Moto adds Symbol WLAN technology to portfolio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola is expanding its MOTOWi4 family of access products to include indoor WLAN technology, incorporating the recently acquired Symbol Technologies enterprise wireless portfolio into the business unit...
VZW links song ID service to music portal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless today said it is linking its Song ID service into the V Cast movie store, creating a one-stop venue for customers to identify, search and buy full-track music downloads...
Alltel to go private in $27.5B deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The mass speculation on the possibility of an Alltel buyout came to an end today as the rural provider revealed it has accepted a $27.5 billion offer from two private equity firms to take the publicly owned mobile carrier off the market...
AT&T ups branding ante
By: By Carol Wilson
If you thought the AT&T logo was already ubiquitous, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The telecom giant announced today it is ramping up its branding campaign in anticipation of the late June launch of the Apple iPhone, for which AT&T is the exclusive wireless carrier...
Citigroup Analyst upgrades Verizon
By: By Carol Wilson
Veteran telecom analyst Michael Rollins of Citigroup has changed his rating on Verizon’s stock to “Buy” and also boosted his stock price target from $33 to $48, in what he called “a significant change” in his outlook on the company...
Mobile ESPN re-launches on V Cast
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile ESPN today was reborn as ESPN MVP, a BREW application on Verizon Wireless’ V Cast 3G service, offering all of the same features and capabilities as the ESPN’s former mobile portal but without the accompanying MVNO...
AOL acquires TSM amid mobile ad frenzy
By: By Dan O'Shea
Online giant AOL announced it has acquired Third Screen Media, a mobile advertising network and ad-serving and management platform provider that has been one of the early key players in the rapidly evolving mobile advertising market...
Moto launches new RAZR
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s quest for the replacement to the RAZR culminated today in the unveiling of a device called the RAZR2, which improves upon the industrial design and slimness that made the original RAZR a 100 million-strong device...
Sprint to offer on-demand episodes of ABC shows
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced a major content deal with Disney-ABC Television that will bring on-demand full-length episodes of popular TV shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” to the mobile screen...
Nokia upbeat on Q2 market share
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s expected gains off Motorola’s woes may just be taking an additional quarter to take effect...
T-Mobile growth spurt continues
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile added 980,000 subscribers in first quarter, beating out its much larger competitor Sprint and nearing the 1.2 million subscriber gains of the country’s largest carrier AT&T...
Palm targets both Palm, Microsoft users with new Treo
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With the launch of its new Treo 755p this week, Palm is taking a converged approach to the smartphone, using the Palm OS the company originally built its success upon but incorporating the Microsoft push e-mail technology in a nod toward the fast growing e-mail market...
VZW extends TCS E911 deal
By: By Dan O'Shea
Verizon Wireless has extended an existing contract with TeleCommunication Systems for hosted E911 location services...
T-Mobile’s HSDPA solution is totally RAD
By: By tim McElligott
Starting in Germany, T-Mobile International will begin using RAD Data Communications as its partner for backhaul in its 3G and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network...
Alltel purchase speculation picking up steam
By: By Kevin Fitchard
More reports about the possible purchase of Alltel surfaced today as the Wall Street Journal and Reuters both wrote that at least three separate consortiums of private investors are competing for the chance to take the country’s largest Tier II provider private...
Icahn bid for Moto board seat fails
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Though the vote tally is not yet official, billionaire investor Carl Icahn conceded last night that he hadn’t garnered the necessary support to take over a Motorola board seat in his proxy fight with the handset giant...
Telkomsel expands Tektronix relationship
By: By Dan O'Shea
Indonesian mobile operator Tekomsel has expanded an existing vendor relationship with Tektronix for the vendor’s network management and diagnostics solutions, including protocol analyzers, to be used in the carrier’s new test labs...
The hunt for the next RAZR
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After a long period of resurgence, Motorola has fallen out of favor in the last year. It has seen its seemingly unstoppable climb back to the top of the...
Nokia Siemens to cut 9000 jobs; layoffs start in Europe
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks today said the company would cut 9000 jobs, about 15% of its total staff, over the next four years as part of an integration program designed to save the combined company EUR 1.5 billion (U.S. $2 billion) annually by 2010...
Nortel’s good quarter raises doubts about second half
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks beat Wall Street analysts’ expectations in the first quarter, but part of its success has analysts suspecting a hard time for the vendor in the second half of the year, particularly in its Carrier Networks division. ...
Microsoft buys mobile ad company
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft today said it has agreed to buy mobile advertising firm ScreenTonic for an undisclosed amount, marking the software giant’s commercial entrance into the infant mobile ad space...
Martin publicly opposes call blocking
By: By Carol Wilson
According to multiple accounts published on the Web, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said today that the commission has instructed large telcos such as AT&T and Qwest not to block calls placed to smaller LECs that are actually being routed overseas or to conference calling facilities...
Virgin Mobile to go public
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile USA has filed plans with the SEC to issue up to $100 million in stock, taking public the venture between Sprint and the U.K.’s Virgin Group...
Sprint slips into the red
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint reported a $211 million loss for the 1st quarter as the company continues to shed postpaid customers and lose ground to its two larger competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless...
Airvana acquires UMTS/femtocell firm
By: By Dan O'Shea
The acquisition comes as Airvana has been broadening its technology strategy toward fixed-mobile convergence, in-building solutions and universal gateways that provide access to core network services for UMTS, CDMA2000, Wi-Fi and other IP-based wireless devices...
