Ingrid Lunden
Jan 25, 2012 10:36 AM
Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via O2’s mobile data network.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 12, 2012 7:13 AM
While some operators in some countries (like the U.S. and Japan) have already celebrated birthdays for their LTE services, 4G in the UK hasn’t even been born yet. But now at least it looks like we might have a due date. UK regulator Ofcom today set out new proposals for…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2012 8:03 AM
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will be playing a key role, and so, it seems, will carriers.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 9, 2012 7:23 PM
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 8:19 AM
China presents one of the single biggest opportunities for mobile companies looking for more growth, and it’s no surprise that companies like Apple are doubling down on their investments there. But similarly, Chinese mobile players are looking at ways of exporting their products and playing on their brands abroad, and…
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Tom Krazit
Dec 19, 2011 4:47 PM
AT&T (NYSE: T) formally ended its $39 billion acquisition bid for T-Mobile Monday, bemoaning the strong opposition from the U.S. government to the deal and noting that the scrapping of the deal will “not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry.”
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 9, 2011 8:31 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking its new device strategy up one more notch: today, it started to ship the second of its first two Windows Phone devices, the cheaper Lumia 710, with the first devices going to the company’s stronghold in developing markets—Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Russia—within the next…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 6, 2011 5:35 PM
Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sales than the rest of the digital music industry put together, they are far from being out of the picture. Today saw 7digital, the UK-based download service…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 1, 2011 10:49 AM
We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year—with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast mobile broadband technology and rolling it out for the masses. The latest reports on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is cooking up could be another boost: Apple…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 28, 2011 10:19 AM
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom; (NYSE: DT) now another mega mobile merger is coming up to bat against the regulators: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 28, 2011 10:19 AM
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. may have dealt what might possibly be a fatal blow to AT&T (NYSE: T) in its bid to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom; (NYSE: DT) now another mega mobile merger is coming up to bat against the regulators: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 24, 2011 6:31 AM
Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing their merger application from the FCC. Additionally, AT&T will post a charge of $4 billion due to the risk of the deal collapsing. The news comes…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2011 5:54 AM
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 17, 2011 8:32 AM
We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is preparing an official submission to the EU against a proposed joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile operators to enable mobile payments and other…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 16, 2011 5:54 PM
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest vote of confidence yet from the carrier community today, as some 45 of them endorsed NFC and committed to support and launch services based on it. The crucial questions…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 10, 2011 10:11 AM
T-Mobile USA’s declining fortunes drove it to a merger with AT&T (NYSE: T), but while that deal continues to be investigated by regulators and strongly opposed by competitors, ironically, the operator seems to be showing some improvements.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 3, 2011 7:01 AM
More turmoil this week from BlackBerry maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) that could not be mitigated by the news of the launch of a new distribution deal (the “4G” Torch 9810 on T-Mobile USA) or a new service (BBM Music now live). On the back of falling market share in some…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 2, 2011 9:19 AM
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on the market is making Google’s mobile OS the smartphone platform leader for the moment, with a 57 percent share of the market. In the U.S., where the rising Android…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 1, 2011 6:40 AM
T-Mobile is the last major carrier in the U.S. not to have the iPhone—a consequence of the device’s radio chipsets being different from those that work on T-Mobile’s 3G network. The operator seems resigned to this fact, but things could be different if it looks east to China, and takes…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 27, 2011 6:16 AM
France Telecom’s Q3 profit dipped by 5.2 percent to €3.99 billion. All regions in which it operates except Spain turned in negative results.
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