Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian might think all of the content that wireless subscribers can get on their cellphones is pretty neat, but not if mobile operators and content providers expect consumers to pay multiple times for the same thing."Consumers are at a point...
If you own the platform, you control the message.That's not some esoteric, technological mumbo-jumbo-though you'll hear plenty of that this week-but one take on Symbian Ltd.'s position as sponsor of the Smartphone Summit, which allows the company to spin the data on its fortunes.While...
Data is a damnable thing. It is what it is, but the devil's in the interpretation.The same could be said for the Apple Inc. iPhone, hailed as a disruptive force that could change the handset vendor-network operator business model and pave the way for.Well,...
AT&T Mobility's data traffic is "growing like crazy," according to Mark Collins, the carrier's VP of consumer data. But whether users will actually pay for this stuff is still far from clear.Collins touted AT&T's "quite staggering" growth in messaging, and continued to hammer away...
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. announced a new line-up of handsets as well as an expanded retail effort. The MVNO's new handsets include the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. m300, an $80 phone available in...
A true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not enough proof for you. The New York Racing Association signed a three-year deal with Sona Mobile Holdings to provide a...
Signs are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last year. T-Mobile USA Inc. confirmed that it has begun offering its first 3G handset to customers in New York, although...
The worldwide mobile music market will more than double in the next few years, exploding from $13.7 billion this year to more than $32 billion by 2010, according to Gartner Inc.But splitting up all that cash won't be easy.While boilerplate agreements don't exist in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
AT&T Mobility left nothing to chance in its quest for 700 MHz spectrum. The nation's No. 1 carrier agreed last week to shell out $2.5 billion in cash for 700 MHz licenses from Aloha Partners L.P. in advance of the upcoming Federal Communications Commission's...
With the content-centered, postpaid mobile virtual network operator market in decline, analysts have already begun talking about the next evolution of the MVNO model. Apple Inc.'s iPhone is one example. So is recently launched Sonopia.Juha Christensen, CEO of Sonopia, compares his company to credit...
Mobile advertising recently got a boost from two announcements: the launch of advertising-subsidized mobile access to MySpace.com, and the advent of a U.K. mobile virtual network operator offering free wireless calls in exchange for viewing ads.Both developments offer new avenues for brands seeking to...
Tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. is trying to snap up customers who must leave lame-duck MVNO Disney Mobile, which is slated to be shut down at the end of December. Kajeet, a pay-as-you-go service with parental controls on when and how the...
AT&T Mobility said it will pay $2.5 billion in cash for all of Aloha Partners L.P.'s 700 MHz spectrum, apparently signaling Aloha's exit from the mobile broadcast space.AT&T, which said it remains committed to using Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO network for multimedia wireless broadcasts, said...
Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. isn't losing track of its core market. The MVNO announced a new deal with KushTV to bring the multiplatform network's original made-for-mobile episodic series to Helio's content-loving subscribers. "KushTV has earned a reputation for bringing great episodic series...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is facing increased congressional pressure to re-regulate the special-access market dominated by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., with Sprint Nextel Corp. Chairman Gary Forsee warning lawmakers that excessively high rates for high-capacity dedicated lines could hinder large-scale...
So the big mouse has left the wireless house.Just over a year after unveiling its mobile virtual network operator plans in a fireworks-studded event at the CTIA show in the spring of 2006, the Walt Disney Co. decided to pull the plug on its...
THE MOBILE-PHONE INDUSTRY FINDS ITSELF ADRIFT in a sea of uncertainty as the 2008 election year approaches, with litigation, legislation and other factors casting a collective cloud over spectrum auctions critical to rollout of next-generation wireless services and the existing regulatory regime.Competition for new...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Verizon Wireless' emergency motion for fast-track treatment of its challenge to the Federal Communication Commission's open-access rule, increasing the likelihood that litigation will remain in play in the lead up to the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
Adobe Systems Inc. released a new version of its Flash software for mobile phones.The company released Flash Lite 3, which is designed to allow wireless users to view Flash-enabled Web sites and video content on their phones. Both Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Finland's Nokia...
Xero Mobile Inc., the mobile virtual network operator in terminal pre-launch mode, is being eyed by ROK Entertainment Group.ROK CEO Laurence Alexander said he is negotiating to acquire Xero, which has long planned-and, thus far, failed-to deploy an ad-subsidized service for college students. Xero...
Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News runs through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what to look for in the coming weeks, months and years. Check below for news about...
"The horse is out of the stable, it's running around the track and there isn't another one in sight," Barry West, president of Xohm and CTO of Sprint Nextel Corp., said in his Wednesday morning keynote at WiMAX World USA. "There is really only...
