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Today’s Headlines

As other Clearwire backers reel, eyes turn to Google

January 7 2009 - 5:30 pm ET | John Letzing | MarketWatch

Strategic investors in Clearwire Corp. posted a flurry of bad news related to their stakes in the wireless services company on Wednesday, drawing attention to one of its other ... Read More »

CTIA seeks to block cellphone jamming demo at DC jail

January 7 2009 - 2:05 pm ET | Jeffrey Silva | RCR Wireless News

The cellphone jamming dispute between the mobile-phone industry and CellAntenna Corp. has dramatically escalated, with a high-profile legal battle playing out in the nation’s ... Read More »

Virgin Mobile touts net adds in tightening economy

January 7 2009 - 1:20 pm ET | Phil Carson | RCR Wireless News

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. released “selected” — meaning positive and unaudited — metrics today, and suggested that the troubled economy was sending mobile subscribers into its arms. ... Read More »

Verizon continues to keep walls between subscribers and multimedia

January 7 2009 - 5:59 am ET | Colin Gibbs | RCR Wireless News

Only 45% of U.S. mobile consumers use their phones for anything more than making calls, according to figures released this week from NPD Group. But nearly lost in the press ... Read More »

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Verizon says in mobile search deal with Microsoft

January 7 2009 - 12:31 pm ET | Ritsuko Ando | Reuters

Verizon Communications Inc. said it agreed to a mobile search deal with Microsoft Corp. and that details will be announced later on Wednesday. ... Read More »

Wireless growth continues, linked to better health

January 7 2009 - 12:23 pm ET | Gary E. Salazar | RCR Wireless News

More Americans are pulling the plug on their landline telephone service and opting to live in households with only wireless devices, according to a recent federal report. ... Read More »

Study: 5.3 billion customers to generate $1 trillion in revenues

January 7 2009 - 12:20 pm ET | RCR Wireless News

Global mobile revenues are expected to exceed $1.03 trillion by 2013, generated by more than 5.3 billion subscribers, according to a new study from Informa Telecoms & Media. ... Read More »

Recession may move mobile ad market away from branding

January 7 2009 - 11:59 am ET | Rita Chang | Advertising Age

-Mobile's ability to draw an instant response and identify highly qualified and engaged prospects through capabilities like click-to-call and click-to-SMS makes the medium ideal for driving action.-

In mobile's brief lifetime, marketers have experimented with the medium both as a brand-building and a direct-response channel, with no major proof points having emerged on either ... Read More »

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