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Cricket’s Muve Music expands its catalog with 2 million songs from TuneCore
Cricket has teamed-up with TuneCore, which is the largest distributor of digital music with “one of the highest revenue-generating music catalogs in the world.” As a result, Muve Music‘s library will be increased by up to 2 million tracks, while TuneCore artists will get access to over 600,000 Muve Music customers. Under the deal, Cricket will obtain the rights to both the recordings and songs represented by TuneCore and will pay royalties directly to TuneCore, providing artists and song writers with an “efficient, transparent and timely royalty collection system.” Not … Read more
Dusan Belic
ZTE Nova 4.0 V8000: An Android 4.0 smartphone coming to Cricket this summer
Cricket Wireless, one of America’s smaller wireless operators, will be releasing an Android 4.0 powered ZTE smartphone this summer called the Nova 4.0 V8000. We seriously hope that name gets changed. Anyway, what’s under the hood of this thing? There’s a 1.4 GHz single core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1 GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel camera, a 4 inch 800 x 480 pixel display, and a pretty massive 1,900 mAh battery. No word on pricing, but the folks at PhoneArena think it’ll come in at under $300 unsubsidized. What else … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
FCC gives carriers $300 million to roll out 3G and 4G in rural areas
The FCC is getting serious about providing high-speed mobile broadband connections to rural areas. The agency has begun accepting bids to bring 3G and 4G services to parts of the country that have been ignored by major carriers, and is offering as much as $300 million to assist in the development costs of these networks. To provide a picture of the types of areas that would be impacted by such a move, the FCC has released a Phase 1 eligibility map that shows locations currently in the dark, which you … Read more
Anthony Domanico
Cricket’s Muve Music now available in Target stores
Cricket Communications scored a new distribution partner – Target, which has started offering the carrier’s Muve Music devices in 1,600 of its stores across the country. Among the devices on spot at Target stores are two Android smartphones – Samsung Vitality, available for $99.99; and ZTE Score, which could be yours for $69.99. Of course, you’ll also need to sign-p for a compatible plan – Muve Music, offering unlimited song downloads, ringtones, and ringback tones, as well as nationwide calling; unlimited text, picture, video messaging and 3G mobile data; mobile … Read more
Dusan Belic
Analyst: smaller carriers to grab 19 percent of smartphone sales by 2016
Are smaller carriers on the rise? One analyst seems to think so. Iain Gillott is the president and founder of iGR, a mobile industry consultancy group, and a study from his firm suggests that smaller carriers will make key gains in the mobile industry over the next few years. Regional carriers such as U.S. Cellular, MetroPCS, Leap Wireless, nTelos, and others currently represent less than 10% of U.S. smartphone sales. According to Gillott, as consumer demand for smartphones increases, the number of smartphone owners on these smaller second-tier networks will … Read more
Anthony Domanico
Cricket’s Huawei Mercury now a Muve Music-compatible device
Cricket is expanding its Muve Music offering to an additional device – Huawei Mercury, which rest of the world knows as Huawei Honor. Existing users can get service via over-the-air update, whereas new customers will get the same treatment in the near future. If you’ve been living under a rock, you should know Muve Music is the first unlimited music service to be included as part of a wireless rate plan. Aside from all the music you can get, it also comes with nationwide calling; unlimited text, picture, video messaging … Read more