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As has become commonplace between the nation’s two largest wireless providers, AT&T Inc. has followed its smaller rival Verizon Wireless in unveiling unlimited text messaging plans for its wireless service. …

Tira Wireless this week unveiled an upgrade of its porting technology, adding features that allow developers to automatically tweak applications across handsets.The Toronto-based company is boosting its Jump platform with …

DETROIT-OnStar subscribers will be able to send driving directions to their vehicles under a new partnership between General Motors’ telematics service and the MapQuest Web site. The navigation program, called …

Industry and disability groups reached agreement on an alternative approach to a federal mandate requiring half of the cellphones offered by national wireless carriers to be hearing-aid compatible (HAC) by …

Tellabs Inc. said its first-quarter net profit plummeted 51 percent and revenues fell 12 percent as the company suffered decreased sales of its broadband and access products.The Naperville, Ill.-based equipment …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is upstaging with the Upstage.Perhaps taking advantage of a lull in pricing changes by its larger rivals, Sprint Nextel this week slashed its price on the latest …

Although Alcatel-Lucent warned of lower revenues and an operating loss for the first quarter, it appears that investors had expected worse as the company’s stock rose more than 5 percent …

Internet service provider Moline Dispatch Publishing Co. said it plans to launch a WiMAX network covering western Illinois and eastern Iowa using equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd.The service, to be …

AT&T Inc.’s wireless division, Cingular Wireless, posted mixed first quarter results with customer growth coming in below expectations but churn and average revenue per user exceeding forecasts.The country’s largest wireless …

Oz Communications Inc. is looking to expand its mobile messaging offerings with the acquisition of Thumbspeed Inc. from Hands-On Mobile Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Thumbspeed develops and publishes …

Leap Wireless International Inc. unveiled a new payment schedule for its Cricket wireless service that allows customers to pay their bills on a weekly basis.The carrier’s new Cricket by Week …

Texas Instruments Inc. reported revenue of $3.2 billion and net profit of $516 million, down 4 percent and nearly 12 percent, respectively, over the year-ago quarter. The chip vendor said …

InfoSpace Inc. got some good news-a rarity lately-as AT&T Inc. said the buffeted company will continue to power the carrier’s MEdia Net service.The agreement renews a pact struck in 2003, …

L.M. Ericsson announced that it has completed its public cash offer to acquire all remaining shares of Norway’s Tandberg Television. A finalized settlement for shares submitted in the offer is …

Napster L.L.C. said it will team with Tower Records Japan on its first over-the-air, full-track mobile music service.NTT DoCoMo Inc. will be the first operator to market the mobile service, …

Financial institutions are rushing to deploy mobile banking services consumers don’t appear to want, according to new figures from JupiterResearch.The market research firm found that just 8 percent of online …

With wireless carriers expected to begin announcing first quarter results this week, accounting-challenged U.S. Cellular Corp. reported much-delayed fourth quarter results as well as limited first quarter results.The carrier said …

Time Warner Cable has partnered with Spanish-based hotspot company FON to offer its subscribers access to any of FON’s 60,000 Wi-Fi hotspots scattered throughout the country.Interestingly, those FON hotspots are …

Research In Motion Ltd. said it would provide software later this year to expand BlackBerry software applications to third-party devices running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile and, eventually, other operating systems. …

When the Blackberries went silent last Tuesday, so did their marketer. It’s not the sort of response you’d expect from a company that makes its living on instant communication-and industry …

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. …

Telcordia Technologies and mPortal Inc. are joining forces to provide an end-to-end content solution for mobile virtual network operators. The companies this week plan to unveil a platform that couples …

Nearly drowned out in broad policy debates over controversial public-safety and broadband wireless proposals are pressing questions about how the Federal Communications Commission will craft the 700 MHz band plan. …

The notion that government intervention should be an act of last resort when markets fail has gained popularity among economists and policy-makers in recent decades. It was Milton Friedman’s credo. …

Dear Editor, There is a wireless phenomenon taking place. For years the foot soldier in the wireless war against tower siting and site approvals was the site acquisition specialist. These …