WDIG Mobile, LLC — "WDIG" stands for Walt Disney Internet Group — was a Disney-affiliated entity tied to The Walt Disney Company's mobile business. It was not a standalone public company; it operated within Disney's corporate family (The Walt Disney Company, NYSE: DIS) and listed Disney's Burbank headquarters at 500 South Buena Vista Street as its regulatory contact address in a January 2006 Florida Public Service Commission filing, where it notified the state it would offer resold wireless service. Its specific formation date and employee count are not disclosed in public sources, and Disney does not break out the unit's financials.
Operations. WDIG Mobile, LLC was the carrier-of-record entity behind Disney Mobile, the family-targeted US mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that ran on Sprint Nextel's network. The service launched in June 2006 and resold wireless voice/data with its "Family Center" suite: parental spending and usage caps, time-of-day restrictions, number whitelisting, and GPS handset location. Handsets were supplied by LG Electronics (DM-L200/L210) and Pantech (DM-P100/P205). Disney announced on September 27, 2007 that it would shut the MVNO down by year-end, citing MVNO economics; the broader Walt Disney Internet Group (North Hollywood, CA) handled Disney's mobile content, games, and Disney.com/Movies.com properties and was folded into the Disney Interactive Media Group in 2008.
Litigation posture. The case data show 1 tracked case, 0 as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — the profile of an operating-company-side defendant, not an assertion entity. There is no evidence WDIG Mobile, LLC ever asserted patents.
Notable case. Triune Star, Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company et al., filed 2007-09-28 in the Central District of Illinois, Peoria Office. Triune alleged that Disney, Disney Mobile/WDIG Mobile, Pantech and LG infringed US 6,122,521 ("Telecommunications Locating System") via camera cellphones sold for the Disney Mobile service. The Walt Disney Company was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction; on November 25, 2008 the court granted summary judgment of non-infringement for the remaining defendants and addressed Rule 11 sanctions motions. This was a Peoria-filed suit, not an Eastern District of Texas case.