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1. Huawei makes a stand with billion worth of U.S. supply orders
2. Data throttling: Annoying but effective
3. SuperWiFi launched in Canada, but it’s not U.S. Super Wi-Fi

FierceDeveloper
1. Developers flock to HTML5 as over 1B compatible handsets are expected to sell in 2013
2. Wireless companies expected to launch IPOs in 2012 and beyond
3. How Google is holding back in-app revenue growth

FierceMobileContent
1. RIM launches BlackBerry Video Store with PlayBook OS 2.0
2. Sprint creates New Ventures unit to tap Android growth
3. Mozilla Marketplace opens for HTML5 app submissions next week

FierceWireless
1. Verizon restores service after LTE network falters again
2. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all claim to offer nation’s ‘largest 4G network’
3. Sprint announces job cuts as part of reorg

FierceWireless:Europe
1. Nokia Siemens will focus on profits, not market share, says chairman
2. Wi-Fi offload poised to dominate network news
3. Rumour mill: Telefónica Spain to select Alca-Lu for LTE network

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TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News

Full news stories today include a comparison of T-Mobile vs Virgin Mobile deals, BlackBerry Messenger use by London rioters, the European ban of the Samsung  Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, HTC Status deals and new leaked  BlackBerry Bold/Torch release dates.

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• MetroPS Helps Military Families -  Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift and other stars   autographed personal
  messages to U.S. military families with loved ones oversees. Along with
  the messages, MetroPCS Communications, Inc. donated ,000
  worth of international long distance calling cards to the USO’s
  Military Family Care Package program, helping to connect families who
  are separated by deployments.
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Octobered - An unnamed source reported that Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich smartphones and tablets may be released as early as October of this year.
• HTC Bliss with New HTC Sense - The HTC Bliss is now rumored to ship with a new version of HTC Sense – Sense 3.5.

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Dish’s bold move proves that new entrants into the wireless market are more common than what popular wisdom may want you to believe. For example, many have derided MVNOs as not being “real” competition because they purchase minutes from other carriers rather than build a network. This perspective completely ignores the massive success of TracFone, the country’s fifth largest service provider with more than 18.7 million subscribers at the end of Q2 2011. This reality should lead to at least a reassessment of the theory that MVNOs are not real competitors to facilities based mobile providers. Mobile virtual operators and facilities-based operators look and feel the same to consumers.

But back to Dish’s plans. The proposed wireless network would work well in conjunction with Dish Network’s Blockbuster acquisition, which has streaming movie rights just like Netflix and Dish Network’s satellite TV service. Dish could offer a total communication and entertainment bundle: Satellite TV at home, 4G Internet connection at home and on the go, with all the streaming video on top of it. Dish has 14 million customers it can use as a starting point for cross-selling. In addition, Blockbuster’s 500 stores could serve as Dish’ sales and customer service backbone. Think of Apple-like experience stores–a physical place where consumers can see and feel how it all connects and fits together. Some may think that 500 stores is insufficient to make an impact, but when you look at what a huge impact Apple’s 241 retail stores have, one could conclude that 500 stores done right could be a force to be reckoned with.

A question many are asking is where Dish will find the money to build the network. As we learned from LightSquared, vendor financing has made a revival. There are many vendors that could view a Dish network build as an opportunity to gain a bigger foothold in the U.S. market. Another question is whether Dish will mobilize a consortium of small and mid-size mobile wireless providers and partner with them to build out and/or offer service. And there is of course the question of timing for build. Will the FCC put Dish on a fast track similar to LightSquared’s buildout schedule? No one knows for sure what Charlie Ergen’s plans are other than Charlie, but what we do know is that there is nothing about the U.S. wireless industry structure that prevents him from becoming the country’s newest facilities based wireless broadband competitor. In fact, if Dish succeeds at the FCC and raises the money it needs for the network build, Dish would become the industry’s second, brand new facilities-based wireless entrant in less than two years. Calling this industry anything other than competitive is simply ignoring reality.

Roger Entner is the Founder and Analyst at Recon Analytics. Recon Analytics specializes in fact-based research and the analysis of disparate data sources to provide unprecedented insights into the world of telecommunications.

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Clayton

On the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call, Dish CEO Joseph Clayton–who has been on the job since May–said Dish will use its recent spectrum acquisitions to “have a significant role in the evolving world of wireless communications, and this is the principle reason that I am here” at the company.

According to a Morningstar transcript of the call, Clayton said that Dish will keep its plans “somewhat nebulous,” but he did lay out several options for the company. “We will keep our options open, we will not tip our hand and we will continue to pursue the necessary assets to shape our long-term strategy,” he said. “This could include additional acquisitions, partnerships, alliances or even parting with assets that might not prove to be strategic going forward.”

