WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission last week filed civil complaints against five data brokers, urging the court to find that the data brokers violated the FTC Act and that they must give up any money they obtained from the practice of obtaining and selling customer...
WASHINGTON-Motient Corp. last week said company Chairman Steven Singer and four other directors would not seek re-election at the wireless company's annual meeting, a development that comes at a time when Highland Capital Management L.P.-the largest single investor in Motient-is lodging a proxy fight...
It's no secret that short codes have failed to gain traction among mass-market wireless subscribers in the United States. Tim Jemison thinks he knows why-and how to cash in. Jemison is the chief executive officer behind Zoove Corp., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup expected...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-Regional telecommunications operator Ntelos Holdings Corp. posted an 18-percent jump in wireless revenues during the first quarter, from $65.6 million in 2005 to $77.6 million this year. The growth was boosted by a 25-percent increase in wholesale revenues that Ntelos said was derived...
WASHINGTON-Universal Studios is the latest mainstream media giant to go wireless in a big way, establishing a division dedicated to mobile content. Universal, which already has more than 60 licensing deals worldwide with mobile entertainment publishers, announced plans to launch 30 games as well...
DULLES, Va.-AOL L.L.C. is teaming with Craig McCaw's Clearwire Corp. to offer high-speed wireless broadband access. The service, which is available starting for $26 a month, has been deployed in three mid-sized Clearwire markets in California and Florida. Subscribers can access the Internet using...
WASHINGTON-Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. have been forced to defend their proposed trans-Atlantic merger after a key lawmaker raised security concerns about the deal in a letter to President Bush. "I have several grave concerns about the potential merger of French-owned Alcatel and...
MUMBAI, India-The Walt Disney Internet Group late last month scored its first content deal with an Indian carrier, partnering with Airtel to launch mobile ringtones, images and games. Disney Mobile Theatre also is expected to offer video clips including 30-second shorts of six Disney...
Mobile e-mail continues to be a largely untapped market, but the patent litigation industry in wireless is alive and well. Visto Corp.'s lawyers mobilized once again last week as the developer set its sites on Research In Motion Ltd., claiming the BlackBerry maker is...
Motorola Inc.'s announcement last week that it plans to acquire a Danish research-and-development facility and team of product-development engineers appeared routine at first blush: global juggernaut rolls up modest facility and team to bolster its continuing momentum toward worldwide market domination. Whatever. But a...
WASHINGTON—A health-related suit to block the June 29 start of the advanced wireless services auction has been re-filed at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. On Thursday, plaintiff Maria Gonzalez and her attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. withdrew a similar...
TUCSON, Ariz.—Cell Wireless Corp. and Bond Wireless said they signed a letter of intent calling for the two companies to merge. Bond Wireless provides mobile messaging solutions, including international text messaging connectivity, mobile messaging applications, integrated products and consultancy services to enterprises. The company...
Nortel Networks Ltd. late last month restated its much delayed financial results for 2003, 2004 and the first nine months of 2005, though analysts seemed indifferent to the impact. Daniel Longfield, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan's Wireless Group says Nortel's restatements are of...
Verizon Wireless continued its run of strong quarterly results, boosting its service revenues by double-digits and squeezing its churn rate below 1.2 percent. The company's results "just getting better," said Albert Lin of American Technology Research, noting that Verizon Wireless had an industry-low...
SAN DIEGO-Residents of San Antonio will be able to add Cricket to their list of wireless service choices. Leap Wireless International Inc. and Alaska Native Broadband 1 License L.L.C. said they plan to begin offering Leap's Cricket service with four retail stores in San...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it expects to complete the spinoff of its local telecom business, dubbed Embarq Corp., on May 17. That day, Sprint Nextel expects to distribute to its shareholders all of Embarq's shares as a stock dividend, based on a ratio...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court appears willing to agree with the Federal Communications Commission that Voice over Internet Protocol technology substantially replaces standard telecommunications services-but at least one judge believes the FCC's argument that broadband Internet access is also a telecom replacement is "disingenuous" and...
Voce, the luxury mobile virtual network operator, has begun offering its services on a small scale in the L.A. area. Steve Stanford, Voce's chief executive officer, described the quiet start as an invitation-only market trial, with participation capped at around 500 people "for whom...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said last week it launched service in Deadhorse, Alaska. The launch extends the carrier's GSM/GPRS/EDGE network into the North Slope region along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, an area that contains one of the major petroleum reserves in Alaska....
The reason a wireless handset becomes successful in the marketplace remains something of a mystery. Everyone knows it must depend, in part, on a winning combination of many factors-brand, price, style, features, the integration of form and function, marketing muscle, a smart match between...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, went to the Senate Floor May 1 to announce he was introducing "the Communications Act of 2006." The 135-page bill combines many previously introduced proposals. The bill supports municipal broadband network deployments as well...
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.-Carriers may not be earning the additional revenue they expected from the popularity of camera phones, according to new research from The NPD Group Inc. In less than four years, camera phones have found their way into the pockets and purses of...
WASHINGTON—Three groups today asked the Federal Communications Commission to drop the agency’s new rule changes to the small-business bidding program and to delay the June 29 start of the advanced wireless services auction pending resolution of issues raised in their petition. Council Tree Communications,...
WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court appears willing to agree with the Federal Communications Commission that Voice over Internet Protocol technology substantially replaces standard telecommunications services—but at least one judge believes the FCC’s argument that broadband Internet access is also a telecom replacement is "disingenuous" and...
