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Telephone & Data Systems Shares Fall on 4Q Loss
February 26, 2013 11:46 am | by Associated Press | CommentsShares of Telephone Data and Systems Inc. fell Tuesday after the company posted a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss and announced the acquisition of Baja Broadband in New Mexico for $267.5 million. The owner of U.S. Cellular and TDS Telecom, posted a loss of $41.9 million, or 39 cents per share, compared with a loss of $6.2 million, or 6 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2011.
VZW: International LTE Roaming Partnerships Coming Soon
February 26, 2013 10:44 am | by Andrew Berg | CommentsVerizon Wireless customers could be in luck when it comes to overseas roaming. According to a report from Reuters out of Mobile World Congress, Verizon expects to sign its first international LTE roaming agreement later this year. Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer...
LG Acquires WebOS From HP
February 26, 2013 10:30 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsThe Korean electronics company just acquired HP’s now defunct mobile operating system and plans to implement the platform in connected home appliances. With the deal, LG gets the source code and an HP team of engineers who work with WebOS, as well as patents HP acquired when it bought the operating system from Palm.
MetroPCS Reports 117% Growth in LTE Subs in 4Q
February 26, 2013 10:18 am | by Andrew Berg | CommentsMetroPCS is making good on its promise to quickly migrate customers over to LTE, a strategy that should ease the complexity of merging with GSM carrier T-Mobile. During the fourth quarter, MetroPCS surpassed over 2.2 million LTE subscribers, an increase of 117 percent...
Signal Boosters: The “Robin Hoods of the Industry”
February 26, 2013 10:13 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsHongtao Zhan seems relieved by the FCC’s recent ruling on wireless signal boosters. The CEO of Cellphone-Mate, a company manufacturing both commercial and residential models of signal boosters, believes the Commission made the right decision and made it clear that signal boosting is an important part of the U.S.’s wireless infrastructure.
Raco Will Offer Customers Sprint CDMA, LTE Connectivity
February 26, 2013 8:53 am | by Andrew Berg | CommentsCompanies looking to embed wireless modules in everything AND the kitchen sink are prevalent at events like Mobile World Congress (MWC), which kicked off yesterday in Barcelona, Spain. Raco Wireless, an end-to-end M2M provider, today announced that...
Verizon CFO Talks Vodafone Buyout, Growth in 2013
February 25, 2013 4:56 pm | by Andrew Berg | CommentsVerizon CFO Fran Shammo reiterated comments previously made by CEO Lowell McAdam that the carrier is open to buying out the 45 percent of the Verizon Wireless joint venture that is currently owned by Vodafone. "I think we've been very open saying we'd love to own the other 45...
Visa Announces Mobile Payment Partnership with Samsung
February 25, 2013 11:08 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsUnder the agreement, financial institutions will be able to securely upload customers’ payment account information onto NFC-enabled Samsung phones using Visa’s Mobile Provisioning Service. Also, Samsung has agreed to pre-load Visa’s payWave app onto its NFC-enabled devices, allowing end-users to make touchless payments.
Boost, Virgin Mobile Announces LTE Service, New Phones
February 25, 2013 10:33 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsBoost and Virgin Mobile are making the jump in speed up to LTE. Both operate on Sprint’s LTE network. The postpaid providers have each announced the first phones that will run on their new faster offering, with Samsung’s Galaxy Victory coming to Virgin and the HTC One SV coming to Boost.
Huawei Reveals 'Fastest Smartphone in the World'
February 25, 2013 10:14 am | by Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | CommentsHuawei, a Chinese company that recently became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, calls its new flagship product "the fastest smartphone in the world" and wants to use it to expand global awareness of its brand. Parts of the presentation of the phone at a press conference Sunday...
Nokia Launches New Lumias, Feature Phones at MWC
February 25, 2013 10:10 am | by Ben Munson | CommentsKicking things off early on the first official day of Mobile World Congress, Nokia made a splash by announcing four new phones. The Finnish handset maker unveiled two new Windows Phones, the Lumia 520 and 720, as well as making good on rumors by showing off two new budget friendly feature phones, the 301 and 105.
Telecom CEOs: US regulators better than Europe
February 25, 2013 10:08 am | by Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | CommentsThe CEOs of AT&T, Vodafone and Telefonica — three of the world's largest cellphone companies — had some rare words of praise for U.S. regulators Monday, saying they're doing better than their European counterparts in promoting faster wireless data networks...
EXTRA: More News from MWC 2013
February 25, 2013 9:59 am | by Wireless Week Staff | CommentsRed Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 1.6 billion Red Bend-Enabled™ devices, today announced it has partnered with Samsung to conduct enterprise trials of a dual-persona version of the popular Samsung Galaxy S III...
AT&T Snags GM Contract from VZW
February 25, 2013 9:48 am | by Andrew Berg | CommentsAT&T has managed to snag a contract to provide connectivity for General Motors' OnStar service beginning in 2014. Competitor Verizon Wireless is the current provider for OnStar. While financial details of the deal were not announced, AT&T said in a statement that...
Mozilla Touts Carrier, OEM Support for Firefox OS at MWC
February 25, 2013 9:45 am | by Andrew Berg | CommentsThe mobile Firefox OS from non-profit browser-maker Mozilla might have seemed a longshot to even make it to market, much less garner the kind of carrier support the company has announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Spain. Mozilla has announced 18 carrier...
