Monthly Archives: February, 2007
Lawmakers work to erase federal excise tax on wireless
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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduce legislation to kill the 3-percent federal excise tax on wireless and wireline phone service.The Department of Treasury,...
MobileAccess loses House in-building contract
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The U.S. House of Representatives said it canceled MobileAccess Networks' in-building wireless license and add-on business to improve cellphone coverage in the House because...
Alcatel-Lucent offers CDMA product for 700 MHz public safety
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Alcatel-Lucent introduced a new CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A-enabled base station for the 700 MHz spectrum band aimed at supporting the specific needs of...
Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA push pre-emption to Supreme Court
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Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that reversed a Federal Communications Commission decision...
Obopay rings up trial with Citi
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Mobile payment startup Obopay Inc. announced an impressive win, inking a deal for a pilot program to allow Citi customers to send and receive...
AirPlay offers hoop dreams
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Interactive gaming company AirPlay is teaming with the National Basketball Association on a new offering that allows mobile users to compete against each other...
Leap up on solid quarter
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Leap Wireless International Inc. reported a net loss for the fourth quarter and full year 2006, while revenues increased. The carrier added a total...
Verizon Wireless teams with Fujifilm for photo printing
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Verizon Wireless announced that it has partnered with Fujifilm USA Inc. to provide its customers with Fujifilm's "Get the Picture Online Service Network," an...
Ovum: Don’t buy into dual-mode hype
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The hype surrounding dual-mode phones is overblown in the United States, according to research firm Ovum.The company issued a new report that predicts only...
MobiTV reaches 2 million customer mark
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MobiTV Inc. announced that it has surpassed two million subscribers, a doubling of its paying subscribers worldwide in less than a year. MobiTV offers...
Mobile social networker Jumbuck sees increasing profit
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Mobile social networking developer Jumbuck Entertainment Ltd. reported a net profit of $1.86 million during the second half of 2006, up 11 percent from...
Sprint Nextel shows boost in profits
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Sprint Nextel Corp. confirmed its dismal fourth quarter customer numbers with the release of its full financials, but reported a silver lining of a...
NII posts record customer growth in 2006
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NII Holdings Inc., which provides iDEN-based wireless service for business customers in Latin America, added a record 934,300 net subscribers to its network last...
InterDigital heads $10M round in Kineto
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Kineto Wireless Inc., a supplier of unlicensed mobile access technology, has received $10 million in its latest round of investor funding. InterDigital Communications Corp....
SunCom shrinks losses in Q4
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SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. boosted its average revenue per user, cut operating costs and gained subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2006, but still...
VZW wins suit against spammer, awarded $200,000
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Verizon Wireless said it won a permanent injunction and default judgment against Specialized Programming and Marketing L.L.C., which the carrier had sued for spamming...
Wall Street congratulates RadioShack profits
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RadioShack Corp.'s stock stood out this morning as it shot up nearly 15 percent to $26.24, well above its 52-week high, on news that...
Icahn puts $50M into Motricity
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Mobile content company Motricity Inc. once again added to its bank account, raking in $50 million in equity funding from controversial investor Carl Icahn.Motricity,...
Valista names new CEO
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Digital payment technology company Valista Ltd. named a new CEO, promoting former Vice President of International Sales Arlene Adams.The Dublin, Ireland-based firm said founder...
CompUSA picks up XE Mobile
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Pay-as-you-go mobile virtual network operator XE Mobile added big-box retailer CompUSA as a new outlet for the MVNO's handsets and airtime cards."We expect XE...
Verizon Wireless to launch Vcast Mobile TV March 1
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Verizon Wireless will begin offering mobile television on March 1, according to coverage maps on the carrier's Web site. No further details were offered,...
Frontline: Another player in the wrestling match for 700 MHz public-safety spectrum
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A trio of wireless veterans unveiled a new plan for a national public-safety broadband network that would use auctioned 700 MHz spectrum to supplement...
Sprint Nextel ‘grenade:’ unlimited voice, messaging and data
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Sprint Nextel Corp. has thrown down a gauntlet in the form of two new unlimited voice and data plans offered in the San Francisco...
Ericsson makes hostile bid for Tandberg Television
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L.M. Ericsson bid $1.4 billion in cash in a hostile move to acquire Norway's Tandberg Television.The Swedish infrastructure company, which is moving aggressively into...
U.S. Cellular posts mixed quarterly results
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U.S. Cellular Corp. moved closer to catching up with its financial reporting, providing third-quarter 2006 results and selected data from its fourth-quarter 2006 operations....
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