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An initial effort spearheaded by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin and Verizon Wireless to secure support from leading consumer groups to give subscribers relief on early termination fees – …

Qualcomm Inc. will buy a stake in ip.access Ltd., a U.K.-based femtocell vendor. The dollar amount of the investment and Qualcomm’s relative share in ip.access were not made public, but …

AT&T Mobility is set to put the icing on its 3G network cake. The industry’s No. 1 carrier said that by the end of June it expects to have its …

Rural mobile-phone operators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate exclusivity deals between the industry’s major carriers and handset vendors, taking aim at an entrenched business practice that they …

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

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Cellphone sales in the United States declined abruptly in the first quarter of the year, the first time since The NPD Group began tracking handsets, the firm wrote in a …

THE GROUND CONTINUED TO SHIFT in the tumultuous mobile virtual network operator space this month as one player announced plans to call it quits, another explores a potential merger and …

GOOGLE INC.’S OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE has attracted plenty of attention in the hot mobile Linux space, but the LiMo Foundation is assembling an impressive coalition of its own.Verizon Wireless last …

Forces swirling throughout the wireless industry are clearly shaping handset offerings expected to reach U.S. consumers in the second half of this year. While that pattern has been typical in …

RF Micro Devices Inc. said that based on a fiscal fourth-quarter loss, it would cut $75 million in research-and-development costs and 350 jobs – or about 9% of its workforce …

Embarq Holding Co. L.L.C.’s CFO Gene Betts confirmed the company’s plans to wind down its wireless offering that currently runs on former parent Sprint Nextel Corp.’s network. Betts, speaking at …

Whenever two fierce competitors talk collaboration, people listen.That’s the case with today’s announcement that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. will jointly pursue a mobile/handheld, digital TV …

Following much speculation, Virgin Mobile USA Inc. confirmed today that it is in “preliminary discussions” with SK Telecom to “explore possible strategic opportunities.” Those opportunities are expected to include a …

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. …

The 700 MHz auction ended two months ago, but you’d never know it.Few things rarely are settled in official Washington. The Federal Communications Commission this week plans to launch a …

It seems Google Inc. has no plans to be a silent partner in the forthcoming Sprint Nextel Corp./Clearwire Corp. business.The Internet giant said it will become the default search provider …

Qwest Communications International Inc. is jumping wireless ship from its current mobile virtual network operator relationship with Sprint Nextel Corp. to reselling Verizon Wireless services. The move, expected to begin …

Nortel Networks Corp. said today that it would charge “about” a 1% royalty rate* to handset vendors licensing Nortel’s Long Term Evolution patents.(Yes, that asterisk is intentional. See below or …

TEXT MESSAGING HAS BECOME A CASH COW for mobile operators desperate to generate revenues in mobile data. But instant messaging may be poised to change that.Mobile instant messaging, or MIM, …

America is the proverbial “melting pot,” a nation of immigrants and their neighborhoods. With greater than 80% wireless penetration, everyone needs a mobile phone. Add the complexity of the shifting …

NEW YORK CITY — The tears, deafening screams and all-around giddiness were nonstop last night as Madonna played a six-song set at the Roseland Ballroom for a select group of …

Nokia Corp. today said three new, quad-band handsets would reach market in the third quarter, but said nothing about possible deals with GSM carriers in the United States.All three offer …

Finally, the rapid collapse of an MVNO gets blamed on venture-capitalist firms placing unrealistic goals on those left managing the day-to-day operations. That’s what happened in the case of recently …

Pesky Wall Street.No matter how well you perform, the stock market – understandably, because it reflects investors’ view of future prospects – is all about “what’s next”?Qualcomm Inc., riding a …