Yearly Archives: 2004

Lucent rises on $5B Verizon deal

Lucent Technologies Inc. reinforced its CDMA profile and its place in the heart of Verizon Wireless with a whopping $5 billion contract with the...

Leucadia seeks MCI control, mum on wireless plans

WASHINGTON-Leucadia National Corp., the New York investment firm seeking to buy at least 50 percent of MCI Inc., is remaining mum on whether it...

Chaoticom snags music deals with European carriers

ANDOVER, Mass.-Millions of European wireless phone customers can now download entire songs directly to their handsets, mobile music company Chaoticom, Inc. announced. European...

CoreMedia updates DRM software

HAMBURG, Germany-CoreMedia announced the launch of its new generation of digital rights management software. The company's DRM for Mobile Services version 2.1 enables mobile...

Caprio named Commerce privacy officer

WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Donald Evans today named Dan Caprio as the agency's chief privacy officer. The department said Caprio would add privacy to his current...

Qualcomm announces stock split, dividend increase

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has declared a two-for-one stock split and approved a 40-percent increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend.The dividend, which...

First Avenue to buy Teligent for $99M

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-First Avenue Networks announced it plans to acquire wireless broadband service provider Teligent Inc., including its 24 GHz spectrum licenses, fixed-wireless broadband operations...

Samsung, LG handsets push user expectations

BOSTON-Mobile handsets from Samsung Corp. and LG Electronics lead in customer satisfaction in the U.S. market, according to new research from Strategy Analytics Inc.The...

Business Briefs

Wireless gaming publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of common...

People use Web sites to prospect wireless, carriers lose CRM ground

The continued emphasis carriers are placing on alternative sales and information channels appears to be paying off as a report from industry research firm...

CellStar, Brightpoint to sell Voq phone

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless said the Voq Professional Phone will be available to resellers in North America through distribution agreements with CellStar and Brightpoint...

Sprint, Audiovox team on U.S. megapixel phone

Sprint Corp. and Audiovox Corp. released the Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone PM-8920, the United States' first megapixel camera phone.The phone features Sprint Picture...

Orange sells Danish unit to TeliaSonera

European mobile operator Orange S.A. said it will sell its 100-percent owned Danish subsidiary to Nordic operator TeliaSonera for $743 million in cash. The...

Pegasus picks up 3 towers

BECKLEY, W.V.-Pegasus Tower Co. Ltd. has acquired three wireless communications sites from New York-based A.P. Cell Towers, a division of Apollo Real Estate Advisors.The...

US Unwired extends pact to manage IWO

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported that it reached an agreement with the board of directors of subsidiary IWO Holdings Inc....

Access to provide 3G technology to Datang

BEIJING-Internet access technology provider Access announced it will provide Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. with technology to enable advanced mobile services over China's...

Airbee opens development center in India

ROCKVILLE, Md.-Airbee Wireless Inc., which develops intelligent software for wireless voice, data and video communications, announced it has opened a new development center in...

DoCoMo offers first handset for m-wallet

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it planned to launch its mobile wallet service using the mova P506iC handset July 10.The new service and smart-card handsets...

LogicaCMG joins Microsoft software mobility program

LONDON-LogicaCMG will become a member of the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC), a program that encourages Microsoft Corp. partners to create software solutions...

Vodafone Sweden begins consumer 3G services

Vodafone Sweden launched multimedia consumer services via its UMTS-based network in Sweden along with promotional rate plans that include up to 120 free minutes...

CTIA urges FCC to open NextWave spectrum bidding to national carriers

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Thursday urged the Federal Communications Commission to open the bidding to all companies for the recently returned spectrum...

Nextel silent on $5B offer at 800 MHz

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. remains silent as to whether it plans to accept a government offer to pay $5 billion in cash and spectrum to...

FCC eases restrictions on mergers between rural carriers

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission modified several of its spectrum rules hoping that wireless services can be made more readily available, but its decision to...

Cingular/AWS tie-up plans test bed for gov’t

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's thorough review of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s $41 billion play for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. represents a new level of merger...

Nortel may try to reclaim execs’ bonuses

WASHINGTON-Nortel Network Corp.'s mounting accounting problems continued last week, as a New York law firm announced it was investigating the Canadian telecom equipment giant...
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