Alltel launches ‘Day Pass’ access to mobile Internet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel launched a new daily access plan to its mobile data services, designed to tempt customers into signing up for monthly data plans...
Moving fuels shift from wireline service
By: By Carol Wilson
New research is showing that almost half of all households that move shift their new telecom service to a non-traditional service provider such as a wireless operator, a cable company or a VoIP provider...
Nortel lands WiMAX contract in Quad-Cities
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is laying down a mobile and fixed WiMAX network in the Quad Cities, a group of four cities in western Iowa and eastern Illinois clustered around the Mississippi Riv...
AT&T mobile unit growth slows
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the middle of AT&T’s massive rebranding campaign of Cingular, the wireless business unit lost a bit of its momentum, adding 1.2 million net subscribers in the first quarter compared to the 2.4 million it added in Q4 of last year...
Supercharging phone graphics
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Picsel aims to make the boring graphical interfaces of the phone pop--with a simple piece of middleware...
AT&T, Chase keep three-screen promise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Chase Card Services today said they are delivering on the promise to offer Tim McGraw’s “Swampstock” music festival on three screens simultaneously, as the first major content advertising deal through AT&T Entertainment Services...
RIM says BlackBerry service restored
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion said today that BlackBerry service has been restored after a network failure caused a blackout of its push e-mail service throughout North America last night...
VZW launches broadband router services
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Seeking to capitalize on its 3G network as a broadband access service, Verizon Wireless has begun selling wireless broadband routers to business customers, positioning them as a network backup to wireline broadband services...
Tellabs launches transport optimization services
By: By Dan O'Shea
Tellabs has launched Transport Network Optimization Services, professional services focused on helping wireless carriers reduce operating expenses, as part of its Tellabs Global Services portfolio...
Mobile banking emerges at CTIA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The first push to make the mobile phone a maney management machine...
The new Amp'd model
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp'd Mobile may have made its name as a mobile virtual network operator, but it's trying to carve out its future path as a media company...
Virtual realities
By: A Telephony Staff Report
Analysts remain bullish about the long-term future of the mobile virtual network operator model, but in the here and now, many companies are struggling. Why more MVNOs are discovering that life's a niche....
Leap Wireless launches unlimited messaging and data plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Following the all-you-can-eat model it pioneered when founded, Leap Wireless today said it is converting all of its Cricket data and messaging plans to unlimited usage, discarding any bucket or pay-as-you-go options from its service menu...
CTIA: MMA launches Women in Wireless initiative
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--The Mobile Marketing Association launched the Women in Wireless initiative, intended to increase the visibility and influence of female industry leaders in an industry traditionally dominated by men...
CTIA: Cingular launches video calling
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--AT&T at CTIA Wireless 2007 launched a video calling service that allows customers with 3G phones to send a live video feed to another cell phone user while in the middle of a phone call...
CTIA: ZTE releases first U.S. phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--ZTE at CTIA Wireless unveiled its first handset targeted at the U.S. market, a CDMA EV-DO flip phone that features Digit Wireless’ Fastap 26-button keyboard. Though ZTE has not yet announced a carrier partner, it said the D-Series handset is the first phone it has built specifically for North America...
CTIA: AT&T’s Cingular announces mobile banking plans
By: By Dan O'Shea
ORLANDO--AT&T’s Cingular Wireless division announced at Wireless 2007 here that it has teamed up with four major banking firms and applications developer Firethorn Holdings to allow Cingular customers to use some banking capabilities, such as fund transfers and account balance checks, on their cell phones...
CTIA: Sprint gets aggressive on mobile music
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ORLANDO--Sprint today at CTIA Wireless signaled its intentions to attack the mobile music market full force, announcing that it is dropping the charge for a full-track over-the-air download from $2.49 to $0.99, the same price Apple iTunes and other online services charge for a wired broadband download...
VON: EarthLink to test Wi-Fi phone
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE--EarthLink today announced a beta trial of its new Wi-Fi phone, hoping to leverage both its municipal network Wi-Fi buildout and its broadband data services...
XO’s NextLink expands into Phoenix
By: By Kevin Fitchard
XO Communications today launched broadband wireless services in Phoenix, bringing its NextLink wireless footprint to 10 major cities...
Cingular launches first AT&T-branded phone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T today unveiled its first wireless phones branded with “AT&T” rather than “Cingular,” a crucial step in its campaign to phase out the Cingular name and bring the AT&T brand to the forefront...
Verizon, Vonage both claim patent-fight victory
By: By Dan O'Shea
Round 1 in the ongoing patent dispute between Verizon Communications and Vonage Holdings Corp ended quickly, with both companies claiming some measure of victory, but the battle will continue March 23 when a judge is set to rule on Verizon’s request for an injunction in the case...
VZW nears Rev. A rollout completion
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless has the Revision A upgrade to its EV-DO networks completed in markets covering more than 135 million people, bringing it close to having the low-latency high-capacity uplink technology installed throughout its entire 3G footprint, VZW chief technology officer and executive vice president Dick Lynch said today...
Alcatel-branded handsets to debut at CTIA
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A familiar name with a not-so-familiar product will be debuting at CTIA Wireless 2007 this month. Chinese handset manufacturer TCL will be bringing the Alcatel brand to the U.S. handset market, with several new phone launches planned for the annual trade show in Orlando, Fla...
TWC launches Sprint wireless service in Cincinnati
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Time Warner Cable this week rolled out its Sprint-powered wireless service in its third market, Cincinnati, launching a quadruple-play service that integrates elements of its cable programming with the mobile content deck...
