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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

A day after a Senate subcommittee grilled Google and Apple over concerns about user location data collection, another group of US senators brought in representatives of AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel to answer questions about AT&T's plan to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. At the opening of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing, chairman Sen. Herb Kohl… Read More

The Federal Communications Commission voted today to adopt new data roaming rules that will allow smartphones to access wireless Internet networks nationwide, in areas not covered by the users' wireless provider. The functionality would be similar to roaming related to voice and text messaging. The 3-2 vote, which was held this morning during the FCC's monthly public meeting, requires large wireless companies like Verizon Wireless… Read More

AT&T announced the purchase of T-Mobile yesterday for $39 billion from Deutsche Telekom. Maybe you heard? The move, which joins the nation's number two and number four wireless providers, whittles the list of top competitors down to three: at the top is AT&T, followed now by former leader Verizon and, bringing up the rear, Sprint. The purchase was a dramatic turn of events on its own, but Sprint actually had something of a stake… 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

Major corporations have begun sponsoring college classes and graduate-level research in exchange for blog posts, tweets, status updates and custom-made YouTube videos, reports the Wall Street Journal. The brands making their way into the classroom include such names as Fox Sports Net, Sprint Nextel, Levi Strauss & Co and Mattel Inc. These sponsorships sometimes involve companies providing funding to the university at large, or the sharing of… Read More

Sprint Nextel is reportedly in talks with Deutsche Telekom AG to discuss the possibility of purchasing its T-Mobile USA division, according to unnamed sources who spoke with Boomberg. If made official, the deal would reportedly give Deutsche Telekom a “major stake” in the Sprint Nextel-T-Mobile USA entity. The deal is far from final, however, as the talks have reportedly been intermittent. According to sources, the biggest hang-up in… Read More

The long-awaited handsets with Windows Phone 7 will be available only from carriers that have GSM networks, like AT&T and T-Mobile, Microsoft said. The new operating system for smartphones won’t be available on handsets on CDMA networks like Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel. Microsoft has postponed the CDMA-ready version of the OS till 2011. “For the worldwide market, the vast majority of phones are GSM phones, so we focused on GSM… Read More

Despite the plethora of wireless plans already vying for our dollars, Wal-Mart launched a new plan that targets the low-to-middle-income families, its core customer base for the stores. Available only through T-Mobile, the Family Mobile service offers unlimited voice and text messaging for $45 a month for the first user. Additional lines will cost $25 total. For a family of four, that’s $120 a month for unlimited voice and text messaging. That’s… Read More

Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a “push-to-talk” walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the company's Nextel-branded phones.

Cable operator Cox Communications has had its eye on wireless services for a while, putting a substantial amount of money into spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz band the FCC auctioned off earlier this year and which will become available once analog TV shuts off in the United States. Since then, Cox has bought up between $500 and $550 million in wireless capacity in its cable markets—New Orleans, San Diego, Omaha, Las Vegas, Kansas,… Read More

The new company, which will be called Sprint Nextel, also intends to spin off to its shareholders Sprint's local telecommunications business following the merger. Sprint and Nextel currently have a combined total equity value of approximately $70 billion and serve more than 35 million wireless subscribers on their networks and 5 million additional subscribers through affiliates and partners. The two companies, along with their… Read More