Tag archive: CTIA

Mentioned during an announcement last week, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and CTIA Wireless Trade Association have announced a new rating system for mobile games. Identical to the rating system for consoles, mobile gaming applications will be rated on a five-point scale and tie into the letter system used for console and PC game released. Age 6 and older will be rated E for Everyone, age 10 and older rated Everyone 10+, age 13… Read More

In a partnership with the CTIA Wireless Trade Association, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is preparing to unveil a rating system for all mobile games on Tuesday November 29 in Washington D.C. The presentation will kick off on Capitol Hill and will be hosted by ESRB President Patricia Vance and CTIA president Steve Largent. In addition, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte and U.S. Senator Mark Pryor will also be in attendance. Similar to… Read More

In order to stave off more Federal Communications Commission regulation of the cellphone industry, the CTIA wireless association has agreed to impose new billing practices that will help customers avoid “bill shock.” The new guidelines are expected to be announced today, and call on wireless providers to alert customers as they approach the monthly limits of their voice, text, and data plans. They also call on companies to provide… Read More

We knew this day would come. Even though only around 75-80 percent of U.S. citizens are online, the number of wireless devices with cell phone plans has increased to 327.6 million, which is higher than the entire population of the United States, which stands at 312.4 million, reports CTIA, which is holding its wireless enterprise & apps conference in San Diego, California this week. Not every living American has a cell phone, which means… Read More

Verizon Wireless has no intention of buying Sprint Nextel, says its chief executive, Daniel Mead. This in light of the fact that Mead's company may soon drop down to the number two largest wireless company in the US, if AT&T's recently announced plan to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion is approved by federal regulators. During an interview with Reuters on Monday, Mead said that Verizon, currently the most profitable wireless… Read More

RIM keeps touting all the impressive bells and whistles of the PlayBook, but we’ve yet to hear a release date — until today. The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook is now live on Sprint’s website, and it will launch this summer. Last we heard, the tablet would cost $499.99 and be here by late April. There’s now some speculation the PlayBook will try to steal some of the iPhone 5’s thunder with a launch in June, giving you a few reasons to make your… Read More

A wealth of alleged details about Sprint's upcoming handset lineup has emerged prior to the wireless carrier's official announcement at the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference, which (pre-)kicks off on Monday, March 21, in Orlando, Florida. According to a source who spoke with BRG: The first big unveil for Sprint “most certainly will be” the HTC EVO 3D smartphone, the successor to the EVO 4G. It will run on Android 2.3… Read More

South Korea's Samsung is working hard to make its Galaxy Tab devices the leader in the non-iPad tablet market: the company says it has shipped more than 2 million of the 7-inch version since the devices went on sale in November, and just introduced a 10.1-inch version of the device. Now, Samsung is teasing that it may introduce another form factor to the Tab lineup, issuing invitations to an announcement at the CTIA Wireless trade show in… Read More

The wireless industry sued the city of San Francisco on Friday to stop a law that requires cell phone stores to post how much radio energy each model emits. It's the first law of that kind in the nation. The industry trade group known as CTIA — The Wireless Association said the law will mislead consumers into thinking that one phone might be safer than another on the basis of radiation measurements. Studies have not conclusively found that… Read More

At this year's CTIA expo in Las Vegas, Electronics giant Samsung has announced its new Galaxy S smartphone, a new Android-based device that features a 1 GHz processor, a 4-inch 800 by 480-pixel outdoor-friendly AMOLED display, the capability to offer “rich augmented reality content,” and advanced location-based services. And the Galaxy S will be running Android, rather than Samsung's own still-simmering Bada smartphone… Read More

While AT&T and Verizon are busy bickering over 4G LTE technology and Sprint is tied up rolling out the first 4G WiMax phone in America, T-Mobile hasn’t given up on the last – and most commonly used –generation of wireless technology. On Tuesday, the company announced it will upgrade its entire 3G network to HSPA+ technology by the end of the year, which will make it the fastest 3G footprint in the United States, according to the T-Mobile’s… Read More

After leaks last week pointed to Sprint outing the first 4G phone at the opening of CTIA in Las Vegas, Sprint made good on its promise by formally announcing America’s first 4G phone on Tuesday. While we’re still disappointed that Sprint decided not to roll with the frighteningly fast codename “Supersonic” as originally rumored, the Android-powered HTC EVO will boast 4G WiMax along with a slew of other high-end features. Sprint claims the EVO’s… Read More

Construction workers, cling to your dated flip phones no longer. Motorola’s new i1, announced Monday in advance of CTIA, brings Google Android to Nextel’s Direct Connect network, making it one of a very small group of rugged, push-to-talk smartphones. Unlike many of the oversized, rubberized monstrosities that wear the rugged label, Motorola’s i1 only sports traces of rubber on the top and bottom edges, making it look like many other… Read More

On the Eve of this week’s CTIA wireless conference in Las Vegas, the topic of 4G wireless has gotten carriers on edge. On Sunday, an AT&T executive stressed the current immaturity of 4G technology while criticizing Verizon’s plan to fire up 4G LTE service by the end of this year. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, AT&T CTO John Donovan claimed that the current state of 4G chips would throw a wet blanket over the first… Read More

The first ICBM in the 4G wireless arms race may very well be resting in Sprint’s missile silos right now – with a finger on the launch button. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse will turn his key and give it a jab early next week at the start of the CTIA wireless conference, when the company launches the first 4G phone in the U.S. The Journal’s “people familiar with the matter” say the appropriately named HTC Supersonic… Read More