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For years, mobile advertising has been touted as the next frontier. Its day may finally have arrived. Recent reports suggest that almost 60 million consumers were exposed to mobile advertising …

A California Superior Court judge ordered Sprint Nextel Corp. to pay $73 million after finding its early termination fee policy violated California law.Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw said …

Centennial Communications Corp. put out results for its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year that ended May 31, with a consolidated annual revenue exceeding $1 billion.Consolidated revenue for the fourth quarter totaled …

Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their phone.Voice messages will be displayed on …

Safran said it will swallow $343 million to spin off its troubled Sagem Mobiles division to venture capital firm Sofinnova.Sofinnova plans to rebrand the handset manufacturer as Sagem Wireless, with …

Nortel Networks Corp.’s stock plunged nearly 15% after the infrastructure provider released relatively flat second quarter results, but warned of future instability in the U.S. market. The Toronto-based company posted …

I guess if you lose a few billion dollars, someone has to take the blame. Or at least that was the case last week at Alcatel-Lucent, where after posting another …

Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to ship, according to predictions from ABI …

The question was popped earlier this year and now Qwest Communications International Inc. has sealed the deal. The company has sown all its wild oats and has put its wild, …

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 …

Thanks to a new T-Mobile USA Inc. offering, parents can give their children a different type of allowance each month, and it’s not the typical $5 they get for finishing …

Garmin Ltd. reported rosy jumps in sales in its various sectors – automotive, outdoor, aviation, marine – but its earnings and outlook disappointed analysts, sending the company’s stock tumbling more …

Nuance Communications Inc. is targeting carriers – and plenty of others – with a mobile application designed to cut the cost of customer-care calls.Mobile Care is a client-server application designed …

Sprint Nextel Corp. will expand its femtocell offering nationwide in the coming weeks, the company said today.The carrier’s Airave – essentially a small network base station for the home that …

Wireless penetration rates for teens are reaching saturation and growth in the segment is stagnating, according to a new report from research firm MultiMedia Intelligence.Subscribers between the ages of 12 …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retailers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. The Wireless Zone is a …

How much do we really know about our phones or – even more complex – our smartphones? We know they turn on, make calls and even connect to our work …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier–RBC Capital Markets lowered its price target on Verizon to $37 …

Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year’s games by turning consumers into gold, …

Alcatel-Lucent’s troubles are likely to continue in the third quarter, as the network vendor struggles with structural problems, according to one research company. As part of its second-quarter results, Alcatel-Lucent …

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 …

Things move quickly in the U.S. mobile entertainment ecosystem – unless you’re an adult content vendor.From sex texts to moantones to bikini-clad models to full-on hardcore video, wireless porn is …

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.Patrick Maurer is …

Transport-based mobile ticketing will grow from 37.4 million transactions last year to more than 1.8 billion by 2011, according to new research from Juniper Research.The Far East and China will …

In this week’s RCR Wireless Newscast, the CDMA Development Group’s executive director Perry LaForge discusses the current and future position of CDMA technology in the wireless market. ; cdma; In …