mocoNews.net:
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) said it is buying a division of privately held RadioFrame Networks, which makes network equipment for Sprint’s Nextel division. The iDen base station techno (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Moody's Investors Service on Friday downgraded its corporate family rating on Sprint Nextel Corp. to Ba2 from Ba1, saying the wireless-services provider's ability to stem the deterioration of its (Read More)
Wireless-sector News - Congoo:
Telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday announced the charges for mobile number portability (MNP) which enables subscribers to switch telecom operators without getting their phone numbers. (Read More)
Phones Review:
Although the iPhone has finally broken into China via China Unicom’s 3 year deal with Apple, sales of the iPhone handset wasn’t brilliant on debut, but with hundreds of millions of subscribers across China one would thing App (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalChina Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, is pinning its hopes on new third-generation services such as mobile television and mobile readers to dr (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
President Barack Obama’s one-on-one interview with one of the mainland’s most outspoken newspaper appears to have run afoul of Chinese censors, with some copies of the publication delivered to subscribers Thursday that were m (Read More)
DSLreports - front page:
The country of Finland recently declared they were making broadband a legal right, requiring that all 5.3 million of the country's residents be served by 1 Mbps service by next summer, and 100 Mbps service by 2015. That's a l (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Microsoft launched Xbox Live as an online gaming service in 2002 amid great skepticism. It didn’t really take off until Halo 2 launched in 2004, but now the service is huge. There are more than 20 million active Xbox Live sub (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Maxis, Malaysia’s biggest mobile phone operator by subscribers, made a solid debut on the Malaysian stock exchange as institutional investors snapped up the shares. (Read More)
Wireless-sector News - Congoo:
NEW DELHI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Tata Teleservices Ltd , India's sixth-ranked mobile operator, added 3.87 million subscribers in October, maintaining its lead for a third straight month, data from an industry. (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Roughly 30,000 users subscribe the Wall Street Journal Kindle Edition, Dow Jones head Les Hinton told the Paley Center conference Rafat is attending this morning—great for a “pr (Read More)
Telecom News:
Southeast Asiaa s largest telecoms group by subscribers and revenues Singapore Telecommunications , yesterday announced its intention to conduct a regional trial of Long Term Evolution technology in Australia, Indonesia, the (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tata Teleservices Ltd, India's sixth-ranked mobile operator, added 3.87 million subscribers in October, maintaining its lead for a third straight month, data from an industry body showed.
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Reuters:
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China Mobile, the world's biggest mobile carrier by subscribers, said on Friday its business has recovered to levels seen before the global downturn, as a rebounding economy drives international ca (Read More)
IntoMobile:
The iPhone just recently made its debut in China. Thanks to a three-year deal with China Unicom, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has finally managed to bring the iPhone to the world’s largest pool of mobile phone users. With hundreds of m (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
Stealthy mobile content services developer IQzone has raised $3.8 million of a proposed $6.8 million second round of funding, per an SEC filing. VP of business development Jon K (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Netflix isn't the only reason Blockbuster has had to close so many of its stores, but it's a big one.As the DVDs-by-mail service has grown to 12 million subscribers, Blockbuster has been reduced to 4,000 stores. Chart via a n (Read More)
FierceWireless:
Greywolf Capital Management, one of the main investors of iPCS, expressed its deep opposition to Sprint Nextel's proposed $831 million acquisition of the affiliate, and said Sprint's offer undervalues the company.Sprint's $24 (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Paltalk, the profitable chat startup that bought back its own stock earlier this year, acquired Vumber to offer phone number privacy services today. They didn’t disclose the acquisition price — but Vumber had 3,000 paying sub (Read More)