Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

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 …

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Telecommunication analyst group Ovum predicts that the voice market will grow from 2.2 billion connections at the end of 2008 to 3.8 billion by 2017 in the Asian region, including …

Airline communications provider Aircell has chosen Long Term Evolution as its standard to give passengers in-flight access to 4G wireless services.

The iPhone 3G/2.0 launch suffered many problems, from activation issues through availability to a buggy OS . And although there were few customer problems with the App Store — where …

We’ve barely had our mitts on the iPhone 3G for a week and what’s old is new again. The bad news? Aside from the addition of blazing fast data speeds, …

According to media reports, Korean telecom giant SK Telecom may again be looking at purchasing beleagured carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. According to reports, SK Telecom and Providence Equity last year …

Apple Inc. apologized for stumbling out of the gate last week with MobileMe, an auto-synching service for iPhone and iPod touch users.MobileMe is a cloud-based app that automatically updates contacts, …

Perhaps lost – but apparently not forgotten in the Federal Communications Commission’s extended consideration of the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Radio Holdings Inc. – …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is pushing its recently launched Instinct handset with a viral video campaign on Break.comThe three-episode series features behind-the-scenes tours of Major League Baseball venues in San …

Mobile media company Player X said it pocketed Spain’s Gaelco Moviles, a mobile games publisher, for an undisclosed amount of cash.The move marks the first acquisition for Player X, a …

Leap Communications International Inc. subsidiary Cricket Communications Inc. added another version of Motorola Inc.’s venerable Razr handset to its lineup with the V3s that is compatible with the carrier’s advanced …

ESPN and MediaFLO USA Inc. launched a dedicated channel to bring X Games coverage to mobile users.EXPN, as the offering is dubbed, will deliver content around the clock to subscribers …

Private equity’s avid interest in Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s handset business is based on Huawei’s opportunities for significant growth and as a means to further investment in China, analysts said …

The top U.S. wireless provider and the world’s leading handset maker have been named defendants in a class action lawsuit alleging a used cellphone was sold as new by a …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–Standard & Poor’s withdrew its corporate credit rating on Total Access …

Virgin Mobile USA (VM) definitely walks to its own, very hip drumbeat.

Today, Thrrum announced that its MMS search product is now available to subscribers of T-Mobile’s and Verizon Wireless’s networks. If you see something that you’d like more information about, take …

Wireless banking also poised for growth in U.S.. Mobile banking isn’t as popular in the U.S. as banks had hoped, although new smart phones like the iPhone 3G may help …

The iPhone App Store stole headlines last week, but it’s the ever-growing cloud above that ultimately will be more important to developers of mobile consumer applications.Cloud computing – applications “in …

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Palm Inc. are pushing hard for enterprise customers with their new Treo 800w, the first Palm device to offer Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity, with broadband speeds.In …

Following a plea to mobile service providers that fell on deaf ears, the European Commission is hoping to mandate lower prices for SMS roaming.The commission said it hopes to end …

A tax holiday may be in the future for wireless providers and the nation’s 262 million cellphone users after all. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced legislation …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin signaled the agency is prepared to fix a roaming snag faced by wireless providers delayed in constructing networks because spectrum licenses won at major …

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 of view, with the goal of …