Yearly Archives: 2004

US Unwired reports strong customer adds

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported 17,358 net customer additions during the second quarter of 2004 compared with 8,878 new subscribers...

Proxim ordered to pay damages to Symbol in patent lawsuit

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Proxim Corp. will be required to pay $25.9 million in damages to Symbol Technologies Inc. for infringing on patents, according to the U.S....

SpectraSite, Crown Castle show financial improvements

Two tower companies, SpectraSite Inc. and Crown Castle International Corp., reported improved quarterly financials.SpectraSite reported improved second-quarter financial results and announced the search is...

SmartServ moves to acquire prepaid card distributor

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.-SmartServ Online Inc. is negotiating to acquire New York-based distributor of international prepaid calling cards KPCCD Inc. in a deal the company...

MetroPCS postpones IPO

Citing a pending review of previously filed financial statements, MetroPCS Inc. said it is postponing its initial public offering, which was expected to raise...

Qwest rolls out MVNO services in Oregon

Qwest Communications International Inc. unveiled nationwide wireless voice services to residential and small-business customers in eight Oregon cities as part of its mobile virtual...

Ericsson to supply IP backbone for China Mobile

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will provide equipment for the second phase of Internet Protocol backbone expansions for China Mobile Communications Corp. The expansion...

AccuWeather launches weather-focused premium SMS service

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.-AccuWeather launched a premium short message service allowing mobile users to receive daily forecasts and severe weather alerts on their cell phones.The...

Report predicts solid future for European directory assistance market

SAN FRANCISCO-The European directory-assistance market has a solid future provided mobile-phone subscribers are included, according to a new report by Visiongain Publishing titled "Mobile...

Strong wireless investment activity continues

This week's flurry of investment activity continued Thursday, as several companies reported successful funding rounds. Some notables among Thursday's announcements include: Sorrent raised $20...

FCC’s 24 GHz auction nets $216,000

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 24 GHz licenses started and ended Wednesday after four rounds netting more than $216,000 for seven licenses in...

Siemens, Alcatel financial results reinforce wireless vendor upswing

Siemens AG and Alcatel Corp reinforced a season of good feeling among wireless vendors as they swung to profitable quarters."These trends show that improvement...

TruePosition supplies E911 solution to rural carrier

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-TruePosition will provide its Uplink Time Difference of Arrival wireless location system to Viaero Wireless to meet the Phase II...

Tropos scores municipal Wi-Fi contract in Texas

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas-Tropos Networks announced its largest deployment to date with the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, under a contract worth approximately $600,000.Tropos will...

SEC sues former Qwest Wireless CFO

Former Qwest Wireless Chief Financial Officer Michael Felicissimo was sued this week by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for providing it with materially...

Summer financing plentiful for wireless companies

It's already been a hectic week for investment in the wireless arena, with several companies scoring millions of dollars in venture-capital funding. Some of...

Sprint to offer joint Wi-Fi/1x access

Just over a year after launching its Wi-Fi initiative, Sprint Corp. reported that it will enable customers to access both its CDMA2000 1x-based wide...

Yahoo! expands mobile photo service

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. late last week expanded its play in the mobile space, with a new service that allows consumers to post photos to...

PacketHop, Xybernaut offer wearable mobile technology

BELMONT, Calif.-PacketHop Inc. and Xybernaut Corp. said they have partnered to combine wireless broadband communication technologies with wearable mobile computing technology to meet the...

Nextel Partners adds 92,000 customers in 2Q

Continuing what it claims is its 18th consecutive quarter of exceeding analysts' expectations, Nextel Partners Inc. said it added 92,000 net customers during the...

Verizon Wireless expands EV-DO service to Vegas

Increasing its presence in the wireless high-speed data game, Verizon Wireless launched its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO BroadbandAccess service in Las Vegas, providing users in...

Lucent partners with NMS on signal processing

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is partnering with NMS Communications to design and build advanced optical voice processors for use in next-generation wireless...

Alvarion plans to buy InterWave

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Communications Ltd. said it has entered an agreement to acquire InterWave for approximately $56 million in an all-cash deal.InterWave makes...

Former DT chief joins Motorola board

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has elected a former chief executive officer of Deutsche Telekom to its board of directors with immediate effect.Ron Sommer,...

Ericsson to supply Chinese in-building system

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will provide in-building solutions for the new National Grand Theater in China under a contract awarded by Beijing Communication...
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