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As always, something has me a little confused.What is it this time? Well, it’s the phone locking issue that has everyone from tech geeks to politicians in a tizzy. (Actually, …

Quarterly results from Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. came as no surprise: Verizon Wireless did well and Sprint Nextel didn’t.Although Verizon Wireless was outpaced in net customer additions by …

Shifting business models make for strange bedfellows-and nowhere is that so clear as Google’s potential linkup with Verizon Wireless, which is said to be negotiating with the search giant to …

Just days after the smoke cleared from last week’s devastating fires, Los Angeles began bracing for another firestorm-this time from the entertainment industry.The union representing the 12,000 film and TV …

AT&T MOBILITY WILL TELL YOU that writers expounding on the issue of unlocked phones far outnumber consumers actually interested in buying them.Preliminary data shows that, while not literally true, that …

THE MOBILE-PHONE INDUSTRY’S BUSINESS MODEL continues to come under attack, with challenges to carrier control increasingly playing out in the courts, Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission.National wireless carriers …

With the wireless sector the most competitive in the telecom industry, it is hard to imagine that company executives can simultaneously beat each other’s brains out in the marketplace and …

Rebtel, a Voice over Internet Protocol firm that offers low-cost international calling on mobile phones, said Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. rejected requests for short codes for …

AT&T Mobility announced a new international service plan for the Apple Inc. iPhone, an announcement that comes on the heels of efforts by software hackers to unlock the device.Unlocking software …

Verizon Wireless is offering Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry Pearl online accompanied by a new pricing scheme for BlackBerry e-mail and Web access. Verizon Wireless retail stores and their stores …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to …

Sprint Nextel Corp.’s quarterly profits plunged as the carrier bled postpaid iDEN and prepaid Boost Mobile L.L.C. subscribers, posting a net loss of 60,000 subscribers for the quarter. The company’s …

Location-based services technology provider Omnilink Systems unveiled a GPS-based offering designed to allow law enforcement to track the location of suspects in real-time using both satellites and ground-based cellular networks.The …

Holding company TMT Capital Corp. said this week that its subsidiary Freedom Wireless has a mobile virtual network agreement that allows it to sell GSM voice, data and messaging services …

AT&T Mobility launched the SGH-a737, new slider phone from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The carrier and handset manufacturer hope to build on the remarkable success they’ve seen with the SGH-a717 …

The Justice Department said AT&T Inc. agreed to sell assets in seven rural markets and forgo rights to the Cellular One brand to win approval of the company’s $2.8 billion …

For a show that bills itself as a bleeding-edge event with a multiple personality disorder (One Show. Two Personalities.) last week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment conference in San Francisco …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or …

AT&T Mobility launched a service offering tailored to seniors, following a similar recent move by Verizon Wireless. The new AT&T Senior Nation 200 plan includes 200 anytime minutes, 500 off-peak …

L.M. Ericsson has extended its deal with AT&T Mobility to provide the No. 1 carrier real-time charging services for its GoPhone wireless pre-paid service in the United States and Puerto …

Verizon Wireless reported another strong quarter of results, although the company saw small increases in its consistently low churn rates. The carrier added a total of 1.6 million net customers. …

AT&T MOBILITY HAS DELAYED its launch of MediaFLO USA Inc.’s broadcast mobile TV service to early 2008. More than eight months after committing to launching the service by the end …

AT&T INC. ROLLED THROUGH the quarter with 2 million net customer additions, and most of them (1.2 million) were coveted retail postpaid customers-up more than 30% from retail postpaid gains …

Organized labor stepped up its criticism of Verizon Communications Inc., accusing the telecom giant in a new report of violating labor laws by interfering with workers’ attempts to unionize in …

Parent companies of the two largest mobile-phone carriers continue to face an uphill battle to gain congressional immunity from the proliferation of privacy lawsuits in connection with the Bush administration’s …