Carriers

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If you’ve ever tossed a strand of spaghetti against a refrigerator to see if it sticks-and, therefore, is fully cooked-then you have a sense of what handset vendors and carriers …

As capital flows into the wireless space, the companies who are lucky enough to reap the benefits span a wide range of wireless ventures, from infrastructure to content. Among recent …

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian might think all of the content that wireless subscribers can get on their cellphones is pretty neat, but not if mobile operators and content providers …

Carriers definitely should have a place at the mobile advertising table. But maybe not too much of a place.Mobile network operators and their content partners increasingly are looking to advertising …

AT&T Mobility bolstered its mobile music offering with plans to offer over-the-air access to Napster’s 5-million-plus music tracks beginning next month. The deal builds on the carrier’s current side-loading deal …

MobiTV Inc. hit the three-million-subscriber mark and is experiencing even greater video usage among each of those subscribers, the company announced yesterday.“We really feel like we’re set up now for …

Sprint Nextel Corp. and MobiTV Inc. have put together a multi-year agreement to continue offering mobile TV services to the carrier’s subscribers. The announcement coincided with MobiTV’s news that it …

AT&T Inc. has partnered with digital music provider Napster to offer AT&T customers over-the-air access to more than 5 million full-track songs. The carrier said that, starting in mid-November, Napster …

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 …

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 …

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A true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not enough proof for you. The New …

Signs are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last year. T-Mobile USA Inc. confirmed that …

Motorola Inc. apparently kickstarted its ongoing efforts to broaden its smartphone offerings and bring Internet-based services to them by buying 50% of UIQ Technology last week from rival Sony Ericsson …

Virgin Mobile rings the bellFlanked by Virgin Mobile Angels on Wall Street are (l to r): Peter Lurie, chief counsel; Jonathan Marchbank, COO; Howard Handler, CMO; John Thain, NY Stock …

Here’s a question: Is the business of paying someone to wake up obscenely early to secure a place in line for a lobbyist who wants to attend a congressional hearing …

It’s happening again. “It” is the overwhelming feeling I occasionally get to defend the wireless industry and the way it treats its customers.But the news last week that senators were …

A mixed third quarter is expected for the wireless industry, with weakness at Sprint Nextel Corp. contrasting with solid performances by AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, according to a report …

Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been building over the past year.The Apple …

WHILE IT WAS NOT A MAJOR COUP THAT WIRELESS carriers found a Democratic lawmaker to sponsor a wireless consumer- protection bill less regulatory than another measure with more backing by …

NOKIA CORP. RODE A CONTINUING WAVE of worldwide consumer demand for handsets in the third quarter, posting impressive gains in revenue and profit and volume.The other top-tier, incumbent handset makers …

The worldwide mobile music market will more than double in the next few years, exploding from $13.7 billion this year to more than $32 billion by 2010, according to Gartner …

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 …

Mobile users are increasingly turning to Google Inc., but on-the-go searches remain dwarfed by PC queries, the Internet giant said in an earnings call yesterday.Google, which saw its quarterly net …