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Mobile-phone maker Siemens announced a unique new sliding phone it will sell through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. The company said it created the phone in conjunction with its longtime design partner Designafairs, a European creative firm. Siemens' move comes after...

WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...

With nearly all wireless carriers having reported second-quarter results, or at least filing an extension with the Securities and Exchange Commission, N. Moore Capital Ltd. released its quarterly carrier metric rankings that showed continued domination by nationwide carriers, which took the top three positions...

Privately held Mobility Networks, which sold technology to wireless carriers that linked wide area networks with Wi-Fi hot spots, has shut down and ceased operations, a former spokesman for the company confirmed. The spokesman declined to provide further information.Repeated attempts to contact the company's...

ANDOVER, Mass.-One of the nation's largest wireless carriers will launch a wireless conferencing service for businesses through a new deal with conferencing infrastructure provider Spectel Inc.Spectel executives would not name the carrier, but said the service would be available in the coming months. The...

Wireless customers unhappy with their carriers' customer care are more likely to switch service providers, according to J.D. Power and Associates' 2003 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study.The group found that 26 percent of those who rated their latest customer-care experience as below average are...

Privately held Mobility Networks, which sold technology to wireless carriers that linked wide area networks with Wi-Fi hot spots, has shut down and ceased operations, a former spokesman for the company confirmed. The spokesman declined to provide further information.Repeated attempts to contact the company's...

WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...

A recently renamed Viaero Wireless announced it has combined the previously known NE Colorado Cellular Inc. doing business as Cellular One of Northeast Colorado and Wireless II L.L.C. doing business as Nebraska Wireless.Nokia Corp. last week announced it will overlay Viaero's current CDMA technology-based...

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered into a definitive agreement with Sunshine PCS Corp. to acquire portions of three PCS licenses in Florida for $13.75 million.The deal calls for Cingular to obtain 15 megahertz of spectrum in the Tallahassee, Panama City and Ocala markets, where the...

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Aug. 15 asked the Federal Communications Commission to stay the Nov. 24 wireless local number portability mandate.The carriers say they "are merely seeking their day in court. The FCC has not acted on the Petition to...

WASHINGTON-The long-awaited rules governing telecommunications competition are a good-news/bad-news story for the wireless industry.The good news is that the Federal Communications Commission said mobile-phone carriers can have access to unbundled network elements-necessary pieces of the telephone network controlled by incumbent local exchange carriers. The...

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed a three-year GSM/GPRS roaming agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. providing both companies with access to each other's networks throughout the United States. Dobson recently announced plans to overlay its legacy TDMA network with GSM/GPRS technology.Dobson said the agreement will...

DENVER-The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among recent news:c Wireless gaming...

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...

OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...

WASHINGTON-A federal judge in New York said Aug. 12 that a consolidated group of lawsuits against major players of the wireless industry can go forward to determine whether the carriers in question illegally bundle handsets with service, but an allegation that the carriers have...

OTTAWA-Canada's nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks.The operators, Bell Mobility (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...

WASHINGTON-The long-awaited rules governing telecommunications competition are a good-news/bad-news story for the wireless industry.The good news is that the Federal Communications Commission said mobile-phone carriers can have access to unbundled network elements-necessary pieces of the telephone network controlled by incumbent local exchange carriers. The...

PHOENIX-Freedom Wireless Inc. has received a favorable ruling in its patent infringement lawsuit against Boston Communications Group Inc. and several wireless carriers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. Freedom Wireless alleged that two of its U.S. patents relating to...

Dobson Communications Corp. signed a three-year GSM/GPRS roaming agreement with T-Mobile USA Inc. providing both companies with access to each other's networks throughout the United States. Dobson recently announced plans to overlay its legacy TDMA network with GSM/GPRS technology.Dobson said the agreement will allow...

SEATTLE-Ring tones and music have become a major part of the wireless industry, as providers from the United States to Japan launch new audio services.Indeed, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will sell ring tones through Yamaha Ringtones, a unit of Yamaha Corp.'s Digital Content Division....

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered into a definitive agreement with Sunshine PCS Corp. to acquire portions of three PCS licenses in Florida for $13.75 million.The deal calls for Cingular to obtain 15 megahertz of spectrum in the Tallahassee, Panama City and Ocala markets where the...

The Customer Respect Group has released its Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study of the telecommunications and networking firms, including wireless companies, that are among the largest 1,000 companies in the United States.MCI and Nextel Communications Inc. tied for first place in customer respect...