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| Jun 29, 2005 | Nextel Moves Forward With New Broadband Wireless Trial | Nextel got a lot of attention last year when they announced their Raleigh-Durham broadband wireless trial, using FLASH-OFDM technology from Flarion. The offering was reasonably priced (no, seriously) and offered high speed, mobile broadband... |
| Jun 29, 2005 | T-Mobile Goes To The Other Extreme: Open Mobile Internet For All | For years, we’ve been saying that, eventually, the “mobile internet” and the regular internet would merge completely — causing lots of trouble for those firms who were betting on limited paid content on mobile phones (and making the idea of... |
| Jun 23, 2005 | Smarter Ringtones For Smarter Phones? | As everyone over the age of 30 tries to understand the success of the ringtone market, some are realizing that there are plenty of people out there who just don’t want to have some random pop song play when their phone rings — but might fin... |
| Jun 15, 2005 | Convergence… Just 'Cause | There seems to be this obsession with “converged” devices, even when that convergence doesn’t really make any sense for the consumer. The latest is the announcement today from BT in the UK that they’ve finally gotten around to launching the... |
| Jun 15, 2005 | British Telecom Offers Consumers Converged Fixed/Mobile Device | Where WiFi has led converged devices in the workplace, Bluetooth is leading in the home: BT’s Fusion (formerly Bluephone) project has been in test markets for some time. The Bluephone is a mobile phone which uses a GSM network outside the h... |
| Jun 14, 2005 | BREW In Europe | Over at the Feature, Tom Hume looks at the reasons that Qualcomm has had no success in Europe, and the opportunities for future successes. While his arguments are all correct, he misses the biggest reason QCOMM didn’t succeed at deals in Eu... |
| Jun 9, 2005 | BellSouth's Not-New, Not-WiMax Trial Is Also Not-Naked DSL | Wow. Does BellSouth ever have a talent for taking something and making it sound like something completely different. Earlier this week, BellSouth got some press for saying they were launching new WiMax trials in Georgia and Florida. There w... |
| Jun 9, 2005 | CueCat, Version Two? | Remember the CueCat? The absolutely useless magazine barcode scanner that the magazine industry thought was the next killer app for the web? The product made sense from a magazine industry standpoint, but no one ever stopped to think why an... |
| Jun 7, 2005 | Nintendo WiFi Confirmed | While I had written about Nintendo’s plans to launch a huge WiFi network in Japan a month ago, it appears the company has now made the official announcement, while also mentioning that they may expand it to other countries as well. The idea... |
| Jun 6, 2005 | The Mobile Broadband Data Pricing Conundrum | While this article paints a somewhat simplified view of the state of the Japanese mobile phone service market, it is accurate in stating that US mobile operators should be watching carefully how things are changing in Japan. Last year, as i... |
| Jun 2, 2005 | Cingular Serious About The MVNO Market… Sort Of | Tucked into the bottom of this article about Cingular’s ongoing integration with AT&T Wireless is a quick statement saying that the company is looking to move more heavily into the MVNO space — which isn’t surprising. They’ve really bee... |
| Jun 1, 2005 | Portals? Haven't We Seen This Movie Before? | During the internet bubble years, the biggest thing that a bunch of over-funded VC-backed startups did was to throw millions upon millions of dollars to (oh, look at that!) other over-funded VC-backed “portals” to try to drive more traffic ... |
| May 31, 2005 | The Mobile Video Game Bubble | Earlier this month, for TheFeature, I wrote a piece pointing out that, for all the talk about mobile video games it wasn’t at all clear that the space would be as big as some expected. The point was that most of the games being offered were... |
| May 27, 2005 | Industry Groups Get The Message: Won't Push For Phones On Planes | Remember the study earlier this year about just how much people dislike the idea of being able to use mobile phones on planes? It appears that industry associations have recognized that this is becoming something of a “third rail” type of i... |
