SARASOTA, Fla.-Global Signal Inc. blames its fourth-quarter net losses of $18.8 million on costs from integrating and financing the sites it acquired from Sprint Corp. in May 2005. In 2004, the company posted fourth-quarter net losses of $4.1 million. “2005 was a transformational year for Global Signal,” stated Wesley Edens, chairman, president and chief executive [...]

WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its push into the wireless local area network space with the launch of its BlackBerry WLAN Solution. The service includes a WLAN Solution platform and a Wi-Fi enabled handset, the BlackBerry 7270. The company’s WLAN offering is aimed at enterprise campuses with existing WLAN and IP-PBX infrastructure, a market [...]

BERWYN, Pa.-Regional operator SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. pushed back its fourth-quarter and full-year 2005 financial report by two weeks. The company had been slated to make its results public on March 2, but now says it plans to make its announcement on March 16 before the market opens. Steve Somers, director of investor relations for [...]

WASHINGTON-The New Jersey Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation to crack down on drivers already subject to a statewide ban on handheld cell-phone use by operators of motor vehicles. The state Senate passed 35-to-0 a bill that would make a violation of the existing driver handheld prohibition a primary offense rather than a secondary office. The bill [...]

BOSTON-Citing accounting changes and an increase in outstanding shares, American Tower Corp. posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $87.3 million on revenues of $307.6 million. For the same period in 2004, the nation’s largest tower owner and operator reported a loss of $74 million on revenues of $184.7 million. The company said its 67-percent increase [...]

T-Mobile USA Inc. recorded a banner 2005 and posted the best overall performance of T-Mobile International’s wireless subsidiaries, while parent company Deutsche Telekom AG’s full-year profit for the year showed solid gains and the company declared its largest ever dividend. However, DT’s fourth-quarter profits plunged 43 percent compared to the same quarter in 2004. Some [...]

WASHINGTON—Consumer advocates asked the Justice Department to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed $67 billion acquisition of fellow Baby Bell BellSouth Corp., while organized labor described the deal as a “critical opportunity.” AT&T and BellSouth also control the country’s largest wireless operator Cingular Wireless L.L.C. “Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless ‘competition’ [...]

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it expects to file a $48 billion charge to its assets related to the value of goodwill, or the difference between an asset’s value and how much the company paid for it. Most of the goodwill charge is expected to be attributable to Vodafone Germany; Vodafone acquired German telecom operator Mannesmann [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it signed an agreement with WorldCell Inc. to expands international service options for Dobson wireless customers. The companies said the agreement provides Dobson’s subscribers with discounts on international phone rentals, including cellular and satellite phones. Dobson currently offers domestic TDMA and GSM services.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. presented six new handsets including the K800, a high-resolution camera phone that carries Sony Corp.’s CyberShot brand, an extension of the company’s own brand for its digital cameras. Sony Ericsson is a joint venture between Swedish technology company L.M. Ericsson and Japanese electronics company Sony. The K800, a UMTS phone, [...]