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Despite a recent cooling off in subscriber growth, Brazil represents an increasingly attractive market for outsourced manufacturing in consumer electronics in general and mobile phones in particular. Brazil’s embrace of …

Qualcomm Inc. remains positive about its business prospects this quarter, even as it girds for an unprecedented procession of litigation. The chip maker is scheduled to appear in court in …

Sprint Nextel Corp. and Nokia Corp. are partnering to launch the carrier’s mobile WiMAX network in four Texas markets to provide customers with wireless broadband access. Nokia said it will …

When a company wants to reinvigorate a business, heads often roll. A glance at the world’s top handset vendors-bedeviled by the market’s vagaries and slowing growth-reflects the pervasiveness of this …

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. Cingular Wireless L.L.C., now …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

Online mobile phone retailer Wirefly, a site operated by InPhonic Inc., released a report on the sharp growth in smartphone sales of late. The company said smartphone sales have increased …

Yahoo Inc. inked a deal to deploy its Go for Mobile 2.0 offering on Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile devices.The Internet giant is partnering with Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp., the …

“Consolidation” is a well-worn phrase in business circles because it politely masks the fact that someone probably is going to get it in the neck.Typically, that means workers get hurt, …

Verizon Wireless launched its streaming mobile TV service last week with little of the expected fanfare. The service, dubbed Vcast Mobile TV, uses MediaFLO USA Inc.’s technology and network, with …

ED ZANDER, MOTOROLA INC.’S CEO, is under pressure. And it shows. The first statement is a widely recognized fact and the second is an impression-but both were palpable during Zander’s …

The squeeze is on as the mobile handset business matures, growth slows and the pace of consolidation picks up.One sign of the increasing pressures, even at the world’s largest handset …

Three of the top six handset vendors in the world lost market share last year, as did the “other” category that captures the multitude of second-tier vendors determined to swim …

Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. added a new phone to its lineup, the “Heat” from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The slider-style phone supports Helio’s full-track music download service and …

Nokia Corp. may take advantage of Motorola Inc.’s current financial and portfolio weaknesses by lowering its handset prices incrementally, which could drive further consolidation among the industry’s smaller, weaker vendors, …

Verizon Wireless has launched mobile TV service using MediaFLO USA Inc.’s technology and network, initially offering the service in 20 markets across the United States from Richmond, Va., to Portland, …

Verizon Wireless will begin offering mobile television on March 1, according to coverage maps on the carrier’s Web site. No further details were offered, and the maps offered the caveat …

Slim, shiny, clever devices dazzle and delight-impressions that all the major handset makers are capable of producing in a mobile phone. As carriers manage their handset portfolios, they see in …

Sprint Nextel Corp. this past week made increased efforts to work its online retail handset angle. The carrier added at least four new handsets in the entry- and low-tiers, cut …

Sprint Nextel Corp. this past week made increased efforts to work its online retail handset angle. The carrier added at least four new handsets in the entry- and low-tiers, cut …

BARCELONA, Spain-While Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s announcement last week that it planned to use Qualcomm Inc.’s MediaFLO network to launch a mobile television service later this year cemented the technology as …

The search for hotties never ends.Hot wireless markets, that is, with potential growth in first-time subscribers and prospects for high volumes of relatively low-cost handset sales, market share and, possibly, …

At the 3GSM World Congress, as at other major industry confabs, there are gadgets galore. And then there are the market-based strategies and financial plans behind them. Attempting to translate …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. touted a handful of high- to mid-tier handsets at the outset of the 3GSM World Congress and duly gained attention for its technical prowess. Tucked away …

Apple Inc. has requested more time to respond to Cisco System’s lawsuit over the iPhone name, according to Cisco.The new deadline for an agreement is Feb. 21. The previous deadline …