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Activity abounds in gaming, content arena

DENVER-The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among recent news:c Wireless gaming...

Cingular to manage MTV wireless trivia contest

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...

Canadian carriers unite on Wi-Fi

OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...

Handset bundling case against 5 operators to move forward

WASHINGTON-A federal judge in New York said Aug. 12 that a consolidated group of lawsuits against major players of the wireless industry can go forward to determine whether the carriers in question illegally bundle handsets with service, but an allegation that the carriers have...

Canadian operators unite on Wi-Fi standards

OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...

Telecom competition rules offer mixed bag for wireless

WASHINGTON-The long-awaited rules governing telecommunications competition are a good-news/bad-news story for the wireless industry.The good news is that the Federal Communications Commission said mobile-phone carriers can have access to unbundled network elements-necessary pieces of the telephone network controlled by incumbent local exchange carriers. The...

Court upholds patent Freedom Wireless’ patent claim against BCGI

PHOENIX-Freedom Wireless Inc. has received a favorable ruling in its patent infringement lawsuit against Boston Communications Group Inc. and several wireless carriers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. Freedom Wireless alleged that two of its U.S. patents relating to...

Dobson, T-Mobile enter roaming agreement

Dobson Communications Corp. signed a three-year GSM/GPRS roaming agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. providing both companies with access to each other's networks throughout the United States. Dobson recently announced plans to overlay its legacy TDMA network with GSM/GPRS technology.Dobson said the agreement will allow...

AT&T Wireless, KDDI launch new music services

SEATTLE-Ring tones and music have become a major part of the wireless industry, as providers from the United States to Japan launch new audio services.Indeed, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will sell ring tones through Yamaha Ringtones, a unit of Yamaha Corp.'s Digital Content Division....

Cingular to manage MTV wireless trivia contest

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...

Activity abounds in gaming, content arena

The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among the recent news:Wireless gaming...

Cingular to buy Fla. licenses from Sunshine PCS

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered into a definitive agreement with Sunshine PCS Corp. to acquire portions of three PCS licenses in Florida for $13.75 million.The deal calls for Cingular to obtain 15 megahertz of spectrum in the Tallahassee, Panama City and Ocala markets where the...

Nextel tops wireless carriers in customer respect study

The Customer Respect Group has released its Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study of the telecommunications and networking firms, including wireless companies, that are among the largest 1,000 companies in the United States.MCI and Nextel Communications Inc. tied for first place in customer respect...

Verizon raises LNP stakes again

Verizon Wireless again raised the stakes in the wireless local number portability fight, urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from a number of its competitors that Verizon Wireless said would create barriers for wireless customers looking to switch carriers once WLNP is...

Growth slows, ARPU up at T-Mobile USA

The last of the six nationwide wireless operators reported second-quarter results last week as German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG released results for T-Mobile USA Inc. that showed a dramatic drop-off in customer growth compared with the first three months of this year, but...

AT&TW to sell camera phone from Samsung

DALLAS-Looking to grow its GSM business, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced a deal today with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which this month will begin selling Samsung's v206 camera phone."Our relationship with AT&T Wireless gives consumers innovative technology from a venture of industry powerhouses," said...

Verizon takes aim at Nextel with PTT launch

Fulfilling repeated claims to launch service by the end of this year, Verizon Wireless introduced its highly anticipated Push to Talk service last week, which, in addition to providing Verizon Wireless customers with another way to communicate, is expected to supply the first serious...

Carriers step up retention efforts

With wireless local number portability right around the corner, wireless carriers are expected to become more aggressive in the next several months in offering retention incentives tied to contract extensions in an attempt to keep their current customers from fleeing to another operator. A...

Wireless porn controls come to fore in U.K.

Wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere have begun gearing up for potential problems associated with wireless porn, as U.K. telecom regulators field complaints from concerned parents-but the issue has not yet reached U.S. shores. And some analysts believe U.S. carriers will likely adopt an...

Verizon Wireless again raises LNP stakes

Verizon Wireless again raised the stakes in the wireless local number portability fight, urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from a number of its competitors that Verizon Wireless said would create barriers for wireless customers looking to switch carriers once WLNP is...

American Cellular restructuring moves forward

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. and American Cellular Corp., which is currently a joint venture between Dobson and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., said they have accepted all American Cellular's outstanding 9.5-percent senior subordinated notes that were tendered in connection with the proposed restructuring of American...

Motorola, Nextel to offer Bobby Jones-branded phone

PLANTATION, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced a teaming with Bobby Jones Sportswear to offer a mobile phone branded with the golfer's signature and logo for Nextel Communications Inc. subscribers."Motorola designed the Bobby Jones Trophy Edition phone with the executive golfer in mind," said Rey More, senior...

Ericsson gets Cincinnati Bell Wireless contract

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless reported a five-year deal with L.M. Ericsson to provide GSM/GPRS and EDGE technology equipment for the carrier's planned overlay of its legacy TDMA technology network.The agreement calls for Ericsson to immediately begin installing EDGE-ready 1.9 GHz GSM/GPRS radio access equipment to...

As carriers look at Wi-Fi, Wayport wins

The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...