Wireless

Mobile content behemoth Zed announced an exclusive deal to distribute ringtones from the digital-only record label Nappy Boy Digital.Nappy Boy, which was founded by hip-hop star T-Pain, serves as a …

The Boeing Company selected AT&T Inc. as its primary telecommunications provider, in a 5-year contract, valued at $400 million. The nation’s largest wireless carrier is required to provide wireline and …

Apisphere Inc. plans to acquire San Francisco-based Navit Innovations, a location-based technologies vendor. With the acquisition, Apisphere, a provider of location-awareness services for mobile business applications, said it stands to …

The initial question on many minds when news broke last week that Sanjay Jha, COO at Qualcomm Inc., would help lead Motorola Inc. out of the woods: Why swap celebrated …

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 …

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.The rollout and …

Barack Obama is using text messaging to keep his supporters informed of his choice of a running mate.The Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign is sending notes to potential voters asking them …

Sprint Nextel Corp. is quietly pulling the plug on its PCS Mail service.A longtime service that never seemed to find an audience, PCS Mail offers a carrier-branded e-mail address (@sprintpcs.com) …

NEW YORK – Verizon and the unions that represent 65,000 of its workers reached a new tentative three-year contract agreement Sunday that protects union jobs and maintains employer-paid health care …

MetroPCS Communications Inc. plans to hitch its 4G plans to Long Term Evolution technology. Following in the footsteps of other CDMA carriers, MetroPCS said during its second quarter conference call …

Three things you need to know about the handset market in the United States last quarter, courtesy of Strategy Analytics: 1) Overall unit sales reached nearly 42 million, up 5.3% …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly 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. …

Even as Motorola Inc. makes some key new hires, such as co-CEO Sanjay Jha, other executives continue to exit. Chief Information Officer Patty Morrison left the company last week. Morrison …

A group of rural and small wireless providers asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision to impose an interim cap on high-cost universal service fund payments to eligible …

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a $1 million settlement with a Hong Kong wireless content firm in connection with a state probe into consumer complaints about charges for …

Google Inc.’s Internet dominance has grown in recent years as the competition – well, what passes for competition – continues to plod along. But for the long list of Web-based …

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 …

The mobile phone industry and others in the telecom sector asked the Federal Communications Commission to overhaul regulations governing how service providers are compensated for carrying each other’s traffic.“Now more …

The Federal Communications Commission asked a federal appeals court to throw out enhanced 911 location accuracy rules approved last November but not yet put into effect, pointing to public safety …

T-Mobile USA Inc.’s second-quarter results showed increases in the two Cs, customers and churn. The nation’s No. 4 carrier added 668,000 customers, pushing its customer base to 31.5 million at …

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped LiveWire Mobile to power a new ringback application that allows subscribers to choose pre-selected content channels rather than individual tracks.Ringback Playlist, as the offering …

CallWave Inc. shelled out $9 million in cash to pick up WebMessenger Inc., a Los Angeles-based developer of messaging applications for smartphones.CallWave, a privately held company that claims 42 employees, …

TruePostion Inc. said it won a permanent injunction in a Delaware federal court barring Andrew Corp. from marketing a key location technology patented by the Berwyn, Pa., company, a judgment …

T-Mobile USA Inc. said it scored two court wins – one awarding the No. 4 wireless provider several million dollars in punitive damages – in connection with mushrooming litigation to …

Verizon Wireless announced it completed its purchase of Rural Cellular Corp., bringing to a close a yearlong transaction that sparked complaints from consumer advocates and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).Under the …