Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Telecom industry urges intercarrier compensation reform: Group focuses on charges for IP-based traffic

The mobile phone industry and others in the telecom sector asked the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul regulations governing how service providers are compensated...

FCC asks appeals court to dump E-911 rules: Cites public safety communities claim for more relaxed standards

The Federal Communications Commission asked a federal appeals court to throw out enhanced 911 location accuracy rules approved last November but not yet put...

T-Mobile USA adds 668,000 customers in Q2

T-Mobile USA Inc.'s second-quarter results showed increases in the two Cs, customers and churn. The nation's No. 4 carrier added 668,000 customers, pushing its...

LiveWire to power Virgin Mobile USA’s ringback service

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped LiveWire Mobile to power a new ringback application that allows subscribers to choose pre-selected content channels rather than...

CallWave snares WebMessenger for $9M

CallWave Inc. shelled out $9 million in cash to pick up WebMessenger Inc., a Los Angeles-based developer of messaging applications for smartphones.CallWave, a privately...

Andrew barred from using TruePosition patent

TruePostion Inc. said it won a permanent injunction in a Delaware federal court barring Andrew Corp. from marketing a key location technology patented by...

T-Mobile USA stamps into prepaid trafficking

T-Mobile USA Inc. said it scored two court wins - one awarding the No. 4 wireless provider several million dollars in punitive damages -...

Verizon Wireless completes RCC acquisition

Verizon Wireless announced it completed its purchase of Rural Cellular Corp., bringing to a close a yearlong transaction that sparked complaints from consumer advocates...

Mobile capex to grow to $163.5B in five years, ABI predicts

Mobile capital expenditures exceeded $131 billion last year and will grow to $163.5 billion in 2013, driven by increasing traffic and preparations for fourth-generation...

There’s money to be made in micropayments: Technologies are in place, but business models still need work

Hardware, software, high-speed networks, uptake . it seems all the pieces are in place for mobile commerce to take off. Well, all the pieces...

Juniper: 1.7B mobile Internet users by 2013

Mobile Internet service users will increase from 577 million today to more than 1.7 billion by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper...

T-Mobile USA’s 3G network hits Sin City

T-Mobile USA Inc. kept good on its 3G rollout promise; the carrier launched its 3G network in Las Vegas. Although it currently lags behind...

Sprint Nextel slows decline during Q2, but warns of rough waters ahead

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s comeback campaign showed limited progress but remains a work in progress, as the struggling No. 3 wireless provider slowed its hemorrhaging...

Advertising: Another dime in mobile music jukebox

Mobile music has been a one-hit wonder. But the big follow-up to the lucrative ringtone market may not be ringback tones, full-track downloads or...

Martin pushes action on roaming, interference issues

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he wants action before month's end to relax roaming rules and freeze further licensing of wireless microphones...

Mobile video to score $15B in revenue by ’12

Mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion this year, driven by consumer demand for personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, according to...

Femtocell management to generate $360M in revenues

The fast-growing femtocell market will generate $360 million in revenues for companies that provide device and service management for femtocell networks, according to a...

Will U.S. consumers keep spending? On smartphones?: The year’s second act

The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year - though slowing relative to years past -...

Financial ratings wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, American Tower and more

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors --R.W. Baird...

The First $1000 iPhone Application

iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome...

I want my m-TV free

If there's one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it's that users aren't very...

Leap bullish on mobile broadband, posts lower ARPU

Leap Wireless International Inc. is planning to aggressively expand its broadband offering even as that buildout weighs down its financials. The carrier said it...

New cellphone health litigation surfaces in California court

A new health lawsuit has surfaced in California against T-Mobile USA Inc., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America Inc., the complaint coming after a...

Sierra Wireless diversifies enterprise, government offerings

Sierra Wireless Inc. has purchased the assets of Junxion Inc., to build on its delivery of mobile data solutions for enterprise and government, the...

REVIEW: Don’t blame Sprint Nextel for slow mobile music adoption

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point...
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