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Cash Money-m-Wise in agreement for mobile fan club (USA)m-Wise (Mobile Content technology provider) is in agreement with Universal Motown Records’ Cash Money subsidiary to start a mobile fan club subscription service.
Cash Money Mobile delivers mobile content like
Various through which the services will be offered includes
Carriers include (who have already signed up)
Sprint brings football to mobile phones via NFL Mobile Live (USA)Sprint, USA, and the National Football League together have announced the launch of NFL Mobile Live, a new application for that provides the subscribers with wireless access to live radio broadcasts of all 2008 regular season games as well as all eight Thursday Night Football matchups broadcast via cable television’s NFL Network.
Each time the subscriber accesses the application, he/she will be able to view their favorite team’s information onscreen, eliminating clicks by pushing the latest franchise updates and quick links to upcoming live broadcasts.
NFL Mobile Live also enables NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time, delivering game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles, photos and video highlights.
Additionally, the application will also offer live access to NFL Network non-game programming like training camp reports and team previews as well as series including NFL Total Access, NFL GameDay and NFL Playbook.
NFL Mobile Live is part of Sprint’s Simply Everything flat-rate package and subscribers may also add Data Packs starting at $15 per month.
Sprint plans to sale Nextel’s iDen network (USA)According to a media report, Sprint Nextel is considering a sale of the Nextel wireless network it bought in 2005, but may have trouble finding a buyer for an asset whose value has plunged about 80% to an estimated $5 billion. Analysts said that aside from having to compete with newer network standards than iDen, which has a walkie-talkie feature, any buyer would find it tough to reverse the now-completed integration of the iDen business, including its billing, broadcast towers and customer service.
“They spent the last few years trying to integrate it. There are a lot of questions that a buyer and the government would have to have.” said analyst as quoted by the report. U.S. Federal Communications Commission is already pressuring Sprint to relinquish a key chunk of iDen wireless airwaves for emergency communications networks. Also iDen technology, developed by Motorola, was being left behind by newer mobile services with broadband web links, analyst said. Sprint said in a regulatory filing this week that it was exploring alternatives for iDen that include “improving operations, making additional investments, entering into strategic partnerships and considering potential divestitures.”
MobiTV crosses 4million subscribers mark (USA)MobiTV has crossed the mark of 4 million subscribers since it’s launch as first mobile television service in November in 2003. MobiTV has successfully sparked a new market for the mobile TV services, installing its Emmy Award-winning television offerings on more than 15 carrier networks, including Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Alltel, Telus, Rogers and Bell Mobility among others.
Femtocell offers enhanced cell phone coverage & unlimited home calling for $10 a month (US)An option to drop traditional landline, company’s femtocell is offering enhanced cell phone coverage and unlimited home calling for $10 a month. A new hardware that enhances cellular coverages in the home or office is the other option brought by Sprint. The Airave is a mini- cell phone tower made by Smasung. The femtocell connects to Sprint’s network via a user’s broadband network and creates a smaller cell phone network, up to 5,000 square feet, within the user’s home or business.
Simultaneously, three different cell phones can use the mini network . $4.99 monthly fee is required for Airave. Also customers with carrier’s Simply Everything plan has an added advantage that they will be able to make unlimited in-house calls. According to the Company,switching from a Sprint tower to the femtocell will not change the plan to unlimited. “People want ubiquitous cell service on their wireless phones everywhere they go, and that includes their home and offices,” said Tom Jasny, Samsung Mobile’s VP of wireless systems and broadband said. From 17 Aug Femtocell will be available nationwide for $99.99.
Sprint rolls - out an user friendly mobile Web browser (US)Sprint has come up with a new mobile Web browser, which will make it easier for users to get the content they want while surfing the Internet from a mobile handset.
Sprint Web, the new browser, has an adaptive homepage that can deliver content based on the customer’s previous usage. For example, if the customer frequently visits sports sites, the user will be greeted with sports stories on their home page.
Additionally, Sprint Web has a Google search bar on the home page to lets customers get fast Internet results. As part of the larger Clearwire deal, the search giant became Sprint’s default provider of Web and local search services.
The new browser is now available on more than 40 Sprint-powered handsets, including the Palm Centro smartphone, and the LG Rumor. Sprint customers with compatible handsets automatically have access to Sprint Web with no additional actions.
Sprint to instigate new mobile web service (US)Sprint’s new mobile web service with a slight change in design. Also couple of new features are added to it. Now users can have the direct access to Google search for finding content across the entire Internet.
Moreover, Google search will now be the default search engine on Sprint phones. Ita also adds an adaptive homepage that will deliver personalized content based on the user’s browsing. This web service is currently available on more than 40 Sprint phones.
Airave Femtocell has been made public. This will enhance cellular service inside your home and work with up to three handsets using Sprint’s CDMA network (Nextel phones aren’t supported). Previously, Airave was available only in Denver and Indianapolis.
The Airave itself is $99.99 plus a monthly fee of $4.99 per month for the “enhanced coverage.” Customers can also take up $10 per month plan for unlimited Airave calls or $20 for unlimited calls on multiple lines.
Sprint slapped with a penalty of $70.1 million (California, US)Sprint, nation’s third carrier, has been slapped with a penalty of $70.1 million, by a California judge. This is a tentative penality for early termination fees charged to subscribers throughout the state, AP reports. The company was ordered to pay $18.3 million to customers who sued over the fees and credit $54.8 million to subscribers that were charged the fee, but never paid.
The issue of ETFs has made its way into federal and state courthouses around the country and the Federal Communications Commission is weighing options it could impose on carriers to regulate the fees and thereby shield them from more class-action lawsuits at the state level. T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon have all committed to reducing the fees on a pro-rated basis over the life of a contract and Sprint said it plans to follow suit next year. The FCC is expected to make a similar industry-wide decision in August.
Sprint withdraws from NGMN Alliance (Asia)Sprint has withdrawn from the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance after the group expressed its support for LTE (Long Term Evolution) for 4G.
The NGMN is a group of global mobile operators that banded together last year to push for a common vision for networks and technologies beyond 3G and was supposed to endorse the co-existence of various technologies without favoring one over another.
Founding members of the NGMN Alliance include China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, Orange, KPN and T-Mobile, all of whom back LTE. Majority of the 18 operator members come from the WCDMA community, whose 4G path is LTE.
Carriers Leaking Customer MMS images and video (UK)Anti-spam company MailChannels warned on its blog that UK carrier O2 was leaking the images of its customers’ multimedia text messages on the web. It is beacuse of lax systems for dealing with MMS sent to phones without the ability to open them. But as MailChannels discovered, a simple Google search was able to pull up online a number of private images and photos that customers had sent to friends.
Though O2 has since fixed the security flaw, Slashdot did a little bit more digging on the MMS hosting that other operators do and found that carriers like Sprint and MVNO boost mobile will not only show the picture or video, but will also show the phone number, download it, print it, forward it or reply to it all form the same web page.
