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SAN FRANCISCO-Men and women alike use ringtones, but there are big differences between the sexes when it comes to other mobile services.A new study from M:Metrics finds females are significantly less likely to use mobile data services compared with men, but they are about...

FORT MYERS, Fla.-Kentucky-based regional carrier Bluegrass Cellular Inc. has tapped InterOp Technologies Inc. to provide ringback services, the companies said Thursday.InterOp, which powers mobile data services for Tier 2 and 3 operators, will deliver its library of ringbacks, including real tones, sports anthems and...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Smartphones Technologies Inc. and Collegiate Images announced mobile content licensing agreements with more than 30 U.S. colleges and universities that allow Smartphones to offer exclusively licensed college sports content.According to the agreements, Smartphones will create officially licensed wallpapers, animated screensavers, mobile video clips,...

Verizon Wireless said it added an industry-record 1.9 million subscribers during the second quarter, which was a 25-percent improvement compared with the 1.5 million customers the carrier added during the second quarter of last year. The growth was significantly higher than the 1.1 million...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The full-track wireless music download industry in the United States will reach $1.2 billion in revenue by 2009, according to a study from research firm IDC Corp.While the nascent industry faces a host of potential hurdles-including digital rights management issues, razor-thin sales margins...

Verizon Wireless completed its nationwide rollout of ringback tones, launching service Thursday for users in Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico, the carrier said Friday.U.S. carriers have been scrambling to deploy ringback tones, which allow a caller to hear music instead of a traditional ring...

WOBURN, Mass.-Verizon Wireless continued to expand its ringback service, making the application available to users in New England. With the new service, subscribers in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont can choose clips from more than 2,400 songs from Sony BMG...

TEL AVIV, Israel-Fixed-mobile network provider Outsmart Ltd. snared $17 million in a recent funding round from Accel Partners, Gemini Israel Funds and Magnum Communications Fund, the company said Tuesday. Outsmart said it will use the capital to deploy its SmartFMCTM offering, which allows operators...

With the overwhelming array of wireless content and applications on the market, even the nation's biggest carriers are struggling with what to offer and how to present it to the consumer. It may be no surprise, then, that smaller carriers are working overtime to...

SHANGHAI, China-Linktone Ltd., which provides interactive entertainment services to Chinese consumers, said it is sponsoring a nationwide contest to find original mobile content. Linktone said the goal of the contest, among other things, is to acquire creative new content for its users. Contest participants...

SHANGHAI, China-Linktone Ltd., which provides interactive entertainment services to Chinese consumers, said it is sponsoring a nationwide contest to find original mobile content.Linktone said the goal of the contest, among other things, is to acquire creative new content for its users. Contest participants will...

FORT MYERS, Fla.-Eloqui Wireless, which provides wireless service in Tennessee, selected InterOP Technologies' Ringback solution to provide customers an alternative to conventional ringing sounds.InterOP's Ringback tones include original recordings, music true-tones, sounds, sports anthems and voice-tones."Subscribers at Eloqui will be able to manage their...

For U.S. carriers, the race to deploy ringback tones is on. Ringbacks-the clips of music a caller hears instead of a traditional ring before the person being called answers the phone-began making headlines last year, when uptake exploded in some Far Eastern markets. Asian...

FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies announced it has secured contracts with four more U.S. regional carriers.The mobile data company said it will provide advanced messaging and data services to Corr Wireless, Highland Cellular, Inland Cellular and Pine Cellular, raising InterOP's number of North American operator...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-NMS Communications and LogicaCMG said Wednesday they're powering a new ringback tone service for Swisscom Mobile.The service allows users to purchase song clips that calling parties will hear instead of traditional rings. Subscribers can set ringback tones to change based on the caller...

DALLAS-Subscribers of First Cellular of Southern Illinois can access a new ringback service featuring content from the film "Meet the Fockers." Preferred Voice Inc. (PVI) and Versaly Entertainment are teaming for the service, which the companies described as the first movie-themed ring-back offering in...

ALGERIAChinese vendor ZTE Corp. said it will supply CDMA gear for a network covering the three provinces of Tizi Ouzou, Bouira and Bejaia in northern Algeria. The contract value was not disclosed, but ZTE said the new network will include switching systems; base-station systems;...

DALLAS-Preferred Voice Inc. notched its second carrier win with the announcement that it will provide ringback services for Oklahoma regional carrier Panhandle Telephone Cooperative. Ringbacks allow subscribers to choose music clips that callers hear instead of the traditional ring before a phone is answered....

SHANGHAI, China-Mobile-phone content application provider Linktone Ltd. said it is being sanctioned by carrier China Mobile for billing mistakes. Linktone said it is being penalized for inadvertently billing 27,000 WAP customers 72 cents for a service that should have been free. As a result,...

Mobile-phone content application provider Linktone Ltd. said it is being sanctioned by carrier China Mobile for billing mistakes. Linktone said it is being penalized for inadvertently billing 27,000 WAP customers 72 cents for a service that should have been free. As a result, China...

Preferred Voice Inc. notched its second carrier win with the announcement that it will provide ringback services for Oklahoma regional carrier Panhandle Telephone Cooperative.Ringbacks allow subscribers to choose music clips that callers hear instead of the traditional ring before a phone is answered. PVI...

SEOUL, South Korea-Indian wireless carrier Airtel has reached 1 million subscribers for its ringback tone service just five months after its July service launch, said WiderThan, which provides the service. Airtel, which is the brand name for the service owned by Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd.,...

SEOUL, South Korea-Indian wireless carrier Airtel has reached 1 million subscribers for its ringback tone service just five months after its July service launch, said WiderThan, which provides the service. Airtel, which is the brand name for the service owned by Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd.,...

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA became the first carrier to offer ringback tones nationwide last week. The carrier launched CallerTunes, enabling subscribers' phones to play music instead of the traditional ring callers hear before a mobile phone is answered. Users paying a $1.50 monthly subscription fee...