Clayton also said that Dish could use wireless service to deliver content. He said that delivering video is going to remain the company’s primary objective, but that “we’re also very interested in wireless broadband for a lot of our secondary and tertiary customers throughout our market.” 

Dish received final approval in July from a bankruptcy court judge to purchase TerreStar Networks for .375 billion. The purchase nearly matches the .4 billion Dish will pay for DBSD North America, a transaction that won bankruptcy court approval in June. Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen pushed for the deals and Clayton said Ergen “believes that these actions have been the best possible usage for the company’s available capital.” Together, DBSD and TerreStar each give Dish access to 20 MHz channels of S-Band spectrum.

Tom Cullen, Dish’s executive vice president of sales, marketing and programming, said the company will file a request with the FCC within the next two weeks to transfer the spectrum licenses to Dish. He declined to discuss whether Dish will define a business strategy for the spectrum when it makes its filing.

BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk told FierceWireless that he does not think Dish will describe a business model in its license transfer request, noting that Dish likely wants to get the spectrum and avoid any unnecessary complications at the FCC. “I think they want to keep a very low profile,” he said, adding that the licenses might be transferred by the end of the year or early next year.

When asked if Dish might reveal part of its wireless strategy in connection with Sprint Nextel’s (NYSE:S) Oct. 7 investor conference–Sprint has promised to discuss its 4G strategy during the event–Cullen said that he “wouldn’t expect anything in the near term.” He also declined to comment on whether Dish would be interested in buying Qualcomm’s (NASDAQ:QCOM) 700 MHz MediaFLO spectrum, should AT&T (NYSE:T) not be able to purchase it. The FCC said it will consider AT&T’s proposed .93 billion purchase of the Qualcomm spectrum spectrum side-by-side with AT&T’s planned billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.

For more:
- see this Morningstar transcript

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Dish’s Ergen: No ‘grand strategy’ on spectrum play
Dish’s B DBSD purchase sparks spectrum intrigue

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TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News

Full news stories today include Google Chairman BlackBerry Bold user Eric Schmidt, Sprint’s CDMA push-to-talk, AT&T Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for 2011 smartphones, the release date for Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a price for the LG Thrill 4G.

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Qualcomm buys GestureTek Tech- Qualcomm  announced that it has acquired
certain assets from GestureTek, a developer of gesture recognition
technology.  Gesture recognition technology will be integrated into Qualcomm’s current and next-generation Snapdragon processors.

iPhone iOS 4.3.5 Updated - Apple has release a security update for AT&T iPhone customers that “Fixes a security vulnerability with certificate validation.”

Samsung Galaxy R YouTubed - A video updlaoded today shows a new Samsung Galaxy Smarpthone the Samsung Galaxy R considered to be a mid-level smartphone with a 1GHz processor that is ultra slim and Samsung is going through the alphabet the last leaked Samsung Galaxy was the Samsung Galaxy Q with a 5.3″ touchscreen. See video below.

Verizon Family Locator - Summer is in full swing, and knowing where the kids are and where they
need to be over the busy vacation months is important to families.
 Family Locator, a simple and secure service from Verizon Wireless,
allows parents to be informed in real-time about their kids’
whereabouts. 

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Full news stories today include an iPad 3G class action lawsuit, new T-Mobile value plans, a round-up top summer smartphone releases, the Motorola Triumph and confirmation of an August release date for the Samsung Galaxy SII in the United States.

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Fandango App Summer Movie Blockbuster - — Fandango announced today
that 20% of its summer movie ticket sales have been generated by its
mobile applications and its newly-redesigned mobile site. This sets
Fandango’s record for the most mobile movie tickets sold during a summer
movie season.

CBS in Amazon Stream - CBS and Amazon.announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement that will enable
Amazon customers to stream television shows from CBS’s vast library.  

Consumer Cellular Nurture Connects – Consumer Cellular announced a
partnership with Nurture Connect. The
collaboration will help educate seniors about communication technologies
and cellphone services.

Sprint BIz Freedom - Sprint launched Business Freedom Plans which allow the choice of any Sprint device with service that requires no annual contract.

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Full news stories today include more HTC ThunderBolt sales at Verizon, new HTC EVO 3D for T-Mobile, more problems with the HTC EVO 4G update, and an update for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Tab.  We started a new feature, “Bogus-Pocus Focus” to point out the tech bloggers’ frauds and foibles.

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Samsung Conquer 4G? – There were reports saying that Samsung announced the mid-range Android Samsung Conquer 4G with a 3.5″ touchscreen, 32MP camera, front-facing camera, 1GHz processor, WiMAX and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.  The web page where the announcement was originally found has since disappeared.

