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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN is coming under mounting pressure to postpone votes on major wireless items scheduled for Nov. 4. As Martin tries to round up support for …

Broadcasting groups filed an emergency request at the Federal Communications Commission, effectively asking that a vote not be taken Nov. 4 to allow unlicensed devices in white spaces and that …

Spending on mobile broadcast TV services is expected to reach only $2.7 billion by 2013, less than previous forecasts indicated, according to Juniper Research. The success of pay TV services …

San Francisco – Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell …

SAN FRANCISCO — Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell …

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped buzzd to power an ad-supported, location-based entertainment offering from its home deck.A New York-based startup, buzzd couples location-sensitive city guides with social-networking features allowing …

The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were touted as a potential springboard for mobile video, an event that could help push the application beyond early adopters and gadget geeks and …

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. …

Just as the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to settle the great white-spaces debate – one predominantly framed to date by a powerful broadcast lobby fearing costly disruption to digital …

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 …

Time was when the bloody white- spaces spat was nice and neat, with mostly high-tech giants seeking more spectrum for Wi-Fi pitted against television broadcasters fearful of interference to digital …

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 …

It won’t be long until Congress breaks for its August recess (are they there now?), only to return for a short spell before taking off for the rest of this …

Sprint Nextel Corp. has sued ICO Global Communications Ltd. and TerreStar Networks Inc. to force the mobile satellite service licensees to pay the No. 3 mobile-phone operator for relocation costs …

Concerts are nothing new on mobile. Sprint Nextel Corp. aired the first concert on mobile in 2005 with a huge marketing push behind a Bon Jovi concert that year. Others …

Who’s sending that text message to your cellphone? It could be your neighborhood auto dealer.Dealers are joining other auto advertisers in marketing on mobile phones. Consumers now can gain access …

The sparse, rural areas that AlltelCommunications L.L.C.’s network covers and the demographics it serves lead some to assume Alltel would have relatively little data uptake, but the numbers tell a …

The companies listed below represent the largest independent national and regional tower companies in the United States. Also included below are the nation’s major wireless carriers and their tower portfolios. …

If you’re one of the bazillion players looking for a slice of the mobile social networking pie, listen up, because Paul Coulton has some advice.Coulton, a “senior lecturer” who specializes …

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

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – A pair of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group executives didn’t paint such a rosy picture for mobile in a keynote here at the MEFCON conference.Thomas …

The National Association of Broadcasters warned Congress that allowing unlicensed wireless operations in vacant television spectrum could jeopardize the transition to digital TV, continuing the highly charged debate with tech …

It seems there’s more than one way to spread the love. Earlier this year on American Idol, host Ryan Seacrest devoted way too much TV time promoting (what else?) Apple’s …

A handful of mobile players are trying to cram the silver screen onto the third screen. But whether there’s a business case to be made for mobile movies is far …

Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page said there are not technical impediments to making vacant television channels – white spaces – available for unlicensed wireless broadband access, but that powerful lobbying …