Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is coming under mounting pressure to back off a controversial plan to auction a national wireless Internet license that would require the winning bidder to provide free broadband service, open access and filtering to block obscene content. But...
While wireless providers - large and small - differ on such hot-button issues as universal service support, exclusive handset arrangements and special access, the controversy over roaming has the potential to become the major fault line in the cellphone industry.The consolidation trend is making...
Apple Inc.'s iconic iPhone could become more prevalent in official Washington - especially among subway commuters - owing to House passage of an Amtrak funding bill with a provision designed to give rail customers a greater choice of mobile-phone service providers.Verizon Wireless has a...
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SET A JUNE 20 DEADLINE for public comment on D-Block revisions, but already the agency has begun receiving suggestions from industry, public safety and academics. Most filings focus on how D-Block rules can be restructured to attract bidders capable of...
Qualcomm Inc.'s annual BREW developer's conference got underway this morning, and the obligatory stream of news from the company's home base in San Diego has kicked into high gear:--Qualcomm and Adobe Systems Inc. announced a new BREW Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash technology,...
Another day, another class-action wireless consumer lawsuit. This one is big, though, naming six mobile-phone carriers and a top mobile virtual network operator as defendants in a complaint filed in Mississippi federal court."This action seeks recovery for actual and compensatory damages sustained by plaintiffs...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Lehman Brothers lowered its EPS estimates on Sprint Nextel to break even from 42 cents for 2008 and to 18 cents from 37 cents for...
While rumors swirl about a German telecom giant's interest in acquiring Sprint Nextel Corp. to become the largest-mobile phone carrier in the United States, the No. 3 U.S. cellular operator faces a more tangible challenge: a new class-action pension lawsuit with the potential to...
Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell said he supports imposing an interim cap on high-cost universal service funds primarily benefitting wireless carriers that serve rural areas, paving the way for agency approval of a policy that the mobile industry and some lawmakers assert is...
A divided Federal Communications Commission voted to impose an interim cap on high-cost universal service fund payments to competitive eligible telecommunications carriers, a blow to some smaller mobile-phone carriers that rely on subsidies to bring competitive services to underserved rural areas of the country."This...
Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell said he supports imposing an interim cap on high-cost universal service funds primarily benefitting wireless carriers serving rural areas, paving the way for agency approval of a policy that the mobile industry and some lawmakers believe is technologically...
Wireless providers continue to push back against proposed reforms to the stressed universal service program for rural America, arguing that they are being penalized at a time when consumers increasingly demand the kind of mobility and broadband capabilities that wireless technology provides.The FCC is...
NTT to test mobile aroma services Mobile music is floundering and wireless TV is struggling to gain traction. So NTT Communications is targeting users through their noses.The Japanese telecom announced plans to test a service that would allow subscribers to select and share scents...
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 contract is included when available.Cellular--Pakistan: Warid Telecom has chosen Ericsson to expand and upgrade...
If you can get Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., to extoll the virtues of your jointly developed handset during the opening day's keynote address, you're well-positioned to make hay.Thus the new Samsung Instinct - which looked similar to the iPhone - gave...
Regional wireless operator Alltel Corp. posted a strong showing in J.D. Power and Associates latest rankings of wireless call quality, taking the sole or partial top spot in three of the report's six regions. Alltel just nipped past Verizon Wireless, which was tops in...
Nortel Networks Corp. inked a five-year deal to deliver infrastructure kit for U.S. Cellular's CDMA network.U.S. Cellular said it will purchase Nortel's CDMA switching, base stations and software under terms of the deal, using the technology to deliver voice service as well as Web...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility ran the table at the 700 MHz auction, accounting for most of the record $19.6 billion in bidding that broke historic ground on open access, lost ground on public safety and gave dozens of mostly white-male-owned small businesses a...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility ran the table at the 700 MHz auction, accounting for most of the record $19.6 billion in bidding that broke historic ground on open access, lost ground on public safety and gave dozens of mostly white-male-owned small businesses a...
A blizzard of impressionsAccuWeather.com said its mobile Web site experienced a record-breaking February, with more than 32.7 million page impressions. The previous record was 31.6 million page impressions, which happened in January. The mobile site also set a new record for daily impressions at...
Aloft Media L.L.C. has sued several wireless handset giants over alleged infringement of a patent for transferring contact information using a mobile phone. Aloft Media, based in Longview, Texas, names as defendants Nokia, Motorola Inc., Palm Inc. Research in Motion Ltd. and Sony Ericsson...
Intellect Wireless Inc. has sued T-Mobile USA Inc., U.S. Cellular Corp., Virgin Mobile USA Inc. and Helio Inc. in federal court in Chicago, accusing the companies of infringing wireless image messaging patents.The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District...
U.S. Cellular Corp. reported late Friday that it added 55,000 customers to its network during the final three months of 2007, and 301,000 customers for the year, to push its total customer base to just over 6.1 million subscribers at the end of last...
Make room for one more on the dance floor. U.S. Cellular joined the army of national carriers that this week opened the floodgates on minutes by introducing unlimited calling plans for $100.Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. all announced new unlimited calling...
