Wireless carriers have joined the millions of homeowners who are taking advantage of the country’s economic slowdown and resulting low interest rates to reduce debt levels and refinance existing debt …
WASHINGTON-Local number portability lobbying has been fast and furious of late as the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association tries to get legislation passed to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from …
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Location-based services have struggled to find their feet in Europe. Mobile data has taken a long time to deliver on the technology, applications and price points to meet …
ST. PAUL, Minn.-The American Association of Paging Carriers said it added more than 100 members during its first year of operation, and it hopes to add an additional 100 next …
Battle won, even before the first shot is fired. Early in the life of the technology, industry analysts and players already regard Cisco Systems Inc. as the big tree in …
TORONTO-A Canadian wireless operator is getting into the telecom bundling game, with Canada’s Microcell announcing an agreement with Sprint Canada Inc. to offer a residential wireline-wireless bundled service. The service, …
WASHINGTON-A watchdog group said a quasi-governmental corporation set up to fund small telecom startups spends nearly as much on executive salaries and overhead as on investments in companies. The Center …
MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in Europe and the Middle East late …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it will use Texas Instruments Inc.’s 802.11 wireless networking and OMAP application processors for its Wi-Fi and cellular dual-system phone. Motorola said TI’s processors will work …
AMSTERDAM-In Europe, Bluetooth technology will outpace wireless local area network hot spots by 2008, according to a new report from Forrester Research. “We believe that much of the money being …
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should pay more into the universal-service fund, said a consumer advocate. “It is time for cellular and the Internet to bear their share of a ubiquitous network,” said …
Moviso scored an exclusive, one-year licensing agreement in the United States to offer wireless content based on the highly touted summer movie “The Hulk.” The company launched a Web site …
NEW YORK-Standard and Poor’s has downgraded its ratings outlook on Motorola Inc. to negative from stable, reflecting the company’s slower-than-expected profit improvements. “If Motorola does not demonstrate substantial progress toward …
PARIS-France Telecom said it sold 56 million shares, or approximately its entire 5.4-percent stake, in Sprint PCS on the New York Stock Exchange for $330 million. Sprint PCS’ stock was …
NEW YORK-A series of diverse mobile commerce announcements show the industry is still interested in the technology, with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., start-up Network365 and a New York candy …
OLOWIANA, Poland-A research company said it developed a design for a new mobile phone that doubles as a gaming device, news that follows on similar products announced by Nokia Corp. …
TOKYO-J-Phone Company Ltd. said yesterday that the number of users of its Sha-mail picture messaging handsets exceeded 10 million. The Japanese operator was the first in the country to launch …
CHICAGO-Demand for ubiquitous connectivity between mobile devices and access technologies, including wireless wide area networks and local area networks is growing, indicating roaming between these technologies will become a necessity, …
PARIS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has received registration with Quality Management Institute for multi-national telecommunication quality standard for its customer care operations in Europe as well as certification for its …
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has trademarked its push-to-talk service. The news follows the rollout of Nextel’s Nationwide Direct Connect PTT service earlier this …
WASHINGTON-RCR Wireless News took home a coveted national award in the annual American Society of Business Publication Editors 2002 awards ceremony held Thursday night for the weekly publication’s government coverage. …
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved NextWave Telecom Inc.’s partnership plan with venture capital firm Clarity Partners in an attempt to acquire additional spectrum …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has signed a three-year agreement with conservation group WWF to conduct training workshops and seminars for Nokia employees. “As part of our drive to further improve our …
SAN DIEGO-A bankruptcy court judge in San Diego said Leap Wireless International Inc. improperly prepared schedules of assets and liabilities that were filed with its amended reorganization plan that may …
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-The former chief accounting officer of wireless and mobile device maker Symbol Technologies Inc. pled guilty to a “vast fraudulent scheme” aimed at inflating Symbol’s revenues and earnings by …
