Archive for 'Mobile Service Operators (MSOs)' Category
Verizon Wireless Agrees to Buy Alltel for $28.1b
10 June 2008Verizon Wireless has agreed to buy Alltel in a deal valued at $28.1 billion. If the deal is consummated, Verizon Wireless would surpass AT&T and become the US’s largest wireless carrier.
Google Lands Sprint for Its Mobile Services
15 May 2008Google and Yahoo are fierce competitors when it comes to getting cellcos to offer exclusivity or give preference to their products and services.
This week Google, no doubt helped by the deal it did with the soon-to-be 51% Sprint owned Clearwire, landed Sprint for a partnership that is aimed at integrating Google applications and services […]
Napster, Ericsson Launch Mobile Music Service for O2 UK
24 March 2008Napster and Ericsson last week launched the Napster Mobile music service with UK wireless-leader O2, even though O2 is the exclusive Apple iPhone distributor in the UK.
The service was co-developed by Napster and Ericsson and allows customers to search, browse, preview, purchase and play full-length tracks from Napster’s catalog of more than five million songs.
Napster […]
Disney Launches Mobile Phone Service in Japan
5 March 2008 Disney launched a mobile phone service in Japan last week in cooperation with Japanese telecommunications and media company Softbank Corp. This comes just months after Disney exited its home market and closed its US Disney mobile phone service due to strong competition.
Walt Disney Japan released three types of mobiles, made by Sharp, all covered […]
Verizon Wireless’ “Any Device, Any App” Arrives March 19
29 February 2008Sony chief Howard Stringer asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos whether Verizon Wireless would have said like it did last November that it would open up its network for third party developers and devices a year ago - before WiMAX, Google’s Android and other moves to open access gained industry attention. “No,” he […]
Idaho Gets WiMAX Before World Capitols, Way Before
29 February 2008New York, London, Paris and Tokyo may not be able to get WiMAX service but Hailey, Rexburg, Pocatello, all in Idaho, can.
Tiny Digital Bridge Communications (DBC), the WiMAX service provider, promises to also launch WiMAX in Sun Valley and Ketchum, Idaho in the coming months.
How can it be that all those potato farmers and skiers […]
O2 Gets Irish iPhone Deal
29 February 2008St Patrick’s Day arrives in a few weeks and O2 is already passing out shamrocks and quaffing Guinness after signing on to sell the iPhone in Ireland. The 8GB iPhone will go for €399 and the 16GB for €499 in the land with 40 shades of green. Rates seem a bit steep and range from […]
South Korea to Have 95% Mobile Penetration by 2010
29 February 2008Research and Markets predicts in its “1Q08 Mobile Forecast: South Korea, 2007 - 2010″ report that the level of wireless phone penetration in South Korea will increase from 88.5% in 2007 to 94.7% in 2010. The number of total subscribers will increase from a projected 43.3 million in 2007 to 46.9 million in 2010, below […]
A 3G iPhone and a Growing 3G Network for AT&T
22 February 2008The single biggest complaint about Apple’s iPhone seems to be the slow speed and uncertainty of the AT&T network that it uses.
AT&T and Apple have some sort of long term deal (exact terms were never announced) but they are pretty much married except for Wi-Fi and perhaps WiMAX. That made AT&T’s announcement last week that […]
Deutsche Telekom Looking at Investing in Start-up Mobile Broadband Operators
22 February 2008- Does Sprint’s Xohm Qualify?
Deutsche Telekom (DT) knows that mobile broadband is a bright future that’s beckoning worldwide and is willing to consider investing in start-up mobile broadband operations.
Company CEO René Obermann told the Financial Times this week the company would consider investing in mobile broadband services outside its existing T-Mobile footprint - and in […]