New app stores and smartphone platforms are dominating the news out of Mobile World Congress this week, but it's a quiet little mobile marketing initiative U.S. carriers will be monitoring closely in coming weeks.Europe's GSM Association is leading a group of carriers that plans...
With Sprint Nextel Corp. continuing to struggle, rumors have been flying regarding possible extreme measures the industry's No. 3 carrier might have to take to right the ship. One that popped up in the Kansas Business Journal had the carrier looking at...
Sprint Nextel Corp., which continues to wedge itself in as the cheaper wireless solution, has put two of its popular plans together and taken $10 off the total price.The carrier announced its new offering, Simply Everything + Mobile Broadband, which bundles the two services...
The GSM Association and five European carriers are hoping to spur mobile marketing with a common system for measuring activity on the wireless Web.Orange, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Vodafone and 3 are behind an effort to share "anonymized" user data with the industry association in...
Messaging company Acision said Sprint has deployed its advanced messaging infrastructure within its network.Acision said the solution allows the carrier to provide seamless messaging service even during high-usage and peak periods of messaging."In 2008, the industry reached a milestone with over 2 trillion messaging...
The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility remain deadlocked over a new contract covering more than 20,000 workers employed by the No. 2 wireless provider. The labor-management faceoff is playing out as the Democratic-led Congress prepares to revisit highly combustible legislation to make...
With WiMAX being deployed all around the world, Intel Corp. officials are satisfied with the progress the technology has made in the United States and are hopeful federal stimulus funds can help accelerate the technology's deployment. Sean Maloney, Intel EVP, said this week that...
The one-time rock of the wireless industry appears set to crumble. And I think that crumbling can't come soon enough. That rock is postpaid, contract-encumbered rate plans. These were necessary evils when the industry was rife with hundreds of wireless operators, each trying to...
Boost Mobile's decision to refocus its efforts on parent company Sprint Nextel Corp.'s iDEN network may be just what the doctor ordered - or a way to make the iDEN network a more attractive acquisition target.After launching a trial of an unlimited offering on...
Alltel Communications L.L.C customers can relax; Verizon Wireless announced it will offer its own version of Alltel's long-standing MyCircle calling plan, just with a different name. Ever since Verizon Wireless announced it would acquire Alltel, customers and industry watchers began to wonder if the...
Verizon Wireless updated its InPulse prepaid offering with two new options and the extension of free weekend minutes to existing prepaid customers enrolled in the Plus plan. The pair of new offerings are dubbed Prepaid Unlimited Talk and Prepaid Basic. For a $4 daily...
New wireless technology to be central to broadband expansion
Verizon Wireless is set to unveil further details of its highly anticipated LTE rollout at next week's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain.
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Leap Wireless International Inc. is bringing music to the masses, or at least those wireless consumers packing its Cricket devices.Despite the languid adoption of full-track mobile music download services, the no-contract carrier jumped into the mobile music field today with its Cricket Mobile Music...
Qwest Communications International Inc.'s fourth-quarter net income dropped 50% as a decline in land-line customers pressured voice-segment results. The company said it cut 1,700 jobs in the quarter -- more than it had originally forecast.
The Communications Workers of America and AT&T Mobility failed to reach an agreement over the weekend on a new contract covering 20,000 wireless workers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Mountain States and West Coast. However, the dispute has yet to materialize into a strike...
If Verizon Wireless completes the acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C the same way it has with previous purchases, there are a few certainties: the network comes first and don't expect the Alltel brand to morph into Verizon Wireless overnight. For example, the carrier closed...
Vodafone, the world's largest wireless carrier, and Hutchison Telecommunications, a unit controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said Monday they will merge their telecommunications businesses in Australia, forging an equal-share wireless operator.
Communications Workers of America members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike on behalf of more than 20,000 unionized AT&T Mobility employees if concerns about compensation, employment and working conditions are not adequately addressed in upcoming negotiations over a new contract. "For AT&T Mobility members,...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. eked out a slim lead in market share over Motorola Inc. in the United States last year, in part due to the latter's fading fortunes, according to new numbers from IDC.Where Samsung showed 15.5% year-on-year growth between 2007 and 2008,...
Betting that a touchscreen interface and high-resolution camera phone will lead to more photo-sharing - and accompanying data revenue - T-Mobile USA Inc. said today it would soon launch Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s Memoir.The carrier has not provided pricing or a launch date for...
AT&T Mobility filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court to crack down on autodial telemarketers offering wireless consumers extended automobile warranties, making it the second national wireless operator to pursue litigation to halt the practice. The carrier's lawsuit alleges the telemarketers used spoofing techniques...
Following a lengthy legal process, the Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois has ordered Sprint Nextel Corp. to sell all Nextel operations in affiliate iPCS Inc.'s service areas. Sprint Nextel has 360 days to get rid of the iDEN network in the areas. The...
According to a Wall Street Journal report this morning, AT&T Inc. is very interested in acquiring network assets and customers Verizon Wireless has to divest as part of its acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. Other reported interested parties include a pair of private-equity...
T-Mobile USA Inc. scored a 755 out of 1,000 possible points in J.D. Power and Associates latest wireless customer care performance study, the highest out of all carriers tested. The No. 4 carrier beat out Verizon Wireless, which previously topped the survey.This time, T-Mobile...
