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May 2008

Today's Headlines

FTC on watch against wireless ripoffs
Cellphone providers warned to keep it honest, or else
By Ira Teinowitz
A Federal Trade Commission commissioner warned cellphone content providers they need to do a better job of disclosing the costs consumers incur when clicking or downloading services for their mobile devices. ... READ FULL STORY

Posted: May 8, 2008 - 6:50 pm EDT

Senators argue against reverse auctions for universal service
A bipartisan group of senators urged Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin to abandon a plan to use reverse auctions to award universal service fund support to eligible telecom carriers in rural areas. ... READ FULL STORY

Posted: May 8, 2008 - 2:06 pm EDT

Verizon Wireless adds Samsung’s Glyde, with touchscreen, to its quiver
Taking aim at rival AT&T Mobility and its iPhone subscriber magnet, Verizon Wireless today said it would bring Samsung’s Glyde -- a touch navigation device with QWERTY keypad -- to its customers tomorrow. ... READ FULL STORY

Posted: May 8, 2008 - 1:45 pm EDT

Is Apple changing its iPhone business model?
America Movil said yesterday it cut a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone throughout Latin America, including enormous markets such as Brazil and Mexico. ... READ FULL STORY

Posted: May 8, 2008 - 1:40 pm EDT

Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse team in $2.14B Euro expansion
Best Buy Co. Inc. is stepping up its European cellphone business to the tune of $2.14 billion. ... READ FULL STORY

Posted: May 8, 2008 - 1:26 pm EDT

Worst of the Week: Odds and ends
So, the rumors were flying thick and fast this week surrounding embattled No. 3 operator Sprint Nextel. ... READ FULL STORY

Posted: May 8, 2008 - 1:08 pm EDT

Survey: Wireless retail experience getting worse

Story posted: May 8, 2008 - 12:52 pm EDT

T-Mobile USA tops 30M mark

Story posted: May 8, 2008 - 12:48 pm EDT

VZW sued by parents whose teen was sexually assaulted

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 2:31 pm EDT

Digital Hollywood pins hope on open access

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 1:58 pm EDT

DONE DEAL

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 11:04 am EDT

Google nuzzles closer to Sprint Nextel

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 1:41 pm EDT

PlayPhone acquires Pitch Entertainment

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 1:41 pm EDT

Vodafone bites the Apple

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 1:40 pm EDT

Rural Cellular claims Alltel sabotaged divestiture deal

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 1:26 pm EDT

Video: Today's wireless customers open to more options

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 5:59 am EDT

Financial ratings wrap-up: Sprint Nextel, Nortel Networks, SBA Communications and more

Story posted: May 7, 2008 - 5:59 am EDT

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Analyst Angle

Analyst Angle: Is Huawei telecom’s Barack Obama?

By Peter Jarich, Research Director, Current Analysis
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from NPD Group’s Ross Rubin, Enderle Group’s Rob Enderle and more.

I don’t watch CNN much at home, opting for a more intellectual diet of reality TV and “Futurama” re-runs. When I’m traveling abroad, however, CNN International is somehow comforting. Watching the Pennsylvania primaries from China last month, then, something occurred to me: Barack Obama might j...CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THIS COLUMN

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The trouble with text messaging

For this I got the unlimited text-messaging plan for our family? ... MORE

CURRENT ISSUE:
May 3, 2008

Rallying the rural troops

Cyren Call’s O’Brien lays out D-Block pitch at RCA
LAS VEGAS — Despite troubles brewing back in Washington, D.C., regarding Cyren Call Communication Corp.’s handling of its partnership with the Public Safety Spectrum Trust in regards to the failed auction of the D-Block license, Chairman Morgan O’Brien took Cyren Call’s message to the people last week speaking at the Rural Cellular Association’s 16th Annual Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas. ... MORE

Managing rollout delay

WiMAX delays further cloud Sprint Nextel’s sky
SPRINT NEXTEL CORP. HAS WATCHED its self-imposed deadline for a commercial WiMAX network launch slip by as backhaul and billing systems appear to be causing greater headaches than originally expected. ... MORE

MVNO links made, disputed in D-Block

PUBLIC SAFETY SPECTRUM TRUST CORP. Chairman Harlin McEwen has distanced himself from a key element in a Federal Communications Commission inspector general report on the unsettled 700 MHz D Block. ... MORE

MOST POPULAR STORIES

Here are the most popular stories from yesterday:

1. Is Apple changing its iPhone business model?

posted: May 8, 2008

2. DONE DEAL

posted: May 7, 2008

3. VZW sued by parents whose teen was sexually assaulted

posted: May 7, 2008

4. Worst of the Week: Odds and ends

posted: May 8, 2008

5. Verizon Wireless adds Samsung’s Glyde, with touchscreen, to its quiver

posted: May 8, 2008

6. Rural Cellular claims Alltel sabotaged divestiture deal

posted: May 7, 2008

7. Managing rollout delay

posted: May 3, 2008

8. Google nuzzles closer to Sprint Nextel

posted: May 7, 2008

9. Survey: Wireless retail experience getting worse

posted: May 8, 2008

10. T-Mobile USA tops 30M mark

posted: May 8, 2008

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