Yearly Archives: 2004

3 U.K. rocks on with first wireless concert

LONDON-Rock band Rooster has made history with the first live concert in the United Kingdom to be broadcast live via mobile phone. A 45-minute...

Triton PCS announces $250M loan

BERWYN, Pa.-Former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Inc. reported that it intends to enter into a $250 million senior secured term loan...

Western Wireless delays 3Q filings

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it was delaying the release of its third-quarter financial results until Nov. 8 after determining that the accounting for...

CTIA officially changes name

CTIA-The Wireless Association has formally adopted the aforementioned moniker as its new federally registered name. The association said its board of directors approved the...

Asian wireless carriers join forces through regional alliance

SINGAPORE-Following their European counterparts, seven Asia-Pacific mobile operators signed an agreement to form a regional mobile alliance, called Bridge Mobile Alliance, which will operate...

Industry next week to ask court to dismiss brain-cancer suits

WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone industry lawyers said they intend to ask a court here next week to dismiss six brain-cancer suits on federal pre-emption grounds.In July, U.S....

Election results mean likely departure of Adelstein from FCC

WASHINGTON-The Republicans' ability to retain control of the White House and Congress in Tuesday's elections will nonetheless prompt changes at the GOP-led Federal Communications...

High churn hits Cincinnati Bell 3Q results

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless said it lost 15,000 subscribers during the third quarter as higher-than-expected postpaid customer churn of 3.68 percent offset a 16-percent year-over-year...

Nortel completes transfer of some assets to Flextronics

TORONTO-Nortel Networks said it has completed the scheduled transfer of certain optical design operations and related assets in Ottawa and Monkstown, Northern Ireland, to...

Vodacom to offer 3G services in South Africa

LONDON-South African wireless carrier Vodacom intends to be the first African carrier to offer third-generation services through a deal announced Wednesday with Vodafone Group...

Napster goes mobile with AWS service

LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which last week was acquired by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., is taking Napster mobile.The Internet music vendor is introducing Napster...

Virgin Mobile USA deploys Starent gateway

TEWKSBURY, Mass.-Starent Networks Corp. said Virgin Mobile USA has chosen its data access gateway for enhanced data and content-based billing. The product, known as...

Nokia trials NFC technology for wireless ticketing

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp., Royal Philips Electronics and Rhein-Main Verkehrsverbund have come together to trial a Near Field Communication solution to allow users to...

PalmSource names Gassee chairman

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-PalmSource Inc. has elevated Jean-Louis Gassee to the position of chairman of its board of directors. This follows the resignation of the former...

Nokia extends messaging options in handsets

Nokia Corp. said deals with Visto Corp. and Good Technology Inc. to expand the messaging options on its handsets. Nokia has a similar agreement...

Friends? Verizon Wireless, Nextel call a truce

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc. have buried the hatchet. The companies have agreed to drop their lawsuits against each other. The agreement includes...

BearingPoint wins govt. contract to test RFID for passports

WASHINGTON-BearingPoint Inc., a top business consulting and systems integration firms, said it is one of four firms companies awarded a contract by the Government...

UTStarcom finalizes Audiovox handset division buy

ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom announced it finalized its $165 million acquisition of some assets of Audiovox Corp.'s mobile handset division.UTStarcom, which supplies wireless and wire-line switching...

Ericsson to expand 1x network in India

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will expand its CDMA2000 1x contract with India's Tata Teleservices in 12 new circles. The Swedish vendor currently provides...

Judge approves AWS class-action settlement

WASHINGTON-A Colorado judge approved a multimillion-dollar settlement of a class-action billing suit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which last week Cingular Wireless L.L.C. acquired...

Hertz to offer Wayport Wi-Fi service, directions

Wireless and wired neutral host broadband service provider Wayport Inc. said it has reached a preliminary agreement with Hertz Corp. to provide high-speed Internet...

Crown Castle partners with Nokia on wireless digital TV

Nokia Corp. and U.S. tower firm Crown Castle International Corp. have partnered to bring video services to U.S. mobile users, the companies said Tuesday....

Canadian carrier offers music-recognition service

MONTREAL-Fido jumped into the mobile music-recognition game Tuesday with "Name That Tune," an application that can identify nearly 2 million songs though handsets. Through...

Boingo ups its French presence with Meteor roaming deal

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming partnership with Paris-based Meteor Networks that will add more than 400...

Siemens, Mercedes-Benz enter phone partnership

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG and Mercedes-Benz announced a partnership to equip Mercedes vehicles with mobile phones. The first available device is the multimedia CX65 mobile...
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