The handset market enjoyed another solid quarter, with Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. giving thanks for a rosy holiday shopping season. "We expect a robust 4Q handset market to benefit both Motorola and Nokia," wrote Ittai Kidron...
Wireless loves advertising; the industry ranks third in terms of total ad dollars spent, behind the automotive and financial services industries. And while most of the wireless industry's commercials are entertaining, some drive me (and you too I bet) crazy.For example, Cingular Wireless L.L.C....
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it invested another $10 million into IPWireless Inc., which develops UMTS TD-CDMA network technology. Sprint Nextel initially invested $4 million in IPWireless in July. Sprint Nextel is trialing IPWireless' UMTS TD-CDMA technology in Washington, D.C. using its 2.5 GHz...
When Cingular Wireless L.L.C. managed to squeeze the launch of its 3G network into the last month of 2005, the move catapulted 16 major metropolitan cities into the spotlight as the most competitive 3G markets in the country. Cingular rolled out its BroadbandConnect service...
MIAMI-Brightstar Corp. continued to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific market with a new subsidiary in Hong Kong. The mobile-phone distributor and supply-chain management company opened the doors to its new sales offices and a distribution center in the city, which it said will...
Among the gathering hordes of hungry mobile virtual network operators, nearly all are angling for a bite of the 18-to-34-year-old demographic. But one MVNO launching this week, BeyondMobile, is taking a different tack, targeting small businesses. The wireless service is being offered by an...
EarthLink Inc. announced a contract with Motorola Inc. and Tropos Networks Inc. as the Internet service provider prepares to launch municipal Wi-Fi networks in five cities. Though terms of the contract were not disclosed, EarthLink said the agreement includes design, installation, system integration and...
LAS VEGAS-What do Intel Corp., Modeo L.L.C., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. all have in common? They are all eager to promote Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld, an open standard for broadcast digital TV reception on mobile devices. The companies formed the Mobile...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Global Tower Partners says it's scooping up 209 towers and 24 tower sites under construction as part of an agreement to purchase the wireless assets of TCP Communications, a Massachusetts-based tower company. The deal brings GTP's nationwide collection of owned towers to...
HONOLULU-The IEEE 802.11n task group voted 184-0 in favor of a joint proposal for the 802.11n standard for high-speed Wi-Fi. The vote ends months of bickering and maneuvering by competing Wi-Fi technology developers.While the new standard is not 100-percent completed yet, chipmakers are expected...
Regional wireless operator SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. said it expects to report a $14 million loss for the fourth quarter of 2005. The carrier also said it no longer plans to give any guidance or commentary on future performance. SunCom had previously forecast a...
Alltel Corp. reported weaker-than-expected total earnings, but still outpaced analysts' predictions by adding 147,000 net new wireless subscribers, most of which were prepaid. Alltel reported consolidated revenue of $2.58 billion, a 21-percent jump from 2004's fourth quarter. However, net income fell to $255.1 million...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Fixed WiMAX products from Aperto Networks Inc., Redline Communications Inc., Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. have been stamped "WiMAX Forum Certified." "The WiMAX era starts today," boasted Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum, at the WCA Technical and Business Symposium in...
EDINBURG, Va.-Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. cut its churn rate in the fourth quarter of 2005 and increased its net retail customers by 6,515 subscribers, a jump of nearly 43 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2004. The company's wholesale customer adds for 2005 dropped...
Boston's neighborhood business districts may soon be bustling with free Wi-Fi hot spots thanks to the city's Main Streets economic development project. But Boston's free project is different from those proposed in other large U.S. cities. First of all, Boston said its Wi-Fi project...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and cellular carriers urged a federal appeals court to throw out challenges to an agency ruling that forbids states from regulating line-item charges on monthly mobile-phone bills. The litigation has turned into a major legal test of the reach of...
WASHINGTON-The 800 MHz rebanding process has entered the alternative dispute resolution phase-a hybrid process established by the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that the retuning effort doesn't drag out past the three-year timeframe. The ADR process has been helpful for some of the licensees...
WASHINGTON-Western Wireless International Corp., citing the still-unresolved dispute over the ransacking of its cell-phone operations in Cote D'Ivoire in 2003, urged Bush administration trade officials to take a hard look at that country's telecom regulatory practices to determine whether it is in compliance with...
WASHINGTON-A state appeals court has agreed to review a record $12 million fine levied by California regulators against Cingular Wireless L.L.C. in 2004. "Cingular is encouraged to hear that the California Court of Appeal has agreed to hear our case," said a Cingular spokesman....
Senate Democrats, having talked themselves silly during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and unwittingly catapulted the fellow to rock-star status, may yet get the definitive response they sought from him on whether President Bush's warrantless wiretap program is legal.The problem...
WASHINGTON-Federal officials last week said foreigners who last month tried to buy a sizeable quantity of prepaid cell phones in Texas do not have terrorist ties. But the incident, which prompted a flurry of news stories, underscores how quickly a story can take on...
With little fanfare, T-Mobile USA Inc. has expanded the reach of its network by more than 50 percent, chiefly through 850 MHz roaming agreements that have put the carrier on more competitive footing and mark a shift from its historic 1900 MHz-only platform. Most...
WASHINGTON-Amid a swirl of publicity over the apparent widespread theft and sale of cell-phone users' call records, two federal agencies along with both houses of Congress jumped to try to address the issue. Indeed, wireless carriers may find themselves in hot water because of...
WASHINGTON-Iraq's telecom regulatory chief vowed not to cave to pressure to extend license terms of the country's three national wireless operators, an escalating controversy overshadowed last week by a deadly ambush of a three-car convoy with technicians, body guards and drivers employed by Iraqi...
