Carrier networks
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Verizon jilts Google’s Android for rival open handset platform
May 15, 2008
Verizon Wireless spurned Google’s Android open handset platform for a Linux-based consortium in a move that effectively ensures that power is not concentrated in one entity’s hands.
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Virgin Mobile syncs with Burger King, Warner Music for $1 ringtone
May 9, 2008
Virgin Mobile USA has partnered with Burger King Corp. and Warner Music Group to make ringtones available for $1.
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T-Mobile partners with Nokia to offer new services
May 5, 2008
T-Mobile and Nokia are collaborating to produce Internet services and personal social communities on mobile devices.
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Verizon, AT&T shrug off economic turmoil with impressive Q1 results
April 29, 2008
Verizon recorded rapid growth in its wireless business, driving the company's revenue up 13 percent in the first quarter of this year.
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Carriers, online giant partner to create common platform for widgets
April 25, 2008
Wireless carriers China Mobile and Vodafone, along with Internet investor Softbank, have partnered to create a common platform for widgets.
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Flexibility is key to Virgin Mobile’s success, CTIA delegates told
April 2, 2008
LAS VEGAS - The ultimate goal of any company should be to end up with a brand that consumers trust. That's the Virgin Mobile philosophy.
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Virgin tackles postpaid market with similar monthly benefits
March 25, 2008
Virgin Mobile USA is now offering consumers new monthly and pay-as-you-go plans without annual contracts as part of its customer acquisition strategy.
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Cellular South opens integrated online, retail stores
March 21, 2008
Wireless carrier Cellular South debuted a hybrid retail model for customers, launching an online store and a bricks-and-mortar version of cellularsouth.com.
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T-Mobile Sidekick sponsors Grammy Tour
March 13, 2008
T-Mobile USA Inc. and The Recording Academy have teamed up for the 50th Grammy Celebration Concert Tour presented by T-Mobile Sidekick.
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Sprint trumps competition with flat-rate voice and data plan
February 29, 2008
Sprint is now offering a domestic unlimited pricing plan with unlimited voice, data, text, e-mail, Web-surfing, Sprint TV, Sprint Music, GPS Navigation, Direct Connect and Group Connect for $99.99 a month.
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Alltel offers celebrity voicemail personalization
February 28, 2008
Alltel Wireless introduced a new application to let customers personalize outgoing voicemail greetings with the voices of Hollywood actors, comedians, singers and celebrity endorsers.
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Alltel breaks campaign for Penske race team sponsorship
February 27, 2008
Alltel Wireless will bring the No. 12 Penske Racing Team closer to fans with an initiative that supports the company’s My Circle calling feature.
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Alltel launches LBS/Nationwide Roaming
February 25, 2008
Alltel Wireless customers now have access to GPS applications outside of their home network area with the carrier’s introduction of LBS Nationwide Roaming.
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Boost Mobile looks for agency of record as it rebrands
February 22, 2008
Sprint Nextel’s Boost Mobile division unveiled a brand makeover to eliminate fragmentation and unite the product line under one name.
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T-Mobile to offer landline services
February 22, 2008
Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA Inc. now offers landline service in Seattle and Dallas, a move that takes it into dual-line players AT&T Inc. and Verizon’s territory.
