CTIA: Sprint cools its MVNO jets
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--With Disney Mobile likely to announce its launch plans today at the Wireless 2006 trade show here, analysts are beginning to wonder how many mobile virtual network operators are too many for Sprint to support...
CTIA: Mforma adopts new strategy, name
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile games maker Mforma is expanding its scope into the broader mobile content arena, saying today it is kicking off its new strategy with a new name and two new applications that are anything but games....
CTIA: MobiTV hits 1M subscriber mark
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MobiTV officials revealed today that it has surpassed the 1 million subscriber mark for its wireless streaming television service, doubling its customer base in just six months...
CTIA: Nokia unveils hosting platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia officially kicked off its Mobility Hosting business today, lending a proper moniker to the platform it has been gradually building over the last year to challenge the growing outsourcing and hosting business of rival network vendor Ericsson...
CTIA: mBlox wholesaling mobile music capacity
By: By Kevin Fitchard
mBlox is often described as a mobile transaction company, an authentication and settlement provider, even a wireless merchandizing firm. But one term that doesn’t come to mind when describing mBlox is wireless capacity wholesaler...
The brand vs. the bottom line
By: By Dan O'Shea
MVNO strategies are rapidly filling out every possible mobile micro-market. But competition and economic realities are forcing MVNOs to heighten revenue hopes and keep their eyes on the bottom line...
The making of the mobisode
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The debate still rages over whether mobile TV will merely emulate the boob tube or find its own way in the world of entertainment, but media companies aren't waiting for the outcome. They're investing in original video content for the tiniest of screens and unleashing it on a handset near you...
Mobile marketing set for takeoff
By: By Dan O'Shea
If a recent survey of 50 European brand-name companies from various industries is any indication, by 2011 at least half of them will be spending up to 25% of their marketing budgets on mobile marketing opportunities...
A language all their own
By: By Dan O'Shea
ClientLogic answers the call for MVNO customers who want to, like, relate...
Enabling competition
By: By Dan O'Shea
Everyone wants to be a mobile virtual network enabler. Now it's time to deal with the reality of a crowded and competitive MVNE market...
Pocket pals
By: By Dan O'Shea
Social networking and user-generated content are in the process of becoming the killer apps that 3G networks were built for...
Nokia predicts almost 1B handsets sold in 2006
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The world’s No. 1 cellphone maker today projected a 15% growth in handset shipment volumes this year over 2005’s 795 million. That would mean 914 million new handsets in customers hands--just shy of half the world’s total subscriber base...
Verizon Wireless makes its first music star
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless named the winner to its Calling All Bands contest, announcing that a Lexington, Ky., quintet, the Parlour Boys, would be first band to gain nationwide distribution through its music portal V Cast Music...
MMA to set mobile TV advertising standards
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the mobile TV sector is still a small one, the Mobile Marketing Association is preparing for its growth and the advertising and marketing campaigns that will accompany it...
Cingular “Idol” promotion to ship live ringtones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular today broke a new record in music licensing while simultaneously coming up with one of the most compelling multimedia services in wireless. It announced it would ship ringtones made from the live recordings of contestants on hit-show “American Idol” available for download the day after they are recorded...
TELECOMNEXT: Cingular provides basic training
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--In his keynote address at TelecomNext today, Cingular President and CEO Stan Sigman tried to keep the feet of the telecommunications industry planted firmly on the ground given all the heady talk the last two days about its future....
TELECOMNEXT: Siemens announces IMS solutions
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Siemens joined what is expected to be a parade of announcements about IP Multimedia Subsystem solutions at the TelecomNext trade show...
Sprint trials muni Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today revealed its entrance into the wireless mesh arena just a few short months before divesting its own local access business...
TiVo tunes in on wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Wireline/wireless convergence may not have advanced very far yet, but the industry is starting, application by application, to cement it in the mind of the consumer...
Sprint takes PBX on the road
By: By Vince Vittore
Sprint is taking what could logically be thought of as the next step in its voice-over-IP evolution with the launch of a new service...
VON: Vortex goes national on Tekelec
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--Vortex Broadband Communications is launching its fixed wireless voice and data services nationally, using Tekelec’s 6000 VoIP Application Servers to deliver voice, broadband and hosting VoIP servers...
Openwave lands Telus music deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Openwave today said its Musiwave platform will power Telus's new full-track music download service announced Monday, giving Openwave its first North American music deal after acquiring the French music portal in January....
InPhonic goes after small business
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InPhonic today said it is launching a business version of its consumer wireless retailing site Wirefly to target small and home businesses so often missed by the larger carriers...
Leap buys Carolina spectrun
By: By Dan O'Shea
San Diego-based Leap Wireless International has signed an agreement with Urban Comm-North Carolina, currently classified as Debtor-in-Possession, to purchase 13 spectrum licenses for $31.8 million in cash in markets spanning North and South Carolina. ...
Bango teams with July Systems
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Bango today announced it is teaming up with July Systems to create independent shopping portals for mobile content in hopes of generating more purchases off of the carriers' content decks....
