Telecom operators around the world lose about 12 percent of their revenue on average to factors ranging from internal and external fraud to bundling and the billing complications that providing multiple services brings. That figure reflects a slight increase from 11.6 percent in 2005,...
WASHINGTON—Telecom-reform legislation likely won't pass this year, much to the delight of consumer advocates who urged lawmakers to remove language from the bill that would pre-empt states from regulating wireless services. "If you pass this, you will hurt the consumers you are trying to...
It seems U.S. consumers are slowly getting used to searching for information on their mobile phones. And service providers are beginning to deploy ways to cash in. More than 9 million users reported accessing a mobile Internet search service in the last month, according...
WASHINGTON—Council Tree Communications Inc. and others last week asked the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn results of the advanced wireless services auction, arguing new rules designed to prevent national mobile-phone carriers and others from exploiting bidding benefits for small businesses were...
WASHINGTON—Five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and well into another active hurricane season, the U.S. government finally appears ready to bring wireless and other technologies into an emergency alert system that has changed little since the Cold War. However, policy and...
The Justice Department said Alltel Corp. agreed to sell wireless assets in several rural Minnesota markets as a condition to antitrust approval of its $1 billion purchase of regional operator Midwest Wireless."The department's action ensures that wireless telephone consumers will continue to obtain the...
NEW YORK—Consumers may be interested in watching video on their cellular phones, but few are willing to pay for it. According to a Jupiter Research report, "Video on Cell Phones," 11 percent of mobile phones will be video capable this year, and 25 percent...
WASHINGTON—House and Senate lawmakers face a major challenge in trying to reconcile differences over legislation that would subject foreign investment in wireless and other U.S. business sectors to stiffer national security review, with some lawmakers keenly aware that a heavy-handed approach could backfire and...
WASHINGTON—U.S. law enforcement officials are expected to continue scrutinizing large purchases of prepaid cell phones and possible links to terrorist activity on American soil, despite failing to make such a connection to a wireless buying behavior that may be far more widespread than initially...
KIRKLAND, Wash.—Clearwire Corp. said all the conditions of its previously announced investment arrangement with Intel Capital and Motorola Ventures have been completed. Further, the company said the original $900 million in equity financing included in the deal has been increased to more than $1...
On paper, telecom reform legislation is right there in the mix, giving the mobile-phone industry hope and states heartburn about prospects for expanding federal pre-emption in a way that would further marginalize public-utility commissions, state legislatures and plaintiff attorneys in all things wireless.In reality,...
SAN ANTONIO—Clear Channel Radio said it launched its mobile radio programming initiative nationwide, with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. as a partner. The launch featured New York's WHTZ-FM Z100 music station streaming live radio directly to Cingular Wireless phones, said the company. The initiative also includes...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Palm Inc. said it expects revenues to fall short of its previous guidance for the first quarter of next year due to slower sales of its Treo device with carriers. The company now expects revenues for the quarter, which ended Sept. 1, to...
Nokia Corp.'s strategy to regain a dominant market share in the United States will be driven by forthcoming product launches that will strengthen its hand against its arch-rival Motorola Inc., according to Tim Eckersley, senior vice president for Nokia Americas. Those product launches—"there are...
Sprint Nextel Corp. is expected to become the first Tier 1 carrier to officially step onto the mobile marketing playground this week, tapping Enpocket in an effort to generate revenues by delivering advertising messages through its wireless Web service. Industry sources say New York-based...
WASHINGTON—Verizon Communications Inc. is one of three dozen technology companies that have joined forces to oppose a plan to give broadcasters new intellectual property rights to audiovisual material. Verizon, AT&T Corp., Dell Inc., Intel Corp., TiVo Inc. and others are lobbying against a "broadcast...
While the world of wireless infrastructure vendors looks set to be dominated by three all-powerful giants, small player Tellabs Inc. quietly reminds the industry that it's doing a lot of business with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. as the carrier continues on its long path of...
San Francisco—Italy not only won the recent FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament, but were also the most voracious consumers of mobile content from the event, according to a report from Telephia. The report, which was part of Telephia's third-quarter European Subscriber and Device Report,...
Minnetonka, Minn.-based US Internet beat out more than 80 other companies for the city of Minneapolis' contract to build a 54-square-mile citywide Wi-Fi network, beating out notable EarthLink Inc. and its suppliers Tropos Networks Inc. and Motorola Inc. Some Wi-Fi watchers have concluded that...
NavteqNavteq, which provides digital map data and vehicle navigation solutions, said it has partnered with ACSI to provide campsite information for Navteq's digital maps.ACSI provides international camping guide information.The deal calls for the companies to add camping information from 19 countries in Europe to...
Shipments of machine-to-machine modules are projected to more than triple by the end of the decade, particularly those modules that connect to a network of nodes via short-range wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi or Zigbee, according to ABI Research. And that's likely to be...
WASHINGTON—The Telecommunications Industry Association looked inside and chose Grant Seiffert to succeed Matthew Flanigan as president beginning Jan.1. Seiffert has worked his way up the TIA organization ladder after leaving Capitol Hill in 1996. He is currently executive vice president of the organization.Flanigan announced...
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. this week announced the pending launch of three new handsets in its L'Amour Collection line of fashion phones aimed at the European market. The new handset models are 7390, 7373 and 7360; they are expected in European stores this fall. The...
NTT DoCoMoNTT DoCoMo Inc. named Seiji Kawamura as the head of the Japanese telecommunications operator's Washington, D.C., office.Kawamura previously served as treasurer and head of the finance office at DoCoMo's headquarters in Tokyo, and also served in the Washington, D.C., office while serving as...
