Litigation surrounding rules for the Jan. 24-scheduled 700 MHz auction has taken a sudden turn. Verizon Wireless filed to withdraw its appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz open-access rule, only to have cellphone association CTIA immediately fill the void by challenging the...
Data is a damnable thing. It is what it is, but the devil's in the interpretation.The same could be said for the Apple Inc. iPhone, hailed as a disruptive force that could change the handset vendor-network operator business model and pave the way for.Well,...
You might call it industry's summer of discontent. Where to begin?The Federal Communications Commission saw fit to attach conditions-public safety and open access, specifically-to a tad more than half of the cherished 700 MHz spectrum anxiously anticipated by the wireless industry and first responders...
Television, like all methods of communication, is adapting to the times. Like the push before it in the online space, the hunger for video that matches the quality experience at home has reached the mobile frontier. The opportunity for video on mobile is arguably...
What's Google Inc. up to in mobile? You might as well ask what Rupert Murdoch is doing in media.Because the answer is, just about everything.The Internet colossus first dipped its toe in the mobile waters in 2000 with a search service for Web-enabled phones,...
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With the content-centered, postpaid mobile virtual network operator market in decline, analysts have already begun talking about the next evolution of the MVNO model. Apple Inc.'s iPhone is one example. So is recently launched Sonopia.Juha Christensen, CEO of Sonopia, compares his company to credit...
After a one-year hiatus when the show visited Los Angeles, the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment event is back in the city by the Bay for 2007. The move is minor considering the wireless trade association's larger spring show has been bouncing between the...
The good news for the mobilephone industry is carriers, manufacturers, trade associations and standards bodies are nearly free of health litigation for the first time in years. The bad news is the industry is about to be confronted by an overlooked actor in long-running...
Vodafone Group plc has made a somewhat surprising move by joining the WiMAX Forum as a principal member."For a company that has historically been perceived as hostile toward the technology, does this mean that their attitude toward WiMAX has now thawed?" IMS Research queried...
The Federal Communications Commission approved 700 MHz auctions rules to foster the creation of a nationwide public safety-commercial broadband network and the introduction of new devices and applications in the wireless space.The agency voted to designate for auction a nationwide 10-megahertz spectrum block adjacent...
The cellular industry said a new staff report by the Federal Trade Commission undermines not only the case for net neutrality but the debate over broadband regulation as well."The Internet regulation scheme has forever been built on a hypothetical, 'what-if' scenario and today this...
SAN DIEGO-The BREW 2007 conference opened with a rock-concert feel this morning as a large instrumental band spread out on the conference floor-some musicians wheeled around the audience in a modified golf cart and one drummer played suspended from the ceiling.Following the kickoff, the...
CHICAGO-WiMAX, gaining momentum domestically and globally, will serve to "mobilize the Internet" in a way the voice-centric networks of cellular could never do, according to Barry West, president of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s 4G business unit. West noted that the carrier already operates a high-speed...
The Mobile Marketing Association said it will join forces with the dotMobi Advisory Group to develop guidelines for mobile advertising, and push adoption of the controversial .mobi domain.The industry associations committed to support each other's initiatives including mobile advertising, search and m-commerce, and said...
Qualcomm Inc. established another European beachhead for its BREW service as Hutchison Whampoa's 3 Group said it plans to offer handsets supporting the platform.The carrier, which offers service in Australia, Hong Kong, Israel and five European markets, said it will support BREW in an...
CHICAGO-Telecommunications will be the disruptive force of the 21st century, with the potential to bring radical changes to areas such as education, medicine and the creative arts, Verizon Communications Inc. Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg told NXTcomm attendees during his keynote address.Echoing those thoughts,...
CHICAGO-Telecom vendors will need to offer unique wireless services to entice new subscribers-rather than simply bundling wireless service with other telecom offerings, according to a panel of speakers at a Digital Hollywood session during the pre-show conferences at NXTcomm. Wireless is a "very unique"...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-It's not the cash cow most in the wireless industry hope it will be, but mobile television is already producing some steady revenue streams and showing signs of growth, Levi Shapiro, director of audiences at Telephia, said in opening remarks at a...
The GSM Association said it is re-branding two of its trade shows by removing references to 3GSM.The 3GSM World Congress Asia is becoming Mobile Asia Congress and the 3GSM World Congress will be re-branded as the Mobile World Congress. Mobile Asia Congress is scheduled...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group once again made an ally out of a competing technology, agreeing to take the Wibree Forum under its umbrella.Wibree addresses devices with very low battery capacity such as watches, heart-rate monitors and pedometers, allowing them to communicate with Bluetooth-enabled...
NEW YORK-Companies looking to cash in on wireless should focus less on whiz-bang technology and worry more about reach, according to the keynote speakers at the final day of the Mobile Marketing Forum's conference here."Gold is audience," said John Hadl, CEO of Brand in...
With public safety and Frontline Wireless L.L.C. unable to bridge differences over the critical element of control of a national first-responder/commercial broadband network, and controversy overall tending to cloud rather crystallize issues as regulators fight the clock to write rules for the 700 MHz...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Mobile social networking is "one of these servants in waiting . something that has a lot of potential, but hasn't been fully exploited," Michael Stroud, co-founder and CEO of iHollywood Forum Inc., said in introductory remarks here at the Mobile Entertainment Summit.A...
