Monthly Archives: March, 2008

GOING GREEN : And what that may mean to telecom

When "going green" sometimes means having large polluters pay for lavish advertisements focused on how much they care about the earth, it helps to...

Etc.

A blizzard of impressionsAccuWeather.com said its mobile Web site experienced a record-breaking February, with more than 32.7 million page impressions. The previous record was...

Carriers push E-911 lawsuit in court despite winning deadline extension

Wireless carriers have turned up the heat on the Federal Communications Commission, arguing in a lawsuit that new enhanced 911 location accuracy guidelines grossly...

4G numbers could jump to 90M by 2013, ABI says

Fourth-generation subscribers, including LTE and WiMAX users, could exceed 90 million in 2013 if a number of milestones are met, according to a report...

Infonetics report focuses on WiMAX growth

The WiMAX market is expected to grow to $7.7 billion by 2011, predicts research firm Infonetics Research in a new WiMAX and Mesh Network...

T-Mobile USA, Leap ready to roll out AWS markets

Almost 18 months after the advanced wireless services spectrum auction wrapped, carriers are on the verge of commercially launching networks and devices that make...

NextWave inks deal with Alcatel-Lucent: Contract to provide NextWave with WiMAX TV solution

NextWave Wireless Inc. tapped Alcatel-Lucent to develop WiMAX broadcast solutions that the company plans to integrate with its recently announced MXtv technology.NextWave plans to...

Virgin Mobile USA’s stock plunges : Quarterly loss digs into full-year gains, but posts records profit

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. stock dropped more than 53% from its closing price after it reported a $14.7 million loss in the fourth quarter....

There will be blunders . and bluster

The juxtaposition of the Spitzer sex scandal and the debate over whether telecom companies should have retroactive immunity for participating in the Bush administration's...

Break down

As I've noted in previous columns, I go coco for spectrum auctions. Love 'em. Can't get enough of 'em. Want more of 'em.Or so...

Congress targets carriers’ ETF plans

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked chief executives of AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. to explain whether they will pro-rate early...

Search for the mobile masses: Mobile search set to explode as platform evolves

It's no secret that trying to find content or information on a mobile phone is a daunting task for most consumers.Carrier deck layers can...

InfoGin finding success in crowded mobile browser market

While Opera Software ASA continues to attract attention with its mobile browsers and a host of startups go directly to consumers with their transcoding...

Analysts watch chip sales, European 3G market

When Texas Instruments Inc. lowered its revenue guidance last week for the quarter about to end, citing weakness in 3G sales to a large...

iPhone arrives in Austria, Ireland

Add Austria and Ireland to the list of countries in which the iPhone is legitimately available.The iPhone retail price at T-Mobile Austria, and in...

Apple cracks open the iPhone : Move expected to entice enterprise and app developers

Four days after Apple Inc. released its iPhone software development kit (SDK), the company announced that more than 100,000 developers had already downloaded the...

O2 tunes in to Napster Mobile

Napster bagged yet another carrier customer for its mobile offering, inking a deal to bring its catalog to the U.K. carrier O2.The deal gives...

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

So let us get this straight. 100,000 developers paid $100 a piece to download Apple's new SDK for the iPhone. We are no math...

Venture capital financing wrap-up: Altierre, Kyte, WiSpry and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included...

Bluetooth headsets: Room to grow for players large and small

If you think you're seeing Bluetooth headset advertisements everywhere, offering a bewildering array of styles and functionality from innumerable companies, you're spot on. The...

FCC pushes back E-911 benchmark deadline to March 2009

The Federal Communications Commission put the brakes on the September 2008 deadline for mobile-phone carriers to comply with new enhanced 911 location accuracy guidelines,...

FCC chief Martin asked to produce extensive documents in probe: Management style questioned

The House Commerce Committee's probe of the Federal Communications Commission moved to a new level, with key lawmakers asking FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to...

Carrier ETF plans targeted

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked chief executives of AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. to explain whether they will pro-rate early...

Wireless broadband requirements scrutinized

The mobile-phone industry urged the Federal Communications Commission not to impose burdensome wireless broadband reporting requirements on cellular carriers. Congress is considering legislation to...

AOL to pay $850M to advance its social networking plans

AOL is the latest Internet giant to buy its way onto the online and mobile social networking field.The Time Warner Inc. subsidiary said it...
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