| May 25, 2005 | Verizon Wireless Tries To Make Yakking-While-Flying More Reasonable | No, you still can’t use your mobile phone on an airplane, but Verizon Wireless, who is mostly owned by the same company that runs the Airfone service on airplanes that no one uses ($4/minute? No thanks) has finally realized that maybe they ... |
| May 23, 2005 | Mobile Data… Not So Fast | Once again, it seems like people within the mobile data space have gotten a bit carried away. Despite widespread mobile adoption (some say it’s close to over 100% handsets-to-people in the UK), apparently 77% have never used any mobile data... |
| May 20, 2005 | Arresting Handset Unlockers? | It’s pretty well understood why mobile operators lock handsets to only their network. They’re subsidizing the purchase of the phone, and it’s a bad deal for them if the subscriber then takes that cheap phone and moves to another network. Ho... |
| May 19, 2005 | Great, Another Non-Standard Contactless Payment System | The idea of “contactless payment” systems seems to get a lot of attention. Despite being around for quite some time already, there are a number of initiatives underway, with the latest coming out of JP Morgan Chase, with a new contactless c... |
| May 19, 2005 | If Only My Mobile Phone Looked Like A Lump Of Cheese! | This is just odd. Vodafone in Japan has been in serious trouble for quite some time, and every time we hear something new the story seems even worse than before. Beyond the revolving door with the leadership, it seems that customers just do... |
| May 17, 2005 | Sure, Give Us Mobile TV — Just Don't Expect Us To Pay | While wireless companies have been absolutely drooling over the prospect of moving broadcast television to mobile phones, many people have been asking why? People buy phones to communicate, not consume content. Even if some analysts claim t... |
| May 13, 2005 | It's All Just Messaging | Tomi Ahonen has a lot of really interesting things to say about the mobile space. When he talks, it’s usually worth paying attention, as he’s been studying the space for many years, and usually has great insights into what’s really happenin... |
| May 11, 2005 | DoCoMo Confirms HSDPA Delay | Back in March, we noted reports that DoCoMo was delaying HSDPA due to technology problems. The carrier has now admitted delaying HSDPA, but says it’s for different reasons. They’re claiming that there’s just not enough in the way of compell... |
| May 9, 2005 | Napster Goes After The Ringtone Market | It was only a matter of time, but the insatiable greed from both the recording and the mobile industries concerning ringtones had to hit the online music download stores eventually. The first to get into the space will be Napster, who will ... |
| May 9, 2005 | Bluetooth UWB Relationship Works Both Ways | One of the more amusing things in reading all of the coverage about the Bluetooth-UWB link up was that most reporters seemed to focus only on how this was necessary for Bluetooth, the technology that is already quite entrenched, to deal wit... |
| May 5, 2005 | Lies, Damn Lies And Mobile Phone Subscribers | Just as newspapers inflate circulation numbers, it looks like plenty of mobile phone operators are finally admitting that they’ve been inflating mobile phone subscribers by counting obviously dormant “prepaid” accounts as active subscribers... |
| May 4, 2005 | Bluetooth Going Ultra Wide, Gruesome Death Staved Off For Another Day | We’ve been joking about analysts who like to kill off Bluetooth in favor of non-existent technology for years. For some unclear reason, everyone loves to pile on and claim that Bluetooth is dead and going to be replaced by some non-existent... |
| May 4, 2005 | Open Market Spectrum | While the US still struggles to work out a comprehensive regulatory policy on spectrum allocation, the UK’s Oftel continues to move forward with their plans to let spectrum trade on the open market, allowing it to (1) be valued more accurat... |
| May 4, 2005 | SK Telecom To Sell Control Of Handset Division | SK Telecom is the largest wireless carrier in Korea, and owns a handset making subsidiary, SK Teletech. SK Teletech has been very useful for SK Telecom in remaining a leader in wireless services, because SKT used the handset arm to produce ... |
