WASHINGTON-An industry-backed relocation fund bill penned by House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) failed to win strong backing from key Bush administration officials at a hearing today. Rep. John …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Everypath announced its Everypath Mobile Task Automation (MTA) solution is now available. The solution, designed for use by sales, service and order management-related mobile workers, enables subsets of …
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced Koichi Nishimura will join its board of directors, effective April 1. Nishimura was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Solectron Corp. until his …
DALLAS-MetroPCS Inc., which provides flat-rate unlimited local calling service in Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., expanded its text messaging service offering to provide nationwide interoperability and introduced changes …
NEW YORK-GuestWiFi, which provides wireless local area network access at small and mid-sized hotels, has teamed with Pronto Networks, a Pleasanton, Calif., provider of carrier-class operations support systems for hot …
STAMFORD, Conn.-I3 Mobile Inc. announced it will shut down its Pronto voice-activated information and content service and will continue to search for a potential strategic alliance, joint venture, merger or …
MAITLAND, Fla.-MeshNetworks Inc. signed a reseller agreement for its mobile broadband peer-to-peer networking solutions with Viasys Corp., which provides infrastructure development and maintenance services to transportation and power companies and …
PLANO, Texas-MetaSolv Software Inc. announced enhancements to its service activation capabilities. Extended service capabilities include Internet Protocol services device support for Alcatel 7670 MPLS switches, Cicso Catalyst layer 2 switches …
MONTREAL-Fido, run by Microcell Solutions Inc., announced it will offer the Nokia 7210 handset to its customers in Canada. The Nokia 7210 features a color screen, polyphonic ring tones, an …
BEIJING-China Mobile Communications Corp. is unlikely to deploy China’s homegrown technology known as TD-SCDMA, according to Tang Ru’an, chief operating officer of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. “As the world’s …
WASHINGTON-The congressman representing San Diego, home of CDMA developer Qualcomm Inc., introduced legislation that would require the Department of Defense and the United States Agency for International Development to deploy …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Sierra Wireless said its AirCard 555 will be available from Thailand’s Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia, a cdma2000 1x operator. The AirCard 55 is a wide area PC …
LONDON-U.K. information services firm iTouch said it will buy Spanish and Portuguese premium-rate text message service Movilisto for up to US$64 million. Under the terms of the deal, Movilisto will …
ALAMEDA, California, United States-U.S.-based supplier UTStarcom said it won a US$40 million contract with China Telecom for new and expansion deployments of its PHS equipment in the Jiangsu and Guangdong …
BOSTON-New research from Strategy Analytics predicts the location-services market could reach US$8 billion in revenues by 2008, but carriers specifically need to move ahead with their delayed investment plans. “Operators …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Two of Australia’s national mobile carriers will do battle for third-generation (3G) subscribers by mid-year. Telstra introduced its cdma2000 1x network, an upgrade of its CDMA network, to consumers …
WASHINGTON-A U.S. congressman representing California, home state of Qualcomm-the developer of CDMA technology-is urging lawmakers to sign onto a letter to the Department of Defense to deploy CDMA technology, not …
NEW ORLEANS, United States-John Koo and his top executive team crowd a small, air-conditioned room perched atop LG Electronics’ sprawling booth at the CTIA trade show here. Relaxed, smiling, Koo …
RALEIGH, N.C.-Wireless application and technology company Summus Inc. scored a deal with international news agency Agence France-Presse to offer wireless news and photo content. “AFP is excited about the opportunity …
IRVINE, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group named Toshiba Corp.’s Portege 4010 Series notebook computer a Designated Profile Interoperability Tester platform for testing and verifying interoperability between Bluetooth-enabled devices. Toshiba said …
HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli company CellTick Technologies said China Unicom will deploy its interactive broadcast system in XinJiang state. The platform allows operators to establish interactive communications with subscribers by using a …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Atheros Communications Inc., which develops technologies for secure, high-performance wireless local area networks, has promoted Craig Barratt, its vice president of technology, to the post of chief executive officer. …
NEW DELHI, India–India, one of the fastest-growing wireless markets in the Asia Pacific region, is set for a churn. But it is unable to decide which way it will go–toward …
WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA reportedly plans to drop enhanced observed time difference (EOTD) technology as its solution for implementing Phase II enhanced 911 service. T-Mobile’s deployments of the technology had been one …
HELSINKI, Finland-Swedish unions are threatening to “block” mobile equipment vendor Ericsson’s restructuring plans if the company refuses to “provide genuine guarantees” that future cuts in the group’s workforce are carried …
