OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Embarq Corp. plans to offer its wireless customers push-to-talk services and parental controls on a Sanyo Corp. 2400 mobile phone. Embarq, which has a mobile virtual network operator relationship with Sprint Nextel Corp. after being spun off from the larger company earlier...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Embarq Corp. plans to offer its wireless customers push-to-talk services and parental controls on a Sanyo Corp. 2400 mobile phone. Embarq, which has a mobile virtual network operator relationship with Sprint Nextel Corp. after being spun off from the larger company earlier...
It may have been a blip on the radar screen of the global handset industry, but the screams were heard around the world. When BenQ Corp. announced recently that it would no longer inject money into its BenQ-Siemens handset business, headquartered in Munich, Germany—a...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it will soon begin selling three of Motorola Inc.’s popular slim phones, a move those in the industry had long expected. The announcement boosts Motorola’s position in the United States and gives Sprint Nextel a potential shot in...
SEOUL-South Korea's Pantech & Curitel Communications Inc. will provide its portfolio of CDMA-based handsets to UTStarcom Inc. for sale in North America under a three-year agreement, the company announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Pantech already is a leading supplier of CDMA handsets...
SEOUL—South Korea’s Pantech & Curitel Communications Inc. will provide its portfolio of CDMA-based handsets to UTStarcom Inc. for sale in North America under a three-year agreement, the company announced.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Pantech already is a leading supplier of CDMA handsets to...
Nokia Corp.'s strategy to regain a dominant market share in the United States will be driven by forthcoming product launches that will strengthen its hand against its arch-rival Motorola Inc., according to Tim Eckersley, senior vice president for Nokia Americas. Those product launches—"there are...
BRISTOL, Conn.-Mobile ESPN L.L.C. reported plans to offer college football fans the chance to watch up to 25 live games each month during the season from their Mobile ESPN wireless phones. The mobile virtual network operator announced that it will offer live video from...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. said it plans to launch Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd.'s Katana handset to its customers nationwide. The Katana, or model 6600, is a thin, clamshell phone that more than nods at Motorola Inc.'s Razr. "Katana," Sanyo points out, is the name...
DENVER—Qwest Communications International Inc. said it plans to launch Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Katana handset to its customers nationwide, beginning tomorrow. The Katana, or model 6600, is a thin, clamshell phone that more than nods at Motorola Inc.’s Razr. "Katana," Sanyo points out, is...
BRISTOL, Conn.—Mobile ESPN L.L.C. reported plans to offer college football fans the chance to watch up to 25 live games each month during the season from their Mobile ESPN wireless phones. The mobile virtual network operator announced that it will offer live video from...
BenQ Corp. announced it will spend an additional $400 million on its handset business-BenQ Mobile, which ranks just below the world's top five handset vendors-while spinning off non-mobile businesses to strengthen the handset brand. The electronics firm has been making LCD monitors for Dell...
TAPEI, Taiwan—BenQ Corp. announced it will spend an additional $400 million on its handset business BenQ Mobile—which ranks just below the world’s top five handset vendors—while spinning off other non-mobile businesses to strengthen the handset brand. The electronics firm has been making LCD monitors...
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.-American consumers spent about $4.4 billion on 67 million mobile phones in the first half of the year, according to The NPD Group. Motorola Inc. captured 32-percent market share, or nearly one-third of those sales, double the market share of its nearest...
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.—American consumers spent about $4.4 billion on 67 million mobile phones in the first half of the year, according to The NPD Group. Motorola Inc. captured 32 percent market share, or nearly one-third of those sales, double the market share of its...
Research In Motion Ltd. will likely continue to dominate the high-end mobile e-mail market, according to Strategy Analytics. But the growing number of open-standard service providers will drive the market in the long term, the market research firm predicted. The BlackBerry maker's market share...
TOKYO—KDDI Corp. is reportedly working with Toshiba Corp., Sanyo Electric Co. and Qualcomm Inc. to develop a common operating system for mobile phones to cut the cost of developing new handsets, according to a Reuters report. The four companies will also work on software...
The competitive landscape for the world's top five mobile-phone vendors at mid-year has come into clearer focus with second-quarter earnings already reported or expected this week. The plot has thickened perhaps, while not varying much from earlier episodes of this long-running, global industry serial....
After entering the mobile virtual network operator space with naked ambition, a $500 Sanyo Corp. handset (the "MVP") and a take-the-world-by-storm marketing spend, Walt Disney Co.-owned Mobile ESPN L.L.C. has regrouped. Results have not met expectations for the lucrative sports news franchise-gone-mobile, or in...
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 RCR to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
OVERLAND PARK—Sprint Nextel Corp. has begun selling a co-branded, slim clamshell phone with an internal antenna from Sanyo Corp., according to the carrier’s Web site. The phone appears to be the first Sanyo slim phone sold by the handset manufacturer’s exclusive U.S. retail partner...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. has added a Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. handset to its lineup that includes a free parental control feature that allows parents to limit incoming and outgoing calls to a list that can be programmed into the phone. The SCP-2400...
In a move that said much about Nokia Corp.'s new leadership as well as the fragmented global market for CDMA handsets, the global leader in mobile phones said it would dissolve its joint venture with Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. and instead pursue CDMA in...
ESPOO, Finland—What a difference four months can make, especially in the hyper-competitive pursuit of global domination in a burgeoning business. Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. announced they will not proceed with the joint venture for CDMA phones they announced in February. In...
