Alltel Corp. announced it will offer a new “Day Pass” service for wireless Web browsing. For $1.50, Alltel customers will be able to buy a 24-hour pass to Alltel’s Axcess wireless Web service.“Alltel continues to offer services that allow customers to easily integrate mobile content into their daily lives,” said Wade McGill, senior VP of [...]

Mobile messaging company SinglePoint is teaming with Mobile Interactive Group to expand its interactive television campaigns in the United States.The Seattle-area company said it will use MIG’s high-speed SMS voting platform as well as an interactive TV application designed to deliver targeted messages to consumers. SinglePoint, which last year rebranded from Wireless Services Corp., powers [...]

Ed Whitacre announced that he will retire as CEO and chairman of the board at AT&T Inc. effective June 3. The 65-year-old is the longest-serving CEO in the telecommunications industry, having served as chairman and CEO of Southwestern Bell since 1990. When he took the reins 17 years ago Southwestern Bell was the smallest of [...]

Dobson Communications Corp. announced that its treasurer Richard Sewell died the evening of April 26. CFO Bruce Knooihuizen will manage Dobson’s treasury activities on an interim basis, the company announced.“Apart from his many significant contributions to Dobson in his professional capacity as treasurer, Richard was a source of wisdom, encouragement and good counsel to many [...]

Nokia Corp., the world’s leading handset maker, is taking a new direction on its estimated $300 million-plus review of its advertising account. Nokia is dividing the pitch into two parts: creative and creative strategy and network distribution. Three advertising firms are participating for each piece of the business. WPP Group’s JWT, along with independents Wieden [...]

Mobile search provider V-Enable Inc. announced it has appointed Emerick Woods to serve as CEO of the company. Woods most recently served as president and CEO of Aligo Inc.“Emerick’s wealth of knowledge and management experience, in addition to his ability to build lasting businesses while satisfying network-carrier customers, is a tremendous asset and resource to [...]

Qualcomm Inc. said it signed a deal to license its OFDM/OFDMA technology to Hamburg, Germany-based 4G Systems to produce modem cards and routers for wireless broadband access.The deal appears to be part of an effort on Qualcomm’s part to establish a stable of vendors with royalty-bearing license agreements in OFDM/OFDMA technology, perhaps to bolster its [...]

Carl Icahn is gaining support from Motorola Inc. shareholders, increasing the likelihood the activist investor will land a seat on the company’s board next week. Despite CEO Edward Zander’s recent lobbying of large investors, some say they welcome Icahn’s influence at Motorola, which posted a loss for the first three months of this year on [...]

Verizon Wireless again staked its claim as the industry’s fastest growing wireless carrier posting 1.7 million net customer additions during the first quarter. Larger rival AT&T Inc. last week posted 1.2 million net additions for the quarter in its wireless division, and analysts expect No. 3 carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. and No. 4 carrier T-Mobile [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Jupiter Research’s Julie Ask, Current Analysis’ Avi Greengart and iGR’s Iain Gillott. Despite its ubiquity in modern [...]