MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia Mobile announced plans to trial WiBro handsets with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. during the upcoming 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, according to reports. The move is notable as it lends further credibility to high-speed mobile broadband services like WiBro. Most high-speed...
The IEEE's November Wi-Fi standards-development meeting came and went without much fanfare, but debate over how to best reach a standard is causing some fireworks. Airgo Networks Inc. said it is disappointed that there was no proposal to vote on at the meeting, and...
WASHINGTON-House and Senate negotiators have settled on Feb. 17, 2009, as the deadline for completing the transition to digital TV service. The House of Representatives passed the budget bill, which contains the DTV Transition Act, early Monday, and the Senate is expected to follow...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Disappointing wireless sales likely will prevent RadioShack Corp. from meeting its full-year earnings forecast, the retailer said. Calling its wireless sales "weaker than anticipated," RadioShack said it is unlikely to meet its fiscal 2005 target of $2.14 to $2.24 per share. But...
WASHINGTON-The activities of cellular trade group CTIA under former president Thomas Wheeler are highlighted in a re-filed class-action lawsuit alleging wireless carriers, vendors and industry lobbyists failed to disclose to consumers that scientific studies differ on whether mobile-phone radiation can cause health problems. The...
It is the high-octane caffeine of Wall Street, the financial news media, Internet tip sheets and corporate America: quarterly earnings forecasts. It is the hot, hesitant tango between U.S. companies and large investment houses.The earnings game is played to varying degrees in the capital-intensive...
Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. last week made its long-awaited and much-hyped soft launch. The carrier is offering a range of postpaid calling services, including an unlimited calling option and push-to-talk capabilities, as well as a trio of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO handsets....
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced plans to launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, featuring two channels of content from premium cable channel HBO. HBO Mobile and HBO Family Mobile plan to include clips and select episodes from HBO cartoon and sports programs, as...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Device vendor Danger Inc. announced it is conducting an over-the-air updating campaign for all T-Mobile Sidekick II users in the United States and Germany. Danger said it plans to have more than 1 million OTA upgrades completed worldwide by the end of...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. quietly took its e-mail service wireless, allowing users to access their Gmail accounts from Web-enabled handsets. The service, which is free aside from carrier data charges, allows consumers to reply with a voice call to people in their contact list,...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersStandard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its ratings on UbiquiTel Inc., including its corporate credit rating from CCC+ to B- and its senior unsecured debt...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will acquire another of its CDMA affiliates, this time picking up Enterprise Communications for about $98 million including the assumption of debt. The move is the latest in a string of affiliate acquisitions in the wake of Sprint...
BEDFORD, Mass.-Shares of Boston Communication Group Inc. jumped more than 25 percent after a U.S. appeals court halted an order that would have forced the company to stop selling prepaid services to some of its carrier customers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
SEATTLE-Nextel Partners Inc. is expanding its use of Seattle-based Par3 Communications' customer care platform for automating collections, welcoming and interacting with new customer, and to provide automated details on using voicemail, wireless Web access, plan limits, billing cycles and walkie-talkie services."With Par3, we can...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Disappointing wireless sales likely will prevent RadioShack Corp. from meeting its full-year earnings forecast, the retailer said. Calling its wireless sales "weaker than anticipated," RadioShack said it is unlikely to meet its fiscal 2005 target of $2.14 to $2.24 in earnings per...
WASHINGTON-Public safety should consider partnerships with commercial wireless, said Timothy Donahue, executive chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. and NRIC VII chairman. Acting as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission's Network Reliability & Interoperability Council, it was the only time Donahue questioned a presenter at...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it plans to expand its Chinese assembly operations to increase internal assembly capacity by about 50 percent. The company said by increasing its internal assembly capacity it will strengthen its supply chain and reduce manufacturing costs. The expansion...
ANAHEIM, Calif.-NextPhase Wireless Inc. said it expanded its pre-WiMAX network into California's Riverside and San Bernardino counties.The company, which designs and operates its own networks, acquired Blazen Wireless earlier this year. Since then, NextPhase said it has focused its efforts on building out a...
AIX EN PROVENCE, France-Near Field Communications vendor Inside Contactless said it closed $10.6 million in financing.Sofinnova, Vertex Venture Capital and Visa International led the round, while GIMV, Vertex Singapore and Siparex also participated.Inside said it plans to use the funds to expand its business...
MIRAMAR, Fla.-Wireless Maritime Services L.L.C., which is a two-year-old joint venture between Maritime Telecommunications Network and Cingular Wireless L.L.C., launched a customer and service-driven Web site at www.cellularatsea.com.WMS was created originally with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which has since been acquired by Cingular, to...
WASHINGTON-A junior member of the Senate Commerce Committee introduced legislation Thursday to transform communications regulation by modeling the Federal Communications Commission's work after the Federal Trade Commission.The proposed legislation by Sen. James DeMint (R-S.C.) tracks closely with a proposal made earlier this year by...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said driver cell phone use jumped to 6 percent in 2005. NHSTSA, whose data was compiled from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey, said nearly a million motorists are talking on the phone at any given time during...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Global Signal Inc., the nation's third-largest tower company, declared a fourth-quarter dividend of 50 cents per share on its common stock.The dividend payment underscores a significant financial improvement compared with the third-quarter when the company reported a net loss of $15.4 million, or...
LOS ANGELES-Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. made its long-awaited and much-hyped soft launch through its Web site, offering a range of postpaid calling plans that include an unlimited calling option and push-to-talk capabilities, as well as a trio of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO...
