The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Serbia: Telekom Srbija has chosen Nokia Siemens to extend its...
Mobile phone service Buzzwire launched its beta service, the company announced. The company lets users create a lineup of video and audio feeds from local, national, international news, traffic, weather, sports and entertainment to play on their mobile phones.Buzzwire is part of a new...
It's been a tough couple of weeks in the mobile content space.Crown Castle International Corp. fled the nascent mobile TV market last week, absorbing a $10 million hit as it shut down its Modeo business and agreeing to lease the spectrum once salted for...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--MySpace deleted...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
T-Mobile USA Inc. pared down the number of business plans offered on its Web site, eliminating price points of $40 and $50 a month. The two axed plans offered 600 and 1,000 minutes, respectively, and were at the low end of carrier's options. T-Mobile...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works...
Congress approved legislation that frees up $43.5 million for upgrades to 911 call centers. The measure, included in the 9/11 Commission Recommendations bill and funded by proceeds from the upcoming 700 MHz auction, is now headed to the White House.Under current law the $43.5...
Whether Jose Trujillo of Melrose Park, Ill., will find support among fellow iPhone owners-or a court of law in Cook County, Ill.-for his just-launched lawsuit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. over the need to have the unit's rechargeable battery replaced eventually remains to...
Despite the widely recognized success of Amp'd Mobile Inc.'s large portfolio of original content, a source at the company has told RCR Wireless News that less than 1% of the company's $360 million total budget was spent on such endeavors.This revelation, which comes as...
T-Mobile USA Inc. ran into temporary trouble with prepaid top-up service late last week, but said that most of the problems were resolved by Sunday. According to carrier spokesman Peter Dobrow, the company discovered an issue on Thursday "stemming from a system upgrade that...
In the Byzantine world of handset pricing, intrigue is the name of the game. What to read into the latest handset price gyrations? Our guess: largely price cuts to pique consumer interest during the coming dog days of summer. AT&T Mobility discounted its Nokia...
On-device portal developer Action Engine Corp. picked up $20 million in a funding round led by Baker Capital. On-device portals, or ODPs, are middleware applications that can store a limited amount of cached information on a handset. The technology allows carriers and other content...
Dear Editor,After Hurricane Katrina devastated southern Mississippi in 2005, more than $110 billion in federal assistance poured into the region, spurring reconstruction. Yet most funds needed for this rebuilding-which remains ongoing-are coming from private sources.Gulf Coast reconstruction efforts underscore the critical role that public-private...
Verizon Wireless announced a $2.67 billion deal to acquire Rural Cellular Corp., one of the nation's largest rural carriers. The agreement will add RCC's 700,000 customers to Verizon Wireless' base-which currently stands at 62.1 million-and will expand the No. 2 operator's coverage in parts...
Cellular backhaul is one area cable network operators are examining as an alternative revenue stream, according to ABI Research.In order to supplement their income from residential video services, cable operators are looking for opportunities in voice telephony, broadband data services, SMB and cellular backhaul...
Cellphone users in the United States access weather content more than any other news and information data, while European users prefer sports content, said M:Metrics.News content ranked second among subscribers in both the United States and Europe. Among other categories, including entertainment, maps, financial...
And now it seems the mobile TV market is down to two.Last week Crown Castle closed its Modeo mobile TV business, leasing the company's 1600 MHz spectrum to a pair of venture capitalists. It's unclear what exactly Telcom Ventures and Columbia Capital plan to...
CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP. cut its losses in mobile video last week, agreeing to lease its Modeo L.L.C.'s nationwide spectrum for a dedicated mobile broadcast network to a pair of venture capital firms. What will become of that spectrum, though, is far from clear....
In the "Apple set to invade Europe" story on page 14 of this week's issue, it should read that Apple will unveil a European partner for the iPhone as well as hit its goal of 1 million devices during the company's fourth fiscal quarter,...
Embarq Corp., the spinoff company encompassing Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireline operations, continued to see a decline in access lines but added 18,000 new wireless subscribers during the quarter to reach a customer base of almost 90,000 subscribers.The company reported that 81,000 of its customers...
Investors and analysts punished AOL L.L.C. for being late to the party when it scrapped its subscription model last year in favor of online advertising. When it comes to mobile, though, the Time Warner subsidiary may arrive in the nick of time.The Dulles, Va.-based...
hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.Canadian operator Telus Mobility recently added Samsung's m620 handset to its portfolio. The device has been available from U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel for several months, but, adhering...
Fixed-mobile convergence products are making their presence known in the enterprise.FMC is taking form by mobilizing private telephone switches used by many businesses, and offering PBX functions that extend to wireless devices. This baby step toward convergence, instead of some of the more daring...
