Rural Cellular Corp. reported $127.1 million in total revenues during the second quarter of 2003 compared with $118.9 million the carrier posted during the same quarter last year. The increase …
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced it has reached an agreement with bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. to purchase spectrum licenses covering 34 markets and 83 million potential customers for …
One day after a surprising surge in its stock price, wireless data company I3 Mobile Inc. announced it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with ACE*COMM Corp. to be …
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Total wireless handsets shipped reached 107 million units in the second quarter, demonstrating 12-percent year-on-year growth and 2-percent sequential growth, according to research from ABI. New features including …
TOKYO-Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. will consolidate their wireless technology operations in a joint venture company. The new company will focus on development, production, sales, maintenance, …
As more wireless issues are hotly contested at the state level, state wireless associations could become more popular. The wireless industry in Tennessee has coalesced to form the Tennessee Wireless …
SAN DIEGO-Wireless took another major step toward third-dimensional technology with the ratification of the OpenGL ES application development standard for wireless devices. The 3D graphics forum Khronos Group said it …
IRVINE, Calif.-Motorola Inc. could have plans to build a disposable mobile phone through a new licensing deal with disposable phone company Hop-On. Officials for neither Motorola nor Hop-On were immediately …
LONDON-Christopher Gent stepped down as the leader of the world’s largest mobile-phone operator Wednesday after a six-and-a-half-year stint as chief executive. His tenure overall is viewed as one of the …
LONDON-The worldwide ring-tone market totals an astounding $4 billion, a number that will likely draw music companies like BMG, Sony Music, EMI, Warner Chappell and Universal into the wireless market, …
Second-quarter results from public tower companies reflect improved financial stability and greater optimism that cell-site additions will ramp up in the coming months. Crown Castle International Corp. released its second-quarter …
The magic is in the finger. Fingerprint technology takes advantage of personal signatures the way current devices use passwords. This saves mobile users the pressure of memory as the finger …
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Mobile e-mail will drive the growth of mobile data services for Western European businesses during the next five years, according to advisory firm Analysys. Analysys predicts 40 percent …
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. and its affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. reported full availability of their Nationwide Direct Connect service across the United States and Hawaii, which the carriers said earlier …
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Verizon Wireless ranked as the highest-quality network among the seven largest wireless operators, according to the J.D. Powers and Associates 2003 Wireless Network Quality Assessment Study. The study …
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS launched Samsung Telecommunications America’s SPH-A600 camera-enabled handset featuring a rotating screen that allows the color display to swivel 180 degrees and face outward to serve as …
WASHINGTON-The Coalition Provisional Authority may revisit a ban against government-owned telecommunications companies from winning a wireless license in Iraq, said a top military official on Friday afternoon. “This is what …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it has acquired all the assets of Tantivy Communications Inc., which develops data-enabling products. The assets cover patents, patent applications, know-how, state-of-the-art laboratory …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said SingTel selected it as the sole supplier for its W-CDMA network in Singapore. Ericsson will expand and upgrade SingTel’s current nationwide system under a $125 million …
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Even without wireless local number portability, churn continues to increase, according to a recent study by Solomon-Wolff Associates. Annual churn is 17.7 percent, reflecting an increase of 62 …
The hype is data, but the reality is voice. It often comes in the language of converged services or unified platforms, but the inability of data to pick up rapid …
Motorola Inc. savored a victory in its fraud lawsuit against Turkish carrier Telsim as a U.S. federal judge ordered the Uzan family to pay the vendor $4.26 billion, plus post-judgement …
No WinTel animosity is intended. MIPI is just another warm and fuzzy alliance. Never the friendliest of allies, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. were quick to rebut the wide …
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s rumored $1.4 billion purchase of 34 PCS licenses from NextWave Telecom Inc. was semi-announced last week as NextWave’s public-relations agency distributed a press release claiming the two …
PARIS-European mobile operator Orange plc reported a revenue increase in the first half of the year of nearly 7 percent, to $9.86 billion, compared with the same period last year. …
