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August 3, 2011

MetroPCS Profit Up in Q2

US operator MetroPCS yesterday reported a 19 percent increase year-on-year in revenue to US$1.2 billion in the second quarter, off the back of growing demand for Android smartphones and its "no annual contract" services.

By Mobile World Live

August 3, 2011

Sprint takes WiMAX wholesale

US operator Sprint Nextel has launched a new Wholesale 4G program that will see it open its WiMAX network to wholesale partners like Mitel Networks, so they can resell mobile broadband access.

By Mobile World Live

Devices RAN Vendors Samsung August 3, 2011

Samsung linked with InterDigital patents buy

Samsung is the latest name believed to be examining InterDigital’s patents business, a portfolio of almost 9,000 mobile-related patents that the US firm recently put up for sale.

By Mobile World Live

Apple Devices August 2, 2011

Kodak mulling patent sale; NTP patents set for review

Imaging company Eastman Kodak is reported to be mulling the sale of a patent which is currently the subject of infringements suits against Apple and RIM. Separately, the Wall Street Journal reports that US patent holding company NTP had received mixed news in a bid to save its wireless email patent portfolio, which it has previously used to secure a settlement with RIM worth more than US$600 million.

By Mobile World Live

North America Operators T-Mobile US August 1, 2011

AT&T set for data throttling

AT&T said that as of 1 October 2011, it will reduce the data speeds for the top five percent of the heaviest data users on its unlimited data plans, noting that to fall into this group “you have to use an extraordinary amount of data in a single billing period.”

By Mobile World Live

Big Tech Microsoft August 1, 2011

AlcaLu damages cut following MS patent appeal

AFP said that Microsoft has to pay Alcatel-Lucent US$70 million following a patent infringement suit, reduced from the previous figure of US$358 million following an appeal from the US computing giant.

By Mobile World Live

August 1, 2011

LightSquared expects US3.5B more funding; cuts NSN deal

US wholesale LTE operator prospect LightSquared claims it will receive between US$3 billion and US$3.5 billion in additional funding over the next two and a half years.

By Mobile World Live