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iPhone provides modest boost to AT&T results: 3G iPhone due in November?

AT&T Inc. reported a strong quarter and said its mobile division activated 146,000 Apple Inc. iPhone customers in the first day and a half of the device's release, more than 40% of whom were new customers for AT&T Mobility.That figure was far fewer than...

A&E Mobile channels go to MobiTV

A&E Television Networks has struck its first carriage deal for its made-for-mobile channels A&E Mobile and the History Channel Mobile with MobiTV."We believe our audiences are skewing younger, and we want to have our programming available to consumers in different platforms," said Paul Jelinek,...

Motorola sinks, Sony Ericsson, Samsung take up slack: More than ever, handset makers in race for profitability, market share, mind share

Like a crash by leading contenders in the Tour de France, any stumble by a leading handset vendor creates an opening for competitors.Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications apparently have instantly gobbled up the market share ceded by Motorola...

Exploiting iPhone’s Achilles’ heels: In other words, don’t panic, but find fun in phones

"Serenity now!" yelled the character George Costanza in one episode of the 1990s sitcom, "Seinfeld."Costanza's anguished cry underscored the unbridgeable gap between his desperate need for serenity and the angst that gripped his soul.A roughly analogous gap may yawn between the public serenity of...

Worst of the Week: And now, some extras

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...

Analyst: Apple deals in Europe or U.K. tough without 3G handset

Speculation has sent network operators' stock up and down, but a British analyst said yesterday that Apple Inc. had not signed any deals with Euro-operators.The sticking point, according to Bill Ray, analyst with ARChart and columnist for the online technology daily, The Register, is...

Analyst Angle: God Bless America, Land of the Free Phone

Welcome to our Monday column, Analyst Angle. Every Monday, the industry's leading analysts give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry, from carriers to content to handsets to infrastructure.The July 4th holiday is just behind us, and I'm still reveling in...

Opening weekend a blockbuster for iPhone

Tens of thousands of customers opening up their shiny, new iPhones during opening weekend experienced a different way to activate a wireless device-outside the store.Instead, customers were pointed to Apple Inc.'s iTunes for activation, in a transaction that was powered by software vendor Synchronoss...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Nokia-Siemens sent out a press release this week stating that Finnish ISP Nebula was beginning to offer "very high speed broadband Internet connections" in Helsinki. The release...

A post-iPhone world

There's been a lot of ink spilled about Apple's iPhone. And here's some more.Industry pundits have pointed out that the iPhone is like the Paris Hilton of the business industry; the topic has been blanketed by news coverage, and every aspect and angle of...

Apple grabs mind share, growth questioned

Powered by brand equity and brilliant media manipulation, Apple Inc. has parachuted into the handset business. Look out below!The company's first foray into mobile handsets has captured so much attention-the proverbial "mind share" in tech-speak-that incumbent handset vendors must respond to the challenge, according...

iPhone’s battery swap: $86 and three days

Apple Inc. provided information on how the iPhone's battery replacement will take place and how much it will cost. The iPhone vendor's choice of a sealed-in battery-the same approach used in the iPod-has generated some criticism. The battery is estimated by Apple to handle...

Worst of the Week: Aye Carumba!

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...

Some House Commerce Committee members go on record opposing Frontline plan

More than a dozen House Commerce Committee lawmakers urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to reject Frontline Wireless L.L.C.'s push to have the agency create a national 700 MHz commercial-public safety broadband license with an open-access component."We believe that it is worth considering...

iPhone guts show sky-high margins for Apple

Initial research into the guts of Apple Inc.'s iPhone shows Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Infineon Technologies AG as two of the major component suppliers for the much-hyped device. But figures from tear-down firm iSuppli Corp. reveal that Apple itself is the true victor,...

AT&T Mobility’s network pushed over the EDGE

Four days after launching the data-centric Apple Inc. iPhone, AT&T Mobility struggled with a regional crash of its EDGE network for several hours on Monday-but the carrier said the problem was with a data center in Texas, and had nothing to do with the...

Nokia picks new agency for $300M advertising account

Nokia Corp. named Wieden & Kennedy as the lead strategic and creative agency for its estimated $300 million mobile phones advertising account, following a review. Wieden's first ads for Nokia's cellphones are expected to air early next year. Wieden, working through its London office,...

Margin Check: Emerging media, SmartAds, Nintendo’s Wii and more

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 RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--New numbers...

Activation issues aside, AT&T Mobility pleased with iPhone response

AT&T Mobility saw a few bumps in activations with the massive demand for the Apple Inc. iPhone, but analysts estimated that eager customers snapped up between 500,000 and 700,000 of the devices during its high-profile opening weekend-putting the device well on its way to...

AT&T to buy Dobson for $2.8B

AT&T Inc. said it will acquire regional carrier Dobson Communications Corp. for about $2.8 billion.Dobson serves more than 60 rural and suburban markets in 17 states in the Midwest and South under the Cellular One brand. The carrier counts 1.7 million customers and covers...

Analyst Angle: The IMS effect on network bandwidth

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 Current Analysis' Avi Greengart, Compete's Miro...

AT&T Mobility, VZW boost network speeds

AT&T Mobility said it put $50 million into data network preparations ahead of the launch of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, increasing network capacity and pushing its EDGE network from "good EDGE" to "fine EDGE," as the carrier put it. One of the major criticisms of...

iPhone to go on sale today

Apple Inc.'s iPhone goes on sale tonight at 6 p.m. The hype surrounding the device has reached a fevered pitch, as lines have begun forming outside Apple and AT&T Mobility stores in cities across the country. Indeed, the release of the iPhone is perhaps...

Worst of the Week: National iPhone Appreciation Day (June 29)

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...