Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

Public-safety groups, which last year successively persuaded federal regulators to adopt a strict enhanced 911 location accuracy standard over the objections of wireless providers, now say the rule is unworkable and should be replaced with a more lenient one. They …

Stephen King fans can check out the author’s latest work on their phones through a deal between Marvel Entertainment, CBS Mobile and Simon & Schuster subsidiary Scribner.The companies have teamed to produce 25 original video episodes based on “N,” a …

Nearly lost in the generally positive hubbub over an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp., was the former’s actual earnings in fiscal third quarter and outlook for the rest of the year.Tepid guidance from Qualcomm, on the heels of …

Today, at least two companies have incorporated an innovation for M2M that first was aimed at the handset market: FOTA, or, firmware-over-the-air. Make that DOTA (based on OFDM standards), in Wavecom’s parlance: download-over-the-air. Or, in Red Bend Software’s case, FOTA …

Verizon Wireless is smart to quickly agree to sell off wireless properties in 85 markets where it overlaps with Alltel Communications L.L.C. assets in order to try to speed approval of its plan to buy the nation’s No. 5 carrier …

AT&T’s new service, AT&T Navigator Global Edition, uses data connections to download maps, so an international data-roaming plan is strongly recommended in conjunction with the service.

The Federal Communications Commission delivered to House Commerce Committee investigators at least 40 boxes of documents as part of a probe of agency activities under Chairman Kevin Martin, sidetracking any possibility of a hearing this month and virtually guaranteeing the …

Sprint Nextel Corp. sold its 3,300 towers to TowerCo L.L.C. for $670 million, a move that provides the carrier with some cash and relieves it of the business of owning and managing the towers.The companies expect the deal to close …

Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. topped the rankings in the latest customer-satisfaction study of prepaid users from J.D. Power and Associates.The Dallas-based carrier performed particularly well in five out of seven categories, the market research firm said, including cost …

AdMob launched an iPhone-specific “advertising marketplace” to deliver marketing campaigns through the high-profile device.The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup announced deals with advertisers including Ford Motor Co., Electronic Arts, Land Rover and Jaguar to place ads online and in native applications …

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

Nextwave Wireless Inc. sold nearly two-thirds of its advanced wireless services spectrum for $150.1 million. The spectrum went to four different buyers. The largest chunk landed in the hands of T-Mobile USA Inc. for roughly $98 million. The deal gives …

The mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) communications annual market is set to grow from less than $16 billion in 2008 to over $57 billion in 2014, according to Strategy Analytics (Boston, Mass.).

Given the broad scope of an agreement between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. announced last night, it’s apparent that negotiators have been quietly hard at work for some time to resolve a vast swath of issues that were hamstringing the …

Verizon Wireless, positioning itself to regain the top spot in the mobile-phone industry, agreed to initial divestiture requirements by the Department of Justice and offered roaming concessions in hopes of winning government approval of its proposed $28 billion purchase of …

As analysts and pundits scoured the tea leaves in the wake of Apple Inc.’s 3G iPhone launch, a few issues emerged.Who, besides Apple, will get a boost from iPhone mania? Who gets hurt? Will a rising iPhone-tide lift all boats …

The world’s leading handset and chipset makers – Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. – head to court today to resolve disagreements over their contractual relationship in a case that may have wide repercussions for the wireless industry.Potentially at stake is …

Prepaid wireless service provider Trumpet Mobile said its products will be available nationwide at Walgreens stores.Customers will be able to purchase Trumpet Mobile airtime and handsets at more than 6,000 Walgreen stores. Mobile virtual network operator Trumpet Mobile offers a …

The single best feature in Apple ‘s second-generation iPhone 3G isn’t the increased speed or the GPS location-finding feature. It is something called the “App Store,” a clever distribution mechanism for third-party programs that can run on the iPhone and …

STERLING, Va. — Three of the TVs are dark in Wal-Mart’s electronics department, where the only two clerks in sight stock a shelf and disappear. At a nearby Target, the digital camera desk is unmanned, and there’s no staff roaming …

Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home.

The mobile communication market in Europe has reached a saturated and mature phase. Mobile penetration is more than 100 percent in many western and eastern countries, even as many other countries are rapidly reaching full penetration.

The company plans to put something extra into its portable.

If a new hands-free driving law has forced you to buy a Bluetooth mobile phone headset, this advice from the U.S. government can help protect against getting “bluesnarfed.”

Geek sacrilege? Not if these are your IT priorities. The iPhone 3G may have a lock on the Sexiest Gadget Alive title for 2008, but in the frumpy and boring world of things that matter to enterprise IT managers, it’s …