Early this morning, we reported that SBC agreed to purchase AT&T for $16 billion, and in the report we briefly mentioned AT&T's plans to use its AT&T Wireless brand name under a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). It appears that...
Jan 31 2005 - 01:20 PM ET | MVNO
Boost Mobile has expanded its push-to-talk service to support carriers in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru. The Canadian service is through TELUS while the South American service is through NII holdings. An international surcharge of $.20 a minute will...
Hong Kong will beat Cingular to the BlackBerry 7100g. The phone is very similar to the BlackBerry 7100t (T-Mobile) and 7100v (Vodafone). It's Research In Motion's first attempt at a candy bar style phone. Features include: Innovative 20-character keyboard (includes...
Jan 31 2005 - 12:58 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia today launched Series 60 support for Python, a popular open source programming language. The software is available for free. Python for Series 60 is based on Python 2.2.2; However, in addition to supporting many of the Python Standard Library...
Jan 31 2005 - 03:37 AM ET | Vodafone
Vodafone K.K. announced that it plans to launch two new sophisticated 2G mobile phones in the middle of February. The Toshiba V603SH is Japan's first "motion sensitive" handset: The one-chip sensor allows customers to perform menu operations by moving the...
Jan 31 2005 - 03:16 AM ET | Cingular
SBC Communications, 60% owner of Cingular Wireless, has agreed (WSJ Online subscription req.) to purchase AT&T for roughly $16 billion. SBC is no stranger to large mergers, it approved the $41 billion buyout of AT&T Wireless last year. AT&T had...
According to a PowerPoint document on Motorola's website [link; 4.2MB] a push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) ready version of the Motorola V551 is slated for launch next quarter. The Motorola V551p supports the following PoC features: Dedicated PTT button (Left side)...
Jan 31 2005 - 02:44 AM ET | Nokia
The Nokia 2115i has been approved by the FCC, according to documents posted on the agency's website (FCC ID QMNRH-66). While not much info on the Nokia 2115i was posted (a request for confidentiality was made by Nokia), an interesting...
The FCC today posted approval documents for the Sanyo SCP-5600 (FCC ID AEZSCP-56H). Sanyo requested short-term confidentiality because, "This design is a basis from which future technological products will evolve." Here's what's known about the Sanyo 5600: CDMA MiniSD card...
Jan 28 2005 - 01:28 PM ET | SMS
Yahoo! Local recently added a feature to its results page that allows computer users to send the search results to a mobile phone via SMS. No fee is imposed by Yahoo!, but standard text messaging fees will apply from mobile...
Jan 28 2005 - 01:18 PM ET | In The News
Research firm IDC reported yesterday that fourth quarter mobile phone sales were up 24% over the same quarter last year. A total of 194.3 million units were sold in the quarter and 664.5 million were sold in all of 2004....
Verizon Wireless today announced its fourth-quarter 2004 earnings. The company did a good job keeping pace with Cingular Wireless, equaling the number of new customers. Highlights of the earnings statement include: Net gain of 1.7 million subscribers,up 13.5% $6.5 billion...
Jan 27 2005 - 08:42 PM ET | In The News
FCC Auction 58 saw furious rounds of bidding today by wireless companies seeking new spectrum. Over $1.3 billion was promised for the 242 wireless spectrum licenses. Big spenders include (in order): Metro PCS, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless....
Jan 27 2005 - 08:33 PM ET | Nokia
Nokia today released its fourth-quarter 2004 earnings statement. Highlights include: Net sales increased 3% to EUR 9 063 million Operating profit decreased 19% to EUR 1 357 million Nokia mobile device volumes reached a record 66.1 million units, up 19%,...
Jan 27 2005 - 12:10 PM ET | Motorola
Motorola CEO Ed Zande today showed off a new black RAZR V3 phone that will be given away in the Oscar goodie bags. MobileTracker noted earlier this month that Motorola was expected to add new colors and shapes to the...
Buy this phone from Wirefly for free after rebate. Cingular today added the LG F9100 to the lineup. The LG F9100 has a unique slide out QWERTY keyboard that makes it somewhat of a competitor to the Motorola A630. While...
Jan 27 2005 - 02:30 AM ET | T-Mobile
T-Mobile USA today announced its Q4 2004 earnings. Highlights include: 1,019,000 net new subscribers in Q4 Nearly 4.2 million net new subscribers in 2004, compared to 3.2 million in 2003 17.3 million total customers (pre-pay included) After the Sprint/Nextel merger...
