SPOKANE, Wash.-Wi-Fi antenna supplier Vivato Inc. decided to close its doors, leaving several municipal W-Fi networks up in the air, or at least not sure how to maintain, replace and troubleshoot the company's equipment. Municipalities using Vivato's Wi-Fi equipment include Frankfurt, Ky.; Grand Rapids,...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it completed an offering of $550 million in senior notes due to mature in 2013. Centennial said it plans to use the net proceeds from the offering and a portion of its cash on hand to pay out a...
LUBBOCK, Texas-Alamosa Holdings Inc. has announced that its stockholders are set to vote Jan. 25 on Alamosa's proposed acquisition by Sprint Nextel Corp. If the deal is approved, owners of Alamosa common stock will receive $18.75 per share in a deal that totals $4.3...
MUNICH-Siemens AG said it has sold Siemens Accelerations to an undisclosed investor for an undisclosed amount. The company explained that Siemens Acceleration was an early-stage investment boutique for startup companies and was a subsidiary of Siemens Communications. The subsidiary was comprised of about 25...
WASHINGTON-The Senate late Wednesday confirmed the nominations of Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps to the Federal Communications Commission. The confirmations had been in doubt due to unrelated procedural issues up until the time they were pushed through.The White House in November nominated Tate,...
WASHINGTON-The Government Accountability Office is recommending that Congress extend the Federal Communications Commission's auction authority past its current expiration date of Sept. 30, 2007. GAO, the auditing arm of Congress, examined the spectrum allocation and licensing process. The report is a follow-up to a...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Federal anti-trust officials have opted not to take any action against Sprint Nextel Corp's acquisition of the carrier's largest CDMA affiliate, Alamosa Holdings Inc. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave notice that the officials had completed their examination of the transaction and made...
TORONTO-After just 18 months on the job, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced that its chief marketing officer, Clent Richardson, plans to leave the company March 1. Nortel has not named a replacement and said only that Richardson's decision was based on personal reasons and that...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. continued its move to m-commerce and traditional media with a $185 million investment in Fuji Television Network Inc. The operator announced an agreement to buy 2.6 percent of Fuji TV, a 46-year-old, publicly held broadcaster that is not affiliated with Fuji...
LONDON-Content delivery company MBlox got mired in Crazy Frog's marsh this week. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company was fined $70,000 by U.K. watchdog group Icstis for powering Jamba's content offerings to wireless users. Hundreds of consumers complained to Icstis about the VeriSign Inc. subsidiary, saying...
CHICAGO-The American Stock Exchange accepted plans by U.S. Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., to regain compliance with AMEX listing standards. The companies have received an extension until Jan. 17 to file their third-quarter 2005 financial reports. Both companies...
WASHINGTON-It took the help of the vice president to cast the deciding 51-50 vote, but the Senate Wednesday morning passed the budget bill including the Digital TV Transition Act of 2005. The act sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the deadline for completing the DTV...
DENVER-Licensing clearinghouse MPEG LA L.L.C. said it is working to assemble a patent portfolio for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, which is used in South Korea to send video content to mobile phones and other devices both terrestrially and by satellite. The company said it hopes...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it has completed a wireless property exchange with Chicago-based U.S. Cellular Corp., fulfilling part of the divestiture requirements imposed as part of Alltel's purchase of Western Wireless Corp earlier this year. Alltel acquired two rural service area markets in...
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS-Caribbean wireless carrier Digicel Group plc said it received approval from the Fair Trade Commission of Barbados for its acquisition of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s operations in that country.The acquisition of Cingular's network will expand Digicel's reach to five new territories: Anguilla, Antigua &...
LOS ANGELES-Primedia Enterprises and PowerMate Cellular announced a partnership to expand the wireless offerings from Primedia's automotive publication Motor Trend. The two companies will collaborate on a line of Motor Trend-branded cellular and Mp3/iPod accessories, including headsets, power adapters, cases, antennas, batteries and other...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. signed a three-year extension to an OEM agreement with Tekelec that will allow the infrastructure provider to continue deploying its 8000 Media Gateway as part of its Mobile Next Generation Network solution. The pair explained that the Tekelec 8000 is a converged...
BOSTON-Metro Wi-Fi location systems provider Skyhook Wireless said it raised $6.5 million in its first round of Series B financing. The company stated that Bain Capital Ventures led the round, along with Intel Capital. Existing investors Innovent, an entrepreneurial division of Nokia Corp., and...
WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Michael Gallagher is expected to leave the agency early next year, an agency spokesman said. Gallagher was confirmed to the post in November 2004 after serving as NTIA deputy administration since August 2003. NTIA, a Commerce Department unit,...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-I.D. Systems Inc. announced that the Transportation Security Administration has given the company's wireless vehicle tracking and fleet management project at Newark Liberty International Airport a positive nod. The company said the TSA's report concluded that the three-phase project, under which 80 vehicles...
EDINBURG, Va.-Shenandoah Personal Communications Co. and Sprint Nextel Corp. agreed to extend a mutual agreement to avoid litigation until they can work out a management agreement that takes Sprint Corp.'s acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. into account. The two companies entered into the agreement...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Swiss operator Sunrise announced they've signed a partnership agreement to launch Mobile TV services in Switzerland and plan to offer sports, entertainment and news video clips on demand, along with 24 live local and international channels. In addition, Ericsson said...
ANDOVER, Mass.-Groove Mobile music service is partnering with Telecom New Zealand to power the carrier's nationwide music service, the Telecom Music Store. Subscribers will be able to download songs from the mobile store via the Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. 9000 handset, which comes with...
VANCOUVER, B.C.-Sierra Wireless Inc. unveiled a new embedded laptop card ready to operate on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network. The Sierra Wireless MC5720 PCI Express Mini Card is the first product in Sierra's "mini card" series, designed for integration into laptop computers...
