REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Two new reports on the wireless infrastructure market offered an upbeat review and outlook. Dell'Oro Group released a new study that found the mobility infrastructure equipment market grew 7 percent last year to reach $40.1 billion, the highest level recorded in a...
WASHINGTON-Complaints filed by mobile-phone subscribers at the Federal Communications Commission dropped in the fourth quarter of 2005 compared with the previous quarter. The FCC said wireless complaints decreased from 6,873 in the third quarter to 4,956 in the fourth quarter, with fewer complaints received...
WASHINGTON-New Jersey, one of only a handful of states to ban driver use of handheld cell phones, is considering a stiffer penalty to address an ongoing national problem that has defied legislative and common-sense solutions to date. Meantime, momentum is building in other states...
In a seemingly endless controversy of unexpected twists and turns, there is little mystery in what U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake was thinking when she thought she was saying goodbye to the last of many cell-phone health suits that have come her way during...
WASHINGTON-TracFone Wireless Inc., the nation's largest prepaid cell-phone company, has sued to shut down firms accused of buying large quantities of phones at major retail outlets and disabling proprietary software before reselling handsets for use on other cellular networks. Miami-based TracFone, a subsidiary of...
WASHINGTON-Top wireless broadband licensees are at odds with schools and churches over whether federal regulators should mandate a 15-year cap on education spectrum leases, a feud that could force Bush administration telecom officials to choose between two highly popular and politically connected interest groups....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—ITT Industries Inc. said it settled a patent-infringement claim involving Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., related Samsung companies and Sprint Nextel Corp.ITT said that details of the settlement would not be made public, but that it would resolve all the infringement issues. The...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Fox Mobile Entertainment is joining the ranks of wireless aggregators, unveiling a Web site hawking music, games and images for mobile phones.The News Corp. subsidiary launched Mobizzo, an Internet storefront featuring content from Fox brands including "Family Guy," "Napoleon Dynamite" and the upcoming...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc said it expects to file a $48 billion charge to its assets related to the value of goodwill, or the difference between an asset’s value and how much the company paid for it.Most of the goodwill charge is expected to be...
TORONTO—Nortel Network Ltd. nabbed another General Electric Co. Ltd. executive, naming Joseph Flanagan its new vice president of Order Management.Nortel said Flanagan will report to another former GE employee, Joel Hackney, who joined Nortel in December as vice president of global supply chain and...
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Boost Mobile and wholesale channels did much of the carrier's heavy lifting in the fourth quarter, helping propel the carrier to 2 million net customer additions. The numbers put Sprint Nextel, technically, on equal footing with Verizon Wireless' record-breaking net adds,...
ATLANTA, Ga.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced a product the company said integrates mobile and office communications. Cingular's OfficeReach, a voice-based virtual private network, offers such perks as the ability to establish a one-number service that allows an employee to be reached at a desk phone,...
IRVINE, Calif.-Mobile search provider go2 said it delivered more than 24 million unique user sessions in 2005, marking a 51-percent increase from its 2004 usage figures. Wireless users viewed more than 210 million pages of local information from go2 last year, the company said;...
Eager to capture a piece of an estimated $2 billion equipment market, Texas Instruments Inc. is plunging into the WiMAX infrastructure business. The company today introduced a number of components it said comprise an end-to-end solution that gives carriers and infrastructure vendors the ability...
The chief executives of nine of the nation's high-profile, high-tech firms are calling for a complete review of national spectrum policy in order to foster what they characterize as the resource's highest and best use. Through their public-advocacy group, the Technology CEO Council, these...
Some of the biggest names from the early days of video games are looking to cash in on the latest platform in gaming-the mobile phone. The venerable publisher Namco Networks officially joined the stampede to mobile last month, launching a mobile game subsidiary dedicated...
Integration is one of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s biggest challenges this year as the company continues to digest its multiple mergers-ranging from the former Nextel Communications Inc. to various PCS affiliates such as Nextel Partners and Alamosa Holdings Inc.-and gobbles its remaining affiliates, such as...
LONDON-Moonlight Mobile launched an application that allows mobile-phone users to browse Amazon products and information from their handsets. The company said users can check product prices and availability, read buyer ratings and add items to their shopping cart or wish list for future purchase....
Handset distributor Brightpoint Holdings B.V. said it acquired all the outstanding shares of Persequor Ltd., which previously supplied management services to Brightpoint Asia Ltd. and Brightpoint India Pvt. Ltd.In addition, Brightpoint gained ownership of a 15-percent interest in Brightpoint India that Persequor previously held.Terms...
WASHINGTON- Major mobile-phone carriers and manufacturers last week petitioned U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake to reconsider her recent decision to have two health-related lawsuits sent back to state courts in California and Florida and a third lawsuit remanded to a federal court in Louisiana....
Wi-Fi news is never in short supply. Last week, EarthLink Inc. announced that it teamed with Google Inc. to submit a proposal for San Francisco's Wi-Fi network contract. Instead of having to choose between free or paid options to get Wi-Fi services, the city...
WASHINGTON-The Virginia legislature could be on the verge of passing an unprecedented statewide flat tax on wireless and other communications services, a move the mobile-phone industry hopes will be emulated by other states that have a patchwork of telecom levies. On Tuesday, GOP Delegate...
Syniverse Holdings Inc. capped its first year as a publicly traded company with improved net income despite a decline in revenues for the fourth quarter.Revenues for the quarter totaled $83.6 million, down 5.3 percent from fourth-quarter revenues of $88.3 million during 2004. Total revenues...
ORLANDO, Fla.—This spring, Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin offering its PCS users the ability to share pictures and videos recorded by their cellular phones on an invitation-only basis in Sprint PCS Picture Mail Groups. The service allows subscribers to create an online group related...
