TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. announced plans to re-enter the broadband access market, unveiling a teaming with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to develop access offerings for service providers around the world.The companies said they plan to establish a joint venture that would sell products to converge...
ADELAIDE, Australia-Cohda Wireless Pty. Ltd., a public-safety and municipal wireless technology developer, said it raised $1.8 million in its first round of venture funding. Cohda said it plans to use the funds in its efforts to commercially launch its technology and to expand operations...
SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced it plans to build dual-mode CDMA/Wi-Fi handsets using chips from Marvell Technology Group Ltd. "The footprint and adoption of (wireless local area networks) is increasing exponentially and we have carrier customers who are viewing this technology as a complement...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it completed the acquisition of CDMA affiliate Enterprise Communications Partnership. The move ends Enterprise's litigation against Sprint Nextel, which related to affiliate exclusivity agreements following Sprint Corp.'s acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. Sprint Nextel announced in December it would...
ATLANTA-Following the success of its wildly popular Razr, Motorola Inc. is expanding its range of sleek, four-letter phones with the retail release of its Pebl through T-Mobile USA Inc. and its Slvr through Cingular Wireless L.L.C. Motorola's Slvr-a candybar-style version of the Razr-is now...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining AT&T Inc. and Alltel Corp. each $100,000 for not having certifications on file showing that they are protecting their customers' call records. The FCC was forced to ask the five largest wireless and wireline companies for their certifications...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Summus Inc. launched a mobile portal designed to allow users to purchase and manage digital content. The company unveiled OasysMobile.com, which it described as a "virtual locker" to store ringtones, games, wallpaper and other content. The service is targeted at 12- to 24-year-old...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson posted $1.1 billion in net income for the fourth quarter, a 52-percent increase over the $738 million the company reported for the same quarter of 2004. "We have concluded another good year with strong sales, earnings and cash flow," said Carl-Henric...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The flurry of legal wrangling in the wireless e-mail space continued as Visto Corp. filed a patent infringement suit against competitor Good Technology Inc. The software developer accused Good of violating four of its patents for synchronizing, managing and accessing mobile e-mail....
OTTAWA-SIPquest, a developer of Session Initiation Protocol applications, said its Mobile Console application has been optimized for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.The company said the product is the first Voice over Internet Protocol application to be optimized for the new operating system...
TOKYO-Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. posted weaker year-over-year third quarter fiscal 2005 results. For the nine months ended Dec. 31, 2005, the consolidated results for DoCoMo and its subsidiaries included an operating revenue decrease of 1.7 percent, an operating revenue decline of 7.7...
NEW YORK-Two emerging mobile players announced new funding this week. Broadband network Heavy.com closed a $10 million round of financing led by Polaris Venture Partners. The funds are earmarked for accelerating the company's rollout of original programming created for mobile and online viewing. The...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced a workforce reorganization that will affect almost 300 total employees in its infrastructure and enterprise businesses. The company said the reorganization is due to increasing technological complexity, growth in emerging markets and the need for local customization and support. In...
SANA'A, Yemen-Motorola Inc. said it plans to supply and install its end-to-end push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) offering in partnership with a public sector telecommunications company in Yemen.The Illinois-based manufacturer said the deal calls for it to provide infrastructure, servers and mobile devices for subscribers...
Floating towers soon may give some rural North Dakotans better wireless voice and data coverage. Next month, Chandler, Ariz.-based Space Data Corp. is set to trial its latex communications balloons with Extend America, a North Dakota fixed broadband provider and Sprint Nextel Corp. iDEN...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched a new iteration of its prepaid phone service, dubbed "U." Users of the U prepaid service can pay by the minute, day or month. Pay-per-minute customers are charged 15 cents per minute for weekday, night, weekend and mobile-to-mobile calls....
CALABASAS, Calif.- NeoReach Wireless announced it plans to use equipment from Strix Systems, a wireless mesh-network provider, to build a 72-sqare mile municipal Wi-Fi network in Chandler, Ariz. Strix said the companies plan to build one network offering Wi-Fi access to about 19,000 businesses...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. is carrying forward the battle against companies that offer cellular phone records for a price. The carrier filed for injunctions against a private investigation company called All Star Investigations Inc. that allegedly uses deception to obtain customers' call records. According...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. finally notched a victory in the courtroom-but not the big win it was hoping for. The BlackBerry maker said the federal patent court in Germany ruled in its favor, rejecting all patent claims from Luxembourg-based InPro Licensing S.a.r.l. InPro,...
SEATTLE-Yahoo has the early lead in the race to become the wireless Web portal of choice for U.S. consumers, according to new figures from M:Metrics. An average of nearly 13 million consumers per month accessed Yahoo's services from their handset during the fourth quarter...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Alcatel Corp. and Stratex Netowrks Inc. announced a four-year agreement under which Stratex Networks' Eclipse solutions will become part of Alcatel's product offerings."These products, under an Alcatel branded designation, will make our best-in-class point-to-point microwave portfolio even more complete and competitive, particularly...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has developed software that eases the transition to new spectrum for public-safety communications systems. The software, which Motorola has been developing for more than a year, reportedly allows critical public-safety communications equipment to be re-banded to a new segment...
OMAHA, Neb.-West Corp., which provides outsourced communications services, inked an agreement to acquire emergency infrastructure and services provider Intrado Inc. for about $465 million, or $26 per share, in cash. West said it plans to fund the purchase with cash on hand, its existing...
Telecom equipment vendors posted fiscal first-quarter results and watched their stocks react accordingly. Thanks in part to a $278 million bankruptcy lawsuit ruling, Lucent Technologies Inc. posted a first-quarter net loss of $104 million, or 2 cents per share.The telecom equipment maker said the...
