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The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular–Bosnia and Herzegovina: M:Tel, the mobile …

One of a number of patent-related issues between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. will be heard today at the U.S. International Trade Commission. The current case was filed last year by Qualcomm against Nokia, alleging that Nokia infringed on six …

T-Mobile International launched a mobile search service for European t-zones customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, with plans to expand to the Czech Republic later this month. The mobile search service allows users to sift through …

Venture capitalists haven’t completely abandoned mobile virtual network operators-at least, not if the MVNO is tween-focused kajeet Inc. Kajeet announced today that it has raised $36.8 million in series B venture funding, with the round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson …

Broadcast mobile TV technology DVB-H scored another point stateside as Clearwire Corp. announced it has agreed to use the technology as it collaborates on a new mobile TV trial with ICO Global Communications Ltd.The trial, which is set to begin …

The International Trade Commission launched a probe of certain 3G mobile handsets and components supplied by No.1 mobile-phone vendor Nokia Inc. The ITC said InterDigital Communications L.L.C. complained Nokia phones and components that infringe the former’s patents are being imported …

The 432,000 members of Utah-based America First Credit Union soon will be able to access mobile banking and payment services via their AT&T Mobility or Verizon Wireless mobile phones.America First selected Firethorn Holdings L.L.C. and CheckFree Corp. for its mobile …

Days after juicing its retail channels with a price reduction, enraging Apple-ites and then apologizing, Apple Inc. announced today it had sold 1 million iPhones since the device debuted June 29. The announcement underscored that Apple’s price cut last week …

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’ …

LAS VEGAS-Less than two months into a broadcast mobile TV service trial, HiWire L.L.C. has wrapped the first phase of its study and is now preparing to increase its scope by 800% before month’s end.T-Mobile USA Inc., which has signed …

TWO KEY SENATE MEMBERS last week unveiled a sweeping wireless consumer protection bill, setting the stage for a fierce battle between lawmakers and the mobile-phone industry that’s likely to play out well into the 2008 election season.The legislation goes further …

METROPCS COMMUNICATIONS INC. last week made public a proposal to merge with flat-rate rival Leap Wireless International Inc. in a move that could create a fifth carrier with a national presence and catapult no-contract offerings from the fringe to the …

Despite the Federal Communications Commission’s publicly stated desire to avoid anti-competitive behavior in the 700 MHz auction and its embrace of blind bidding as a safeguard against such activity, there are growing concerns that the combination of hefty reserve prices …

In a typical reaction, analyst Iain Gillott of iGR good-naturedly called last week’s price cut on Apple Inc.’s iPhone the “iShaft.”Of course, that was before Apple quickly offered its fanboys a $100 credit to assuage the latter’s sense of betrayal.Legions …

It must be tough to give a daylong presentation to financial and industry analysts in New York when your take-aways essentially are “meet the new team,” “we can do it” and “stay tuned.”The latter two messages are acquiring such a …

An increasing number of parents around the country can sidestep the dreaded $400 cellphone bill boosted by their child’s texting mania, as more wireless companies begin to offer custom controls on children’s wireless usage.AT&T Mobility announced last week that it …

Carriers in the United Kingdom are hoping to get users to PayForIt with their phones.The operators launched a standardized payment scheme designed to provide a consistent user interface regardless of carrier for mobile transactions of roughly $20 or less. Users …

Proving who you are-wirelesslyIraqi students are using a mobile social network service to prove their identity, according to Mobixie. The company said students have used the service to get new identifying documents after incidents where they were kidnapped by militia …

It’s getting a little embarrassing. See, Apple is essentially trouncing the wireless industry with a long and growing list of new, user-friendly innovations. These innovations stretch from the hardware side of the equation (the iPhone’s accelerometer) to the software side …

The good news for the mobilephone industry is carriers, manufacturers, trade associations and standards bodies are nearly free of health litigation for the first time in years. The bad news is the industry is about to be confronted by an …

With music and imaging an increasing aspect of mobile phones’ feature sets-the engines driving network operators’ ARPU growth-more than 50% of this year’s $32 billion in worldwide accessory revenue will come from multimedia-related memory cards, headsets and data connection kits, …

Delly Tamer, founder and CEO of online retailer LetsTalk.com, doesn’t know if carriers’ increased interest in bundling accessories presents a rival channel to his own, growing business, but he’s pretty sure those carriers’ customers eventually come to him.“Bundling accessories with …

hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube. The drastic drop in the price of the iPhone got us hedgehogging all week. It’s evident an Apple/Verizon Wireless partnership never would …

Miles Flint, president of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, is stepping down Nov. 1 based on personal, family issues, sources said last week.The company said that the move was Flint’s decision, but SEMC’s carefully worded statements, Flint’s successful tenure and near-simultaneous …