Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is infringing on one of Sendo’s patents. Sendo said …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Sendo sues Orange on patent infringement claims >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T Corp. to bolster Wi-Fi hot spots >
AT&T Corp. said it will spend $500 million this year to improve customer experience, including an extension of its business customers’ secure corporate intranets to Wi-Fi hot spots at airports …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Business Briefs >
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW’s planned overlay of its existing …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T Wireless reconnects with old parent on bundle >
The telecommunications industry’s on-again, off-again interest in offering bundled services appears to be back on again as a pair of companies announced initiatives last week that could make it easier …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">GoAmerica may be coming to a stop >
The fate of wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. is unclear, and industry watchers have little faith that the company’s destiny is a bright one. “I don’t really know what they …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Car Toys kicks off nationwide Cingular rollout in Texas >
SEATTLE-Specialty retailer Car Toys said it will add Cingular Wireless products and service in all of its 24 Wireless SuperCenters throughout Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Car Toys’ Texas …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Cincinnati Bell chooses Nortel for network enhancements >
DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW’s planned overlay of its existing …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Triton PCS sells Hiptops under SunCom brand >
BERWYN, Pa.-Southeastern wireless carrier Triton PCS said it is now selling Danger Inc.’s monochrome screen Hiptop device under its SunCom-branded service. Triton said the device is currently available at SunCom …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Car Toys kicks off nationwide Cingular rollout in Texas >
SEATTLE-Specialty retailer Car Toys said it will add Cingular Wireless products and service in all of its 24 Wireless SuperCenters throughout Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Car Toys’ Texas …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Microsoft announces new Smartphone wins >
Microsoft Corp. announced two new sales agreements for devices using its Smartphone operating system and reiterated commitments from T-Mobile in the United Kingdom and Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T Corp. to bundle AT&T Wireless service >
Nearly two years after spinning off its wireless business, AT&T Corp. reported a deal to begin reselling AT&T Wireless Services Inc. wireless service as part of a communications bundle to …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Roaming pacts provide stop-gap measure since consolidation on hold >
After years of claiming there are too many competitors in the wireless industry for anyone to make a profit, the federal government finally pulled off the leash, lifting spectrum-cap rules …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Paging splits as carriers find niche or try to expand beyond core >
The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there is no indication the tide will …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Carrier execs outline plans at analyst conference >
Top execs from Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. made appearances at this week’s Lehman Brothers conference in New York to discuss their current and future …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">McCaw legacy lives on in today’s wireless start-ups, mainstays >
Wireless pioneer Craig McCaw assembled an all-star executive team to start and drive McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. in the 1980s and early 1990s. And though McCaw sold the business in …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Starent voice instant messaging solution may challenge PTT services >
Starent Networks calls its solution voice instant messaging-with emphasis on the word “instant,” thereby distinguishing itself from the prominent voice solutions already in the marketplace, including push-to-talk service and more …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">T-Mobile USA posts 3rd straight quarter of record subscriber adds >
With the deadline for reporting first-quarter results last week, a number of carriers posted financial and operating results including another strong showing from nationwide provider T-Mobile USA Inc. and mixed …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Carriers can lease spectrum to others >
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules that allow wireless carriers to lease spectrum they are not using to other companies, a move heralded by the wireless community. “The spectrum-leasing policies …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Operators search for options for credit-challenged customers >
BOSTON-Wireless carriers are increasingly searching for solutions to serve credit-challenged customers, according to The Yankee Group, which released its opinions on AT&T Wireless Inc.’s recently announced GoPhone service and a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">T-Mobile clarifies Microsoft OS handset delay rumors >
T-Mobile International AG and Microsoft Corp. sought to clarify media reports concerning possible delays of the release of a T-Mobile phone using Microsoft software in Europe, but T-Mobile wouldn’t give …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Verizon to shut down CDPD in 2005 >
Verizon Wireless announced it will shut down its slow-speed wireless data CDPD network by December 2005, following a similar move by CDPD network operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The move …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">FCC adopts spectrum leasing rules >
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday adopted rules allowing for leasing of commercial spectrum and proposed rules allowing for leasing in certain circumstances for public-safety spectrum. “The spectrum leasing policies …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Pannon makes EDGE call >
HELSINKI, Finland-Hungarian operator Pannon GSM Telecommunications plc announced it made a successful call using an EDGE phone and network. The carrier also said it will use equipment from Nokia Corp. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T Wireless hits stores with first EDGE phone >
Nokia Corp.’s 6200 EDGE-capable phone hit store shelves this week, making AT&T Wireless Services Inc. the first carrier in the world to sell an EDGE phone. However, the phone today …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Budget cuts harm wireless priority access service >
ARLINGTON, Va.-Since the National Communications System no longer pays for wireless priority access service, some phones are being returned because agencies in New York and Washington can no longer afford …