The FCC held a hearing last week on how to regulate early termination fees, which are charges wireless customers pay to get out of their service contracts.; etf kevin martin fcc early termination fees; RCR Wireless News sister...
GoTV Networks Inc., a company that has found a considerable amount of success building a multi-platform network of video channels for mobile and online, has partnered with talent agency, CESD, to leverage its production studio with the agency's roster of talent.It appears talent agencies...
Concerts are nothing new on mobile. Sprint Nextel Corp. aired the first concert on mobile in 2005 with a huge marketing push behind a Bon Jovi concert that year. Others have followed since then.Verizon Wireless gets the nod for being the first carrier to...
A first for European consumers, free mobile TV is landing on their fingertips as 3 Italia starts offering free mobile broadcast TV, based on DVB-H. The user will be able to watch TV channels between 8 am and midnight at no extra cost.
Verizon said it will buy Alltel for $28 billion. If the deal goes through, it would create the nation's largest carrier with a combined subscriber base of more than 80 million customers.; verizon alltel acquisition merger; Sprint is...
One of the first of many native third-party apps to show at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference will be an iPhone version of Sling Media's well-known remote TV viewing utility.
New research from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) reveals that digital media is fast becoming the medium of choice for sports fans and pushing the boundaries of media convergence across TV, internet and mobile.
Calton Hill, a UK based software house has developed mobile phone and memory card software that allows people to watch the movies on mobile phones with the film studio retaining full copyright protection.
Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. Top stories this week include China's 3G moves, the future of mobile marketing, and a look at what to do with the D Block.
China eyes 3G
The Chinese government finally announced plans to roll out 3G technology in...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - A pair of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group executives didn't paint such a rosy picture for mobile in a keynote here at the MEFCON conference.Thomas Gewecke, president of the division, said the digital video market is about a $2...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - The writing team of Terry Rossio and Jocelyn Stamat wasn't allowed to write during the 100-day-long writer's strike that ended last February, but they were able to think and imagine - and that's exactly what they did.Enter "HighSpeed Dating,"...
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. In the coming weeks look for columns from NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's...
Perhaps no U.S. carrier has pushed the mobile data envelope like Sprint Nextel. But maybe the operator pushed a little too early.Sprint launched its first streaming video offering more than five years ago - five years! - and within months had trotted out two...
Mobile TV, hyped by the wireless industry as one of the next big things for years, is still a tiny market in the US (Yes, we know -- it's big in Asia. But so was this .) Will it ever take off? Do most...
If you're looking for a post-Memorial-Day summer project, listen up: Avot Media has started testing a service at Home Depot that allows mobile users to access instructional videos, MediaPost reports.
Welcome to the first edition of our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. Each Monday, RCR Wireless News will provide a video roundup of the top stories in the wireless industry, with all of the clarity and analysis you've come...
A handful of mobile players are trying to cram the silver screen onto the third screen. But whether there's a business case to be made for mobile movies is far from clear. The first wireless films came online for U.S. consumers in December 2005...
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 us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
NEW YORK - Hulu, the video website owned by News and NBC Universal, said its service will be distributed on seven new sites, making its archive of popular television shows more widely available.
NEW YORK When word came down on March 12 that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was going to resign after revelations that he'd paid more than $80,000 for sex, Jeff Blackwell of the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle grabbed his video camera and headed...
User-generated video content has proved more popular than expected, with significant growth in China, according to a new report from In-Stat.Higher-quality content and increasing file size maximums will push the demands of bandwidth to a faster growth rate than the number of files/videos served,...
