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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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 mobile banking and payments space continues to gather momentum, with banks exploring and announcing new services, and solutions providers forging new partnerships to enable the applications.Just within the past …

Qwest Communications International Inc.’s new CEO takes the helm of a company that has weathered financial storms, been through a turn-around that included selling off its wireless network and forging …

LG Electronics Co. scored a pair of carrier wins last week spanning the range of wireless offerings. One of the deals was with the industry’s largest player and long-time LG …

A mistake in a media report earlier this month suggesting that Nokia Corp. had sold as many as 450,000 units of its high-end N95 handset in the United States during …

Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. added to its handset vendor list by announcing plans to add LG Electronics Co.’s “Aloha” handset to its lineup later this month. The handset, which is …

Travel planning and roadside assistance organization AAA unveiled a downloadable application that offers drivers access to turn-by-turn directions and AAA services via mobile phone. Jeff Green, managing director of location-based …

AT&T Mobility is hawking its MobiTV, XM Radio Mobile and music portal services with the launch of LG Electronics Co.’s new trax handset, an HSDPA-enabled, clamshell-style handset. The handset will …

Qwest Communications International Inc. named Edward Mueller its new chief executive officer. Mueller is a veteran of the telecom industry and former CEO of Williams-Sonoma. Qwest’s current CEO Richard Notebaert, …

The piling on began early last Friday as Verizon Wireless, then Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Mobility all announced they would carry Motorola Inc.’s Razr2 handset, with launches beginning at …

It’s hard to find a mobile executive these days who doesn’t speak affectionately about mobile advertising and the new gateways it could open, but where the sweet spot lies-specifically what …

Verizon Wireless purchased the operating assets of Ramcell in Kentucky and Oregon for an undisclosed sum.The nation’s No. 2 carrier picked up Ramcell’s 51 cell sites as well as spectrum …

The nightmarish world of mobile digital rights management may have taken a small step toward sanity.Microsoft Corp. scored a big win last week, agreeing to license its PlayReady anti-software piracy …

Editor’s Note: In this monthly feature, RCR Wireless News talks to retail managers across the country to get a first-hand view of what’s hot in wireless. Despite the travails of …

Motorola Inc. is rolling the dice on a new version of its blockbuster Razr handset and its near-term fortunes may depend on achieving solid sales of the device. Sprint Nextel …

Verizon Wireless said it purchased the operating assets of regional wireless services provider Ramcell in Kentucky and Oregon for an undisclosed sum.The nation’s second-largest carrier picked up Ramcell’s 51 cell …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. …

There’s good news for a beleaguered American handset giant named Motorola Inc.The company’s Razr handset-beefed up on functionality and spun off in customized form in myriad colors for all four …

Inching closer to its long-sought goal of 40% of the global market, Nokia Corp. confirmed last week that its business is firing on nearly all cylinders.The Finnish vendor notched impressive, …

Amp’d Mobile Inc. went dark last week, after filing for bankruptcy and being unable to raise sufficient funds to carry it through reorganization.The company joins Mobile ESPN in the annals …

Verizon Wireless backed up its strong second-quarter customer numbers with solid financials and a new acquisition that will make the nation’s largest CDMA carrier a roaming provider for GSM services.The …

“There are so many channels of distribution in the U.S. market,” said Mark Howell, Co-COO Brightpoint Inc., President Americas, the world’s largest independent distributor of handsets. Indeed, Howell should know, …

Nokia Corp. reported strong financial and market share numbers for the second quarter, notching a two-point gain in global market share to hold 38% of the world market for mobile …

Buried deep in the support area of its Web site, iPhone maker Apple Inc. provided instructions on how to update the handset via a cabled connection to a PC. The …

Alltel Corp. reported a strong quarter in which it saw its best-ever figures in wireless service revenue and churn-but profits were down 54% from the previous year’s second quarter due …