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▼ ▼ WIRELESS NEWS LG Viewty is First Mobile Phone to Enable to Record Video in DivX Format ean Lock oto.com/S w.istockph LG Electronics, Inc. and DivX, Inc. announced on February 11 that the LG Viewty camera phone is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX® format. The LG Viewty enables consumers to capture high-resolution video, comparable in quality to what they would expect from a video camera, on their mobile phones, DivX videos recorded through the LG Viewty can be uploaded to online video sites or can be played back on any DivX Certified® consumer electronics device, including DVD players, gaming consoles and portable media players. People: Ogle Makes the Calls for Samsung e ©ww Travelocity Launches iPhone, iTouch Mobile Application Travelocity has introduced a web application that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to manage their Travelocity itineraries by getting up-to-the-minute information on flight status, TSA security point wait times, local weather, maps, traffic and airport driving directions via Safari browser. The application is available immediately to iPhone and iPod touch users via Safari browser at http://iphone.travelocity.com or via Apple’s web apps site at www.apple.com/webapps/. Sprint Nextel Announces Consolidation of Corporate Headquarters in Kansas Bill Ogle became CMO at Samsung Telecommunications in October and entered a fray very similar to what he had dealt with in his 12 years as chief marketer at Pizza Hut. In both cases, consumers have well established brand loyalties. Ogle’s aim is to market phones as a fashion accessory in a campaign that will break in the second quarter. “The cell phone is a design piece, it is something that people judge you on,” Ogle said. “It says something about you as a person, and there are so many styles and functions that can define both you and the phone.” FCC OKs T-Mobile’s Buy of SunCom Wireless Sprint Nextel announced the company will bring together its operational headquarters and corporate headquarters, previously at Overland Park, Kan., and Reston, Va. respectively, to one location, the Sprint Nextel campus in Overland Park. Reston had served as the company’s corporate headquarters since the merger of Sprint and Nextel in 2005. The consolidation of the dual headquarters will require the relocation of only a small number of executives. This consolidation of the headquarters locations will also reduce travel expenses and optimize real estate assets, the company said. The company currently employs about 4,400 associates in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and about 13,300 associates in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Federal Communications Commission Monday approved a deal in which Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile unit acquires SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. for $2.4 billion. The agency didn’t attach any conditions to the deal, breaking a recent trend of the agency’s Chairman Kevin Martin in approving wireless company mergers with substantial conditions. This was the case both in approval for the deal taking Alltel Corp. private by two private equity houses and for AT&T Inc.’s acquisition of Dobson Communications. In both of those situations, AT&T and Alltel had to accept a cap on the subsidies they received from the universal service fund, a taxpayer-supported fund that subsidizes the costs of building telecommunications infrastructure. T-Mobile’s deal, on the other hand, was approved without that condition. WIRELESS W ir e l e s s W a v e 44 http://www.istockphoto.com/Sean http://iphone.travelocity.com http://www.apple.com/webapps/

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Wireless Wave - Spring 2008 Contents A Letter from Our Chairman A Letter from Our President Pryor Approval The Promise of M-commerce Moving Targets Foreign Service Multiple Choice Legs, Regs, and Wireless Wireless News The Supplier’s Voice CTIA Welcomes New Members Index of Advertisers Roaming with….

Wireless Wave - Spring 2008

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