Versent Mobile latest MVNE entrant 

By: By Dan O'Shea

DBS Communications, a Chicago area company that has operated a prepaid mobile virtual network operator for the last eight years, today launched Versent Mobile, a new mobile virtual network enabler...

Alltel launches prepaid service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Alltel today announced it is broaching the world of prepaid, offering its customers a range of service plans from pay-per-minute to pay-per-month...

Verizon Wireless adds 2 million customers 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Verizon Wireless, in advance of its fourth quarter 2005 earnings call planned for this Thursday, today announced that net wireless subscriber additions for the quarter amounted to 2 million, an increase of 20.5% over the fourth quarter of 2004. The figure also was an industry record for a single quarter, the company claimed in its statement....

Verizon unwraps new business unit 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon is taking the wraps off its new Verizon Business unit, announcing both a global integrated product portfolio and new integrated wireless/wireline service offerings. (Photographers/Source: Rick Maiman/Bloomberg News/Landov)...

For MVNOs, business is unusual 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

The primary architect of EarthLink's wireless venture is setting his sights on a new type of mobile project...

Caribbean becomes wireless hot spot 

By: By Dan O'Shea

When Cingular Wireless sold its assets and spectrum licenses in several Caribbean markets last summer to Digicel, the deal might have been noticed more for Cingular getting out than for Digicel's plans for its new properties...

WCA: MVS deploys NextNet in Mexico 

By: By Carol Wilson

SAN JOSE, CALIF.--MVS Net, the Mexican communications company that is part of a family-owned empire with reach into broadcasting and Internet content, is running VoIP over non-line of sight broadband wireless access systems from NextNet Wireless, a U.S. vendor that is part of the family-owned empire of Craig McCaw....

Wireless customer satisfaction falls 

By: By Carol Wilson

Overall wireless customer satisfaction slipped, and even market leader Verizon Wireless took a hit in the most recent Vocal Laboratories’ quarterly survey of wireless customer satisfaction....

MobiTV to launch music video service with Universal 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

MobiTV will be Universal Music Group's first customer for its new music video service. ...

Adamind, Universal in mobile music pact 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Mobile content software company Adamind has announced a three-year contract with Universal Music Group's U.S. mobile subsidiary to help adapt the music industry giant's content for mobile distribution Adamind also will provide Universal with a managed service offering profiles and formats for all existing and new mobile devices on the market. ...

CES: Motorola launching Google phone 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola is releasing handsets this quarter that will feature an integrated Google button, which, when pressed, will automatically take users to the popular search engine. ...

CES: Verizon Wireless, Microsoft launch music service  

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless and Microsoft today announced they are launching a joint mobile music service over Verizon’s V Cast 3G service using Windows Media format...

CES: Sennari brings ‘bling’ to Vodafone 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Sennari, a developer of customer relationship management platforms for the mobile industry, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week that its PrizePlay gaming service is now available to Vodafone live! customers throughout the U.K...

Motorola to launch music streaming service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola’s music strategy appears to be forging ahead without partner Apple as the vendor today announced a new subscription-based streaming service to replace iTunes in the latest edition of its ROKR music phone, according to news reports....

Wireless gaming awaits market breakthrough 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Mobile gaming remains the killer app that still hasn't knocked 'em dead, but market growth and maturity might be on the way. (Photo: ISSEI KATO/Reuters/Landov)...

In Focus: How U.S. mobile operators can take full advantage of international service opportunities 

By: By Larry Frank

The most significant change in telephony over the past ten years has been the explosive growth of wireless subscribers worldwide. Yet unlike their colleagues around the world, mobile operators in the U.S. have not capitalized on the revenue potential from international calling; in fact, most operators do not aggressively market international services and some do not even authorize their credit-worthy customers to initiate such calls. ...

Mobileplay launches ad-based content service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Content start-up Mobileplay has launched a new content service for smartphones that derives its revenues from pushed advertising services. ...

Telefonica buys last 8% of Mexico unit 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Spain's Telefónica Móviles has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining 8% stake of Telefónica Móviles México that it doesn't already own, the Spansh company announced this week....

Alcatel, Tekelec extend OEM deal 

By: By Carol Wilson

Gatespeed joins NextWeb's SkyWeb 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Wireless ISP NextWeb, which this fall announced a still-pending deal to be aquired by Covad Communications, said this week that fellow WISP Gatespeed Broadband has become a member of the SkyWeb Alliance, created by NextWeb and other WISPs to extend broadband wireless network coverage throughout California. ...

UWB ready to hit market in 2006 

By: By Vince Vittore

Next month’s International CES show in Las Vegas should mark a turning point for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology as vendors move out of experimentation and into real product development....

Ericsson hosts TV for sunrise 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Ericsson has landed another managed services contract, this time a three-year deal to host mobile TV services for sunrise, a mobile carrier in Switzerland owned by TDC Group and serving about 2.2 million customers. ...

Cingular to launch streaming service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Verizon Wireless has 24 and Lost, Sprint has Jay Leno and now Cingular Wireless has Tony Soprano. Cingular is kicking off its 3G video service with one of the biggest names in TV entertainment, signing an exclusive deal with Home Box Office for video content from the hit show Sopranos and other programs....

Amp’d goes live 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Amp’d Mobile debuted online this afternoon, beginning the soft launch of its much-hyped and equally anticipated wireless service through its Web portal...

Amp'd Mobile set to launch  

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Amp'd Mobile will open its doors, or at least its online portal, for the first time today, offering its highly anticipated mobile service and souped-up 3G phones on a limited basis from its Web site...