SCARBOROUGH, Ontario- Telus Mobility, the national wireless telecommunications business unit of Telus Corp., announced what it said are record first quarter wireless subscriber results.The "results represent an all-time record first-quarter for Telus Mobility, and in fact are the highest number of first-quarter net additions...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS added more than 800,000 direct customers during the first quarter and about 50,000 resale customers to its subscriber base, ahead of analysts expectations of 750,000 new subscriber additions.The carrier attributed the growth to both continuing strong gains in new acquisitions...
Amid the frenzy over a flagging economy and road bumps to the next generation of technologies, Nokia Corp. won a series of third-generation infrastructure contracts that gives the handset vendor coveted status as a network provider.The deals, including a $1.3 billion deal to supply...
WASHINGTON-With fresh indications last week that government and industry information systems remain highly vulnerable to cyber attacks, the Bush administration faces added pressure as it completes its review of the nation's critical infrastructure protection policy and crafts one of its own.From all indications, the...
WASHINGTON-A Blue Ribbon panel released a report last week that called for the telecommunications excise tax to be used to fund universal service."A current excise tax on telecommunications services, originally created a century ago to fund the Spanish-American War, now funnels revenue into the...
Nokia Corp.'s splash into the CDMA handset market was tempered last week after the world's largest cell phone manufacturer admitted some of its phones already on the street will not work with high-speed networks expected to roll out later this year. Nokia said the...
What safety nets do wireless manufacturers have in place in case we stumble into a true recession?The question has come up often lately because of the billions of dollars already invested in building network infrastructure in preparation for the kick-off of multimedia offerings in...
The wireless Internet is only as good as the device it's on.Granted, there are plenty of other issues surrounding the look and feel of the experience-including network speeds and coverage areas-but the device is a central part of the setup.For this reason, lots of...
Editor's Note: As part of its celebration of 20 years covering the wireless communications industry, RCR Wireless News each month will take a look back at crucial points in the history of mobile telecommunications. This month, RCR revisits the early days of Nextel and...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Lutris Technologies Inc., an open source software and services company, said Hewlett-Packard Co. will endorse and recommend Lutris' Enhydra 3.5 wireless application server to its HP Netserver customers running Windows 2000 or the open source-developed Linux operating system.Enhydra runs the HP MPE/iX...
New ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd. has hand-delivered a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell, asking the commission to allow mobile satellite service operators to use MSS spectrum for terrestrial-based services, citing the past failure of Iridium L.L.C. and the present...
No one is quite sure where the wireless Internet is going.There is such a profusion of technology developed and offered on a daily basis-from PacketVideo Corp.'s streaming multimedia offering to BitFlash Inc.'s screen-scraping service-industry observers are constantly creating new categories for the latest release....
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced its subsidiary Brightpoint North America L.P. will provide B Digital USA Inc. with integrated logistics services including packaging fulfillment and other support services for wireless handsets and accessories in the United StatesB Digital was formed in March 2000 as a subsidiary...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Certicom, a provider of e-business security, announced support for Cisco's unified VPN client strategy and framework to enable virtual private networks to extend to handheld computing platforms.Certicom will provide its Elliptic Curve Cryptography (EEC) as part of Cisco's VPN Client 3.0 software, which...
JAPANJapanese electronics giant Sony Corp. has decided to upgrade its cellular phone handset operations into a full division with emphasis on mobile computing products. Sony also wants to delve into broadband access.Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. has signed a CDMA patent licensing agreement with...
Deutsche Telekom's pending deal to purchase VoiceStream Wireless Corp., took a strange turn last week as apparent false correspondence concerning the merger from the offices of Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Gloria Tristani and Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce...
WEST CALDWELL, N.J.-Ricoh PC Peripherals Business Unit, a division of Ricoh Corp. that focuses on digital imaging and multimedia products, and Metricom, a wireless data company, announced they will use Metricom's Ricochet wireless network to enable high-powered wireless imaging directly from Ricoh's RDC-i700 digital...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should be funded solely through fees rather than congressional appropriations, said Rep. John D. Dingell, ranking member of the House Commerce Committee."I have always felt that the FCC should be able to function on a basis of a fee system....
LONDON-Vodafone Group announced it added more than 4.4 million customers during the quarter ended March 2001, showing growth in its worldwide registered proportionate customer base.This quarter's additions bring Vodafone's total customers gained for the year to 30.1 million, of which 5 million have been...
WAP has found itself in a similar situation to mighty Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. A lot of people complain about it, but nearly everyone uses it.WAP came along at a time when the wireless Internet industry was beginning to take off and needed...
NEW YORK-Even as corporate information technology departments are scaling back expenditures in the current economic downturn, the business customer is the business case for wireless data, at least for the next several years.While the opportunities are real for serving enterprise customers seeking to maintain...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless added more than 518,000 new customers during the first quarter, bringing its total customer base to 28 million subscribers.While Verizon Wireless was pleased with the additions, the carrier noted net additions were negatively impacted by the company's ongoing plan to remove...
MONTREAL-Microcell PCS announced that Microcell Connexions Inc. has completed implementation its 2.5-G General Packet Radio Service wireless data on its network across Canada, one month ahead of schedule.According to the company, the network covers most of the Canadian population, and will benefit users of...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said Hewlett-Packard Co. has integrated the MicroChaiVM, an embedded software for running applications developed for the Java platform, onto BREW handsets.The software was installed in four BREW-enabled Kyocera phones, including prototype color-display handsets manufactured by Samsung and Denso Corp."By porting...
