WASHINGTON-The debate is officially on. And the clock is ticking. Six months after receiving Cyren Call Communications Inc.'s plan for a public-safety wireless broadband network the private sector would build and share with first responders, the Federal Communications Commission is now asking for public...
Leap Wireless International Inc. said it will allow its Cricket customers to roam in Cricket markets across the country without paying an additional fee. The carrier also announced a new WAP-based wireless portal and a new rate plan that includes unlimited mobile Web data...
Good news! In hedgehogging this week, we found a lot of positive things to say about new apps and devices. And you thought we were just a bunch of disgruntled journalists. Maybe it's the sugar high from all the Halloween candy brought into the...
The Palms Hotel and Casino is now accepting live wagers on mobile betting devices, according to Progressive Gaming International Corp., which developed the system. The Rapid Bet Live Wireless technology was tested during last week's Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots...
Trying to form a sense of the sprawling chip market for mobile phones is akin to getting a tape measure around an elephant's waist. With dozens of players and product types, the chip industry that enables the fantastic functions of today's mobile phones is...
As a consensus of forecasts converge on the magical billion mark for handset shipments this year-although with some dissenters-attention has focused on several dynamics at play. The upshot? Watch the market for replacement handsets in emerging markets, the mobile handset industry's new driver.Most forecasters...
Pssst ... if you're looking for that elusive quarry-mobile handset consumers-you'll find them in abundance online. They're not only researching purchases in cyberspace, but increasingly making them over the Internet as well. Carriers take note: your brick-and-mortar stores may serve that now-rare bird, the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will not act on the $79 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. until after the Nov. 7 midterm elections, scrapping a Nov. 3 scheduled vote on the deal due to Chairman Kevin Martin's failure to strike a deal...
In these early days of mobile data, the wireless industry is scrambling for timely, accurate data about consumer behavior. But it's finding that such information can be difficult to come by. Mobile content measurement firm Telephia last week clarified a recent study that raised...
WASHINGTON-Council Tree Communications Inc. and other parties challenging changes to small-business bidding rules again hammered away at the Federal Communications Commission, telling the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that procedural irregularities in crafting new guidelines and the dismal showing by designated entities in...
WASHINGTON-A U.S. appeals court in St. Louis last week reaffirmed federal telecom rules governing how mobile-phone and rural telephone carriers are paid for carrying each other's traffic, a favorable wireless ruling on an aspect of highly convoluted and antiquated inter-carrier compensation and universal service...
Silica is a chemical that, in its manufactured, crystalline form, is ideally suited for use as a semiconductor. A semiconductor, a device made of silica, partly conducts and partly insulates-thus its name-and is ideal for conveying electronic signals in a controllable manner. It is...
A mobile phone runs on the chips inside it, if an over-generalization may be permitted for simplicity's sake. And the basic functions of a basic phone rely on four types of chips: the power amplifier, the RF transceiver, the analog baseband and the digital...
TORONTO-Rogers announced it launched Canada's first HSDPA network in the greater Toronto area and laid out plans to expand the network to the country's top 20 markets throughout next year. Along with voice services, the HSDPA network offers subscribers the ability to download data...
Verizon Wireless continued its domination of the postpaid wireless market and outpaced larger rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C. in net customer additions during the third quarter.Verizon Wireless said it brought in 1.9 million net subscribers for the quarter, compared with Cingular's 1.4 million net additions....
Ordinary people like Luke Johnson sit at the intersection of social networking and the cell phone. Searching for something new that he could do involving video-sharing site YouTube.com, Johnson woke up one night with an idea: Why not post his cell-phone number on the...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Embarq Corp. plans to offer its wireless customers push-to-talk services and parental controls on a Sanyo Corp. 2400 mobile phone. Embarq, which has a mobile virtual network operator relationship with Sprint Nextel Corp. after being spun off from the larger company earlier...
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. announced two new services that incorporate audio and messaging. "Txt Tones" will allow users to link musical tones to text messages instead of rings. The three- to five-second sound clips can be used as an alert that a text...
THORNTON, Colo.—Western U.S. retailer Ultimate Electronics has dropped T-Mobile USA Inc. in favor of Verizon Wireless. The consumer electronics chain said it will offer Verizon Wireless’ wares in 29 of its 32 stores in Colorado, Arizona, Kansas and several other states. The announcement appears...
Mobile data software developer Volantis is targeting carriers with an application that delivers updated, personalized Internet information to mobile phones.The company plans to unveil BuzzCast, a white-label offering that allows users to create a profile and build a "home screen" of content such as...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Google Inc. is offering a download that is designed to make mobile access to its free Gmail service faster, and Sprint Nextel Corp. is making the download available from its mobile Web home page. The download is free, other than data charges...
SAN FRANCISCO-Sprint Nextel Corp. and mobile application developer AirPlay are targeting football fans with an interactive offering that allows users to predict plays during NFL games. The carrier launched an NFL-licensed, downloadable application, dubbed AirPlay Live, that asks users to predict whether a team...
In this election season, the wireless industry stands as an Independent. Indeed, CTIA has been run successfully over recent years by Steve Largent, a Republican, and Tom Wheeler, a staunch Democrat.Wireless crosses party lines. As such, regardless of whether Democrats regain control of Congress,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Continental Airlines Inc. can offer free Wi-Fi access at Boston-Logan International Airport, ruling the Massachusetts Port Authority's attempt to shut down the airline's wireless Internet service is pre-empted by federal regulations governing over-the-air reception devices (OTARD). Though the dispute...
