SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular-phone users are uniting via the Cellular Telecom Users Alliance Inc., a newly formed organization that plans to negotiate cell-phone rates on behalf of its members. The group hopes …
LONDON-Operating system consortium Symbian signed a development agreement with Japan’s leading mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc. The agreement gives NTT DoCoMo access to Symbian OS source code and the right …
Nokia Corp. said it will reorganize the company into four divisions to focus on convergence, new mobility markets and growth. The four segments include mobile phones, multimedia, networks and enterprise …
BRASILIA, Brazil-Brazil’s lower house social and family safety commission has approved a bill to create rules for the installation of wireless communications towers. The bill calls for wireless operators to …
CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless handset distributor CellStar Corp. announced it will sell its subsidiary in Sweden, CellStar Intercall AB, to Swedish distribution company AxCom AB. Terms of the deal, expected to be …
Hollywood, meet wireless. It seems the Boob Tube is the latest mobile phone add-on for the world’s wireless industry, a business constantly hunting the next new technology to astound and …
LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-COM Inc. has been awarded an $11 million contract by the U.S. Army to deploy and link critical communications to 10 Army installations, including more than 5,000 Army base …
WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission again will postpone a vote on a controversial bill of rights for telecom consumers, increasing prospects for either major changes to the current draft or …
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s assigned its B+ rating to Nextel Communications Inc.’s offering of $1 billion of 7.375-percent senior serial redeemable notes due 2015, and affirmed its BB- corporate credit …
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it is withdrawing its previously announced public offering of common stock due to the offer’s inability to garner the company’s “valuation requirements.” Centennial had originally …
WASHINGTON-Universal service was a hot topic in Washington last week with two House panels hearing testimony, a think-tank seminar and an ad campaign by TracFone Wireless. “The Federal Communications Commission’s …
Nokia Corp. said it will reorganize the company into four divisions to focus on convergence, new mobility markets and growth. The four segments include mobile phones, multimedia, networks and enterprise …
COSTA MESA, Calif.-SkyFrames Inc. is enlisting the help of companies interested in joining its effort to provide U.S. military personnel in Iraq the ability to communicate with their families during …
BRASILIA, Brazil-Brazil’s lower house social and family safety commission has approved a bill to create rules for the installation of wireless communications towers. The bill calls for wireless operators to …
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Wireless operators have less than 24 months to define, design and implement new charging architectures for mobile data services, according to a new report from U.K.-based consulting firm Analysys. …
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it will supply a $23 million network to Kazakhstan’s second-largest mobile operator Kar-Tel. The upgrade will increase the operator’s transmission capacity and double its overall network capacity. …
Motorola Inc. will miss out on the critical camera-phone rush during the holiday season, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless said. Jim Gerace, a spokesman for the nation’s largest carrier, said …
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Avaya Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with Vista Information Technologies Inc. to acquire its software tools and service business units. “These acquisitions will enhance Avaya …
A new wireless local area network standard is being developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-the 802.11n protocol. According to the standards body, the new 802.11n protocol will …
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. moved even closer to completing its previously announced deal to acquire 34 PCS licenses from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. following approval of the $1.4 billion …
LONDON-ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi has been accused of “atrocious financial management” and threatened with dismissal, according to a report in the respected Swiss business magazine L’Hebdo. The revelations come just …
Wireless enterprise company Research In Motion Ltd. announced it turned the corner and posted a profit for its second quarter-a major move for the company but one still overshadowed by …
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular-phone users are uniting via the Cellular Telecom Users Alliance Inc., a newly formed organization that plans to negotiate cell-phone rates on behalf of its members. The group hopes …
Operating system consortium Symbian signed a development agreement with Japan’s leading mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc. The agreement gives NTT DoCoMo access to Symbian OS source code and the right …
WASHINGTON-It looks like 50 million Americans who were looking forward to Wednesday to have an uninterrupted dinner with their families will have to wait because the wildly popular do-not-call list …
