WASHINGTON-Three groups sued the Federal Communications Commission over changes to small-business bidding rules, asking a federal appeals court in Philadelphia to immediately stay enforcement of new guidelines and delay the scheduled Aug. 9 start of the advanced wireless services auction pending judicial review of...
WASHINGTON-Passage of a Senate bill to integrate wireless communications and other advanced technologies into the Cold War-era emergency alert system is hung up over a partisan dispute whether a new National Alert Office would reside in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or in...
If it seems like the tower industry has been taken over by giants, consider that first and foremost, towers are real estate. Thus, the game is not necessarily played according to volume. Rather, the value of any given tower depends in large part on...
MBlox is rumored to be looking to expand both its global footprint and its business plan with a $175 million acquisition of content provider LaNetro Zed. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based mobile data and billing services provider declined to discuss the buyout, but industry sources say...
CHICAGO-CBS Radio is partnering with Vibes Media to reach listeners on their wireless handsets in 18 U.S. markets. The broadcaster said 25 of its radio stations will use Vibes' iRadio service, which allows users to participate in promotions, polls and send song requests via...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-The merger of Lucent Technologies Inc. and Alcatel has received regulatory approval from federal antitrust authorities, according to a filing by Lucent with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the filing, the companies expect the merger to be completed within...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Research In Motion Ltd. announced they would make the BlackBerry 7130c device and service offering available at prices aimed at consumers-prices that exactly match the new price point established by Motorola Inc. and Verizon Wireless for the Motorola Q smart...
Though a mix of key wireless, telecom and Internet bills are supposedly in play on Capitol Hill, keeping lawmakers focused on them could get increasingly difficult in coming weeks and months. House and Senate legislating has given way to intense political strategizing by the...
CHICAGO-L.M. Ericsson launched a new end-to-end Internet Protocol TV offering, saying the solution is the first step in the company's long-term plans for TV services. During a press conference at the Globalcomm trade show, the company laid out its IPTV vision, explaining that it...
Nortel Networks Ltd. put the brakes on its joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to develop high-speed broadband access gear. The Canadian vendor quietly filed a 10-Q statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing the break-up. The joint venture was announced in...
The latest scuttlebutt surrounding Steve Jobs' much-anticipated jump into wireless sounds more like a breakfast treat than a music-friendly phone-but it could produce a tasty mobile device. Tech bloggers and industry analysts are abuzz over the thought of an "AppleBerry," the imaginary fruit of...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it successfully demonstrated fully mobile Voice over Internet Protocol calls over its EV-DO Revision A technology. The announcement is notable as Sprint Nextel Corp. has announced plans to launch EV-DO Rev. A technology by next year. Industry watchers have previously...
If the world would only stand still for a moment, Nokia Corp.'s new chief executive officer, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, would still have his work cut out for him. He'd have to ensure that his company delivered the more than 1 million mobile phones each and...
WASHINGTON-The telephone companies accused of allowing the National Security Agency access to customer calling patterns will not have to testify on the matter. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he decided not to issue subpoenas to the carriers after...
CHICAGO-Agere Systems launched a suite of chips and software called TrueONE during the Globalcomm trade show last week, saying the new solutions are designed to deliver voice, data, and both Internet Protocol TV and high-definition TV services to homes, businesses and mobile users over...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. kicked off a service launch in three Texas cities. Leap is launching service in Houston, while Leap and Alaska Native Broadband 1 License L.L.C. will begin offering Leap's Cricket service in the Texas cities of Bryan and College Station....
NEW YORK-Advertisers will have to devote a line item in their budget toward mobile marketing by 2007, an expense that could reach into the millions of dollars for some companies. How the mobile advertising market will develop is anyone's guess, but it will happen;...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. last week upped the ante in its long-running patent dispute with Nokia Corp. by filing a third lawsuit against the Finnish handset vendor, this time with the United States International Trade Commission, seeking to bar imports and sales of Nokia’s GSM...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Details on the Sidekick III emerged out of the Federal Communications Commission, in effect giving Palo Alto-based Danger Inc., a small handset software vendor, continued traction in the United States. The device likely will be sold by T-Mobile USA Inc., which previously...
WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone carriers last week stepped up their campaign to have the Federal Communications Commission make early-termination fees off limits to states, a huge issue that has taken on greater significance in light of industry's failure to secure expanded federal pre-emption in telecom reform legislation...
WASHINGTON-Public-safety answering points serving more than 75 percent of the population are able to receive location information from mobile-phone callers, according to statistics from the National Emergency Number Association. "The PSAP statistics translate to 88 percent receiving Phase I calls and 76 percent covered...
CHICAGO-Patrick Esser, president of Cox Communications Inc., reminded Globalcomm attendees during a keynote speech of his cable/telephone company's plans to unveil wireless service later this year in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. But Esser didn't stop there-he also threw out a challenge to state...
CHICAGO-Lucent Technologies Inc. kicked off the Globalcomm trade show with an early morning press conference to introduce its new next-generation network architecture called "Acuity." Speaking to a group of analysts and media, Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere explained that Acuity delivers high-bandwidth Internet...
WASHINGTON-Proponents of network neutrality face an uphill battle to convince the U.S. Senate to include net neutrality in its version of telecommunications reform after a major defeat Thursday in the House of Representatives. The Bush administration also signaled its opposition to the issue. "The...
