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Sprint Corp. wireless affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported 35,121 net customer additions during the first quarter of this year, which was a slight improvement compared with the 32,724 customers the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s request to increase its budget by 8 percent received a chilly reception last month by lawmakers. “It will be very difficult. It will be impossible,” said …

For many health-care organizations, the deadline to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has come and gone. But for wireless security companies, there’s no end in sight. …

Siemens AG announced it will spin out its ailing mobile-phone operation as a “separate legal unit” and said it will probably not keep a majority stake in the business. The …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s request to increase its budget by 8 percent received a chilly reception by lawmakers Tuesday afternoon. “It will be very difficult. It will be impossible,” said …

A JupiterResearch study out last week found that although the ranks of U.S. consumers owning wireless phones with camera capabilities rose to 35 percent in 2004, most consumers are still …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Carrier consolidation will cost the North American market $2.5 billion in reduced capital expenses during the next four years, according to new numbers from Pyramid Research. “Consolidation opens a …

Lucent Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday a reorganization as it also reported increasing wireless revenues. Lucent said it is reorganizing its operations by combining its mobility and wireline business units into …

WASHINGTON-The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has consolidated two challenges to the Federal Communications Commission’s recent truth-in-billing decision in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The FCC …

One consequence from the intrusion of wireless, Internet and other technologies into a space Bell telephone giants have comfortably occupied for the past century or so has to do with …

LONDON-Technology company ROK Player and music portal Ministry of Sound announced plans to release a multimedia memory card (MMC) for handsets that can hold 20 songs with corresponding music videos. …

T-Mobile USA Inc. said it plans to launch a new advertising campaign highlighting the carrier’s prepaid service offering T-Mobile To Go. The carrier noted that it recently introduced lower per-minute …

SAN BERNADINO, Calif.-Wisconsin communications company Sanswire Networks L.L.C. showcased a prototype of its “Stratellite,” an unmanned airship designed to send broadband and mobile-phone signals as it flies 13 miles above …

BERWYN, Pa.-Location services company True Position released a new service it said will allow rural wireless carriers to outsource wireless location applications. TruePosition will host the location offering, and said …

Nokia Corp. announced it will sell its innovative 7280 phone for $600 on its Web site. The tri-band GSM device is shaped like a lipstick case and replaces a standard …

The nation’s big five operators are not about to slow down. Following a record-setting year in which the wireless industry added more than 22 million customers and surpassed 60-percent penetration, …

Wireless appears to be busting at the seams. Carriers have been signing on record numbers of subscribers, handset makers have enjoyed double-digit growth and the industry’s general malaise seems to …

WASHINGTON-The Texas Court of Appeals Thursday said a lower state court erred when it said Western Wireless Corp. is not eligible to receive universal-service subsidies. The Texas Telephone Association and …

LONDON-As election campaigns kick off for the May 5 election in the United Kingdom, the Liberal Democrats are making the most of mobile technology to reach out to younger, technology-savvy …

WASHINGTON-The federal government recently delayed the submission date for proposals to build the Integrated Wireless Network-a public-safety communications system to be used by law enforcement personnel in the departments of …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will invest up to $150 million to build a new mobile-phone manufacturing plant in Chennai, India. The plant will be Nokia’s 10th in the world. …

WASHINGTON-There are areas of the country that are too rural, too remote and cost too much to serve for telecommunications competition to be viable, said the author of a new …

LONDON-The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association …

WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA Inc. told the Federal Communications that since it is actively trying to compete with wireline carriers, it should be able to receive access to unbundled network elements at …

The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association …