Yearly Archives: 2004

Bill would give regulators VoIP oversight, compensate Bells for making connection

WASHINGTON-New legislation introduced by Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) would give federal regulators unfettered oversight of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol applications, while requiring service...

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...

Artimi snares $14M in funding

BURLINGAME, Calif.-Artimi Inc., which develops ultra wideband integrated circuits that enable high bandwidth wireless connectivity, announced it has closed on a $14 million Series...

Verizon Wireless, Metro PCS buy NextWave licenses: NextWave withdraws three licenses

NextWave Telecom Inc.'s highly anticipated attempt to auction a half-dozen spectrum licenses fell short of expectations as the bankrupt license holder managed to generate...

Warner Music to offer short codes on packaging

NEW YORK-Warner Music Group will partner with wireless entertainment and marketing company Mobileway to incorporate wireless branding into its CD packaging. Five-digit short codes...

Gallagher sworn in as NTIA head

WASHINGTON-Michael Gallagher has been sworn in as head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, effectively bypassing the eight-month hold on his nomination by...

FCC eliminates rural cellular cross-ownership rule

WASHINGTON-Over the objections of the panel's two Democrats, the Federal Communications Commission Thursday voted to eliminate the cellular cross-ownership rules in rural America requiring...

Carriers request stay in Calif. bill-of-rights decision

WASHINGTON-The nation's top mobile-phone carriers have asked the California Public Utilities Commission to stay the bill-of-rights decision and asked for a rehearing of a...

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 partners to create software solutions for...

Cisco equips wireless broadband network in Poland

SLUPSK, Poland-Cisco Systems announced it is building a broadband wireless network in Slupsk, Poland, to connect government offices, schools, hospitals, libraries and other public...

ClickSoftware partners with IBM on dispatch software

BURLINGTON, Mass.-ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. and IBM Global Services will partner to provide software to streamline their clients' dispatch efforts.Under the agreement, the two companies...

Vodafone Sweden begins consumer 3G services

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

FCC creates ‘private commons’ option for leasing spectrum

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday created a "private commons" option for licensees that allows some licensed devices to operate in another licensee's spectrum in...

CTIA urges FCC to fully open NextWave spectrum bidding

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

Airline adds wireless e-mail service

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Passengers flying on Emirates' A340-500 aircraft can now check and send e-mails from personal laptops while in transit using Tenzing's in-flight...

Industry applauds U.S./China trade resolution

WASHINGTON-The high-tech industry applauded the resolution of a trade dispute between the United States and China over the latter's semiconductor tax. "As...

I-mode base outside Japan hits 3M

TOKYO-Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. said the base of i-mode users outside Japan exceeded 3 million at the end of June, just four...

Orange sells Danish subsidiary 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...

US Unwired extends agreement 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....
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