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The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier –Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services placed its ratings on SunCom …

Cellular One customers will now be able to entertain callers with more exciting sounds than the traditional ring.The No. 11 carrier, Dobson Communications Corp., which is behind the Cellular One …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

Gracenote expanded on its offerings with the acquisition of interactive voice response technology from Musicphone Inc.The Emeryville, Calif.-based firm said the platform allows music fans to dial a short code …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

It must be tough to give a daylong presentation to financial and industry analysts in New York when your take-aways essentially are “meet the new team,” “we can do it” …

Carriers in the United Kingdom are hoping to get users to PayForIt with their phones.The operators launched a standardized payment scheme designed to provide a consistent user interface regardless of …

Proving who you are-wirelesslyIraqi students are using a mobile social network service to prove their identity, according to Mobixie. The company said students have used the service to get new …

With music and imaging an increasing aspect of mobile phones’ feature sets-the engines driving network operators’ ARPU growth-more than 50% of this year’s $32 billion in worldwide accessory revenue will …

hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube. The drastic drop in the price of the iPhone got us hedgehogging …

Miles Flint, president of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, is stepping down Nov. 1 based on personal, family issues, sources said last week.The company said that the move was Flint’s decision, …

L.M. Ericsson and Endemol International announced plans to develop an interactive TV and user-generated content platform designed to enable any mobile device user to upload, publish and share live or …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

Carriers in the United Kingdom are hoping to give mobile transactions a boost with a new, standardized payment scheme for consumer purchases. PayForIt, which launched Saturday, provides a consistent user …

Corporate-speak is designed to be opaque, so when Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications issued a release today stating that President Miles Flint was stepping down and would “take a short career …

Telecom carriers traditionally have been among the nation’s biggest advertisers. Through the years, those advertisements have educated us about rate plans, weekend calling, in-network calling, call quality and the joys …

After years of demurring on its marketshare ambitions, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. has shifted from declarations of “profits first” to emphasize its “credible aspiration” of overtaking one if not …

Carriers abroad increasingly are looking at managed service contracts as a way to reduce their network operating expenses, and large equipment vendors could reap the benefits over time, according to …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications this week eliminated one job in its North American operations-sidelining VP for Corporate Communications Cherie Gary-in an effort to realign its global public relations efforts, which …

Redback Wireless Corp. said it entered a joint venture agreement with digital advertising agency NextLevel.com.NextLevel, which has designed more than 75 Internet sites for customers including Sony Corp., Warner Bros. …

Battling for brand recognition, or more particularly, connecting a brand with a certain image, is more than apropos in the wireless industry-it very often defines the success of each company’s …

An aggressive pricing strategy to reduce inventory enabled Motorola Inc. to perform significantly better in global sales to end users in the second quarter than in the oft-cited, unit-shipment metric, …

The smartphone market in North American is in flux, with Research In Motion Ltd. rapidly gaining ground by successfully crossing over into the consumer market from its traditional enterprise role. …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. has tapped Mobile Complete to power a remote testing service of Java applications on mobile phones.The handset maker launched a “Virtual Lab” that allows application …

The W-CDMA baseband chip business is morphing in real time, as various market pressures push and pull the players to partner, diversify their customer base or pursue less-demanding technologies.Data from …