The nation's No. 2 carrier lowered the entry price for its wireless high-speed BroadbandAccess service, and is now offering the same price to both existing Verizon Wireless voice customers and new customers.Previously, customers without a voice plan were charged $80 per month for access...
Several Hollywood studios have tapped AdMob Inc. to lure customers to big-screen blockbusters this summer.The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup announced deals with Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to deliver banner and text ads on mobile Web pages. Users can click the ads...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
The cellular industry said a new staff report by the Federal Trade Commission undermines not only the case for net neutrality but the debate over broadband regulation as well."The Internet regulation scheme has forever been built on a hypothetical, 'what-if' scenario and today this...
Managed service, payments and settlements provider Valista named John Lowry as its new CEO. Lowry has a background in information technology and communications, as well as building technology businesses. The company said in a statement that founder Raomal Perera will remain as executive...
Cellfish Media L.L.C. is the latest company to join the social networking stampede with a new community site designed to bridge the gap between mobile phones and PCs.The company launched an ad-supported portal, Cellfish.com, designed to allow users to upload and share photos and...
The Nielsen Company finally made an aggressive move into mobile, agreeing to acquire market research firm Telephia Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Nielsen initially launched an effort to track mobile data usage in March 2005, but Nielsen Mobile saw very little public activity for more...
Telus Corp. has decided not to go through with a bid for Canadian competitor BCE Inc. "The inadequacies of BCE's bid process did not make it possible for Telus to submit an offer," the company said in a statement.BCE had announced a strategic review...
Wells Fargo & Co. and Visa USA said today that they are in a three-phase trial to determine the type and method of mobile payments favored by consumers. The first phase, with Wells Fargo employees in a lab, concluded in April. The bank and...
The language being bandied about today by iPhone reviewers for consumer publications-think The New York Times and Wall Street Journal-is revealing. The gatekeepers have been seduced. But at least they appear seduced by the device-if not by AT&T Mobility's network coverage and capabilities-rather than...
Sprint Nextel Corp. will take a new advertising tack starting July 1, as it launches a campaign with the tagline "Sprint Ahead." The new campaign is designed to " the value its products and services add to people's lives," according to the carrier. The...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--Robert W. Baird upped its price target and estimates on Telephone & Data Systems after the company reported first-quarter results. The company's new price target...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced this week.--4Info: Gannett Co. Inc. led a $10 million series D funding round into 4Info, a mobile search, publishing and advertising company. Previous investors U.S. Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson...
T-Mobile USA Inc. expanded its fixed-mobile converged service from its test market in Seattle to the national stage, leveraging its hotspot network as well as in-home routers to enhance its coverage. UMA-based technology allows seamless handoffs between a Wi-Fi network and T-Mobile USA's GSM/GPRS/EDGE...
Less than a year after rejecting the company, infrastructure vendor Andrew Corp. announced a deal to be acquired by former suitor CommScope Inc. in a $2.6 billion transaction-substantially more than the purchase price the two companies discussed last year.Back in 2006, ADC Telecommunications Inc....
The European Commission in a draft statement yesterday apparently favored the DVB-H standard for mobile television in its member countries, according to media reports today. The draft document reportedly said that DVB-H currently was already the most prevalent standard in EU countries-in contrast to...
Madrid, Spain-based "social router" company FON announced it has given away 7,000 routers in its Fonbucks campaign designed to encourage people living next to a Starbucks Coffee Co. location to provide free or inexpensive Wi-Fi services. FON said it ended up giving away 5,000...
Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled, though didn't launch, a new, music-friendly handset that includes support for larger memory cards as well as an FM transmitter that allows users to listen to tunes through a radio. The Muziq from LG Electronics Co. Ltd. supports Sprint TV...
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--China: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said it won a GSM...
Leap Wireless International Inc. rolled out service in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, expanding its coverage to about 1.3 million potential customers in the region.Cities in the area include Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary and Burlington. Leap said that the addition of...
Mobile television and video subscription revenues grew 198% year-over-year to $146 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to the latest data from Telephia Inc. Approximately 8.4 million wireless customers now subscribe to some form of mobile video, representing nearly 4% of all...
WPCS International Inc. said it will spend $800,000 in cash and stock to acquire Houston's Max Engineering.Max Engineering, which was founded in 2000, provides engineering services for infrastructure in the telecommunications and energy markets. The company's customers include AT&T Mobility, Clearwire Corp., Leap Wireless...
AT&T Mobility unveiled price plans exclusively for the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone, which will be unleashed on the world later this week. (Perhaps showing who wears the pants in this relationship, the price plans are currently only shown on Apple's site.) The plans include...
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...
