If the growth in handset sales in mature markets such as the United States slowed somewhat at mid-year, as some market and financial analysts have suggested, one explanation may be the dearth of new product launches. That has opened a window of opportunity for...
MILAN, Italy-Content aggregator Buongiorno USA Inc. is looking to expand its presence in North America with plans to spend as much as $27 million to acquire application developer Rocket Mobile. The subsidiary of Buongiorno SpA Group agreed to a $17 million buyout of the...
Bidding in the government's auction of advanced wireless services spectrum is set to start Wednesday, but the jockeying and speculation has already begun as satellite and cable consortiums set themselves up to do battle with traditional wireless carriers for airwaves.Click here for the latest...
Canadian telecommunications company Telus has announced a partnership with mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. in which Telus subscribers will have access to Amp'd services and content and Telus will manage most of the business operations.Meanwhile, Telus Ventures, Telus' venture investment division, announced...
WASHINGTON-CTIA is asking the Federal Communications Commission to clarify recent universal-service rules that have sparked a puzzling situation where the FCC has accused the industry of not fully reporting its "toll" revenues-and by implication not paying its full share of universal-service contributions. "Commercial mobile...
Despite disappointing quarterly results, Sprint Nextel Corp. reaffirmed its commitment to upgrading its network to CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A. The carrier said it plans to cover approximately 40 million potential customers with the higher-speed technology by the end of this year and have...
Shares of Electronic Arts Inc. surged after the publisher posted strong first-quarter sales of its Microsoft Corp. Xbox and mobile-phone offerings The videogame giant reported mobile revenues of $33 million in its first quarter of 2007, the first full quarter to include revenues from...
It was a good quarter for some regional providers of wireless service, with healthy growth and increasing average revenue per user. Alltel Corp. posted strong second-quarter results with plusses and minuses in all the right places. The industry's No. 5 carrier improved ARPU, substantially...
As EarthLink Inc. prepares to unwire Pasadena, Calif., using gear from Tropos Networks Inc. and Motorola Inc., another vendor is celebrating the deployment of its Wi-Fi mesh network equipment in Red River, N.M., where Enchanted Circle Communications launched a wireless broadband network using equipment...
Lindsay Lohan's BlackBerry has apparently been hacked, and some are pointing the finger at her archrival Paris Hilton. A spokesperson for Lohan said somebody stole the password to the actress' BlackBerry and then sent sordid messages to her friends and contacts. Hilton, who denies...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry trade association CTIA is pushing Congress to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that said the Federal Communications Commission overreached when it said states could not prohibit wireless carriers from putting certain line items on their bills. "Creating a mish-mash of inconsistent...
As the bidders restlessly wait for the advanced wireless services auction to begin, the big question is whether TV interests-cable TV companies and satellite TV providers-are going to make a serious play for spectrum in this auction. The second $64 million question: How much...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp., the nation's fourth-largest tower owner, posted second-quarter losses of $75.6 million despite increased revenues of $87.4 million. Last year in the same quarter the company recorded $63.2 million in revenues and a loss of $26.2 million. The company said...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. reported substantially improved net loss figures during its fourth quarter, but revenues declined.For the quarter, Openwave reported revenues of $91.1 million, down 9 percent from revenues of $100.3 million during the same period a year ago and down nearly...
A well-worn maxim has it that "politics make strange bedfellows," which might be tweaked to reflect the wireless industry's sometimes odd match-ups. Companies that compete also cooperate, often at the nitty-gritty level of critical intellectual property that enables devices, networks and services to perform...
Trans Con Mobile Ltd. recently announced that after two years of developing mobile Voice over Internet Protocol technology, the Israeli company's proprietary base stations and handsets are in the final stages of testing; deployments are expected in the United States within six to 12...
Digital map developer Navteq announced a product licensing agreement with LandSonar, a predictive traffic supplier. The deal gives Navteq the right to use LandSonar's Predictive Speed product, which estimates trip time and advises routes based on driving speed combined with the continental road network...
HOUSTON-Following Crown Castle International Corp.'s good news-the company's shrinking net loss in the second quarter-the company released some not-so-good news that the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an informal inquiry into the company's stock-option practices. Crown said it will cooperate with the SEC...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is re-examining the service and licensing rules for the 700 MHz spectrum it plans to auction in 2008, and will consider changing how the spectrum is divvied up as well as when spectrum licenses will expire. The 700 MHz spectrum...
PARIS-Alcatel Inc. appears to be strengthening its UMTS market share as the French vendor bought out Fujitsu's 34-percent stake in the pair's UMTS joint venture, while at the same time, reports began surfacing saying Alcatel is on the brink of buying Nortel Networks Ltd.'s...
Nortel Networks Ltd. swung from a $33 million net loss at the close of last year's second quarter to a profit of $366 million this year, thanks to a 30-percent decline of its stock price during the quarter. The company's lowered stock price led...
AUSTIN, Texas-StarCore L.L.C. is closing up shop due to a lack of success in licensing its early digital signal processor family of chips. The company had hoped to challenge Texas Instruments Inc.'s leadership position in the DSP market. The shutdown is set for Aug....
Location-based services seem to encompass consumer applications that generate plenty of excitement among consumers, yet somehow, uptake of LBS applications is not exactly booming-except in cars. Cell-phone users in the United States have been slow to adopt mapping and tracking services, but drivers are...
Just when you thought mobile music personalization applications couldn't get any more disruptive, along come background tones. The latest-but surely not last-step in the evolution of such offerings, background tones play during entire conversations between mobile users. Subscribers can choose to assign songs for...
