2007

Sprint Nextel Corp. and MobiTV Inc. have put together a multi-year agreement to continue offering mobile TV services to the carrier’s subscribers. The announcement coincided with MobiTV’s news that it passed the 3-million-subscriber mark. “After a very short time in …

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, tween-focused mobile virtual network operator kajeet Inc. announced a new line-up of handsets as well as an expanded retail effort. The MVNO’s new handsets include the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. m300, an …

AT&T Inc. has partnered with digital music provider Napster to offer AT&T customers over-the-air access to more than 5 million full-track songs. The carrier said that, starting in mid-November, Napster Mobile will allow customers to download five tracks a month …

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You might call it industry’s summer of discontent. Where to begin? The Federal Communications Commission saw fit to attach conditions-public safety and open access, specifically-to a tad more than half of the cherished 700 MHz spectrum anxiously anticipated by the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to a special CTIA I.T. Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRNews.com you can find columns from the industry’s leading analysts, including Current Analysis’ Avi Greengart, iGR’s Iain Gillott and …

What’s Google Inc. up to in mobile? You might as well ask what Rupert Murdoch is doing in media. Because the answer is, just about everything. The Internet colossus first dipped its toe in the mobile waters in 2000 with …

Television, like all methods of communication, is adapting to the times. Like the push before it in the online space, the hunger for video that matches the quality experience at home has reached the mobile frontier. The opportunity for video …

Motorola Inc. apparently kickstarted its ongoing efforts to broaden its smartphone offerings and bring Internet-based services to them by buying 50% of UIQ Technology last week from rival Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The rivals …

Here’s a question: Is the business of paying someone to wake up obscenely early to secure a place in line for a lobbyist who wants to attend a congressional hearing quintessential American capitalism or a cynical swipe at populist democracy?So …

The Federal Trade Commission faces a dilemma as it once again attempts to kill a wireless urban legend that just won’t die.“The Federal Trade Commission today reiterated that despite the claims made in e-mails circulating on the Internet, consumers should …

EVEN WHILE WIRELESS BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT is in a relatively early stage in this country, the Bush administration is pressing for changes at an international spectrum conference that could pave the way for U.S. manufacturers and service providers in the mobile-phone …

It’s no secret that advertising dollars are finally coming to mobile. But for now, at least, it’s the high-profile publishers that are bringing in the cash.How big mobile advertising will be depends on whom you ask. The Kelsey Group predicts …

A true sign that wireless has finally made it-that is if the more than 1 billion cellphones in use around the world was not enough proof for you. The New York Racing Association signed a three-year deal with Sona Mobile …

The first glimmer of quantifiable iPhone impacts is in, courtesy of NPD Group.The news is not-so-good for Palm Inc. and carriers T-Mobile USA Inc. and Alltel Corp. Research In Motion Ltd., however, appears to have nothing to fear.The top-tier carriers …

Signs are popping up that carriers are getting closer to making use of the spectrum they acquired in the advanced wireless services auction last year. T-Mobile USA Inc. confirmed that it has begun offering its first 3G handset to customers …

The municipal wireless market is undergoing a correction, but the re-evaluation of business models eventually will benefit the space and the emergence of WiMAX technology offers new possibilities, according to a Yankee Group webinar last week.After the now-collapsing adoption of …

Wireless carriers are heading into the all-important holiday selling season, flashing new handsets designed to dazzle consumers and riding sales trends which have been building over the past year.The Apple Inc. iPhone craze has, as expected, prompted interest in touch-screen …

The worldwide mobile music market will more than double in the next few years, exploding from $13.7 billion this year to more than $32 billion by 2010, according to Gartner Inc.But splitting up all that cash won’t be easy.While boilerplate …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. spared no expense on its MediaFLO USA Inc. subsidiary. From the outside, MediaFLO’s Operations Center looks like any other box-shaped lackluster office building, but a few steps inside and the love for TV is all around.Hanging from …

It’s happening again. “It” is the overwhelming feeling I occasionally get to defend the wireless industry and the way it treats its customers.But the news last week that senators were going after wireless carriers again for their early termination fees …

Qualcomm Inc. apparently got some breathing room-how much, if any, remains to be seen-in its ongoing court battle over patent infringement in a Santa Ana, Calif., federal court with rival Broadcom Corp.Broadcom took a round in August when the jury …

A mixed third quarter is expected for the wireless industry, with weakness at Sprint Nextel Corp. contrasting with solid performances by AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, according to a report from Cowen & Co.Cowen & Co. analyst Tom Watts said …

Virgin Mobile rings the bellFlanked by Virgin Mobile Angels on Wall Street are (l to r): Peter Lurie, chief counsel; Jonathan Marchbank, COO; Howard Handler, CMO; John Thain, NY Stock Exchange president; Mrs. Dan Schulman; Tim Evans, VP handset operations; …