NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it received a $901 million tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service Tuesday. The payment included a refund of $816 million plus interest of $86 million. The refund was part of a previously announced agreement between Lucent and the IRS and was approved by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

Wireless carriers continue to struggle with service outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast region when it came ashore Monday morning. News reports indicate that wireless services are severed completely in many communities due to power outages caused by wind and flood damage. Updating its progress, Sprint Nextel Corp. said [...]

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. released its fiscal third-quarter results Tuesday, reporting net income of $23.9 million, or 20 cents per, a considerable increase from last year’s third-quarter net loss of $14.3 million, or 12 cents per share. However, the company’s outlook fell short of Wall Street expectations, causing its stock to drop 6 percent overnight from [...]

WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America said progress is being made unionizing Cingular Wireless L.L.C. ‘s workers in the South, particularly former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employees. Larry Cohen, chosen to succeed Morton Bahr as long-time president of CWA at the union’s annual convention in Chicago earlier this week, said Cingular Wireless agreed to honor its [...]

Music rights company Broadcast Music Inc. said it has acquired the music recognition technology from U.K. software developer Shazam Entertainment Ltd. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. BMI, which collects royalties for musicians and publishers, formed Landmark Digital Services, a subsidiary that will market song-identification services under the brand BlueArrow. The agreement transfers [...]

Electronics manufacturer Pantech announced it will bring its various mobile-phone operations closer together. The company said its mobile-phone affiliate Pantech Co. Ltd. will merge with its recently acquired SK Teletech Co. business. “With the completion of this merger, we will have moved one step closer to achieving our overarching goal of the group becoming one [...]

RARITAN, N.J.-Wireless data and content delivery will account for as much as 25 percent of overall wireless revenues in five years, generating $50 billion annually, according to a report from the Pelorus Group. The market research firm said mobile Web browsing and Internet connectivity services will explode from a $1 billion industry this year to [...]

IRVINE, Calif.-Las Vegas gamblers will be able to pay for parking using their mobile phones and credit cards under a new service from Reino Enforcement Technology and Peppercoin Inc. The service is currently available on 15 parking meters covering a total of 150 parking spots in Las Vegas. “Searching for change for parking meters and [...]

WASHINGTON-European researchers said a major study found consumers are not apt to have a nervous-system tumor known as acoustic neuroma develop during the first 10 years of mobile-phone use, but cautioned that an increased risk after longer use could not be ruled out. The study, said to be the largest investigation of the relationship between [...]

WASHINGTON-A privacy group petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to require mobile phone operators and other telecom carriers to better safeguard subscribers’ calling records. The Electronic Privacy Information Center said the FCC has focused to date on notice and disclosure requirements necessary to disseminate consumer proprietary network information, or CPNI, data to carrier affiliates and third [...]