Monthly Archives: May, 2004
WWW group, Internet inventor bash industry's plans for .mobi listing
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, has spoken out against the wireless industry's attempts to create a ".mobi" mobile-specific Internet...
T-Mobile takes Nevada, California from Cingular
Removing concern over its future network coverage, T-Mobile USA Inc. agreed last week to acquire Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s California and Nevada operations for $2.5...
E911 moves along with a third of sites Phase II enabled
DENVER and WASHINGTON-Arriving at the current state of post-deployed wireless enhanced 911 Phase II capabilities has been a feat in and of itself, but...
APCO endorses Media Bureau DTV plan
Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that...
Siemens to discontinue fashion phones
BERLIN-Siemens AG will discontinue its line of fashion-focused mobile phones sold under its Xelibri brand. Launched early last year, the line-up of phones included...
Calif. Senate passes ban on teens driving/talking on mobiles
WASHINGTON-A bill banning 16- and 17-year-olds from using mobile phones while driving passed the California Senate.The measure, sponsored by Sen. Debra Bowen (D), was...
Wine magazine to offer mobile info
MONTREAL, Canada-The wireless Web just got a little tastier.Wine magazine Wine Spectator announced a deal with wireless content company Airborne Entertainment to offer wine...
WLAN hardware sales up 2 percent in quarter
The worldwide wireless local area network hardware market in the first quarter of this year trumped the fourth quarter of 2003 by 2 percent,...
McDonald's and you
I was just out of college in 1993 when "Demolition Man" was released. Remember that movie? Set 40 years in the future, all personal...
Indian carrier Tata launches BREWChat service
SAN DIEGO-Indian carrier Tata Teleservices is the first operator to launch a push-to-talk service based on Qualcomm Inc.'s BREWChat solution.The technology enables person-to-person and...
W-CDMA rollouts rev up in Europe
Several third-generation commercial launches were announced in markets across Western Europe last week, with market leaders Vodafone Group plc, Telefonica Moviles and Telecom Italia...
Ericsson sells Mobitex division to U.K. investors
GOTHENBURG, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has sold its wireless data division known as Mobitex to a U.K. investment group. The major investors include two former executives...
Partners to pay Wayport fixed price for Wi-Fi access at McDonald's
Fresh on the heels of Cometa Networks Inc. shutting down its Wi-Fi service because investors couldn't find a way to make money from it,...
Wireless homeland security: Profits and pitfalls
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the subsequent creation of a still-evolving homeland security regime in the United States probably did more...
Shentel gets break on Sprint fees with deal
EDINBURG, Va.-Rural telecommunications provider Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. reported that its wireless subsidiary and Sprint PCS affiliate Shenandoah Personal Communications Co. signed an addendum to...
Potential problems cause Kyocera to recall batteries
Kyocera Wireless Corp. said it is recalling an additional 40,000 mobile-phone batteries because they are potentially faulty. The company said the situation stems from...
'Idol' sets new records in text messaging
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it recorded a total of 13.5 million text-message votes cast during the past season of reality TV show...
Cingular rolls forward with UMTS, Sprint considers 3G alternatives
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. used last week's Lehman Brothers 2004 Global Wireless financial conference to announce its UMTS rollout plans, while rival carrier Sprint Corp....
U.S. operators patiently watch camera-phone market develop
Camera phones are the most rapidly accepted consumer electronics device in history. Yet it appears that wireless carriers-a group many assumed would reap the...
Motorola cross-technology offering allows 'global PTT'
Motorola Inc. has unveiled what it describes as the first cross-technology Push-to-Talk over Cellular solution rooted in wireless networks. The announcement comes against the...
Wireless decries CPUC approval of bill of rights
WASHINGTON-Harsh political and industry criticism of the California Public Utilities Commission's bill of rights for telecom consumers likely signals the controversy will carry over...
Sprint alters PTT price, adds phone
Bolstering its Ready Link walkie-talkie offering, Sprint PCS launched its fifth Sanyo handset for the service, which the carrier said now includes more than...
Sweden's Avitec acquires Littlefeet assets
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Repeater manufacturer Avitec S.E. has acquired the technology assets of Littlefeet Inc., the provider of distributed coverage solutions for wireless carriers that went...
Stevens may tack E911 funding measure to 3G bill
WASHINGTON-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) wants excess revenue from a future third-generation mobile-phone auction to help fund deployment of enhanced 911 service,...
Extreme makeover
At this writing, I haven't a clue which bill of rights the California Public Utilities Commission will embrace or what plan the Federal Commissions...