In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both …
Handset subsidies are falling as digital mobile phones gain huge volumes, but as carriers begin targeting new segments and a new cycle of data-enabled handsets come to market, analysts wonder …
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to purchase a personal communications services operating license in Visalia, Calif., for an undisclosed amount. Leap expects to complete …
LONDON-Wireless Internet-capable devices are set for explosive growth in unit shipments as the price/performance equation shifts over the next five years to accommodate the growing information, communication and entertainment needs …
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Broadband technologies will play an important role in the growth of the wireless communications integrated circuit market, according to a study released by Allied Business Intelligence. “ICs used …
Seven years ago this month, Congress approved a new, market-based telecom licensing mechanism that would forever change the wireless industry. Spectrum auctions not only revolutionized licensing, but came to permeate …
Score one for the wireless industry. The D.C. Federal Court of Appeals last week ruled that the Federal Communications Commission must use a narrower legal standard in interpreting the Communications …
Easy Access Inc. has selected SeaGull Inc.’s Wireless-to-Host solution to wirelessly enable its EZ-Vote mobile voter registration management system. MG Financial Group has introduced wireless access to Forex market trading …
NEW YORK-Marvel Enterprises Inc. has teamed with Nokia Ventures Corp.-funded Riot Entertainment to develop and offer programs and other content for wireless devices based on popular Marvel Comics characters, including …
Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy Cerulean Technology Inc., a provider of public safety software and solutions, for $150 million, adding the public safety vertical market to its growing …
WorldCom Inc. moved one step closer to officially jumping into the wireless broadband game by filing last week its first round of applications with the Federal Communications Commission to offer …
CLEVELAND-While the employment picture for people in the telecommunications industry has been bright for some time, according to the latest survey conducted by Management Recruiters International Inc., that picture is …
TOKYO-Japan’s dominant wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, is in talks with SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. about taking a minority stake in the combined mobile venture between the two U.S. …
In preparation for The Personal Communications Industry Association’s GlobalXChange 2000 conference Sept. 26-29 in Chicago, RCR is accepting advance vendor product announcements that will be made at the show. News …
WASHINGTON-Nearly a week after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that wireless carriers can be subject to damages awarded in civil lawsuits, consumers and the industry are reading the ruling differently. …
WASHINGTON-Union employees at Verizon Communications, the parent company of Verizon Wireless, remained on strike at RCR’s deadline Friday afternoon with both sides refusing to say when the strike might end. …
Speculation is running high about what moves AT&T Corp. will make to bolster its tumbling stock price. The company’s stock has lost nearly 39 percent of its value this year …
WASHINGTON-A ruling last week from a federal appeals court allowing for law enforcement to obtain cell-site information without a court order means the issue of law enforcement using mobile phones …
In a surprise ending, six groups walked away with Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Germany at a total cost of $45.85 billion, the largest amount raised yet in a …
WASHINGTON-Despite splashy headlines of multibillion dollar telecom deals, wild dot-com stock swings on Wall Street and all the hot-button digital issues that have GOP and Democratic policy-makers crawling over each …
