Yearly Archives: 2008

By the Numbers: Top Tower Companies

The companies listed below represent the largest independent national and regional tower companies in the United States. Also included below are the nation's major...

Reports: Verizon Wireless in talks to buy Alltel for $27B: Deal would create new No. 1

Verizon Wireless is going for biggest fish status. The little fish? Alltel Communications L.L.C. Verizon Wireless, according to media reports, is in talks to...

Federal authorities uncover almost 20,000 allegedly counterfeit cellphones: Complaint lists thousands of phones carrying Motorola, Nokia and other brands

Two separate developments on the counterfeiting front together point to a festering problem for the wireless industry. First, federal authorities in New York sued...

T-Mobile USA provides unlimited incentive for families

T-Mobile USA Inc. ratcheted up the heat in the unlimited calling wars by throwing out a new offer for families that allows customers to...

Marriott to leave MMA

The mobile marketing industry lost one of its most prolific and outspoken supporters today when Laura Marriott announced she would resign from her post...

Bowman emerges from Motricity’s shadow with D2C biz

Motricity's troubles continue; the company announced it lost a leader and sold off a chunk of its business. The mobile content and content infrastructure...

NextWave surfs into Taiwan with Global Mobile testing deal

WiMAX operator Global Mobile Corp. has tapped NextWave Wireless Inc. for a joint technology field trial to build a suite of next generation multimedia...

Canadian AWS auction surpasses U.S. counterpart

Industry Canada's ongoing advanced wireless services spectrum auction hit a bit of a milestone as the average price per megahertz per potential customer covered...

Motorola Nears Choice for Head of Unit

Motorola Inc. is nearing a choice for a head of its soon-to-be independent cellphone unit, with Hewlett-Packard Co. executive Todd Bradley emerging as Motorola's...

Mother gives ‘smart card’ for cigarettes to son

TOKYO — A Japanese woman who allegedly lent her 15-year-old son one of Japan's new "smart cards," which are intended to prevent minors from...

Mobile Search: Look, Ma, No Hands

Voice-based mobile search services from Microsoft and Yahoo! are imperfect but promising

Yelp plans splashy debut in location-aware mobile market

The business reviews site is working on an application for Apple's iPhone that will let "Yelpers" find out what's nearby and whether it sucks...

FMC Looks to the Future

There is a significant pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for service providers and vendors if fixed mobile convergence (FMC) -...

Mobile virtual network operators look for aniche

MILAN : Selling cellphone services without actually having to own the network of antennas or the license to use the radio waves seemed...

Delivering Movies to Mobile Phones Via Memory Cards

Calton Hill, a UK based software house has developed mobile phone and memory card software that allows people to watch the movies on mobile...

Softbank to offer iPhones in Japan

Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. said Wednesday it has a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone later this year -- the first...

Financial ratings wrap-up: LG and ADC Telecom

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--Standard &...

ETFs playing out in high-stakes battles in court, Congress

High-stakes battles over early termination fees are playing out in official Washington and California at a time when carriers face pressure to make good...

Increased text usage has carriers battling spammers: On guard against spam

TEXTING. IF YOU HAD ASKED AMERICANS WHAT THAT WORD MEANT 15 years ago, most would have been short for words. Now the definition of...

Suddenly, a spotlight on MIDs: Consumers still don’t get it, but devices due this year

Overnight, it seems, mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, are the topic du jour.But like many overnight sensations, the MID category is constructed of a...

Communicating with the next generation

If you're one of the bazillion players looking for a slice of the mobile social networking pie, listen up, because Paul Coulton has some...

Amid muni Wi-Fi flameout, Oklahoma City switches on 555 square miles

Just when municipal Wi-Fi seems all but dead in one place, it crops up full steam ahead in another.Oklahoma City says it just turned...

AT&T Mobility settles over third-party content charges: Amount still unclear

The rash of class action lawsuits against cellphone carriers over unauthorized third-party content charges on consumers' bill may entering a new phase: settlements.Plaintiffs' lawyers...

VZW adds smartphone functionality to mass-market phones

Business-savvy handsets are expanding at Verizon Wireless. This doesn't mean current smartphones or PDAs are adding new features, it means now you'll be able...

Siemens’ M2M unit taken over by indie investors

Siemens Wireless Modules has become Cinterion Wireless Modules, after a buyout led by private equity firm Granville Baird, the company said yesterday. Investors included...
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