| May 4, 2005 | She Blinded Me With Business Models | The focus of both the mobile operators and the recording industry on the ringtone market is becoming increasingly silly, as they all seem to think that the inflated prices people are paying for just snippets of music is somehow sustainable.... |
| Apr 29, 2005 | Shocking Idea: Give Discounts To Long Term Customers | It’s a common refrain that too many companies focus solely on new sales, to the point that they ignore existing customers and treat them badly when it comes to customer service. The old trick for measuring this is to see how long it takes t... |
| Apr 27, 2005 | Mobile TV Defender Explains Reasons: Just 'Cause | We’ve been saying for a while that there are limited opportunities for typical broadcast television on mobile phones, but one big supporter is ABI Research. So, when confronted with those who suggest broadcast TV isn’t mobile’s killer app, ... |
| Apr 25, 2005 | Trouble In WiBro Land May Mean Trouble In WiMax Land | Last week, KT pointed out that, thanks to the technology, they had to price WiBro mobile broadband on a pay as you go basis, raising questions about how the technology — seen as the precursor to the mobile WiMax standard — will be able to h... |
| Apr 20, 2005 | How To Handle Capacity… | Seems like a fairly slow news day, so I wanted to point to a longer piece I wrote over at TheFeature concerning the capacity question. Whenever people talk about high prices or “pay as you go” plans for wireless data services offered by car... |
| Apr 20, 2005 | My First Mobile… Now At Eight Years Of Age | There have been plenty of stories about how mobile phone companies have been targeting younger and younger customers (gotta keep the growth numbers up), and that’s meant the average age at which a person gets their mobile phone has been dro... |
| Apr 15, 2005 | Shocker: People Realize That Mobile Carriers Won't Make Money From Music | For quite some time, a bunch of folks have been pointing out that the mobile phone operators are being somewhat idiotic in their belief that they they can be music and media moguls. They got this idea in their head once ringtones started to... |
| Apr 12, 2005 | Which Way Does The Promotion Go? | There’s been so much hype in both the mobile and music industries about ringtones, that people seem to have lost sight of what’s actually happening in the market — and whether or not it’s even remotely sustainable. With that in mind, it see... |
| Apr 8, 2005 | If A Middleman Does The Deal, Maybe We Can Pretend It's Not Porn | The mobile phone operators of the world have this big love-hate affair with mobile porn. They seem absolutely convinced that mobile porn will be the killer app for mobile data. When challenged on this, they point to the VCR and the internet... |
| Apr 4, 2005 | Slow Start By Ringbacks In The US Cause Some Concern | We’ve wondered in the past if customizable ringback tones (the tones you hear in your phone as you’re waiting for someone you called to pick up the phone) were really anything more than a fad. Despite widespread success in Asia, ringback to... |
| Apr 1, 2005 | WiFi vs. CB Radio | This is not the first time we’ve heard WiFi being compared to CB radios, but usually it’s used that way to describe a “fad,” something we do not think WiFi is (at all!). However, Andrew Seybold’s latest opinion piece notes some of the reaso... |
| Mar 31, 2005 | Owning The Content Is A Disadvantage In Offering A Mobile Service | One of the bad ideas coming out of those who believe that content is king in the mobile world is that new wireless carriers that are content owners will thrive. That’s leading to odd predictions, such as the idea that Time Warner will make ... |
| Mar 31, 2005 | More Evidence That People Want Phones To Communicate | I’ve been ranting a bit lately about how the mobile carriers have gotten completely carried away with the idea that “content is king.” They are forgetting that mobile phones are communications devices first. Almost no one is buying a phone ... |
| Mar 31, 2005 | Bye Bye Brew In South Korea, Say Hello To WIPI | We’ve written about South Korea’s homegrown mobile application middleware, WIPI, a few times already. As of today, handset makers in South Korea are required to make sure their handsets work with WIPI, and they’ve mostly decided that, if th... |
