Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

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 …

Mobile news aggregator Mobispine AB said it has acquired NewsAlloy, a Web-based feed reader, for an undisclosed sum.A Sweden-based startup, Mobispine offers a free, Java-based download that delivers RSS feeds …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace. A race …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

NEW YORK — The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to Viacom and other copyright holders behind a …

Those who predict the imminent death of TV might have to wait awhile. There’s still a vast swath of land — commonly known as “Middle America” — where broadcast television …

Marketing firm Fuse talks to Sony, MTV Networks, Yahoo, and Nokia to find out what the future of technology will look like for the teens. The conclusion: It’s mobile.

South Korea’s SK Telecom Corp. is in talks to buy struggling U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp., business news channel CNBC reported Tuesday An agreement would be at best weeks …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Soaring costs for gasoline and food pushed inflation at the wholesale level up 1.8% in June, pushing inflation the past year to the fastest pace in more …

Mobile payments services provider Mpayy Inc. has received a second round of financing from its current investors. Financing was led by US Bancorp.

The iPhone 3G’s “opening weekend” — get used to the movie lingo in this context — saw “one million devices sold” in 21 countries, according to Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve …

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN said it will be hard to hold either the D-Block re-auction or advanced wireless services-3 bidding this year because of intense controversy over rules. …

AT&T Mobility’s decision to take Synchronoss out of the Apple Inc. iPhone-activation loop contributed to last week’s debacle at Apple and AT&T Mobility stores, according to ThinkPanmure L.L.C.Apple last year …

Sprint Nextel Corp.’s under-the-table Sprint Employee Referral Option has seen its final days. SERO was a plan Sprint Nextel introduced a few years ago that offered cheaper rates through an …

Electronics retailer pcRUSH.com has joined the growing number of merchants with an m-commerce site. The web-only retailer has used the popular “m” URL naming convention to launch its site, m.pcRUSH.com.

Marketing genius it is not, but watching a bloke killing a brand spanking iPhone in a blender really is quite entertaining.

Indian handset maker Spice Mobile has sales of about 200,000 mostly entry level cell phones a month.

One last bit of excitement to come out of Sun Valley: A report that suggest Google execs intend to build their own branded phone.

The Federal Communications Commission said it will begin field testing prototype TV white-spaces devices next week, a strong signal that agency chairman Kevin Martin remains committed to opening up more …

Google Inc. joined Apple Inc.’s iPhone-application frenzy with a free search offering.Google Mobile App uses a text box and a virtual QWERTY keyboard to allow users to search the Internet …

Nokia Siemens Networks said it won an $874 million deal to expand China Mobile’s network.The company, a joint venture between Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG, said it will design, build …

Apple Inc.’s launch of its 3G iPhone this morning got off to a rocky start for some. According to AT&T Mobility spokesman Mark Siegel, customers buying the device were having …