Swisscom has launched its mobile television service, Bluewin TV mobile, in Switzerland to become one of the first European providers to offer high-quality television experience to its mobile customers. Working together, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks enabled this service with their leading-edge mobile TV technology, services and expertise. Bluewin TV mobile was launched on May 13 [...]

Here’s a new twist on mobile advertising and social networks: Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) is launching a Facebook application today that will give customers, who participate in its Sugar Mama advertising program, a new way to earn up to 75 free voice minutes a month. Up until now, the Sugar Mama program gave users free [...]

Embarq said today it will end its wireless reseller agreement with Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel next year, becoming the second phone company following Qwest, to terminate its alliance in recent weeks. Embarq was essentially an MVNO that allowed it to sell an Embarq-branded service on Sprint’s network, but sales fell short of expectations, according to [...]

After Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do with it. Now, the company says it is thinking of using the licenses to build a mobile TV service with the help of a yet-to-be-determined [...]

AT&T (NYSE: T) sounded defensive about the speed of its network during a presentation to Wall Street analysts this morning. Currently, AT&T offers DSL-like speeds where it has HSDPA deployed, but AT&T’s Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said at a Morgan Stanley event today that by next year, it will start delivering speeds up [...]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) confirmed today that it will support the Linux mobile-phone operating system, and join the LiMo Foundation as a core member, signaling its commitment to the platform. As part of the announcement, LiMo announced a list of other new supporters, including SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg, Mozilla, Red Bend Software, [...]

A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats. NBC is streaming episodes of 30 Rock and The Office to the iPhone over the WiFi network reports NYT quoting Silicon Alley Insider. Orb has also launched a native client for the [...]

Mobile music remains a challenging business for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), which reported today in its second quarter earnings ending March 31 that mobile remains “soft” as ringtone sales fell year over year in the US, and was flat massive 17.6 percent drop.

Apple and America Movil announced they have signed a deal to bring the iPhone to more than a dozen Latin American countries. The carrier said it plans to offer Apple’s handset across all of its Latin American operations starting later this year, but didn’t give any other details of the arrangement. Apple also recently announced deals [...]

By the end of the first quarter, T-Mobile USA crossed the 30 million customer mark. Specifically, the fourth largest U.S. carrier had 30.8 million customers, adding 981,000 net new customers during the quarter. T-Mobile USA also reported OIBDA of $1.44 billion, up 18% compared to Q1 2007 and reduced contract customer churn from 1.9% in [...]