Yearly Archives: 2005

Doom goes mobile

LOS ANGELES-Jamdat Mobile hopes to bring a little hell to your handset with a mobile version of Doom. The game-maker launched the much-awaited Doom...

Sprint Nextel drops Metro One’s directory services

Enhanced directory-assistance provider Metro One Telecommunications Inc. said Sprint Nextel Corp. is terminating the master services agreement between Metro One and Nextel Operations Inc....

Manx Telecom to launch HSDPA network Nov. 1

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man-O2, Manx Telecom and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that Europe's Isle of Man will have a commercial HSDPA network by Nov....

Ericsson earnings solid, vendor expects market growth

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Calling its third quarter financials solid, L.M. Ericsson reported a net profit of $672.8 million, a 22-percent increase from results a year ago...

Cell-phone data key to opening traffic gridlock

WASHINGTON-At least two national mobile-phone carriers are unilaterally selling huge amounts of subscriber location data to third parties for city and state traffic management....

KGI to place towers on Kum & Go stores

AUSTIN, Texas-Tower company Kampen and Greenwell Inc. announced a deal with Kum & Go L.C. to license space on the chain's 425 or so...

NeuStar introduces services for VoIP, multimedia

WASHINGTON-NeuStar Inc., together with Equinix Inc., announced a suite of services called SIP-IX for direct network-to-network peering between trading partners for voice, video and...

Swenson jumps T-Mobile ship, joins Amp’d as COO

LOS ANGELES-Soon-to-launch mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. reported that Sue Swenson has joined the company as chief operating officer and a member...

Wireless broadband comes to Slovakia, Czech Republic

Slovakia and neighboring Czech Republic are set to get a taste of high-speed broadband wireless access via a trio of deployments taking place across...

Motorola goes to court to stop Zafirovski from taking Nortel’s top job

Motorola Inc. nixed a smooth transition for its former president and chief operating officer, Mike Zafirovski, to take the top seat at Nortel Networks...

House subcommittee questions FCC’s role in E-rate program

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may not be the best agency to oversee the E-rate program, according to a House Commerce subcommittee report critical of...

NTP likely to ask court to make RIM stop selling product

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Research In Motion Ltd.'s motion to stay further proceedings in a patent case between...

Verizon joins others seeking to delay E-911 mandate

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive its rules requiring location technology to be embedded in 95 percent of a carrier's...

Cingular pushes Oz e-mail to users

Few killer apps have fizzled the way mobile e-mail has. Although it seems nearly every U.S. consumer has at least two e-mail accounts-one for...

Senate Commerce approves creation of emergency alert system

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved legislation to create a national emergency alert system designed to take advantage of wireless, Internet and other advanced...

Texas Instruments leads 3G chip race, but market only on first lap

The W-CDMA race has just started, but chipset vendors from all corners of the industry are driving to play in the nascent but growing...

In-Fusio, Alcatel add to TV offerings

LOS ANGELES-The rush to provide TV services to mobile phones heated up as two established French wireless companies each joined the playground in separate...

Alltel rolls out rate plans to former Western Wireless, Cellular One customers

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it rolled out new rate plans to former Western Wireless Corp. and Cellular One customers who Alltel acquired when...

Boeing moves closer to in-flight calling, Internet

LONDON-The Boeing Co. reported it received positive feedback from passengers sampling high-speed Internet and mobile phone service on recent demonstration flights in Europe. "Enabling...

N.C. tower law may be blueprint for nation

WASHINGTON-North Carolina's potentially precedent-setting telecom tower standard has gone into effect, despite objections from the National Association of Tower Erectors to a fall-protection provision...

Mich. House passes teen ban on cell phones while driving

WASHINGTON-The Michigan House of Representatives passed legislation making it illegal for teens under 18 years old to talk on cell phones while driving. The...

GPS-the newest tool for fighting crime

Technologies that employ some aspect of tracking and monitoring are all around these days, and although many people might consider such applications an invasion...

2 weeks, 2 lawsuits: Sprint Nextel unit sues Nextel Partners again

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Nextel WIP Corp. subsidiary filed its second lawsuit in as many weeks against network affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. as part of...

Movida to use Q Comm’s prepaid services

OREM, Utah-Q Comm International Inc. announced it's teaming with Movida Communications to offer prepaid airtime cards, pins and handsets to Hispanic customers. Q Comm...

Nokia completes mobile WiMAX call, plans for trials next year

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has completed a mobile WiMAX data call and will begin WiMAX trials in 2006. "This is an important step...
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