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Qwest's bidding war with Verizon over MCI continues, with MCI agreeing to review a bid from Qwest of almost $9 billion. MCI Inc.'s move comes just days after it agreed to a takeover bid from Verizon Communications Inc. MCI in February agreed to a...

Nokia Corp. is in advanced discussions to purchase CDMA EV-DO phones from the phone-making subsidiary of Korean CDMA carrier SK Telecom, according to a report from Reuters. A Nokia spokesman said the company has made no such announcement and is "unable to comment on...

Consumers Union said Monday that customers considering a switch in wireless carriers should first consider Verizon Wireless and not consider Cingular Wireless L.L.C., due to the number of complaints the Federal Communications Commission received-288.9 Cingular complaints per 1 million subscribers."If you're considering a change...

Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. hopes to raise up to $690 million in an initial public offering, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company filed for the ticker symbol NSTR. NeuStar manages telephone area codes and numbers and enables the...

MCI Inc.'s board of directors elected to accept Verizon Communications Inc.'s increased bid for the business, again rejecting Qwest Communications International Inc.'s larger takeover offer. Verizon increased its bid for MCI by almost $1 billion and included a clause in the contract to protect...

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. and Korean carrier SK Telecom have finished forming their new mobile virtual network operator.The joint venture, called SK-EarthLink, plans to offer wireless voice and data services to U.S. consumers later this year. The operator will be fueled by $440...

WASHINGTON-The First Response Coalition-which came out against other public-safety organizations at the 11th hour last year in the fight to stop interference in the 800 MHz band-has re-emerged as a tax-exempt organization, this time fighting for more money for public-safety interoperability. "We see a...

MusiKube broke an almost year-long silence last week, resurfacing to launch a mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, called SongLink'd, a mobile user can play a tune directly into a phone and receive...

T-Mobile USA Inc. suspended sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 smart phone due to unexplained software bugs, a move that illustrates the extremely advanced levels of technology packed into high-end devices as well as the risks carriers face in selling them. Wireless stands...

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), an outspoken wireless consumer advocate in Congress, is pushing legislation that would require mobile-phone carriers to give subscribers the ability to make 911 emergency calls in underground subways.While wireless carriers have opposed Wiener's cell-phone consumer legislation in the past, some...

As a tower operator, Crown Castle International Inc. is venturing into a less familiar environment as an enabler of what may grow into a major application in the wireless industry: mobile television. By a stroke of good fortune, the company acquired a spectrum license...

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry increasingly finds itself like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, drawn into courts, public utility commissions and other bodies around the country to fight new state taxes, regulations and consumer lawsuits. The carriers' defiant defense in many...

For U.S. carriers, the race to deploy ringback tones is on. Ringbacks-the clips of music a caller hears instead of a traditional ring before the person being called answers the phone-began making headlines last year, when uptake exploded in some Far Eastern markets. Asian...

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. and Korean carrier SK Telecom have finalized the formation of their new mobile virtual network operator, the companies announced late Thursday. The joint venture, called SK-EarthLink, will offer wireless voice and data services to U.S. consumers later this year....

Following is a list of wireless companies whose ratings were either upgraded or downgraded by financial services firms this week.Standard & Poor's lowered its ratings on Triton PCS Inc. from B- to CCC+ with a negative outlook. S&P said the ratings change was prompted...

WASHINGTON-The First Response Coalition, which came out against other public-safety organizations at the 11th hour last year in the fight to stop interference in the 800 MHz band has re-emerged as a tax-exempt organization, this time fighting for more money for public-safety interoperability."We see...

Iridium Satellite L.L.C. announced it added push-to-talk services to its worldwide satellite-based network, allowing customers to deploy what the carrier calls "multi-user communication nets."Separately, Iridium announced it will sell a new data transceiver based on its Short Burst Data technology, which will support asset...

MusiKube re-appeared on the radar screen Tuesday, announcing the launch of a text-message mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, dubbed SongLink'd, mobile users can identify songs by playing tunes into the phone, and...

TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, or more than 3.4...

COLUMBIA, S.C.-Verizon Wireless said it is expanding its Columbia call center and will hire more than 250 new full-time employees in 2005. The center, located in the Richland Mall, will increase 27,000 square feet to 164,000 square feet.Construction is under way and is expected...

NEW ORLEANS-Verizon Wireless said it will offer its V-Cast subscribers 26 original mobisodes of the hit TV show "The Simple Life: Interns" starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The mobisodes will feature never-before-seen footage developed especially for V-Cast. Subscribers will pay $1 to download...

The mobile virtual network operator market welcomed back one of its early members last week as former Boost Mobile L.L.C. executive Peter Adderton announced plans for Amp'd Mobile Inc., a venture set to launch later this year. Adderton's non-compete clause with Nextel Communications Inc,...

NEW ORLEANS-Leap Wireless International Inc. continued its rapid evolution last week, signing a pair of deals with Verizon Wireless that will allow Leap to add nationwide roaming capabilities to its Cricket wireless offering and provide Verizon Wireless with another infusion of wireless spectrum. Leap...

NEW ORLEANS-Both Nortel Networks Ltd. and Motorola Inc. made infrastructure announcements at the CTIA Wireless 2005 show in New Orleans meant to increase Verizon Wireless' wireless-data capabilities. Nortel will begin live trials with Verizon Wireless next year on CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A technology,...