PacketVideo Corp. and Warner Bros. New Media unveiled plans to deliver Warner Bros.-created original animated content to wireless devices, including wireless phones and personal digital assistants, using PacketVideo’s MPEG-4 streaming …
CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. sold its interest in Hawaii Rural Service Area 3 to AT&T Wireless Group for an undisclosed amount. The deal includes US Cellular’s nonwireline license and related …
Microwave communications equipment supplier Harris Corp. is beefing up its presence in the local multipoint distribution services market by purchasing Wavtrace Inc., a privately held developer of wireless broadband point-to-multipoint …
NEW YORK-Western Multiplex Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., a broadband wireless access equipment provider, went public last week with a 7.5-million share offering of common stock, priced at $12 each. The company, …
NEW YORK-Cisco Systems Inc. announced plans to buy wireless software firm IPmobile Inc. for $425 million in stock. IPmobile software is designed to enable wireless voice and data services on …
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. made several announcements regarding new content and services now available to its Nextel Online customers. Nextel said mobileID will deliver a subset of its personalized wireless …
BALTIMORE-Maryland doctor Chris Newman, 41, filed an $800 million lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court claiming his wireless phone caused a malignant tumor behind his right ear. The tumor was …
MILAN, Italy-Italian communications group Tiscali is said to be looking for a partner for its consortium to bid for a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license in Italy later this year. …
HONG KONG-Cable & Wireless HKT reported that the high court of Hong Kong granted an order pursuant to Section 166 of the company’s ordinance sanctioning the merger of C&W HKT …
In a July 10 article about System Beta, a one-number dialing system patented by Richard Levine, RCR reported incorrectly that callers would need to dial a star-number code for each …
NEW YORK-Globalstar introduced commercial service in Russia. GlobalTel, the exclusive provider of Globalstar service in Russia, is initially providing basic telephone services, including voice mail and short message service (SMS) …
NEW YORK-In order to handle the converged communications revolution, the vision of L.M. Ericsson is the evolution of network reliability to a degree that today is only a dream on …
Qualcomm Inc. and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility last week, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Televigation and U.S. Wireless Corp. have partnered to provide navigation assistance for both WAP-enabled and regular mobile phone users. Under terms of the agreement, U.S. Wireless will provide Televigation’s …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week delayed the auction of commercial licenses in the 700 MHz band, while proceeding with plans to auction licenses for guard-band managers and proposing service …
Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission. Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers’ networks, while carriers battled …
The speculation started in late June. Analysts began questioning whether the mobile-handset market was going soft. Their suspicions appeared justified when the world’s largest handset vendor, Nokia Corp., said third-quarter …
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Zentropy Partners opened offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Geneva to expand its digital consulting and development practices for WAP and m-commerce technologies. Zentropy Partners is affiliated with The Interpublic …
Hoping to understand why 67 percent of U.S. subscribers said they would be interested in changing their wireless service provider in a 1999 survey, the Yankee Group has compared wireless …
