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SAN FRANCISCO — Tired of battling hundreds of convention-goers for the last bits of bandwidth on the local “free” Wi-Fi connections or forking out $10 to $20 per day for …

SAN FRANCISCO — Personal Communications Devices L.L.C. chose the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 as its coming-out party, announcing a deal to distribute Virgin Mobile USA Inc.’s first CDMA2000 …

SAN FRANCISCO — Sprint Nextel Corp. prepped for the holiday shopping rush with a lineup of new devices, and a few customer incentives.The carrier presented five new handsets based on …

We’ve all seen coverage maps. Whether it be a section in a carrier’s brochure, a poster hung up in a mobile operator’s retail store, or even an interactive map online, …

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 …

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. …

As businesses examine energy and fuel costs as well as worker productivity, wireless companies have an opportunity to support the greening of the economy – and make money at the …

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. …

Verizon Wireless has re-placed itself in the push-to-talk arena. As promised earlier this year, Verizon Wireless has released two new PTT phones, running on the carrier’s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision …

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 …

In recent weeks, almost every carrier has made some sort of announcement claiming its network is fastest, largest or best. So who’s the winner? ; 3G; cdma; verizon; sprint; gsm; …

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 …

Sprint Nextel Corp. has launched an expensive, frontal assault on rivals in a bid for a hit handset that will resuscitate its fortunes. While it remains early in the game …

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 …

Despite the likelihood of Alltel Communications L.L.C. falling under the control of Verizon Wireless by year’s end, the nation’s 5th largest carrier has decided to make some quick changes to …

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 …

Qualcomm Inc. said that it expected revenue in its current quarter, on a pro forma basis, would be just above the high-end of its prior guidance of about $2.5 billion …

The once hotly contested push-to-talk market appears set for a competitive resurgence as the nation’s two largest CDMA carriers are rolling out new PTT initiatives that should prove more compelling …

The woes besetting Motorola Inc.’s consumer handset division have been the stuff of headlines for the past year. The company has said it remains committed to creating two independently traded …

There likely won’t be any 3G service at this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, but the host country is finally making progress on a years-long plan to issue licenses that …

TD-SCDMA WORKS. That’s the view of one analyst who participated in trials in Baoding, China, as long ago as December 2006.A very modest supply of subsidized handsets and data cards …

Application: ZumobiRunning on: Samsung ACE running Windows Mobile 6 on Sprint Nextel’s EV-DO network.Yay: Zumobi usually runs in the background and updates content regularly, allowing us to call up the …

Verizon Wireless reported a strong first quarter with a net gain of 1.5 million wireless customers and a nearly 49% increase in data revenues. Verizon Communications Inc. stock was up …

Mobile data card sales will quadruple between 2007 and 2011 to reach $2.9 billion, according to predictions from Infonetics Research.The report suggest mobile data cards could threaten the Wi-Fi hot …

So what’s up with Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin? He must have been pretty cranky when BusinessWeek interviewed him for a story published last week. Sarin, who admits Vodafone WAY overpaid …