AT&T Mobility has revamped its prepaid play with a new add-on package options for its GoPhone Pay As You Go customers.GoPhone users can now choose a calling package of 3,000 off-peak minutes for $20. Messaging packages (which include SMS, IM and MMS) range from...
Virgin Mobile in the United Kingdom said it as has tapped InfoSpace Inc. to provide a suite of mobile search and Internet services.InfoSpace said it will power a mobile search offering for the United Kingdom's largest mobile virtual network operator, allowing users to look...
Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection over the weekend, claiming its back-end systems have been unable to keep up with the company's rapid growth. The MVNO said in a statement that it expects to continue normal operations during the...
Mobile search startup JumpTap Inc. expanded its relationship with mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. with a local search application.The white-label offering, which launches this week, delivers local business listings as well as driving directions and local maps. JumpTap has powered an...
Yet another executive is exiting through Sprint Nextel Corp.'s revolving front-office door.The carrier said last week that Mark Schweitzer will step down from his post as chief marketing officer at the end of the month. Tim Kelly, who currently oversees the operator's Customer Management...
Investment capital continued to flow into the mobile social networking space as two new startups closed their first rounds of funding.Project Goth, which operates the "global mobile Internet community" mig33, said it pocketed $10 million in a first round of funding led by Accel...
Intercasting Corp. announced that it raised $12 million in a second round of funding. The San Diego-based company said it will use the money to expand on carrier-based distribution and partners for its mobile social networking application, Rabble, and its social networking service gateway,...
Investment capital continued to flow into the mobile social networking space as two new startups closed their first rounds of funding.Project Goth, which operates the "global mobile Internet community" mig33, said it pocketed $10 million in a first round of funding led by Accel...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc., the first mobile virtual network operator to launch in the United States, filed for an initial public offering in a move that signals the maturation of the MVNO segment of the wireless market in the United States in general and...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc., the first mobile virtual network operator to launch in the United States, filed for an initial public offering in a move that signals the maturation of the MVNO segment of the wireless market in the United States in general and...
Even in the confusing, clinical world of mobile software terms, the term "speech-recognition technology" draws yawns. Lately, though, it's also drawing a flood of investment money.Speech-recognition developers for years were the Eli Mannings of the wireless world, failing to live up to loads of...
ORLANDO, Fla.-What would a CTIA Wireless event be without lots of carrier news. Sure, the big operators typically garner the limelight, but smaller players were also in the house and making news of their own.Virgin Mobile USAVirgin Mobile USA L.L.C. said it plans to...
Daniel Neal is CEO of kajeet Inc., a mobile virtual network operator targeting the 'tween market and aiming, as he likes to say, to "super-serve kids" with a wireless service that takes into consideration their aspirations for adult devices ("They don't want four-button kiddie...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. will offer multimedia messaging for as low as one cent per message, following up on the success of its penny-texting bundles. Beginning April 10, customers who sign up for one of three levels of messaging packs: a $2 per...
Regional, flat-rate carrier Revol has started testing an advertising-supported wireless service that allows users to get a discount on their bills if they agree to receive content, advertising and promotional offers on their phones.Privately held Revol said it initially plans to trial the service,...
Regional, flat-rate carrier Revol has started testing an advertising-supported wireless service that allows users to get a discount on their monthly bills if they agree to receive content, advertising and promotional offers on their phones.Privately held Revol will initially trial the service for 60...
Starent Networks Corp. filed plans for an initial public offering. The company hopes to raise $115 million, according to reports.The infrastructure software developer said the number of shares to be sold and the price range for the proposed IPO has not been determined. Goldman,...
Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. will soon sell a self-branded handset, made by Kyocera Wireless Corp., dubbed the Marbl for $30 to its predominantly pay-as-you-go customers.The truncated name, missing a final vowel, appears to play off Motorola Inc.'s penchant for doing the same with its...
So the latest topic of endless hype within the wireless industry seems to be ad-supported content and services. Ad-supported mobile social networking, ad-supported games, ad-supported muni Wi-Fi-the list goes on and on. I wish I could get an ad-supported assistant to sort everything out.But...
Nuance Communications Inc. said it will spend $140 million to acquire BeVocal, a fellow developer of speech-recognition software.Nuance announced plans to issue roughly 8.3 million common shares and spend $15 million for BeVocal, which offers speech-based customer care solutions to wireless companies. The Burlington,...
Content aggregators are fleeing the ringtone dance floor and scrambling to develop different types of content and build new business models.The latest vendor to read the writing on the wall is Moderati Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based ringtone provider. The company this week should...
With the ever-expanding mobile entertainment space in full view, wireless carriers are working feverishly to bring their customers enhanced access to the social networking sites of their choosing. There's money to be made on all sides, and not just with the household-name variety like...
The latest cellphone accessoryA variety of online retailers are offering seat-belt covers that incorporate a pocket to hold mobile phones and headsets. Amazon.com offers the Vizion Seat Belt Cover With Cell Phone Holder for $5. The product also is touted to protect the neck...
Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. unveiled a new high-end option for customers who want to do a lot of talking without a contract.For $100 per month, Virgin Mobile USA users will get 1,000 anytime minutes and unlimited night and weekend calling, with night off-peak calling...
