Reps from Cingular Wireless and Sprint Nextel declined to comment about possible YouTube deals.
Cingular Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, may be of noble extraction--yet it has a complicated parentage.
At Cingular Wireless, a national mobile operator, network call traffic surged to 400 percent of its normal level from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
If Google has phone aspirations, then Chairman Schmidt's seat on Apple's board gives him a peek into the operations of Apple's new phone partner, Cingular Wireless.
Yet here is little Rearden Commerce with a companywide deal with Motorola, as well as three- to five-year contracts with Warner Music, Cingular Wireless and Whirlpool Corp.
It strives for a balance of guys and gals and offsets the costs through subscriptions, admission fees and sponsors, such as Cingular Wireless and Original Sin Hard Cider.
RadioShack is one of the major distributors for Cingular Wireless, though it's unlikely that the association with Cingular, Apple's iPhone partner, will get RadioShack in on the iPhone launch.
"With Cingular Video, consumers on the go can quickly and easily get the latest news and entertainment video clips anytime they want, " said Ralph de la Vega , chief operating officer of Cingular Wireless.
The criminal underworld and inter-generational conflict of The Sopranos is to be beamed to mobile phones, following Cingular Wireless ' announcement Thursday that it has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with premium cable TV network HBO to send video clips of hit television shows to mobile phones.
While AOL offers its services and instant messaging to several mobile carriers and PDA platforms, it's only company-led foray into wireless Internet is through its Mobile Communicator product: a Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) Blackberry, running on Cingular Wireless ' network, that has e-mail and instant messenger.
That will put it close behind No. 1 Cingular Wireless --a joint venture between SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) and BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people )--and No. 2 Verizon Wireless --a joint venture of Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ) and Vodafone Group (nyse: VOD - news - people ).
And they will be offered in channels where Apple has no presence today, such as the storefronts of Verizon Wireless, Cingular, and other carriers, which could expand the market.
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Published reports say that Apple and Motorola will announce an agreement with wireless carrier Cingular, a joint venture between BellSouth and SBC Communications, and will introduce the phone that day.
InPhonic, of course, also operates its own site, Wirefly.com, which provides consumers with a one-stop online shop to compare wireless plans from service providers such as Verizon Wireless, Cingular and Sprint Nextel.
And yesterday, in an attempt to claw back ground from Verizon Communication's joint wireless venture with Vodafone and Sprint Nextel, Cingular yesterday launched BroadbandConnect--its own high-speed wireless Internet service--in 16 markets.
Same-store sales dropped 9.2% from the same quarter a year ago, as ongoing weakness in wireless services dating to a 15-month old struggle in a transition to Cingular from Verizon led to a 25% decline in sales of wireless handsets.
Sigman 's Cingular, the biggest U.S. wireless firm, was first in the U.S. to sell popular phones such as Motorola's Razr, it's lagging rivals such as Verizon Communications and Sprint Nextel in its plans to build its high-speed network.
The cable industry is aggressively competing with the parent companies of Verizon Wireless-- Verizon Communications and Vodafone--and Cingular--SBC Communications and BellSouth--and it's tough to imagine a tie-up between them.
Leader Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, number two Cingular is an SBC-BellSouth collaboration and number four Sprint PCS is a tracking stock of Sprint.
The announced plan to shut down underperforming stores follows a late-2005 effort to jump start wireless phone sales by dumping Verizon Communications and signing with Sprint Nextel and Cingular .
Same-store sales dropped 9.2% from the same quarter a year ago, as ongoing weakness in wireless services dating to a 15-month old struggle in a transition to Cingular from Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) led to a 25% decline in sales of wireless handsets.
By offering the iTunes phone, Cingular, the United States' largest carrier, is demonstrating a philosophical difference with Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless--a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone--which are planning their own music services.
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