuppli Corp.The mobile market …

Leap Wireless International Inc. has signaled its commitment to deploying CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A by choosing Alcatel-Lucent to build out the carrier’s new spectrum acquired in the advanced wireless …

The mobile phone industry told the Federal Communications Commission that marketplace trends stand against extending monopoly-era equal-access obligations to the competitive wireless industry.“The commission should reject attempts to harm wireless …

The nation’s No. 2 carrier lowered the entry price for its wireless high-speed BroadbandAccess service, and is now offering the same price to both existing Verizon Wireless voice customers and …