U.S. Cellular Reports First Quarter 2011 Results

1Q 2011 Highlights

* A net loss of 31,000 retail customers, reflecting a loss of 22,000 postpaid customers and 9,000 prepaid customers; postpaid customers comprised 95 percent of retail customers.

* Service revenues were $985.1 1000000, up 2.1 percent.

* Postpaid ARPU (norm gross per whole) increased to $51.21 from $50.70.

* Postpaid butter churn improved to 1.37 percentage from 1.41 percentage.

* 5 percentage increase in cell sites in service to 7,663.

* Repurchased 357,021 common shares for $17.4 million.

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RadioShack Introduces Windows Phone 7 With Three New Devices

RadioShack® is adding Microsoft’s new mobile operating organization, Windows® Phone 7, to its nationwide portfolio of leadership smartphones this week. The Shack® is introducing terzetto new phones featuring Windows Phone 7:

* Samsung Focus™ from AT&T, available now in stores or via Direct2U, boasts a brilliant 4-inch Super-AMOLED touch screen, a 5-megapixel camera and 8GB of storage for $199.99 (passing new or upgrading customers, with two-year contract).

* HTC HD7™ from T-Mobile, now available in stores or via

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Novatel Wireless Demonstrates MiFi

Novatel Wireless, Inc., a leadership supplier of wireless broadband approach solutions, today demonstrated its MiFi® 2372 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot for the mobile professional at CTIA Enterprise and Applications, 2010. The MiFi 2372 showcased is pre-loaded with the new MiFi® OS and applications aiming to help businesses benefit from secure mobile broadband and providing access to information and resources anytime, any situation.

Novatel Wireless MiFi OS supports a flexible exercise set of applications on a engineering doubter platforms

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Orange Rolls Out Interactive Mobile Advertising Services in a European First

Orange River today announces it volition roll-out interactive SMS and MMS advertising across its European footmark in 2010. Following the launching of ad-supported tariffs and interactive mobile publicizing in the UK, Orange River is making this a European first, bringing interactive SMS and MMS advertising into new markets and tailoring offers locally to give advertisers new and targeted shipway to engage with customers.

Saul of Tarsus Francois Fournier, Executive frailty prexy in charge of audience and advertising

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Verizon Wireless Location-Enabled Mobile River Broadband Devices Broaden Global Positioning System Capabilities for the Enterprise

Verizon Wireless today announced that businesses can now manipulation select Mobile Broadband PC card game and USB modems with a diverseness of third base-party Location Based Services (LBS) applications for navigation, in-vehicle trailing, geo-fencing and more. Location-Enabled Mobile River Broadband uses the gimmick’s built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to enable portable computing devices, such as laptops, to communicate relevant location selective information directly to the drug user or business.

“Enabling LBS on our Mobile Broadband devices

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Kroger Shoppers Earn Free Wireless Just for Shopping

The Kroger Co. announced a first base of its kind loyalty program that rewards frequent shoppers with free people wireless overhaul exploitation the company’s own radio earphone overhaul, branded i-radio. The FREE MINUTES rewards programme enables customers to earn free airtime on their i-wireless earphone when they leverage groceries at the Kroger family of stores. i-radio is exclusively available in more than 2,200 Kroger-owned stores nationwide.

In a marketplace that is seeing a rapid switch in requirement

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Verizon Wireless Announces the Availability of the Samsung Omnia II

Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications U.S. (Samsung Mobile River) today announced the handiness of the Samsung Omnia® II(TM), a full-touching all-in-single smartphone powered by Windows Mobile® 6.5 to hold customers connected to their corporate and personal e-chain armour accounts and synchronized with their schedules and contacts.

Francis Scott Key features:

* 3.7-inch ultra-brilliant touch screen

o Widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Inner Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen results in one of the brightest

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Verizon Wireless Announces The Availability Of The Samsung Omnia II

Available from Dec 2nd next calendar month, the Samsung Omnia II in CDMA variant volition be offered by Verizon Wireless with a price of $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rabbet and two-year service agreement. The CDMA version does not have much differences except some button design variety. It also comes with a 3.7-in WVGA touching screen, wireless local area network, Bluetooth and TouchWiz UI.

Key features:

* 3.7-in ultra-brilliant touch screen o Widescreen WVGA

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AirSage Teams Up With Verizon Wireless To Provide Real-Time Traffic Data Across The U.S.

Verizon Wireless and AirSage, a worldly concern leader in exploitation wireless signal information for value added applications such as traffic selective information, predictive analytics and fix services, have entered into an agreement where non-identifying information from Verizon Wireless’ network will be used to aid AirSage provide real number-meter traffic selective information.

Signaling data from manipulation on Verizon Wireless’ meshwork volition be made anonymous and integrated into AirSage’s patented Wireless Signal Extraction (WiSE™) Technology platform, helping AirSage solidify

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Nokia Announces Finalists in 2009 “Calling All Innovators” Global Developer Competition

Forum Nokia Developer Community (FNDC) today announced the finalists in its 2009 Calling All Innovators contest, a global mobile developer competition designed to generate applications and solutions that enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real number-world scenarios.

The sum immediate payment and prizes for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest are worth more than $250,000. The circus tent three submissions in each class will receive a cash awarding, and prizes that include bounty positioning featuring

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