| Mar 28, 2005 | Since When Did Hollywood Get To Control Our Mobile Phones? | Someone over at Verizon Wireless seems very confused about who the company’s customers are. Of course, it’s unfair to pick on just them, since almost all of the mobile carriers are thinking the same way, but it was the VP at Verizon Wireles... |
| Mar 25, 2005 | So It Was The Carriers Who Stopped The iTunes Phone | While Motorola’s Ed Zander made a gallant effort to cover for the wireless carriers by claiming the Motorola iTunes phone was really delayed due to Apple’s marketing strategy, more and more evidence is appearing suggesting that (as most had... |
| Mar 24, 2005 | Vodafone Blocking Video Content… For The Good Of The Customer | The walled garden mentality of operators sometimes makes them delve into fairly twisted logic. Last year there was the folks at UK mobile carrier 3, saying that their customers would be “nuts” for wanting to actually surf the internet outsi... |
| Mar 23, 2005 | Standards And Patents: A Bad Combination | There’s lots of press coverage today about Ericsson suing Sendo over GSM patents, but the more interesting part of this story isn’t the lawsuit (which is just posturing), but that it’s shining a bit more light on problems of patents being i... |
| Mar 18, 2005 | The Internet Is A Communications Platform, Not A Content Platform | It seems that any time you hear someone saying they’re trying to reach the “middle ground” on an argument, you might want to suspect their motives. That was the case a few months ago when some think tank wanted to reach a middle ground on f... |
| Mar 17, 2005 | MVNOs Battle Each Other | While the major mobile operators seem to be consolidating around the world, new competition is coming in the form of MVNOs, who simply rent space on the networks of existing providers. While there should be some concern that the network pro... |
| Mar 15, 2005 | HSDPA Delay | While a bunch of vendors have been pushing HSDPA equipment in the last few weeks, it’s beginning to sound like the technology may still need a bit more time in the oven. Unstrung is reporting that DoCoMo has pushed off their HSDPA deploymen... |
| Mar 15, 2005 | Mobile Phone Users In Bangladesh Protest High Prices | Want to know just how important mobile phone communications are becoming around the world? You know it’s beyond being just a technology when there’s a social movement around lowering prices. Mobile phone users in Bangladesh are demonstratin... |
| Mar 15, 2005 | Taxing Muni Tech To Heal The Digital Divide In Africa? | It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that African leaders are supporting a UN-proposed plan to tax wealthier cities’ investments in technology to provide money for technology in developing countries in Africa. They stand to be the benefi... |
| Mar 11, 2005 | Huawei: It's Not Just For Infrastructure Any More | Huawei is quite well known for their wireless infrastructure business (even if many also remember the accusations a few years ago that it had stolen software code from Cisco). They’ve been growing aggressively, lately, including branching o... |
| Mar 10, 2005 | CTIA Tells Carriers To Ban Porn, As If It's That Easy | The ever helpful CTIA has now announced that they’re coming up with guidelines that all US carriers should follow to block kids from accessing adult content. It makes for a great headline, but the reality isn’t so simple. Plenty of carriers... |
| Mar 4, 2005 | Why It's Time For Carriers To Re-Evaluate Data Pricing | A few days back, Virgin Radio made news by offering the ability to stream Virgin Radio to any 3G phone. They’re not charging for it, which is still an oddity in the mobile data world. It makes sense, though, because their business is advert... |
| Mar 4, 2005 | Qualcomm And TI Put EV-DV On The Backburner | Qualcomm has responded to inquiries from RCR Wireless News that it is shifting priority away from EV-DV technology, and raising it’s efforts toward EV-DO Rev A. Recall that EV-DV is the CDMA2000 path for 3G data and voice (hence DV) where E... |
| Mar 3, 2005 | Wireless USB Set To Kill Off Bluetooth Again? | There they go again… Intel is claiming that Wireless USB is going to kill off Bluetooth and the press lap it up as if it’s a fact. If this sounds familiar, it might be because we’ve heard it before many many times. Remember that wireless US... |
