Yearly Archives: 2004

T-Mobile offers new Samsung slider camera phone

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America and T-Mobile USA Inc. announced the launch of the slider SGH-d415 camera phone.The new phone slides up to reveal its oversized...

Survey finds three-fourths of monthly wireless minutes go unused

MIAMI-Seventy-eight percent of the wireless minutes paid for by consumers go unused on a monthly basis, according to recent analysis from TNS Telecoms.Additionally, the...

Gates, Barrett to headline CES

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Consumer Electronics Association announced Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., and Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of Intel...

Madison Dearborn Partners to sell 6M shares of Nextel Partners

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. today announced said Madison Dearborn Partners will sell 6 million shares of Nextel Partners' Class A common stock. These shares,...

FCC acts to hasten DTV transition: But passes on setting end date

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday adopted rules designed to hasten the transition to digital TV, but did not say how it plans to handle...

Verizon, Cingular boost messaging offerings

Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers will have access to e-mail and instant messaging on their handsets, thanks to two new agreements.Verizon, the...

Wireless Facilities revises quarterly results, attracts ratings downgrades

In a picture resembling Nortel Networks Ltd.'s struggles and triumphs, Wireless Facilities Inc. is revising its quarterly results and attracting ratings downgrades just as...

T-Mobile USA tops Verizon Wireless in customer-care survey

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.-T-Mobile USA Inc. bested two-time winner Verizon Wireless in a recent report on customer care quality. T-Mobile achieved an A ranking in...

Western Wireless reports drop in subs, increase in ARPU

Western Wireless Corp. said it added 10,900 domestic subscribers during the second quarter of this year compared with 15,000 subscribers added during the second...

Alamosa Holdings enjoys 24-percent revenue increase

LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. reported a 24.4-percent increase in total revenues during the second quarter from $155.4 million last year to...

WiLAN demos W-OFDM technology

CALGARY-WiLAN Inc. said it has successfully demonstrated its solution known as LIBRA 5800, which operates in a full mobility solution, including high-speed and seamless...

Cell phones on back-to-school shopping lists: Most teens have purchase influence

STAMFORD, Conn.-Back-to-school shopping includes more than pencils and notebooks these days. A new study shows junior and senior high-school students have consumer electronics, including...

Bush appoints Majoras to fill FTC chair as Muris set to depart

WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush went around Congress again and appointed Deborah Majoras to be the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, as FTC Chairman...

iTouch enters mobile content agreement with rival

LONDON-iTouch Plc has signed an agreement with Japanese rival For-Side.com Co. Ltd. to expand its offerings, the British mobile content provider announced Wednesday.The partnership...

Cingular offers rescue dating service

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Another wireless carrier is hoping to throw a lifeline to singles stuck on a disastrous date.Cingular Wireless launched "Escape-A-Date" Tuesday, allowing users...

ClearSky brings presidential campaigns wireless

ORLANDO, Fla.-ClearSky Mobile Media, Inc. has brought the race for the Oval Office to wireless handsets.The mobile entertainment company has launched politically themed content,...

Boingo Wireless, ICOA expand roaming agreements

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless and ICOA Inc. announced they have expanded their existing roaming relationship to include all six of the regional airports that...

UbiquiTel posts first operating income

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. reported $88.7 million in revenues during the second quarter, a 34-percent increase from the $66 million the carrier...

Verizon, BIO-key to build mobile data system for Mass. law enforcement

MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Communications Inc. and finger-based biometric identification and wireless public-safety solutions provider BIO-key International Inc. said they received a contract to build a regional...

TDS to sell some wireless properties to Alltel

CHICAGO-Furthering attempts to focus on markets that it calls strategic to its long-term success, U.S. Cellular Corp. and TDS Telecom, both of which are...

Symbian says 5M phones with its OS shipped in first-half 2004

LONDON-Symbian Ltd. said its operating results for the first half of 2004 show global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones nearly doubled to 5 million,...

Siemens, China Unicom to give subscribers multimedia content

MUNICH-Siemens AG said it has signed a contract to supply solutions that will enable China Unicom to bring video clips and songs to subscribers'...

Wireless spam prohibited under new FCC rule

WASHINGTON-Sending spam to wireless devices is illegal, under a law passed by the Federal Communications Commission earlier today."The FCC shields consumers' wireless devices from...

Vendors get EDGE contracts

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. announced EDGE contracts, underlining the increasing traction of the technology in the Middle East and around the world.Motorola said...

Content developers must focus on enterprise and mass market

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Content developers must carefully target teens for mass-market appeal without forgetting the needs of enterprise, according to a new report from ABI...
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