Latest News

French telecom Orange has inked a deal with Apple for iPhone carriage in countries throughout the Middle East, Africa and a number of European countries. The carrier issued a one sentence press Read more...

Sprint Nextel and Samsung Electronics announced that WiMAX services in Washington D.C. and Baltimore have completed the testing phase successfully and are now ready to launch commercially. The Read more...

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, BlackBerry's long-rumored 3G touchscreen, Thunder, will roll out during the third quarter of this year. The handset is set for exclusive carriage Read more...

During its first quarter conference call with investors, Alltel announced that it was committed to evolving its network to LTE over the next five years. The move makes Alltel the second biggest CDMA Read more...

Three years ago I read my first wireless industry white paper, Why Max?, which Qualcomm's marketing department put out. The paper is still a classic in my book--one that captured the spirit of Read more...

According to a report in BusinessWeek, LG is closing in on Motorola's worldwide mobile phone marketshare. LG's marketshare racheted up to 8.6 percent in Q1, up from 6.4 percent in the year-ago Read more...

Leap subsidiary, Cricket Communications has updated its flat-rate, unlimited service plans with additional features and minutes. The more expensive service plans ($40-$60) will now include Read more...

While Alltel recently became a private company, the carrier still decided to release a number of key metrics for its past quarter. The company's revenues totaled $2.3 billion, which is an 11 percent Read more...

Virgin Mobile USA announced the Fund My Phone application, which extends the operator's Sugar Mama marketing program to the Facebook social networking platform and enables consumers to earn wireless Read more...

Following in the footsteps of Apple's iPhone developer conference and Verizon Wireless recent open application development conference, RIM will hold its own conference for smartphone developers. Read more...

According to the National Health Interview Survey, conducted by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, about three in 10 households either only use mobile phones or rarely take calls on their Read more...