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Crown Castle International Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. are placing huge bets on mobile TV, spending a combined $1.3 billion to build networks dedicated almost entirely to one-way wireless video. Traditional …

NEW YORK-MTV Networks isn’t putting all its eggs in the basket of a single mobile virtual network operator. The Viacom Inc. subsidiary said it plans to build on its partnership …

If Amp’d Mobile Inc.’s bargain-basement full-track download music service was designed to get attention, it’s working. The recently launched mobile virtual network operator made headlines a few weeks ago when …

Mobile virtual network operator Amp’d Mobile Inc. last week made its long-awaited and much-hyped soft launch. The carrier is offering a range of postpaid calling services, including an unlimited calling …

LOS ANGELES-MTV Networks will invest $50 million in Amp’d Mobile Inc. and will work with the mobile virtual network operator to offer both repurposed and exclusive, made-for-mobile content from MTV, …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it plans to launch eight new mobile TV channels including wireless versions of HBO, MTV and Twentieth Century Fox Television. The new video content will be …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it plans to launch eight new mobile TV channels including wireless versions of HBO, MTV and Twentieth Century Fox Television. The new video content will be …

Like European missionaries of centuries past, Bango came to U.S. shores last week preaching the gospel. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company held events in Southern California and New York to tout …

NEW YORK-MTV Networks International and Motorola Inc. launched a series of eight comedy shorts created exclusively for mobile phones. “Head and Body,” which depicts a character with a detached head, …

NEW YORK-MTV Networks International and Motorola Inc. launched a series of eight comedy shorts created exclusively for mobile phones. “Head and Body,” which depicts a character with a detached head, …

KINGSTON, Jamaica-Cable & Wireless said it will offer exclusive Motorola Inc. handsets pre-loaded with content from Tempo via its Bmobile service in the Caribbean. Tempo is the new MTV network …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. reported a deal with MTV Networks to supply MTV Networks’ brands and programming direct to Sprint Nextel customers using CDMA-based multimedia phones. The programming will …

Most industry insiders look at wireless and see the future. Van Toffler looks at wireless and sees 1981. The president of MTV Networks Music Groups unveiled a deal to create …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-MTV Networks International is teaming with VeriSign Inc.’s mobile content subsidiaries to study the international wireless entertainment market, the companies said Thursday. Jamster! and Jamba! will join the …

ESPOO, Finland-Finnish broadcaster YLE is powering what it said is the first live TV broadcast for mobile users at an international sporting event. The company is delivering footage from the …

NEW YORK-MTV Networks is developing an in-house text-messaging platform that will deliver content from the company’s cable channels to U.S. wireless users. The Viacom network is planning to offer cross-carrier …

The coming surge of mobile virtual network operators will target virtually every demographic, from ethnic groups to sports fans to rural users. But no group of consumers is being courted …

TOKYO-MTV Network will launch a subscription-based mobile entertainment service in Japan by the end of the month, the Viacom Inc. subsidiary said Thursday. Flux, which is expected to launch June …

BEIJING-China Mobile’s 220 million subscribers will be able to access content from MTV networks under an agreement announced Thursday. Beginning May 1, subscribers of China’s largest wireless carrier can download …

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. will provide daily downloadable video content including news, sports and entertainment programming for Windows Mobile-based devices, the company announced. MSN Video Downloads will deliver a subscription-based mobile …

Microsoft Corp. will provide daily downloadable video content including news, sports and entertainment programming for Windows Mobile-based devices, the company announced Wednesday. MSN Video Downloads will deliver a subscription-based mobile …

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Internet marketing company Smart Entertainment said it will team with noted producer Larry Klein on mobile marketing campaigns. The joint venture will spawn a new company that will use …

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Internet marketing company Smart Entertainment said it will team with noted producer Larry Klein on mobile marketing campaigns. The joint venture will spawn a new company that will use …

The news that Microsoft Corp. will join Nokia Corp. to deliver a mobile-music platform may have been among the more startling developments at last week’s 3GSM World Congress, but it …

As evidenced by the vast popularity of gadgets like Apple’s iPod, the demand for portable digital music is as obvious as it is universal. But how-and how well-the wireless industry …