Monthly Archives: July, 2007
NBC goes all in with Verizon Wireless’ Vcast
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Verizon Wireless and NBC Universal have expanded on their already far-reaching relationship to offer customers access to the network's entire suite of channels on...
SunCom boosts ARPU, churn and losses in Q2
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SunCom Wireless Inc. posted shaky results for the second quarter. The rural carrier showed improvements in its average revenue per user, but its churn...
Wall Street punishes Alcatel-Lucent for continued losses
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Alcatel-Lucent reported $5.93 billion in revenues for the second quarter of 2007, marking a 4% decline from the year-ago quarter. The company's stock slid...
AT&T Mobility taps eMusic for OTA music offering
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AT&T Mobility is teaming with independent distributor eMusic to add over-the-air downloads to its mobile music offering.The carrier introduced a $7.50 monthly subscription service...
Prexar Mobile acquires Amp’d customers
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As a service shut-off deadline looms, Amp'd Mobile Inc. customers now have an out: Prexar Mobile, a small mobile virtual network operator managed by...
Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent and more
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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...
Buzzwire launches beta service
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Mobile phone service Buzzwire launched its beta service, the company announced. The company lets users create a lineup of video and audio feeds from...
Slimming down the market
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It's been a tough couple of weeks in the mobile content space.Crown Castle International Corp. fled the nascent mobile TV market last week, absorbing...
Margin Check: MySpace, in-game advertising, mobile newspapers and more
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Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the...
T-Mobile USA tweaks business plan pricing
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T-Mobile USA Inc. pared down the number of business plans offered on its Web site, eliminating price points of $40 and $50 a month....
Startups: embrace change
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Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group...
REVIEW: Mobile e-mail for the rest of us
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Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll...
Congress pushes $43.5M toward E911
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Congress approved legislation that frees up $43.5 million for upgrades to 911 call centers. The measure, included in the 9/11 Commission Recommendations bill and...
Lawsuit hits Apple on iPhone battery replacement costs
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Whether Jose Trujillo of Melrose Park, Ill., will find support among fellow iPhone owners-or a court of law in Cook County, Ill.-for his just-launched...
Content was tiny portion of Amp’d budget
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Despite the widely recognized success of Amp'd Mobile Inc.'s large portfolio of original content, a source at the company has told RCR Wireless News...
T-Mobile USA cleaning up glitch in prepaid service
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T-Mobile USA Inc. ran into temporary trouble with prepaid top-up service late last week, but said that most of the problems were resolved by...
AT&T cheapens Krzr, N75
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In the Byzantine world of handset pricing, intrigue is the name of the game. What to read into the latest handset price gyrations? Our...
Investors pump $20M into Action Engine
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On-device portal developer Action Engine Corp. picked up $20 million in a funding round led by Baker Capital. On-device portals, or ODPs, are middleware...
Letter to the Editor: Breaking the Cycle
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Dear Editor,After Hurricane Katrina devastated southern Mississippi in 2005, more than $110 billion in federal assistance poured into the region, spurring reconstruction. Yet most...
VZW to pay $2.67B for Rural Cellular
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Verizon Wireless announced a $2.67 billion deal to acquire Rural Cellular Corp., one of the nation's largest rural carriers. The agreement will add RCC's...
Cable providers could look to cellular backhaul for additional revenue stream
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Cellular backhaul is one area cable network operators are examining as an alternative revenue stream, according to ABI Research.In order to supplement their income...
Weather hot in U.S., sports a hit in Europe
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Cellphone users in the United States access weather content more than any other news and information data, while European users prefer sports content, said...
Virgin Mobile USA prepares to go public: MVNO hopes to raise $500M
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WITH VIRGIN MOBILE USA L.L.C. SEEKING A $500 MILLION INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING, the company is looking to complete the first IPO of a mobile...
Modeo’s competitors keep eye on prize
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The big three in broadcast mobile TV has been cut to two rather unceremoniously with Crown Castle International Corp. bailing on its Modeo L.L.C....