Amp’d to go with Kodiak PTT solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile has selected Kodiak Networks to power its push-to-talk service, forming part of the new mobile virtual network operator’s core services platform...
Verizon Wireless expands EV-DO network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless has increased the number of markets with EV-DO service to 52, turning up networks in 13 new large and mid-sized markets this month and expanding service in some of its existing metro areas...
The debate over dual-mode data
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Voice over Wi-Fi is the current rage in wireless, with carriers and customers alike seeking cheaper minutes piped over the WLAN. But so far voice's logical partner--data--hasn't attracted as much attention in the dual-mode discussion...
Sprint Nextel announce brand plan
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sprint and Nextel Communications announced details about the brand strategy they are planning to use when their merger is completed later this year...
WiFi Planet generates new partnerships, products
By: By Kevin Fitchard
This week at Voice over WiFi Planet--formerly WiFi Planet--new roaming packs were negotiated, hot spot deals were announced and a host of new Wi-Fi products were released....
BT launches FMC service for early adopters
By: By Dan O'Shea
BT's Bluephone project, the much-touted fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) offering whose planned spring launch had been rumored to be experiencing delays, has officially resulted in a commercial service with a few days still left before summer begins...
T-Mobile Hotspot adds partners, 450,000 users
By: By Dan O'Shea
T-Mobile Hotspot, the public Wi-Fi operator branch of T-Mobile USA, announced several new roaming partners that expand its Wi-Fi coverage both in the U.S. and internationally. ...
Verizon Wireless approaching 200 million download mark
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today announced that its BREW-based download service Get It Now is fast approaching the 200 million download benchmark for games, ringtones, wallpapers and other applications...
Nortel wins Bell Mobility EV-DO upgrade
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks today announced it has been tapped by Bell Mobility to supply the EV-DO upgrade to the Canadian provider's CDMA network. ...
ESPN delays launch of MVNO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The much-anticipated launch of Disney's much anticipated ESPN Mobile will be pushed back to 2006, according to a statement issued by its partners....
Enterprise enrichment
By: By Dan O'Shea
As the enterprise market evolves into a complex multi-technology, multi-service arena, service providers are doing their best to keep pace with the evolution. Meanwhile, the competitive bar is being raised higher...
Wireless operators pursue MMS interop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Multimedia messaging service interoperability is starting to eke its way into carrier networks...
Check Sith out: CellForCash wants 'Episode III' phones
By: By Dan O'Shea
"Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" has not even minted its first $500 million yet, and already CellForCash.com, a Web site that buys used mobile phones, is offering to purchase the limited edition SonyEricsson phones that Cingular Wireless unveiled on April 19, one month before the movie's midnight premiere in theaters. ...
MobiTV goes international
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Idetic today announced that Orange’s U.K. operator is now carrying its MobiTV live mobile streaming video service, an application that has generated significant buzz for mobile video in the U.S. ...
Fox Television christens mobile unit
By: By Dan O'Shea
Twentieth Century Fox Television, in a significant but not completely unexpected development, has created a new business unit dedicated to the development of programming content for distribution to mobile devices....
One by one
By: By Stephanie Dell
Irish rock band U2's frontman Bono is working to eradicate poverty and slow the spread of AIDS in Africa, one text message at a time...
The brands that fit
By: By Jason Ankeny
Traditional wireless carriers such as Cingular and Verizon Wireless now battle non-traditional rivals like Disney and ESPN while populating their decks with content from movie studios, cable channels and print media outlets. Why the future of mobile multimedia rests on getting enough brands in your diet...
Sprint maps out framework for enterprise location apps
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Carrier opens up network and presence specifications to developers...
What's next for Nextel: Wi-Fi
By: By Jason Ankeny
Nextel Communications last week talked up its push into the enterprise Wi-Fi market...
Ericsson partners with ZTE for TD-SCDMA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson became the latest carrier to link up with a Chinese vendor, today announcing a strategic partnership with Chinese vendor ZTE for TD-SCDMA technology....
Game on for wireless at E3
By: By Jason Ankeny
Mobile entertainment developers further increased their visibility in the electronic gaming sector during this week's E3 videogame convention in Las Vegas, with a number of wireless firms making significant announcements....
Verizon Wireless adds push e-mail to enterprise portfolio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Building on its relationship with Intellisync, Verizon Wireless is launching the synchronization software developer's push e-mail solution as part of a major enterprise initiative....
Carriers launch Amber Alerts over wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Most of the country's wireless carriers today flipped the switch that connects their networks to the regional law enforcement's Amber Alerts networks, allowing customers with messaging capabilities to receive instant missing children notices from local authorities....
Survey: Multimedia mobile devices don't excite early adopters
By: By Dan O'Shea
A report from In-Stat based on a survey of early adopters of multimedia mobile devices indicates that only a small percentage of those surveyed are intensely interested in buying such devices....
NextWeb extends network to Las Vegas
By: By Jason Ankeny
Broadband wireless service provider NextWeb today announced its first network expansion outside of its native California, extending coverage into Las Vegas. ...
