LOS ANGELES—Toyota Motors North America plans to expand its mobile marketing efforts with a new wireless TV series from Fun Little Movies. The automaker is sponsoring "The Pool," a made-for-mobile comedy series that is being promoted with broadcast television commercials on major networks including...
SHANGHAI, China—Motorola Inc. has teamed with Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. to offer online mobile games to Chinese users. The companies launched mobile versions of two Shanda titles—World of Legend and Magical Land—that are available on a customized version of the Motorola E680g. The offering...
WASHINGTON—EF Johnson Inc. objected strongly Thursday to a plan by Motorola Inc. to change the reconfiguration plan for the 800 MHz band and allow radios to be replaced before licensees complete their negotiation process with Sprint Nextel Corp. and the 800 MHz Transition Administrator....
LOWELL, Mass.—M/A-COM Inc. said Florida law enforcement officers can now communicate seamlessly with local and regional public safety agencies over a single, common network using its 800 MHz statewide radio system. M/A-COM is calling Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System a national model for...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless Inc.’s stock fell nearly 23 percent after the company reported solid second-quarter results, but lower-than expected third-quarter guidance. The company’s stock was trading at about $12.55 Friday morning after closing at $16.25 Thursday.Revenues for the quarter totaled $55.2 million, more...
WESTCHESTER, Ill.—Andrew Corp. reported declining third-quarter net profits as the company covers restructuring costs in preparation for its proposed merger with ADC Telecommunications. Profits for the quarter fell from last year’s $13 million to this year’s $7 million, while revenues grew from last year’s...
TOKYO—Many are asking what Nokia Corp.’s and Motorola Inc.’s ascendancy is doing to all the other handset vendors—the two together hold 56 percent of the world’s handset business—and one answer surfaced today: venturing jointly. NEC Corp., NEC Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Panasonic...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and a group of industry network suppliers have set out what they see as a path to advance mobile network architecture and transition networks to IMS, or Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem. The companies involved in the Advances to IMS, or...
WASHINGTON—Online wireless retailer InPhonic Inc. signed a distribution agreement to add mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C.’s pay-as-you-go product to its lineup of postpaid offerings. InPhonic offers service from multiple carriers and MVNOs, including the four national wireless operators as well as...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens AG reported third-quarter net profits of $1.01 billion, more than double the $$495.5 million it posted for the same period last year. Revenues for the quarter rose to $27 billion from last year’s 23.6 billion. "It was a particularly successful quarter in...
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it had begun real-world testing of Unlicensed Mobile Access software on its 6136 device in the Finnish city of Oulu, prior to moving the technology to mainstream markets. The Nokia 6136 integrates UMA technology to allow seamless handoffs of voice...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of O2 Group plc, partnered with Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. on a UMTS and HSDPA field trial using 900 MHz spectrum on the Isle of Man. The trial, which began yesterday, leverages the lower frequency to...
PARIS—Alcatel SA reported second-quarter net profits of $228.7 million, an 8-percent decline from last year’s $249.4 million. The profits came from sales of $4.3 billion, a 7.6-percent increase from last year’s revenues of $4 billion. "While preparing for the merger with Lucent Technologies Inc....
BERWYN, Pa.—Shares of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. held firm as the company narrowed losses and added subscribers in the second quarter. The operator reported a net loss of $110.4 million, down less than 3 percent from a $113.52 million loss in the year-earlier period....
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Tellabs Inc.’s second quarter net profits rose 30 percent year over year, from $41 million to $54 million. Revenues jumped up 19 percent year over year, from $463 million to $549 million.The company said its broadband business contributed revenues of $298 million, a...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.—Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. tied for the top spot in the most recent J.D. Power & Associates survey of wireless carrier customer care performance. Both carriers scored 104 points on the company’s scale, while the industry average was 99. Alltel...
BOULDER, Colo.—Equipment manufacturer Carrier Access Corp. reported second-quarter net losses of $903,000 from revenues of $24.9 million, vastly improving on the company’s year-ago net loss of $1.44 million based on revenues of $18.9 million. The company’s stock remained relatively unchanged after the news at...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said a North American slowdown in wireless network equipment sales caused its year-over-year revenue to sink 12 percent and its net income to plummet 79 percent. The company reported third-quarter net income of $79 million from revenues of $2.05...
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill creating an Office of Emergency Communications within the Department of Homeland Security. The legislation requires the new entity to develop standards for interoperability, and prohibits states and localities from receiving homeland-security grants for interoperability equipment that...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Two mobile virtual network operators will soon be adding additional phones to their handset repertoires. MVNO Disney Mobile is planning to add a third handset to its line-up, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, and is expected to begin...
SAN MATEO, Calif.—Mobile game publisher Digital Chocolate Inc. welcomed six new investors as it scooped up $22.5 million in Series C funding. New investor Bridgescale Partners led the round; other newcomers included Outlook Ventures, Mantagu Newhall, DN Capital, Glynn Capital Management and CHI Capital....
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—LaNetro Zed’s future became even hazier as mobile data and billing services provider mBlox Inc. announced the acquisition of the content company’s Singapore-based technical center.MBlox, which had hoped to acquire LaNetro Zed for $175 million earlier this year, said it will host the...
