Mobile and Wireless Industry Reports

AT&T Mobility continued its steady growth during the first quarter of the year, reporting customer additions on par with the previous year and gains in customer revenue that helped push the carrier’s revenues up more than 17%.For the quarter, the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ 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 …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Yay or Nay, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ 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 …

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–Brazil: Ericsson said it won a …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News’ 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 …

APC Wireless announced it closed a deal late last week to purchase the recently bankrupt MVNO Movida Communications Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Movida, which targeted the Hispanic market, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware court earlier this month, …

Nearly one-fifth of mid- and high-end handsets will run Linux by 2013, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.High-profile backers such as Google Inc.(whose Android initiative is based on Linux) and Nokia Corp. (which earlier this year spent $153 …

One of magazines’ biggest strengths in the dawning digital age — that engrossing environment often said to be so conducive to glossy branding campaigns — isn’t much help when the economic downturn is pressing advertisers to cut any ad spending …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to 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 Current Analysis’ …

Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) introduced a bill to foster deployment of a national, family-friendly wireless broadband network with open access, an initiative the mobile-phone industry was quick to pounce on.The Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act, …

Five years after 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” helped launch the multibillion-dollar ringtone phenomenon – and as CD sales continue to plummet – the music industry continues to look for its second hit in mobile. We talked to Sean Rosenberg, …

LAS VEGAS – “There is an expression – if there is something that people want to watch, you can broadcast it on a rock in the desert and they will watch it,” Frank Nein, co-founder, partner and senior VP at …

A group of House lawmakers introduced legislation to close a loophole in federal law that makes mobile-phone subscribers potential targets for unsolicited text message advertising.“Basically, this adds text messages to banned calls to cellphone numbers listed on the national do-not-call …

Radio Disney is partnering with sister company mDisney on a mobile Web site and texting program to support the offering.The new wireless site allows users with Web-enabled phones to hear Radio Disney broadcasts, find local stations, request tunes and participate …

AT&T Inc. announced it will be firing about 4,600 employees, or 1.5% of its workforce, as it continues to integrate staff between AT&T and SBC Communications Inc. SBC acquired AT&T in a $16 billion deal in 2005.The company said the …

Motorola Inc. is streamlining product oversight in its phone business as it searches for a CEO to run the operation, which it plans to spin off as a separate company. Rob Shaddock, who was senior VP for the company’s feature …

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. —Rosum: Rosum Corp. said it raised $15 million in new financing from existing investors …

The Starter Kit provides the flexibility to develop wireless capability by using Jennic JN5139 microcontrollers and modules as wireless processors or co-processors.Jennic has released a low-cost starter kit which allows developers with little or no wireless experience to develop products.

A class-action lawsuit filed against Alltel Corp. accuses the regional mobile-phone carrier of adding unauthorized charges on subscribers’ monthly bills.The suit focuses on the relationships between Alltel and third-party mobile content providers and billing aggregators such as m-Qube Inc., a …

Nokia Corp. posted strong results for the typically tepid first quarter, but its stock dipped 14% in midday trading after the company said that the handset market’s overall value, in Euro terms, would decline from last year.Nokia reported revenue of …

The House passed a bill that would repeal the Internal Revenue Service requirement for employees to maintain detailed logs of cellphone and Blackberry use for tax-filing purposes.The Modernize Our Bookkeeping in the Law for Employees CellPhone Act was sponsored by …

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 RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs …

Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. introduced its ChatLink service, a push-to-talk feature that allows its subscribers to use PTT services with people outside of MetroPCS’ network. Kodiak Networks, which powers the ChatLink service as well as other PTT offerings …

With the Apple iPhone seemingly dominating the mobile-phone conversation, you would have to forgive LG Electronics Co. Ltd. for backing a superheroic push to earn some buzz. LG is turning to comic-book character Iron Man to launch one of its …

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