April 2008

One of magazines’ biggest strengths in the dawning digital age — that engrossing environment often said to be so conducive to glossy branding campaigns — isn’t much help when the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly 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. …

LAS VEGAS – EVER SINCE television was invented in 1926, the industry has seen over-the-air broadcasts reach more screens as the medium exploded in popularity. The industry’s first push was …

Sprint Nextel Corp. hopes to clean up the direct-to-consumer content business by hitting wayward partners where it hurts.The carrier last month told off-deck content aggregators that it will be “strictly …

Verizon Communications Inc. sued Sprint Nextel Corp. in Delaware federal court, accusing the No. 3 mobile-phone operator of failing to pay nearly $10 million in interconnection charges. A lot of …

The market for Long Term Evolution technology took another step forward last week as seven infrastructure heavyweights announced a framework for licensing the rights to the next-generation wireless standard.Alcatel-Lucent, L.M. …

For public safety, the political atmospherics have changed from what they were just a year ago when federal regulators understandably gave great weight to first responders’ suggestions on how to …

Public-interest groups reiterated their call for federal regulators to protect text-messaging rights, framing the debate as far-reaching in terms of the potential implications for free speech, disability access and competition …

So what’s up with Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin? He must have been pretty cranky when BusinessWeek interviewed him for a story published last week. Sarin, who admits Vodafone WAY overpaid …

Mobile data card sales will quadruple between 2007 and 2011 to reach $2.9 billion, according to predictions from Infonetics Research.The report suggest mobile data cards could threaten the Wi-Fi hot …

Global GSM subscriber growth is expected to slow from 22% year-over-year in 2006 and 2007 to 14% in 2008 and 2009, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.The slowdown …

One of the hot topics leading into the CTIA Wireless 2008 event earlier this month was the recent move by carriers to offer unlimited, flat-rate calling plans. While I didn’t …

SO WHAT WILL IT BE for the sequestered 700 MHz D Block? A few tweaks here and there, an approach one lawmaker dismissively coined ‘D Block lite’? A complete overhaul? …

What about the shoe phone?Echoflex Solutions Inc. introduced a self-powered wireless key switch, which the company said can reduce the cost of powering unoccupied hotel rooms. The switch is activated …

Competitive pressures are leading American companies to adopt mobility for the obvious reasons: increasing productivity, decreasing costs and distinguishing themselves among their competitors.The top three carriers in the United States …

Mowser is dead. But forensics has yet to indicate whether the business’s demise is a sign of an epidemic or simply a predictable casualty of the tumultuous wireless Web space.Russell …

Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to foster deployment of a national, family-friendly wireless broadband network with open access, an initiative the mobile-phone industry was …

Five years after 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” helped launch the multibillion-dollar ringtone phenomenon – and as CD sales continue to plummet – the music industry continues to look for …

LAS VEGAS – “There is an expression – if there is something that people want to watch, you can broadcast it on a rock in the desert and they will …

A group of House lawmakers introduced legislation to close a loophole in federal law that makes mobile-phone subscribers potential targets for unsolicited text message advertising.“Basically, this adds text messages to …

Radio Disney is partnering with sister company mDisney on a mobile Web site and texting program to support the offering.The new wireless site allows users with Web-enabled phones to hear …

AT&T Inc. announced it will be firing about 4,600 employees, or 1.5% of its workforce, as it continues to integrate staff between AT&T and SBC Communications Inc. SBC acquired AT&T …

Motorola Inc. is streamlining product oversight in its phone business as it searches for a CEO to run the operation, which it plans to spin off as a separate company. …

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available. —Rosum: Rosum Corp. said …