BellSouth goes unwired in two more markets
By: By Dan O'Shea
Continuing its strategy to roll out broadband wireless access in more markets, BellSouth this week said it will launch service in select parts of Albany, Ga., and Paducah, Ky., by later this month...
MVNOs gear up marketing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile announced its second distribution deal this week, extending its retail presence to 600 Circuit City stores in addition to its distribution deal with Best Buy and its own online sales portal....
A Telephony Podcast: Mobile Multimedia
Telephony Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard analyzes a new partnership between Cingular Wireless and YouTube, discussing what it means for the wireless service provider and for the future of mobile multimedia content and delivery. Download this podcast now...
Music moves: Cingular sponsors YouTube band battle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In what is shaping up to be a significant day for mobile multimedia, and music in particular, Cingular announced it would be the first major company to partner with online video portal YouTube, sponsoring a battle of the bands for the enormously popular Web site. In addition, Sony-Ericsson said it is launching a new full-track over-the-air song download service independent of its carrier customers...
CTIA: UIEvolution to design mobile MySpace
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--Application interface designer UIEvolution has perhaps one of the most eagerly sought after content contracts in the industry: MySpace’s mobile portal ...
CTIA: Amp’d goes pre-paid
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--In an industry first, Amp’d Mobile is launching a pre-paid 3G data and voice plan, targeting the young, hip set that make up its primary target demographic...
CTIA: News Corp. buys into Jamba, plans ‘Simpsons’ content
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--News Corp. today announced it would take a majority stake in VeriSign’s direct-to-consumer mobile portal Jamba for $188 million, giving News Corp. a powerful mobile presence and allowing VeriSign to back away from the consumer market and focus on its core business-to-business services...
VON: Rebtel rebels against mobile roaming
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--A Swedish start-up company is rebelling against the wireless “cartel” in Europe and elsewhere, offering customers a way to use their mobile phones to make unlimited international calls on their mobile phones for $1 a week...
VON: Newstep adds voice mail recall
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--NewStep Networks, one of the pioneers in the fixed/mobile convergence space, this week added voice mail intercept to its roster of features, enabling customers to “recall” wireless calls that rolled over into voice mail by pushing a button...
CTIA: Nokia brings BlackBerry challenger to U.S.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--Nokia today announced it is launching its E62 messaging smartphone with Cingular, marking the entrance of Nokia’s supposed “BlackBerry killer” in North America...
VON: Sylantro launches wireless virtual PBX
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Sylantro Systems is taking its VoIP feature servers into the wireless world, the company said today. Its latest release of Sylantro Synergy, 4.1, includes a wireless virtual PBX that enables wireless service providers to target the enterprise market...
Providence gets Motorola mesh network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Providence, R.I., this week unveiled its new public-safety network, using Motorola-built wireless mesh technology to create a citywide police, emergency services and municipal worker data net....
First BREW phone hits Europe
By: By Kevin Fitchard
O2 today unveiled its first handset using the UiOne user interface, making it the first European provider to commercially adopt Qualcomm’s BREW platform...
Minneapolis picks US Internet
By: By Carol Wilson
The city of Minneapolis has chosen US Internet to build and operate its citywide wireless network. The decision is a blow to EarthLink, which was the other finalist participating in a trial held in July...
RCN adds wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
RCN today announced it has added wireless service to its bundled offering, partnering with MobilePro initially in its Boston market....
CBS to ship video clips over Bluetooth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CBS today said it is planning a marketing initiative that will allow mobile users with Bluetooth-enabled phones to download promotional clips from its new fall TV shows directly to their handsets at billboard locations in New York....
SkyPilot adds Colorado, Maine deployments
By: By Dan O'Shea
SkyPilot Networks announced that its Wi-Fi mesh equipment has been deployed in Vail, Colo., and in the Rockland-Thomaston areas of Mid-coast Maine....
Bob Egan on MVNOs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
TowerGroup Emerging Technologies Research Director Bob Egan has been one of the industry’s biggest naysayers on MVNOs, which didn’t exactly make him popular among what was expected to one of mobile’s hottest sectors. But a lot of signs are now pointing to Egan being right...
Infonetics: Mobile video a $5.6 billion market by 2009
By: By Dan O'Shea
Infonetics Research has released a report suggesting that if mobile video service providers can overcome challenges related to content and quality, mobile video services revenue could be worth $5.6 billion by 2009...
Playing Lost and Desperate
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ABC Entertainment is taking the mobile promotion of its hit TV shows “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” beyond the wallpapers, film clips and mobisodes it launched last year to create the first mobile games based on TV shows...
MVNO returns counter hype
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint and Verizon Wireless reported some surprising wholesale subscriber figures in the second quarter. The two are the leading providers of network...
Lucent wins Italy FMC contract
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Vodafone Italy is launching an odd twist on a home fixed/mobile convergence service using Lucent Technologies’ intelligent network and billing software...
Cingular penalizes legacy TDMA users
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular will start charging a monthly $5 fee to customers still using its legacy time division multiple access networks in an effort to coerce them into upgrading to a GSM phone and service plan. ...
VWZ launches LG music device
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today unveiled the latest phone in its 3G handset portfolio, the new LG Electronics-made Chocolate phone, targeted squarely at Apple’s iPod music audience...
What’s after RAZR? Enter the SCPL
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola believes it has the follow-up to its highly successful RAZR design. It unveiled at its analyst conference this week a new platform, called SCPL, which takes design and performance elements of the RAZR line but applies them to a budget phone Motorola plans to market throughout the developing world...