Droid Bionic Bogus - After our bogus-focus on the super blurry photo of what could-not-have-been a Droid Bionic, tech bloggers
are still writing about it with only one mentioning that
it could have been blurred on purpose through Photoshop.

Verizon Fab 15 - From July 1 through August 31, American teenagers can enter to win the Quince of their dreams as part of Verizon’s My Fabulous Quince contest.

MMA Invite Only Summit - MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) announced its first annual MMA Mobile CEO and CMO Summit.  Held July 24-26 at the Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic, it is an exclusive, invitation-only event.

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-In regards to iPad number: sold 25 million iPads in the first 14months.
- In total there are 425,000 apps available, 90,000 on the iPad
- 14 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store
- “iOS 5 is a major release”… 10 new features coming
- Notifications: “Notification Center”. Now you can get your notifications by simply swiping your finger down from the top of the iPhone (like the experience on Android)
- Twitter in iOS 5 is now fully integrated – in the apps our apps, within the camera and gallery and update the contact photos right from Twitter.
- Camera: They have added a lock screen shortcut feature plus editing pics from the iPhone
- Wireless syncing!! – Software updates are now over the air! (Finally!)
- “iMessage” (messaging client that supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch where you can send texts, photos, videos to your contacts contacts (kinda like BBM)
- iOS 5 is available today for devs but to the general public this fall. (iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2 and iPod Touch 3rd Gen)

Source: Thisismynext

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2. Apple iOS 4.2 available for download today
3. Twitter for iPhone & iPad updated (version 3.3)

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TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News

Full news stories today reported rebooting problems with the HTC ThunderBolt and new mobile money transfer clearXchange.

Today is the release date for HTC Trophy, Sony Xperia Play, Droid X2 and LG Revolution. The HTC Merge is coming May 31.

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Google Wallet to Pay Your Way  – Google announced Google Wallet, an Android app that makes your phone your wallet and stores virtual
versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone and allows you pay via the NFC on the MasterCard paypass system. It offers coupons and security. It will be offered first on the Nexus S 4G.

Nokia Windows Phones Every 2-3 Months – Nokia EVP Jo Harlow,  said the Windows Phones by Nokia will be launched iin a rhythm that might be every couple of months, every three months, something like that.” Nokia Windows Phone will run Mango, the latest release of Windows Phone.

Sprint ID Soccer Futbol Packs in Fans - Sprint is the sponsor of 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament,
launched an integrated campaign “Control” that offers soccer fans total
access to the game they love. From the first game in Dallas on June 5 through to the finals at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. on June 25, soccer enthusiasts won’t miss a minute with the exclusive Lo2Yo Futbol Sprint ID pack

Shazam TV  – Shazam announced Shazam
for TV will feature programs this summer from Bravo, Oxygen and
Syfy. Shazamable programs will launch Memorial Day weekend with
new shows being added throughout the coming months.

Grand Prize Winner of T-Mobile Sidekick 4G by Samsung “Kick It with the Band -The top ranked T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Champion artist is 18-year-old Jake
Miller of Weston, FL. In addition to winning marketing budgets,
Samsung Mobile announced that Jake Miller and runner-up Thomas Fiss will
appear in special music videos Facebook fans can stay tuned in to the
site for more details.

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Full news stories today included wireless and app-propriate gifts for Mother’s Day, Motorola XPRT, HTC Bliss and Sony Xperia Play security.

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Motorola Headquarters in Libertyville in Pursuit of Investments - Motorola Mobility, Inc. (MMI) corporate headquarters will remain located in Libertyville, Illinois.  The state is providing a business investment package to leverage private investment and to help keep approximately 3,000 jobs in Illinois.

Meffy Deadline Extended to Tuesday, May 10 - There is very little time left to submit your entries for the eighth annual Meffys Awards.  Judged by leading journalists, analysts and VCs, the Meffys span the entire mobile content & commerce spectrum, from games and apps to technology innovation and ad campaigns.

Windows Phone Market Reopens for Business – Windows Phone Marketplace was closed for technical problems on Thursday and is now reopened for downloading.

Samsung Infuse Doesn’t Lock Out Non-Market Apps – Samsung announced yesterday that the Galaxy S: Samsung Infuse 4G will have a May 15 release date, has a new feature not seen previously on AT&T Android smartphones, and you can load non-Android Market apps.

Spring 2011 Tablet Season In Japan – Wireless Watch Japan reported that spring is busting out all over with tablets from Apple, Motorola, Sony and Toshiba in Japan.

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