Yearly Archives: 2007

Look before you jump

Perhaps no scenario has been more closely tied to mobile marketing than the story about customers walking by a Starbucks only to be pinged...

VZW overhauls pricing plans

Verizon Wireless restructured its pricing plans, adding a half-dozen new "premium" plans for data-hungry consumers.The plan restructuring now provides for three levels of options...

Commerce Committee prods DoC, OMB on AWS spectrum relocation progress

House Commerce Committee leaders wrote the heads of the Department of Commerce and the Office of Management and Budget requesting by the end of...

Canada’s BCE goes to consortium for $48.5B

Madison Dearborn Partners L.L.C. is among a group of investors engineering the $48.5 billion purchase of BCE Inc., Canada's biggest phone company, in the...

MediaFLO puts on its game face

It hasn't taken long for mobile broadcast TV provider MediaFLO USA Inc. to scoop up exclusive premieres since its March launch. Last Friday the...

Activation issues aside, AT&T Mobility pleased with iPhone response

AT&T Mobility saw a few bumps in activations with the massive demand for the Apple Inc. iPhone, but analysts estimated that eager customers snapped...

Local.com boasts of new search patent

Shares of Local.com shot skyward after the online search company said it received a patent for ad-supported mobile search.The Irvine, Calif.-based outfit said the...

Sprint Nextel sells Mobitex network

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it sold its Mobitex subsidiary, Velocita Wireless L.P., to United Wireless Holdings Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Velocita...

GTP sold for $1.4B

Global Tower Partners, which boasts 2,500 wireless communications towers and more than 4,600 rooftop sites, has been sold for $1.4 billion.GTP owner The Blackstone...

AT&T to buy Dobson for $2.8B

AT&T Inc. said it will acquire regional carrier Dobson Communications Corp. for about $2.8 billion.Dobson serves more than 60 rural and suburban markets in...

Analyst Angle: The IMS effect on network bandwidth

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...

AT&T Mobility, VZW boost network speeds

AT&T Mobility said it put $50 million into data network preparations ahead of the launch of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, increasing network capacity and pushing...

Canadian tech distribution firm declares bankruptcy

Canada's Wireless Age Communications Inc. pulled the plug on its troubled technology distribution business.The Toronto-based company declared the bankruptcy of mmwave Technologies Inc., a...

RIM stock flies on earnings, Palm posts 43% drop in profit

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. saw its stock jump more than 20% in early trading after it reported a 76.5% increase in revenue...

Court rules manufacturers can set minimum prices for products

The Supreme Court ruled manufacturers can set minimum prices for products sold by retailers without automatically violating antitrust law, setting aside a 96-year-old ruling...

iPhone to go on sale today

Apple Inc.'s iPhone goes on sale tonight at 6 p.m. The hype surrounding the device has reached a fevered pitch, as lines have begun...

Letter to the Editor: Beyond the status quo

Dear Editor,Every now and then the Federal Communications Commission has to do something very important. In the next two weeks this FCC has a...

700 MHz war: Frontline challenges Verizon while AT&T mulls auction plans

The 700 MHz debate has suddenly turned both interesting and nasty in the lead-up to next month's expected ruling by the Federal Communications Commission...

Sprint Nextel may be working around ITC ban on new 3G handsets: Qualcomm appears intent on legal vindication

Sprint Nextel Corp. may be testing a "work-around" software patch from Qualcomm Inc. to avoid a government ban on the importation of new 3G...

MetroPCS positions CEO replacement

MetroPCS Communications Inc. named a successor to current chairman and CEO Roger Linquist. The carrier said Linquist is expected to cut back on his...

WCA: Globalstar’s rule change could cause interference

The wireless broadband industry opposes on interference grounds Globalstar Inc.'s push to have federal regulators consider an ancillary terrestrial component rule change that the...

Mobile content to hit $44B by 2011

Worldwide mobile content revenues are expected to surpass $44 billion in 2011, more than double the expected $20 billion in revenues generated this year,...

Leap taps Alcatel-Lucent for Rev. A upgrade, network expansion

Leap Wireless International Inc. has signaled its commitment to deploying CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A by choosing Alcatel-Lucent to build out the carrier's new...

CTIA rallies against equal-access obligations

The mobile phone industry told the Federal Communications Commission that marketplace trends stand against extending monopoly-era equal-access obligations to the competitive wireless industry."The commission...

VZW levels rates for wireless PC connections

The nation's No. 2 carrier lowered the entry price for its wireless high-speed BroadbandAccess service, and is now offering the same price to both...
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