| Mar 2, 2005 | RFID Interop Still A Mess | The two biggest embarassments in the wireless space right now are UWB and RFID. Both are new technologies that have tremendous potential to be disruptive — and both are completely bogged down in standards battles that are little more than g... |
| Feb 22, 2005 | Lose A Phone, Lose A Friend | It’s tough to keep your contact info up to date. Many people (guilty here, too) end up using their mobile phone address book as their sole list of phone numbers. This can be problematic if you lose the phone. In fact, many people claim that... |
| Feb 16, 2005 | Blurring The Toy-Gadget Barrier | For years, people have joked that gadgets are basically just toys for grown ups. Plenty of gadget-crazed folks would certainly agree to that assessment. However, it looks like things are moving in the other direction as well, and kids are l... |
| Feb 16, 2005 | Mobile Porn Stagnates In The US Due To Carrier Fears | While I’m still somewhat skeptical about the real market size for mobile porn, it appears that there has been different adoption levels in different parts of the world. Apparently, mobile porn has been a much bigger success in Europe than t... |
| Feb 15, 2005 | Why Mobile TV? | There are so many mobile TV efforts underway these days, that it seems odd that the real use case hasn’t been outlined. A few months back, I wrote why it seemed unclear why mobile TV would be a very big market and now Mobile Pipeline has a ... |
| Feb 15, 2005 | Flarion Tries To Remind People That They're Still Alive | Flarion is trying to prove to people that they’re still alive. Despite what appears to be the end of their highest profile trial, with Nextel, the company is now claiming that it will sign several deals in Europe. With who? Don’t know. When... |
| Feb 14, 2005 | Cheap Phones For Developing Nations | There’s been a lot of talk lately about saturation in the mobile market — whether valid or not. To deal with this, many in the industry are increasingly looking to emerging markets for expansion. However, there’s one big problem: a large pe... |
| Feb 14, 2005 | The Phone For Kids That Kids Won't Use | There have been a ton of stories lately about various attempts at making mobile phones for kids even as people are warning that kids shouldn’t be using mobile phones. The latest is an effort from SunCom and Firefly Mobile to offer a special... |
| Feb 10, 2005 | Not Really Mobile File Sharing | Plenty of people have been trying to warn content providers and mobile operators for ages that they’re ignoring the threat of mobile peer-to-peer applications, and have even pointed to examples of prototype software from both SK Telecom and... |
| Feb 8, 2005 | 3G Will Fuel Future Mobile Growth… If Anyone Actually Signs Up | Here’s yet another bizarre and somewhat pointless study suggesting that the mobile market’s best bet for growth is in 3G offerings — as if anyone was seriously expecting that the growth opportunities were in older, more obsolete technologie... |
| Feb 7, 2005 | So Much For That Plan: Vodafone Demotes Top Japanese Exec Just Stolen From DoCoMo | Well, that didn’t work out as planned. Vodafone’s Japanese unit, Vodafone KK (formerly known as J-Phone) scored something of a coup late last year in snagging a top exec from rival DoCoMo. Shiro Tsuda started on the job with big plans, prom... |
| Feb 7, 2005 | Even AP Can't Figure Out What The FCC Is Doing With Phone Spam | Last August, the FCC confused a lot of people by announcing that they were adding emails sent to mobile phones to the CAN SPAM act. Many confused people simply assumed that the FCC was adding SMS text messaging to CAN SPAM. The reality, how... |
| Feb 3, 2005 | DoCoMo Goes For Cheap 3G Phones | Slowly, but surely, DoCoMo is realizing that charging a lot for an offering doesn’t attract users. While they’re still annoyed that they had to go flat-rate (even if it helped bring them back to the table), they’re finally going to start of... |
| Feb 2, 2005 | Smartphones Up, PDAs Down — But Does It Really Matter? | It’s still hard to understand why analyst firms get so worked up about the fact that PDA sales are down. This is especially true coming just a couple days after another research firm announced that smartphone sales are way up. It should be ... |
