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Amid $7B in network investments, Sprint Nextel claims ‘fewest dropped calls’

Sprint Nextel Corp. reiterated its plans for network investment this year, with a focus on upgrading its CDMA network with EV-DO Revision A, deploying WiMAX and also investing in its wireline network.The carrier said it plans to spend more than $7 billion this year...

U.S. cellphone market: Motorola on the rise, Nokia declines

The handset market in the United States in the first quarter grew 12% over the year-ago quarter, with the sale of about 39 million units valued at nearly $3 billion, according to The NPD Group. That growth is roughly similar to the year-ago quarter's...

Qwest adds EV-DO Rev. A service

Qwest Communications International Inc. has started offering mobile broadband service using Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network.The Qwest Wireless Mobile Broadband card from UT Starcom is priced at $50 with a two-year service agreement, $100 with a one-year agreement or $210...

U.S. cellular market nearing 250M connection mark

The U.S. cellular industry added 18 million connections during 2006, bringing the total number of U.S. wireless connections to 232 million, according to Wireless Intelligence, a joint venture of Ovum and the GSM Association.Connections include subscribers, but also potentially machine-to-machine applications.Wireless Intelligence said the...

FCC revises 800 MHz rebanding standard

The Federal Communications Commission revised the standard for relocation costs Sprint Nextel Corp. must pay to public-safety licensees, a move aimed at improving a confusing and contentious 800 MHz rebanding effort designed to eliminate interference to first responder wireless systems. The FCC said Sprint...

Verizon Wireless launches song ID service

Verizon Wireless is hoping to spur its full-track mobile music sales with a new music-identification application.The carrier launched Vcast Song ID, allowing users to play a tune into their phone to discover the name of the song as well as the musician. The free...

Funambol updating open source e-mail service: Move adds broader support

Funambol plans to push ahead with its open source mobile e-mail strategy this week with an upgraded version of its white-label offering for carriers.The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup is set to unveil Funambol v6, a Java-based application that pushes e-mail to wireless devices from...

AT&T gets go-ahead for NASCAR rebranding

A Georgia judge has given AT&T Inc. permission to add its brand on the carrier's No. 31 NASCAR racecar, which currently carries the "Cingular" brand."We are pleased that the court has allowed us to proceed with rebranding the No. 31 car," said John Burbank,...

Sprint Nextel expands unlimited trial

Sprint Nextel Corp. has extended its unlimited voice and data trials to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Tampa, Fla., and Philadelphia, branching out from its initial market in San Francisco.The carrier has two unlimited plans available: a $120 per month plan with unlimited voice, text and data...

Ask.com joins searching party with GPS offering

Ask.com announced it will offer a GPS-enabled mobile search application, a move that puts the company in direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-and also further crowds the market for location-based services. IAC, parent company of Ask.com, is calling Ask...

M2M market is low-churn, low-ARPU game: In U.S., carriers defer to MVNOs

Machine-to-machine communication is all about efficiency: collecting data from far-flung locations with less labor, less danger, lower power and in real-time. Thus one might conclude that the perennial drive for business efficiency would make M2M applications equally attractive everywhere. Certainly that's the promise. But...

Wireless data worth more than $5B in Q1

The U.S. wireless data market generated more than $5 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2007, according to Chetan Sharma Consulting, and data may make up as much as 20% of carriers' service revenues by the end of the year. Sharma, founder...

Moto, Napster make music

Napster announced a deal to bring on-demand subscription music services to Motorola Inc.'s entire line of cellphones.The digital music company said it will work with Motorola to promote the mobile music offerings in North America, the United Kingdom and Germany. The companies will offer...

Sprint Nextel expands unlimited trial, competition adjusts

Sprint Nextel Corp. has extended its unlimited voice and data trials to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Tampa, Fla. and Philadelphia, branching out from its initial market in San Francisco.The carrier has two unlimited plans available: a $120 per month plan with unlimited voice, text and data...

ESPN content goes live on Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless said it is now offering its customers access to ESPN MVP content.ESPN MVP gives Verizon Wireless' Vcast subscribers access to content such as SportsCenter video highlights, game score alerts, breaking sports news updates, ESPN Gamecast, and news on players, teams and leagues....

Nuance refines art of acquisition, acquires VoiceSignal for $300M

Nuance Communications Inc. continued to help thin the speech-recognition herd, snapping up VoiceSignal Technologies Inc. in a deal valued at nearly $300 million.Nuance said it will fork over 5.8 million Nuance shares as well as $204 million in cash for privately held VoiceSignal, a...

Handset pricing gymnastics: Tier-one carriers fiddle with price tags

Handset pricing gyrations ran the gamut last week, as all of the nation's tier-one carriers tinkered with the cost of their handset portfolios.--AT&T Mobility slashed in half the price on four Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. handsets last week, ranging from the low-end C417, priced...

ABC delves into wireless with Sprint Nextel deal

Mobile subscribers' options for video and TV programming continue to bloom as spring takes hold. The latest: The Disney-ABC Television Group announced a new channel at Sprint Nextel Corp. for its news and entertainment video programming from ABC Entertainment, ABC News and Disney Channel.The...

Ask.com joins searching party with GPS offering

Ask.com announced it will offer a GPS-enabled mobile search application, a move that puts the company in direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-and also further crowds the market for location-based services. IAC, parent company of Ask.com, is calling Ask...

AT&T’s Stein lands at PopCap

PopCap Games announced it hired Andrew Stein, who most recently served as the senior marketing manager of games for AT&T Mobility's Media Mall. The move is the latest in the ongoing executive shuffle at the nation's largest carriers.PopCap said Stein would take over the...

Analyst Angle: An analyst’s travelogue down New York’s Fifth Avenue

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 Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...

Executive shuffle: Industry trends, greener pastures tempt turnover

Yet another executive is exiting through Sprint Nextel Corp.'s revolving front-office door.The carrier said last week that Mark Schweitzer will step down from his post as chief marketing officer at the end of the month. Tim Kelly, who currently oversees the operator's Customer Management...

T-Mobile USA differentiates with voice: Posts solid quarter, despite lack of 3G

T-Mobile USA Inc. posted a solid first quarter, bringing in 980,000 net new subscribers and outperforming analyst' expectations, largely on the strength of its prepaid customer growth. According to RBC Capital Markets analyst Jonathan Atkin, the fourth-largest carrier and Verizon Wireless have been the...

Cyren Call exploring 700 MHz alternatives: Plan could counter Frontline proposal

Cyren Call Communications Corp., unable to convince policymakers to divert half of the auction-bound 700 MHz spectrum for a national public safety/commercial wireless broadband system, is exploring various options that could still make it a player long after bidding ends. The strategy pivot could...