Sprint stands by termination of frequent complainers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is defending its service termination of 1000 customers that called customer service frequently, saying that only the most frequent abusers of its free customer service lines were targeted and the volume of calls they generated detracted from other subscribers’ own customer experience...
Leap starting AWS build
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap is moving forward on its network expansion plan with its new Advanced Wireless Spectrum licenses, acquired from last year’s auction...
Ericsson, Samsung cross-license wireless patents
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson and Samsung today said they have agreed to cross-license each others 2G and 3G network technology, heading off any potential intellectual property showdown like that which has consumed Nokia and Qualcomm...
iPhone activation pays off for Synchronoss
By: By Tim McElligott
A week after AT&T’s and Apple’s big launch of the iPhone, Synchronoss Technologies, the company responsible for coordinating the activation of those phones between the iTunes interface and AT&T’s back office systems, was rewarded with a multi-year contract...
T-Mobile launches fixed/mobile convergence
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The first nationwide FMC service helps T-Mobile expand its coverage and target the home...
Alcatel-Lucent, Softbank Mobile do femto demos
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it is collaborating with Japanese service provider Softbank Mobile on a series of demonstrations of its 3G wireless in-building solutions in Japan. Specifically, the demonstrations will showcase the vendor’s Femto Base Station Router...
Alcatel-Lucent to build WiMAX in Russia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent has landed a deal to build a nationwide rural WiMAX access network in the most rural country in the world, Russia. The mammoth deal will put Alcatel-developed Mobile WiMAX gear in 1000 Russian towns by the end of 2008...
Motorola cuts 2100 in second quarter
By: By Ed Gubbins
About 2100 employees left Motorola in the second quarter as part of a planned reduction of about 7500, the company said in regulatory filings late Thursday...
iPhone secrets revealed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Apple has been notoriously secretive about its suppliers for the new iPhone, but this weekend, after the iPhone became commercially available, analysts, bloggers and assorted techies got their first chance to bust open the mysterious new device, revealing the components within...
Nokia Siemens taps Nortel exec to head U.S.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks today named former Nortel president of global services and operations Sue Spradley to head up its North America operations, replacing Mark Louison, who is returning to the Nokia mothership to lead its U.S. handset efforts...
AT&T to acquire Dobson Communications
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T announced today that it will acquire Oklahoma City-based Dobson Communications Corp., a provider of rural and suburban mobile services, for about $2.8 billion in cash...
VeriSign powers Live Earth SMS platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
VeriSign will be managing the massive messaging campaign held in conjunction with the Live Earth concert series worldwide, which could generate millions of premium SMS messages globally in a 24-hour span...
Nielsen acquires Telephia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Nielsen Co. is acquiring Telephia, giving the media tracking giant its first direct access to consumer habits on the mobile phone...
Sprint hires new strategy head; unveils marketing plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced that it has hired former BellSouth veteran Keith Cowan to head up planning and new initiatives for the company as well as plans a new marketing campaign to infuse life back into Sprint’s brand...
T-Mobile launches long-awaited FMC service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile today took the tarp off of its Wi-Fi/cellular integrated service after more than a year of testing and trials, making it the first major U.S. carrier to launch a commercial fixed/mobile convergence network...
Vodafone, Groove trial off-portal music downloads
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Vodafone and Groove Mobile are turning their collaboration over off-portal music downloads into a commercial trial that may result in a full service launch this fall...
AT&T, Apple set iPhone plan pricing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T and Apple today revealed they will offer the new iPhone with different pricing plans than its normal phone service. The plan’s monthly rates will start much higher but they will include unlimited browsing and other features not packaged with its standard voice plans...
Nuance to buy Tegic for $256 million
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nuance Communications is buying AOL’s ubiquitous predictive text solution T9 and the subsidiary that makes it for $256 million, adding text recognition to its powerful voice recognition portfolio...
NXTcomm survey: Spending growth ahead
By: By Dan O'Shea
A survey of 678 telecom industry professionals conducted at NXTcomm in Chicago this week by Tellabs and Telephony magazine found that a whopping 96% of respondents believe that network infrastructure spending will increase during the second half of the year...
Nortel wins down-under WiMAX deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel has scored its first major WiMAX win, announcing this week that Australian cable provider Austar United Broadband will roll out its base station kit in regions of Australia with low broadband penetration...
Hutchison’s 3 taps BREW
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has landed another major European carrier customer for its BREW application environment, announcing today that Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 Group will support BREW-enabled handsets over its multinational all-3G UMTS network...
NXTcomm: Sprint 4G chief lays out new business model for WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Listening to his keynote address at the FierceMarkets WiMAX Strategies conference, Sprint President of 4G Barry West hardly sounded like an executive with a major wireless carrier. Touting Sprint’s new WiMAX network, he called for an end to handset subsidies, and talked about driving down ARPU for data services and making the new mobile broadband network as inexpensive for the consumer as possible...
NXTcomm: Verizon launches FMC portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon this week launched a portfolio of fixed/mobile convergence products targeting the enterprise segment and drawing on the capabilities of both Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless...
VZW teams with Obopay
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today said it plans to launch Obopay’s point-to-point mobile payment service over its mobile data network, allowing customers to transfer money to other Obopay users and eventually pay for goods at stores directly with their mobile phone...
Nokia merges handset units
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today said it is overhauling its company structure, combining its three handset groups into a single business unit, breaking out software and services into a new division and creating a special division in charge of Nokia’s global marketing, sales and supply chains...
