T-Mobile USA Inc. instituted a set of new promotional price plans and expanded its offerings at the $40 price point. The carrier added a $40 per month Get More 1,000 Plus individual plan that includes unlimited night and weekend calling but no mobile-to-mobile minutes....
Fans of GPS applications are getting enhanced features at two of the nation's largest carriers. AT&T Mobility announced four of its newer Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices can now provide customers direct access to traffic and re-routing information through TeleNav Traffic, and in...
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 to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
NEW YORK-Companies looking to cash in on wireless should focus less on whiz-bang technology and worry more about reach, according to the keynote speakers at the final day of the Mobile Marketing Forum's conference here."Gold is audience," said John Hadl, CEO of Brand in...
GPS company Wherify Wireless Inc. hired Vincent Sheeran as the company's new CEO."We are very pleased to see Vince Sheeran, a veteran of several high-growth technology companies, join the Wherify team," said W. Douglas Hajjar, a member of Wherify's board of directors. "We believe...
Firefly Mobile, maker of the Firefly mobile phone designed for children, said its gadget is now available at Kmart stores nationwide.The news is notable as Firefly lost a major distribution channel when AT&T Mobility dropped the Firefly from its lineup.The phone, targeted at children...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Current Analysis' Avi...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special edition of our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro...
Alltel Corp. said its customers can now use Alltel laptop cards to access CDMA EV-DO coverage in major metropolitan areas through the carrier's roaming agreements.Alltel said the roaming agreement runs through Sprint Nextel Corp.'s network. The broadband wireless roaming includes major markets such as...
Starent Networks Corp., which sells multimedia infrastructure products to wireless carriers, raised $126.4 million in an initial public offering, beating the company's forecast. The offering of more than 10.5 million shares sold for $12 per share, which gives the company an initial market capitalization...
NEW YORK-Coca-Cola Co. is moving aggressively onto the mobile marketing playground with a kind of mobile MySpace centered on the company's Sprite brand.The soft drink titan plans to launch a worldwide community allowing users to create profiles and exchange photos and messages, executive Mark...
Starting in July, The Nielsen Co. will weigh in on the behavior of mobile subscribers through a new measurement service called Nielsen Wireless, which will examine how many people access the mobile Internet, mobile video and other content. Nielsen Wireless' first product, Mobile Vector,...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Airband Communications: M/C Venture Partners invested $12.5 million in Airband as part of the company's third round of funding....
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier --Standard & Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its CCC rating on Cricket Communications Inc.'s $1.035 billion of senior unsecured notes due 2014 and affirmed its...
Apropos of a recent handset offering dubbed "The Blend"-which combines CDMA and iDEN network access in one handset-Sprint Nextel Corp. has blended the online presentation of its CDMA and iDEN phone lines.The carrier now offers handsets in three categories: "walkie-talkie phones," "camera phones" and...
Spending on mobile advertising could reach $14.4 billion by 2011, accounting for one-fifth of global spending on Internet advertising, according to a report from Strategy Analytics Inc."The outlook for mobile advertising spend has significantly advanced in the past 12 months," said Phil Taylor, director...
Sagem Communication signed a royalty-bearing agreement with Qualcomm Inc. to make and sell W-CDMA handsets worldwide at the latter's "standard rate," Qualcomm announced. The deal represents another customer win for Qualcomm, which competes with other W-CDMA intellectual property holders in the high-growth 3G space....
Clear Channel Radio selected VeriSign Inc. to launch a suite of mobile radio services for the broadcast giant. Clear Channel in May announced a mobile effort that the company said would expand to around 100 of its U.S. stations by the end of 2008.Clear...
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Aepona, a global provider of telecom software and services, plans to merge with Appium, which focuses on application servers and service creation environments, the two companies announced. The new entity will retain the Aepona identity and will be headquartered in Belfast, current headquarters of...
Amp'd Mobile Inc. blamed its rapid growth, back-office systems and collection problems as the reasons for its need to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and said that nearly half of its youthful customer base were not paying their bills by early 2007, according to...
Corporate infrastructure provider Avaya Inc. announced an $8.2 billion deal under which it will be bought out by two private-equity firms. The transaction is just the latest in a growing line of private-equity buyouts in the telecom industry.Under the terms of the agreement, Silver...
HTC Corp., the nimble, Taiwan-based smartphone maker that is a leading purveyor of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system, announced in London its new HTC Touch, a phone that employs touchscreen technology. The move is notable as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, which also features a...
Infrastructure giant L.M. Ericsson announced it will pay around $417 million for German billing company LHS AG, a move that could pit Ericsson directly against telecom billing heavyweights like Amdocs Ltd. and Convergys Corp."Operators are quickly moving towards convergent charging and billing solutions to...
