Yearly Archives: 2004

Customer satisfaction sometimes fleeting

Colorado Mills is one of Denver's newest suburban malls. The warm, well-lit corridors are lined with like likes of Gap, Target, K-B Toys, Chili's...

Report: Liberty Media, Global Signal actively bidding for Sprint towers

NEW YORK-The stakes for Sprint Corp.'s 6,500 cell-phone towers rose as at least four bidders have offered proposals to buy them in an auction...

Business Briefs

L.M. Ericsson said it has won a $370 million contract extension with third-generation wireless carrier 3 to supply core, radio and transmission equipment and...

Startup firm that re-routes wireless calls faces chilly reception from operators

Startup Xcelis Communications L.L.C. last week introduced a service that essentially re-routes Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s in-network calls to numbers outside the carrier's network. The...

Sprint PCS gets ETC status for New York, some southern states

WASHINGTON-Sprint PCS was granted eligible telecommunications carrier status for parts of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, making it able...

Nokia touts first ‘massively multiplayer online’ game

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. expanded the offerings for its N-Gage device with the launch of a new multiplayer title. According to the handset manufacturer, "Pocket...

NEC looks to develop dual-mode W-CDMA/GSM chipsets

TOKYO-NEC Electronic Corp. wants to make chips off its old block. The semiconductor unit of NEC Corp. said it will work together with its...

CellStar completes sale of Singapore business

CARROLLTON, Texas-Handset distribution company CellStar Corp. said it completed the sale of its Singapore business to a local group of investors. The company said...

8.5M customers switch during first year of LNP

It has been one year since the Federal Communications Commission ordered carriers to allow customers to churn and take their phone numbers with them.The...

Seven withdraws from IPO market

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless e-mail company Seven pulled its plans for an initial public offering, but said it plans to hold an IPO at an...

FCC can’t limit USF funds to primary line

WASHINGTON-Wireless and wireline carriers serving rural America hailed congressional passage of a measure that prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from restricting universal-service subsidies to...

Nokia readies iPod-style device

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. appears to be readying a new iPod-style device designed to play digital music, according to detailed documents posted on the Internet....

Alamosa takes AirGate bid to public

Fed up with what it said were sluggish negotiations, Sprint network affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. took its bid to merge with fellow affiliate AirGate...

Survey says: Carriers lose $3B a year from poor communication

Customer confusion over wireless rate plans and services is costing wireless operators $3 billion per year due to increasing customer churn and harmed brand...

People

Bayly Communications Inc. named Fernando Anaya as its sales representative for Latin America. Most recently, Anaya was sales manager for Motorola Inc. in Mexico,...

Leap reports rise in revenue, but drop in customers

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reported $205.7 million in revenues during the third quarter of this year, which was a 6.7-percent improvement compared with...

Blurring business lines

Wireless connectivity is coming to the enterprise, either with the enterprise's tacit approval or without it. Research In Motion Ltd. announced earlier this month...

ATG battle revisits familiar issues

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is abuzz these days with a new debate that seems to bring two familiar issues-competition and spectrum management-to the table...

Nokia to embed Oz IM client in more handsets

Mobile instant messaging is expected to take another step forward this week with an announcement that Nokia Corp. will expand its offerings of IM-friendly...

SBC expands Wi-Fi network

SAN ANTONIO-Telecom company SBC Communications Inc. will offer Wi-Fi service at Barnes & Noble bookstores and Avis Rent-A-Car locations, the company said in separate...

8.5M customers switch during first year of LNP

WASHINGTON-It has been one year since the Federal Communications Commission ordered carriers to allow customers to churn and take their phone numbers with them....

EWan 1 scores funding for L.A. Wi-Fi network

SANTA ANA, Calif.-Set-top box company eWan 1 Inc. said it scored funding to build a hybrid Wi-Fi/WiMAX network to cover the Los Angeles basin,...

M1 begins 3G trial with data cards

SINGAPORE-MobileOne, a Singaporean wireless carrier, said it will begin a one-month third-generation trial Thursday using data cards and involving mainly corporate customers.A second-phase trial,...

CellStar completes sale of Singapore business

CARROLLTON, Texas-Handset distribution company CellStar Corp. said it completed the sale of its Singapore business to a local group of investors. The company said...

CoreMedia to supply DRM for Vodafone’s 3G service

HAMBURG, Germany-CoreMedia will provide digital rights management technology for Vodafone Group plc's new third-generation data offerings, the companies announced.CoreMedia's infrastructure, which was developed in...
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