
Biography for Jason Ankeny
Jason Ankeny is the executive editor of FierceMobileContent and FierceDeveloper as well as a regular contributor to Entrepreneur magazine and the website All Music Guide. He previously served as senior editor of Telephony and its sister publication Wireless Review--additional credits include efforts for publications including Rolling Stone, Wax Poetics and No Depression along with liner notes for a number of album releases. He lives in Chicago and may be reached via email at jankeny@fiercemarkets.com.
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AT&T announced it will acquire regional provider Centennial Communications for $944 million in cash. Centennial brings with it 1.1 million subscribers, the majority of them in rural
Mobile entertainment firm Zed announced an agreement with Alltel Wireless to launch the RealTone JukeBox VIP Club, an exclusive subscription-based application featuring ringtones and related offers
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survey conducted by the Association of National Advertisers, and
Sprint Nextel posted third-quarter losses of $326 million as subscribers continued to flee the operator in droves. Revenue fell 12 percent to $8.82 billion, down from $10.04 billion a year ago.
A much-
rumored mobile search partnership pairing Verizon Wireless and Google is in jeopardy after the web services giant's chief rival Microsoft reportedly pitched a sweeter deal to the mobile
EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding on boosting Europe's mobile broadcast fortunes.
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