Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is upping the ante in the messaging game with plans to offer an unlimited in-network messaging plan to rival similar offerings from Verizon Wireless and others. The offering will allow existing or new Cingular customers who subscribe to either a messaging...
Mobile gaming revenues in Latin America will triple in the next five years, according to new figures from EJL Wireless Research.The Redwood City, Calif.-based market research firm said the Latin American market will grow from $65 million last year to $195 million by 2011...
Despite Verizon Wireless' attempt to downplay the launch of its Vcast Mobile TV service, the availability of the streaming TV service in the Denver area forced-and I do mean forced-a quick trip to the mall so we could check out the new offering.Verizon Wireless...
T-Mobile USA Inc. indicated that it is interested in selling anywhere from 3,500 to 5,000 of its towers in the United States-a sale that could bring upwards of $1 billion to the No. 4 carrier as it continues its plans to deploy 3G services...
T-Mobile USA Inc. again proved to be the biggest wireless growth engine for its parent company, Deutsche Telekom AG, despite a significant year-over-year drop in its net number of new customers. T-Mobile USA reported 901,000 net subscriber additions during the fourth quarter, down from...
In less than a month Nortel Networks Ltd. has lost its chief financial officer, paid out $2.4 billion in cash and stock to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting errors, announced it will be cutting 9 percent of its workforce, and now is delaying...
Alltel Corp. recently introduced a new line of postpaid plans for smartphones that include unlimited data use and its MyCircle offering. The Smart Choice Packs start at $70 per month for individuals and $90 per month for families. Except for the $70 plan, all...
Ed Zander, Motorola Inc.'s CEO, is under pressure. And it shows.The first statement is a widely recognized fact and the second is an impression-but both were palpable during Zander's appearance via Web cast this morning at Goldman Sachs' 2007 Technology Investment Symposium in Las...
In a significant move in the widening debate over interoperable public-safety communications, Alcatel-Lucent announced it won a contract worth up to $110 million to build a CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network in the 700 MHz band covering the nation's capital, including the White...
Verizon Wireless rolled out a pair of new messaging plans to meet the growing popularity of text, picture and video messaging among its customers. The carrier's new $15 plan includes 1,500 messages instead of the previous 1,000 messages, and a new $20 plan gives...
Glu Mobile said it will publish games for Nokia Corp.'s N-Gage platform, which is set for a public unveiling next week.The handset maker is preparing to dust off the familiar-but tarnished-brand next week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, expanding the N-Gage...
The city of Brownsville, Texas, has tapped IBM Corp. to build a $4 million citywide WiMAX network.The network will be used by police and fire departments as well as residents, and will support data, voice and video applications. A nonprofit group will be established...
Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. added a new phone to its lineup, the "Heat" from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The slider-style phone supports Helio's full-track music download service and GPS location offerings, as well as touch-sensitive keys. The phone is selling for $150."Young...
Nokia Corp. may take advantage of Motorola Inc.'s current financial and portfolio weaknesses by lowering its handset prices incrementally, which could drive further consolidation among the industry's smaller, weaker vendors, according to Ben Wood, director of clients for Collins Consulting Services in the United...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Verizon Wireless has launched mobile TV service using MediaFLO USA Inc.'s technology and network, initially offering the service in 20 markets across the United States from Richmond, Va., to Portland, Ore. The service is priced at $15 per month for mobile TV only, which...
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, following a series of legal defeats, announced last May it would cease collecting the tax and that consumers would be...
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 of concerns about the bidding process being tainted by the lobbying scandal that resulted in guilty pleas by disgraced lobbyist...
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 public-safety organizations. The company said the technology will support high-speed access to data, images and video, and will provide users...
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 pre-empting states from regulating line-item charges on wireless bills.With the Democratic-led Congress unlikely to move on highly controversial legislation that...
Mobile payment startup Obopay Inc. announced an impressive win, inking a deal for a pilot program to allow Citi customers to send and receive money from wireless phones.The Redwood City, Calif.-based developer said Citi users will be able to remotely track and manage their...
Interactive gaming company AirPlay is teaming with the National Basketball Association on a new offering that allows mobile users to compete against each other during basketball games.NBA AirPlay Live lets basketball fans manage a five-man team of real players, pitting users against each other...
Leap Wireless International Inc. reported a net loss for the fourth quarter and full year 2006, while revenues increased. The carrier added a total of 260,000 customers during the fourth quarter, news that helped send Leap's stock up by almost 10 percent to $67.80...
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 online photo-printing service that allows users to print camera-phone photos at various retail outlets.Customers will have more than 10,000 retail...
