The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. said its Mobile and Embedded Devices unit operating loss widened during its fiscal third quarter ended March 31. The company reported a $14 million loss for the unit, an increase from the $9 million loss it reported during the same quarter...
WASHINGTON—The House Commerce Committee late Wednesday voted to streamline the process that the Federal Communications Commission uses to approve multi-mode devices. "All we are trying to do is kick in a quicker process so that we don’t have to wait 64 days to get...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Shares of InfoSpace Inc. dipped after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $90 million, up 4 percent from the year-ago period. The mobile communications company and content provider topped its own forecast as well as analyst projections, reporting $3 million in net profit...
IRVINE, Calif.—Mobile information service provider AskMeNow announced plans to acquire Israel-based IntelliGate Ltd., a specialist in information retrieval and natural language search technology. AskMeNow, a subsidiary of Ocean West Holding Corp., said the acquisition will allow it to offer mobile phone users automated search...
LOS ANGELES—Xero Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator that plans to offer ad-supported prepaid service targeted at college students, said it selected Xius’ VOISE service delivery platform to power the launch and delivery of its services. Xero plans to launch service this fall. Xius,...
PARIS—Alcatel Inc. reported strong growth in its fixed-line business during the first quarter, but intense competition in mobile network equipment sales hurt the company’s operating margin, which rose to 6.5 percent from 4.1 percent a year ago, but fell below analyst expectations of 8...
BEDFORD, Mass.—Boston Communications Group Inc. was hit hard by the ongoing defections of Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Alltel Corp. from its real-time billing platform, and said it would be relying heavily on Sprint Nextel Corp. for future revenues. BCGI’s net income for...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has signed a new royalty-bearing patent license agreement giving Soma Networks Inc. license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units, modem cards and infrastructure equipment based on Qualcomm’s OFDM and OFDMA technology. Soma provides last-mile broadband wireless access technology...
WASHINGTON—An intra-party dispute broke out late Wednesday regarding the issue of network-neutrality when Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) tried to require the Federal Communications Commission to study how content providers and search engines like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. might distort the information delivered to...
HOUSTON—The nation’s second largest tower company appears to be closing in on its losses, as Crown Castle International Corp. reported first-quarter net losses of just $6.7 million, a sharp decline form its year-ago net loss of $126.9 million. CCI’s posted site-rental revenue of $161.9...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—The Walt Disney Internet Group is teaming up with United Kingdom mobile network operator O2 plc to offer a Disney Mobile-branded mobile-phone service later this year in the U.K. The services offered are expected to be similar to those announced at CTIA...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Mobile publisher mDisney is getting into the multiplayer gaming space. The content provider—formerly Disney Mobile Studios—said it will offer Pirates of the Caribbean Multiplayer, a "real-time" offering for wireless video game fans. Up to 16 gamers can play in a single scenario,...
NEW YORK—Wireless content vendor Zingy lost its second chief executive officer in six months as Andy Volanakis stepped down over differences with Japanese parent company For-Side.com. A former general manager of one of Sprint PCS’ content businesses, Volanakis joined the content aggregator in 2003...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. mobile phone industry opposes a newly unveiled plan to reserve a large block of auction-bound spectrum for a national broadband public safety network, an initiative championed by former wireless executive Morgan O’Brien and designed to bring communications interoperability to first responders frustrated...
WASHINGTON—Small and regional wireless carriers petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a special inquiry designed to collect and inspect a representative sample of wireless roaming agreements on a confidential basis. Airpeak Communications L.L.C., Airtel Wireless L.L.C., Cleveland Unlimited Inc., Leap Wireless International Inc.,...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission backed away from making major reforms to a controversial auction program offering bidding discounts to small businesses, rejecting a revenue-only threshold for partnership eligibility in favor of a resale standard to determine whether national mobile-phone carriers and other large telecom...
BOSTON—American Tower Corp. narrowed its financial losses, reporting first-quarter net losses of $2.6 million from revenue of $320.4 million compared to the year-ago loss of $31.6 million based on revenue of $184.4 million. "American Tower made significant progress over the past quarter," stated Jim...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Rural Cellular Corp. unveiled preliminary first-quarter figures reflecting a large increase in roaming revenue, but the company said it lost about 7,800 subscribers including wholesaler customers during the first three months of the year. RCC’s roaming revenue topped in at nearly $31 million,...
HELSINKI, Finland—Publisher Rovio Mobile is looking to add another dimension with the acquisition of 3-D technology developer Pixelgene Ltd. Rovio, which was founded two years ago, specializes in dark action and adventure games for mobile phones. The company hopes to use Pixelgene’s technology to...
KIRLAND, Wash.—Nextel Partners Inc. reported a strong first quarter—which will very likely be its last quarter of independent reporting since its acquisition by Sprint Nextel Corp. is expected to close in the second quarter. Nextel Partners added nearly 103,000 net new customers in the...
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. reported plans to "centralize its administrative field operations, including sales, marketing and product development," in Denver, where the carrier already houses its customer-care functions. Leap noted that as part of the centralization process, it would relocate several information technology...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Wireless Services Corp. announced the acquisition of off-deck content provider Mobile Media North America. Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed.WSC said it plans to merge the operations of the company into SinglePoint, an aggregation business designed to allow content owners and...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands—Caribbean wireless carrier Digicel Group plc gave L.M. Ericsson the nod as its exclusive infrastructure provider to build out its GSM network across the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British colony in the West Indies. Since Digicel’s launch in 2001,...