| Feb 2, 2005 | Software Says This Call Is Too Important For Push To Talk | Here’s an odd one. The researchers at PARC have been developing a system that monitors how engaged people are in a push-to-talk conversation and automatically determines if the call should be shifted to a regular phone call. The idea is tha... |
| Feb 2, 2005 | Will Next Generation Technologies Come From Asia? | What’s the best way to foster ongoing innovation? There seem to be two prevailing theories. One, is the way the US works, with the government mostly staying out of the game, letting bubbles grow and burst, and seeing what survives. This sys... |
| Feb 1, 2005 | Do Users Want Advanced Services Or Not? | It’s getting tough to tell what users really want out of their mobile phones these days. In the past couple of weeks there have been a few studies all saying that people don’t want advanced services on their mobile phones. They just want go... |
| Feb 1, 2005 | Changing Definition Of Super 3G? | We were initially confused by the announcement of plans for a new wireless standard called “Super 3G”, but as the details came out, it became clear that it was part mis-direction over competing technologies and a failure live up to expectat... |
| Jan 28, 2005 | Dueling Dual Networks | Back in October, we wrote about plans in Taiwan to cover the entire island in WiFi. It looks like they’re trying to get that project moving, but it’s changed a bit, such that they’re now promoting how it will be a “dual network” offering bo... |
| Jan 27, 2005 | Yahoo Takes On Vazu | Well, it’s not so much taking them on, since most people don’t know who Vazu is — however, they’re probably not all that thrilled today. Vazu is the company that launched an offering last year that let you easily send info on your computer ... |
| Jan 25, 2005 | Kids Shouldn't Use Mobile Phones, But Here Are A Bunch Of Cartoons For Them | It appears that not everyone has gotten the message. While some UK researchers tried to persuade people that children shouldn’t be using mobile phones, a company didn’t wait very long at all before announcing that they’ve come up with a ser... |
| Jan 21, 2005 | Trouble With ODMs? | While we do think ODMs are an important part of handset manufacturing these days, it is worth remembering that ODMs aren’t perfect. Motorola is apparently pulling deals with a bunch of ODMs after they had troubles with their Microsoft OS sm... |
| Jan 19, 2005 | Replacing Office Phones With Mobile Phones? | While there have been plenty of stories about home users ditching landlines for mobile phones, and enough stories about offices switching to VoIP, here’s one of the first stories that suggests some employees prefer to use their mobile phone... |
| Jan 18, 2005 | WiMax Delayed… Again | Why is it that we seem to need monthly reminders that WiMax still doesn’t exist? Many reporters still don’t realize this, but they should take note that it’s going to take even longer to get actual WiMax certified equipment out there. Of co... |
| Jan 17, 2005 | Siemens Could Close Mobile Business | Siemens, which hasn’t really seemed that interested in, say, actually competing in the mobile business lately, is now considering simply shutting down their mobile division if they can’t find a buyer. So far, the more obvious choices to buy... |
| Jan 11, 2005 | There's No Proof, But, Um, Kids Shouldn't Use Mobile Phones | It seems that every few months we read reports saying that younger and younger kids are using mobile phones, and that has some people quite worried. A warning is going out, saying that young children shouldn’t be exposed to mobile phones… b... |
| Jan 11, 2005 | Exactly What We Don't Need: Full Length Movies On Mobile Phones | People in the mobile industry keep talking up the prospects of mobile video. There are networks being built devoted just to the ability to serve up broadcast video to mobile phones — ignoring, of course, the fact that people buy their phone... |
| Jan 10, 2005 | Texting Sticker Shock | While SMS text messaging has been popular around the world for a while, it’s been slower to catch on in the US, where kids were more used to computer-based instant messaging. However, now that text messaging is catching on in the US, some k... |
| Jan 6, 2005 | Alvarion Already Pushing For Mobile Not-Really-WiMax | This is apparently the time of the year when wireless companies have been trying out there “quick! look over there!” strategies, where they point to what’s coming next, rather than discuss the problems they face today. First we had that Sup... |
