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VZW, Sprint: Please don’t ban EVDO phones

Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel appeared before the International Trade Commission yesterday to ask the panel not to ban EVDO handsets as a remedy to the ongoing patent dispute between Qualcomm and Broadcom. Verizon Wireless attorney Mark Hansen said the two chipset rivals are using patent law to “club” each other. Verizon Wireless’ marketing director Rosemary Garavaglia also pointed out that Blackberrys cost two to three times more than the regular EVDO handsets that would be excluded from the U.S. under the proposed ban, and other QWERTY alternatives are too complicated for most users, she argued.

Sprint Nextel representatives echoed Verizon Wireless’ remarks and claimed that such a ban would cost the wireless industry millions or billions of dollars, raise cell phone prices for consumers and undermine public safety. Five public service agencies also appeared before the ITC and argued that the ban would deprive emergency personnel of devices that could transmit pictures and other data during an emergency and enable paramedics to reach a heart attack victim quicker.

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In a preliminary victory for Palm, a federal judge halted proceedings Thursday related to a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by NTP.

First it was Sprint Nextel, then Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless: Now T-Mobile USA has joined the pack by raising individual SMS prices from 10 cents to 15 cents, effective June 1. Messaging has long been the cash cow for the big carriers so a 150 percent raise in fees should have some effect on their ARPU, but the stated goal is to move more subscribers into plans with buckets of text messages. Unlike its larger rivals, however, T-Mobile USA did not raise the price of its MMS messages, but rather decreased the 25 cent fee to 15 cents per message. No word on whether the change in fees constitute a material change to their subscribers’ existing contracts, and whether it would allow them to opt-out without having to pay an early termination fee.

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Judge halts patent case against Palm

In a preliminary victory for Palm, a federal judge halted proceedings Thursday related to a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by NTP.

The ruling, handed down by Judge James R. Spencer of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, essentially means Palm can continue to sell products in question–the line of Treo smart phones, the Palm VII, Palm i700 and Palm Tungsten–at least until the U.S. Patent and Trademark (PTO) rules on whether they infringe on wireless e-mail patents held by NTP. All additional discovery, motions and depositions were also halted until the PTO rules on the validity of NTP’s patents.

Palm originally filed its motion to stay the proceedings on January 31.

“We are extremely pleased with the court’s decision to grant a stay. We hope and expect that the PTO’s review of NTP’s patents will confirm the decision of the examiners to reject them all and so avert the need for further litigation of this matter,” said Mary Doyle, Palm’s senior vice president and general counsel, in a statement.

NTP declined to say whether it plans to appeal the ruling, but released a statement saying “NTP’s patents remain fully enforceable. The ongoing reexamination by the (PTO) is one step in a process that could end in the federal court system, including the Court of Appeals, which previously upheld NTP’s patents.”

NTP, formed to pursue intellectual-property cases involving patents held by the late Thomas Campana for a wireless e-mail system, initially filed its lawsuit against Palm in November 2006. The company settled a patent-infringement case with RIM in early 2006 for $612.5 million.

The court’s ruling coincided with Palm’s quarterly earnings announcement Thursday, in which revenues and Treo sales were up, but earnings lower.

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Yahoo to run on millions of Windows Mobile phones

Yahoo has added mobile phones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software to a growing list of handsets from device makers that feature its services on their phone screens.

Marking progress in its drive to make Web services widely available not just only computers but phones, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said the Windows Mobile push will expand its base of mobile Internet users by millions.

Yahoo said Tuesday it had agreed to partner with Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC), the world’s leading maker of mobile phones running on Windows Mobile software, to place Yahoo on virtually all recent and new models HTC makes.

“Windows Mobile phone users tend to be consumers who are relatively data savvy,” Ojas Rege, senior director of Yahoo’s mobile phone business, said in an interview. “They are a pretty attractive group of users both from the standpoint of being early adopters of new services and in terms of advertising demographics.”

Earlier this year, Yahoo said it had signed deals with four of the top five mobile handset makers in the world: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG Electronics.

The deals allow Yahoo to give consumers one-click access to mobile phone services ranging from Web search, e-mail, maps and local information to Flickr photo-sharing, in a bid make the Web as easy to use on-the-go as it is sitting at a computer.

Measured in the number of high-profile deals, Yahoo appears to have gotten a temporary jump on rival Google in staking out a leading position on mobile phone devices.

In total, the company has agreement to run its Yahoo Go service on more than 175 different mobile phone models, including more than 100 models available today.

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Samsung: We will improve SMS

It’s no secret that SMS is still the data cash cow for carriers in the U.S., but Samsung thinks it could use some improving. Samsung recently filed a patent for an SMS interface that would push aside T9 and Motorola’s iTap to create a Gmail-like threaded conversation set-up. Rumor has it that Samsung may have this new interface on its phone very soon–we’ll keep a look out for it at CTIA next week.

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Nat’l Geographic’s mobile service for travelers

The latest entrant into the branded wireless service sector or MVNO space is National Geographic Society with its Talk Abroad Travel Phone service for world travelers.

The prepaid service allows users to buy or rent a phone and then pay in advance for minutes that work in more than 100 countries. Users are equipped with a UK-based number, a special SIM card and a phone if they don’t already have a GSM phone. Playa del Rey, California-based Cellular Abroad is the MVNE or manager of the service and it brokered “several hundred” deals with carriers around the world. Cellular Abroad will sell the service through its website, but it hopes to expand to electronic boutiques and mail catalogs. (Always the trouble for MVNOs, how to reach the potential subscribers.)

The specially branded National Geographic phone, made by Swiss-based WP Phones, retails for $199. U.S. customers can rent the phone for $49 for one week or $129 for two months. Within 65 of the 105 countries, incoming calls are free, while rates for outgoing calls start at 90 cents a minute and climb to as high as $2.70 in remote regions.

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