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Wireless operators rank among the most prolific advertisers in the business world. The wireless industry spent $692 million on advertising during the first quarter, a 17.7-percent increase from the $588 …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering a request that could help wireless companies-particularly newly united Sprint Nextel Corp.-make further inroads into the mobile workforce management space and the …

Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the carrier’s total war chest to a staggering $600 million. The news highlights investors’ apparent interest in …

TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. said it has started shipping evaluation samples of a single-chip LSI it developed jointly with NTT DoCoMo Inc. The LSI was developed for dual-mode mobile handsets that …

LONDON-The voice over wireless local area network market is poised for huge growth, according to consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. A study by the company found that the introduction of …

A day after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a citywide initiative to close the gap between San Francisco’s wireless broadband haves and have-nots by providing free or low-cost Wi-Fi …

Bolstered by a relatively speedy and uneventful approval process and a new ticker symbol that began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week, Sprint Nextel Corp. said it …

A day after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a citywide initiative to close the gap between San Francisco’s wireless broadband haves and have-nots by providing free or low-cost Wi-Fi …

WASHINGTON-Continental Airlines Inc. is fighting an order from the Massachusetts Port Authority that Continental discontinue its free Wi-Fi service inside its Presidents Club at Boston’s Logan International Airport, saying the …

TORONTO-Shares of software developer 724 Solutions Inc. tumbled Wednesday after the company hinted it could lose a key contract with Sprint PCS. In a press release regarding the company’s second-quarter …

Early termination fees continue to impact customer loyalty as a recent consumer survey by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that 47 percent of wireless customers would switch carriers …

Leap Wireless International Inc. reported 3,000 net customer additions during the second quarter, which was one-third of the 9,000 customers the carrier added during the second quarter of 2004, but …

TORONTO-Shares of software developer 724 Solutions Inc. tumbled Wednesday after the company hinted it could lose a key contract with Sprint PCS. In a press release regarding the company’s second-quarter …

ALBANY, N.Y.-Sprint Corp. wireless affiliate IWO Holdings Inc., which emerged from bankruptcy protection in early June, said it lost 5,485 customers during the second quarter, which the carrier attributed to …

T-Mobile USA Inc. posted 972,000 net customer additions for the second quarter, which fell short of the nearly 1.1 million customers the carrier added during the second quarter of 2004, …

LUBBOCK, Texas-Bolstered by its recent acquisition of fellow affiliate AirGate PCS Inc., Sprint Corp.’s largest wireless affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. posted a 75-percent increase in second-quarter revenues from $193.3 million …

Sprint Corp. wireless affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. posted 14,600 net customer additions during the second quarter, short of the 16,900 subscribers the carrier added during the second quarter of 2004 and …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. staged a minor coup last week as the industry’s largest operator signed a 10-year deal to replace smaller, but faster-growing rival Verizon Wireless at RadioShack Corp.’s more …

Motorola Inc. is in the process of rolling out a new user interface the company hopes will take it into the multimedia age. “We’re not building a phone; we’re building …

The U.S. launch of Tiger Telematics Inc.’s Gizmondo portable video-game device, as outlined on page 18 of this week’s issue, has been delayed until October. The company blamed the delay …

Tiger Telematics Inc. said it will delay the release of its high-end Gizmondo portable video-game device in the United States until October. The device was previously scheduled to hit store …

Regional wireless operator SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc., which was formerly known as Triton PCS, posted 3,979 net customers during the second quarter compared with a loss of 833 customers during …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it has scored agreements to freeze international roaming payments to Turkish wireless carrier Telsim Mobil Telekomunikasyon. Motorola said the carrier owes it $2.5 billion, a claim …

Alltel Corp., which completed its acquisition of Western Wireless Corp. earlier this week, reported mixed second-quarter wireless results that were highlighted by a steep climb in average revenue per user …

UTStarcom Inc. posted a loss in the second quarter, and its third-quarter outlook offered no relief, news that helped send its stock down more than 6 percent to around $8 …