| Jan 6, 2005 | Would You Pay $4 A Month To Get Rid Of A Few Sheets Of Paper? | Why is it that business folks seem to close off their minds to reality when it comes to pricing in the mobile world? There’s a big effort going on to make people pay for every bit of content they get on a mobile phone. The carriers are tryi... |
| Jan 5, 2005 | All IP Video, All The Time At CES | Plenty of people were predicting that VoIP would be the big story of this year’s CES, but from the number of announcements, it’s looking like video is the story of the show. Every other company seems to be announcing some kind of IP video s... |
| Jan 5, 2005 | Samsung, LG Aren't Thrilled About Super 3G | We were especially skeptical of last week’s announcement that a bunch of companies had gotten together to create “Super 3G.” Over at TheFeature, I also wondered why they wouldn’t just call it 4G. Apparently, Samsung and LG know the answer. ... |
| Dec 29, 2004 | Cable Companies And Mobile Solutions… | The fact that Time Warner is looking to add a mobile phone solution (via an MVNO arrangement) isn’t a surprise. They mentioned it in March, confirmed it in June and talked more seriously about it in November. So, it’s not entirely clear why... |
| Dec 21, 2004 | Storing Your Banned Phone May Cost You | With the backlash against cameraphones growing rapidly, many different places have banned mobile phones — including some courthouses. No, we don’t know what it is with courthouses and wireless technologies today, but they’re getting a lot o... |
| Dec 16, 2004 | One Million FeliCa Phones? | While mobile payment solutions have been slow to catch on in Europe, it looks like Japan is getting the necessary infrastructure in place. NTT DoCoMo has announced that, since July, they’ve now sold one million FeliCa-enabled phones. This d... |
| Dec 16, 2004 | Time For A Little Customer Segmentation In Handset Design | Lots of people have been pointing out that traditional mobile phones don’t work very well for old people or very young people. In the last few months, it looks like the industry has finally started to take notice. It wasn’t that surprising ... |
| Dec 9, 2004 | Virgin Mobile Decides 10 Is Too Young For A Mobile Phone | Earlier this year, there were some stories about how younger and younger children were getting mobile phones, often because parents wanted to use them as a safety mechanism. For carriers, this very young market represented potential for mar... |
| Dec 7, 2004 | Boost Mobile Hits 1 Million Users | It seems like today is MVNO day. Just a year after Virgin Mobile USA hit one million customers, and on the same day that Virgin announced plans for MVNOs around the globe, Nextel’s MVNO offering, Boost Mobile announced that it has reached o... |
| Dec 7, 2004 | T-Mobile Finally Announces Ringback Tones | While Verizon stole their thunder a few weeks ago, T-Mobile has been quietly testing ringback tones in a few markets since about a month ago. Now they’ve announced the official launch of the service. From the article, it sounds like they mi... |
| Dec 3, 2004 | Grudgingly Accepting VoWiFi | There are a number of different challenges facing telcos (both wired and wireless) in the coming years, and two of the big ones are VoIP and WiFi. Increasingly, the combo of the two (VoWiFi) is stirring up a lot of interest. While the possi... |
| Nov 29, 2004 | Will Increased Phone Churn Harm Feature Adoption? | A new report (put out by a company that wants to solve this particular issue, so watch the bias) says that the increasing rate of handset churn may actually delay feature adoption by end users. The reasoning is that if people are swapping o... |
| Nov 24, 2004 | Thanksgiving weekend treats | A few tech nuggets to carry you into the long weekend…
Amazon is testing a service in Japan that lets shoppers snap a cameraphone photo of a product’s bar code and then compare its price online at Amazon.com. It’s not quite what John Battel... |
| Nov 23, 2004 | Amazon Doesn't Need Bricks And Mortar: They'll Use Someone Else's | We’ve written about people shopping offline, but buying online a few times before (though, the discussion sometimes gets very heated). We’ve also written about mobile search, and how it will really only make sense when it fits in with what ... |