WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission, facing heavy pressure from mobile-phone carriers with generous funding support from their national trade association, last week sent fresh signals that it may postpone a …
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers that still oppose wireless local number portability are trying another last-ditch effort to stop the mandate. The Senate Appropriations Committee last Thursday sent to the Senate floor a …
MOSCOW-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won a contract to provide the wireless network of BaykalWestcom with GSM and GPRS equipment and services across portions of Siberia. “The network upgrades …
Out of the ashes of failed Wi-Fi startup Mobility Networks rises a new effort, Azaire Networks Inc., a company with much of the same technology and staffing but with a …
While many industry observers applauded Verizon Wireless’ introduction of its Push to Talk service as a way for the carrier to attract high-end business customers interested in a walkie-talkie services, …
NEW YORK-Stock market guru Warren Buffett has purchased approximately $320 million of Nextel Communications Inc.’s bonds and preferred stock since last year through his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. holding company, according …
The school bell has rung. The still of summer is about to be shaken. Thank goodness. The wireless industry has held its collective breath waiting for a business uptick for …
DENVER-A Denver District Court has certified a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc., claiming the carrier’s delayed billing for roaming calls violated its contracts with certain Digital One Rate …
HONG KONG-Hong Kong’s telecom regulator the Office of the Telecommunications Authority said it would waive the submission of performance bonds due in October from the four third-generation services licensees. The …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. said it will include Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java 2 Micro Edition application download technology in its Hiptop wireless device platform, which forms the basis for T-Mobile …
Wireless Internet software provider Openwave Systems Inc. announced it could further its acquisition push with a new offering of $100 million in convertible subordinated notes due 2008. The company said …
WASHINGTON-The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday sent to the Senate floor a bill that directs the Federal Communications Commission to release the implementation guidelines for wireless local number portability before the …
Motorola Inc. will introduce a mobile phone running Microsoft Corp.’s Smartphone operating system this month, and European operator Orange will sell the device, according to a report in the Financial …
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc.’s Cricket Communications Inc. subsidiary named Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners as the agency of record to handle its advertising account, which the carrier said is …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has tweaked its organization by creating a new business unit known as Access, which focuses on radio products. It is divorced from the business unit known as …
SAN ANTONIO-A Texas school student was given three days of detention after school officials said they found pictures of drugs, guns and gang-related activities on the student’s camera phone, according …
TOKYO-Sharp Electronics has developed a 128-megabyte flash memory, which offers a maximum access time of 60 nanoseconds, which the company calls the industry’s fastest. It is aimed at mobile phones …
TOKYO-Japanese mobile operator J-Phone Co. Ltd. announced that its board of directors proposed a resolution to change its name to Vodafone K.K., which will completely rebrand the mobile operator under …
POWAY, Calif.-Gateway Inc. said it has launched 802.11b and g products, which include a broadband router and cards. The router ensures connection with a variety of computers, while the cards …
BERLIN-Germany’s largest wireless operator, T-Mobile International AG, which is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG and parent company to U.S.-based T-Mobile USA Inc., said it has nearly fixed a software …
The battle over business customers continues to heat up as Nextel Communications Inc. and Verizon Wireless launched new advertising campaigns targeting potential deficiencies in each other’s business-centric offerings. Nextel’s campaign, …
WASHINGTON-An amendment to the bill that would fund the Federal Communications Commission for Fiscal Year 2004 was passed late Thursday by the Senate Appropriations Committee and would grant Northpoint Technology …
Sprint PCS reported that an undetermined number of its wireless customers in area codes beginning with 41 and 42 were affected for about six hours Thursday by a software glitch …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Following the five simultaneous concerts T-Mobile USA Inc. hosted across the country Sept. 4, the carrier announced it will hold another All Access concert, featuring Barenaked Ladies and Train, …
LONDON-A U.K. supplier plans to offer push-to-talk services in the United Kingdom through an alliance with Wizcom Ltd., which owns retail outlet chain Phones4U. In October, Fastmobile’s Fastchat service will …
