The Federal Communications Commission ordered wireless and wireline operators to have backup power sources for telecom facilities and to submit reports on the reliability of their 911 systems, but the agency's two Democrats said carriers should be required to do more to better maintain...
In the sudden rush of handset announcements-isn't June the traditional window for launching handsets?-AT&T Mobility plans tol bring on two new models from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The Samsung SGH-a717 is a slim clamshell with 3G multimedia offerings priced at $150 with a two-year...
U.S. mobile users rang up $215 million in off-deck premium SMS downloads in the first quarter, according to new figures from Telephia.The San Francisco-based market research firm found that premium SMS activity accounted for more than $273 million in revenues, or about 32% of...
The top two handset vendors made small ripples this week in near-perfect juxtaposition. They both want something the other has-and gettin' some is going to be difficult. Nokia Corp. announced yesterday that it will make two of its premium N-series devices available for sale...
Nokia Siemens Networks is getting some fresh blood to fill its CFO position. Eric Simonsen, an American with varied experience in senior management positions at telecommunications and financial companies and Nokia Corp.'s global head of restructuring, assumes the CFO responsibilities effective today, the company...
Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit against Nevada-based I-VEST Global Corp. and various anonymous organizations alleging each has sent unsolicited wireless spam to its customers.The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., alleges that I-VEST attempted to send more than 12...
Airadigm Communications' Einstein Wireless, a GSM cellphone carrier in Wisconsin, said it fired up the nation's first cellular broadcast emergency alert system covering the community of Appleton."Together with CellCast Technologies and with support from , we've been testing cell broadcast capability in Wisconsin and...
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards urged the Federal Communications Commission to fashion 700 MHz rules to further the reach of the Internet using an open-access approach advocated by Frontline Wireless L.L.C., consumer groups and Internet giants. "By setting bid and service rules that...
Verizon Wireless, meet Prince, the prolific artist who aggressively protects his fusion of just about every musical genre imaginable. The man whose bitter battle with a record label prompted him to change his name to a symbol for eight years has now inked a...
U.S. carriers are missing out on millions of dollars by making it difficult for users to discover and download mobile games, according to new figures from Strategy Analytics.The market research firm found that while mobile gaming is expected to ring up $520 million in...
Sprint Nextel Corp. made the cut this time, snagging one of the prized contracts in a multibillion-dollar program to modernize the federal government's telecommunications system. The General Services Administration today awarded Networx Enterprise contracts to Sprint Solutions Inc. (Sprint Nextel), AT&T Inc., Level...
Online casual gaming giant Oberon Media bought its way onto the mobile playground, picking up London-based publisher I-play for an undisclosed sum.Oberon powers storefronts customers such as MSN Games Network, Electronic Arts Inc., Verizon Broadband, Comcast and Orange/France Telecom. The New York-based company is...
Clearwire Corp. completed its acquisition of 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T Inc.; the larger company had to divest itself of the spectrum as part of the requirements for the approval of its purchase of BellSouth Corp. The 2.5 GHz spectrum was licensed to or...
Motorola Inc. said yesterday that it would cut 4,000 more jobs in the coming year, on top of 3,500 job cuts to be completed by next month. The reduced headcount at the world's No. 2 handset vendor is part of an overall $1 billion...
As AT&T Inc. continues its acceleration of transitioning away from the Cingular brand, the company has revamped Cingular.com into an AT&T-branded site. Instead of reaching the old Cingular.com site, users who type in the address will find themselves at wireless.att.com, with the same architecture...
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...
WASHINGTON-A federal judicial panel has conditionally remanded a brain cancer lawsuit and class action headset lawsuit against mobile phone companies to courts in Florida and Pennsylvania respectively.U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake of Baltimore earlier this month recommended to the Judicial Panel on Mulitdistrict Litigation...
Third Screen Media Inc. and iLoop Mobile plan to work together to help companies looking to generate advertising revenue from their wireless Web sites.The deal looks to integrate iLoop's technology, which is designed to simplify the processes for developing and managing mobile Internet sites,...
Enterprise applications are poised for impressive growth in the United States while the U.K. mobile content market is approaching a "tipping point," according to two new reports.Compass Intelligence L.L.C. said U.S. businesses will spend $9 billion on mobile applications by 2011, more than doubling...
Alltel Corp. made clear its interest in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction in filings with the Federal Communications Commission, and requested that the commission avoid plans to set aside a chunk of the spectrum for a national private/public-safety network and make sure that...
Longer contracts are pushing American consumers to keep their handsets longer, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates. The average length of ownership of a particular handset has increased for the first time in five years, to 17.5 months from the...
Following a major financial reporting setback due to an internal review of stock-options granting practices in mid-March, Wireless Facilities Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its wireless engineering business to LCC International for $46 million.The San Diego-based infrastructure vendor expects the deal, which...
Broadcom Corp. is "pleased" and "gratified" that a federal jury in Santa Ana, Calif., found Qualcomm Inc. willfully infringed on three of its patents and awarded it $19.6 million in damages to cover past infringements.A June 18 hearing has been set to consider Broadcom's...
Business users in Western Europe and other regions will help drive surging sales of smartphones and other converged devices over the next few years, according to new figures from IDC.The market research firm predicted converged mobile devices will see a compound annual growth rate...
