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HOUSTON-Although they recorded increased revenues, two tower operators suffered net losses in their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2004 compared with the previous year. For the full year, American Tower Corp. and Crown Castle had better results. The two companies had postponed...

The topic of how and if a wireless telephone number directory should be established has been and continues to be heavily debated, but so far little has been said about the organization that is charged with making it happen.At the recent CTIA show I...

Prepaid mobile virtual network operator TracFone Wireless said it replaced a batch of its Nokia Corp. 1100 phones with models that included "updated software enhancements." The carrier did not say what ailed the devices or how many phones were replaced.A company spokeswoman said the...

WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA Inc. told the Federal Communications Commission that since it is actively trying to compete with wireline carriers, it should be able to receive access to unbundled network elements at regulated rates instead of having to pay special access for these elements. "If...

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. is offering a software upgrade for the iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC from Hewlett-Packard Co. The carrier recently suspended sales of the device due to unexplained software problems.The carrier posted the software upgrade on its Web site at www.t-mobile.com/hpupdate. T-Mobile said...

LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday.Your Destiny TV is behind the service, which reads photos of users' palms and delivers text messages with the reading. The...

Although they recorded increased revenues, two tower operators suffered net losses in their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2004 compared with the previous year.For the full year, American Tower Corp. and Crown Castle had better results.In a written note, Raymond James noted...

MusiKube broke an almost year-long silence last week, resurfacing to launch a mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, called SongLink'd, a mobile user can play a tune directly into a phone and receive...

T-Mobile USA Inc. suspended sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 smart phone due to unexplained software bugs, a move that illustrates the extremely advanced levels of technology packed into high-end devices as well as the risks carriers face in selling them. Wireless stands...

MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia Mobile said it completed a deal with T-Mobile Global Holding for the sale of TIM's 7.16-percent of the share capital of Cmobil, a Dutch holding company that owns 60.8 percent of T-Mobile CZ. This participation corresponds to an indirect stake of...

An association of mobile carriers and content firms joined the fight last week against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. The Mobile Entertainment Forum blasted a proposal by MPEG LA, the licensing authority of the Moving...

WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) often describes his state as having a lot of land between light poles. In other words, rural America by its very definition has fewer people and more land. This combination has traditionally been harder and more expensive to serve by...

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), an outspoken wireless consumer advocate in Congress, is pushing legislation that would require mobile-phone carriers to give subscribers the ability to make 911 emergency calls in underground subways.While wireless carriers have opposed Wiener's cell-phone consumer legislation in the past, some...

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry increasingly finds itself like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, drawn into courts, public utility commissions and other bodies around the country to fight new state taxes, regulations and consumer lawsuits. The carriers' defiant defense in many...

For U.S. carriers, the race to deploy ringback tones is on. Ringbacks-the clips of music a caller hears instead of a traditional ring before the person being called answers the phone-began making headlines last year, when uptake exploded in some Far Eastern markets. Asian...

MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia Mobile said it finalized a deal with T-Mobile Global Holding for the sale of TIM's 7.16-percent of the share capital of Cmobil, a Dutch holding company that owns 60.8 percent of T-Mobile CZ. This participation corresponds to an indirect stake of...

T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will suspend sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 personal digital assistant-style phone until the two companies can develop a software upgrade "that will deliver an improved customer experience," T-Mobile said in a statement.T-Mobile did not say what ails...

MusiKube re-appeared on the radar screen Tuesday, announcing the launch of a text-message mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, dubbed SongLink'd, mobile users can identify songs by playing tunes into the phone, and...

NEW ORLEANS-Several infrastructure suppliers announced third-generation contract wins. L.M. Ericsson said Swedish 3G operator Svenska UMTS-Nät AB, the joint venture between Tele2 and TeliaSonera, awarded it a new three-year frame agreement for the delivery of a core and radio access network. Under the agreement,...

WASHINGTON-In a slight about face, the wireless industry is welcoming regulation from the Federal Communications Commission, especially if the alternative is 51 different regulatory bodies, said Kathleen Ham, managing director of federal regulatory affairs for T-Mobile USA Inc. "The wireless industry is doing an...

Alcatel Althsom may not be the first names in the CDMA business, but the French vendor aims for a robust market share in the space. Barely a month after inking a major cooperation deal with Chinese vendor ZTE Corp., Alcatel has been presenting what...

WASHINGTON-In a slight about-face, the wireless industry is welcoming regulation from the Federal Communications Commission, especially if the alternative is 51 different regulatory bodies, said Kathleen Ham, managing director of federal regulatory affairs for T-Mobile USA Inc."The wireless industry is doing an about-face and...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Bytemobile Inc. said it has acquired ProQuent Systems Corp. in a stock-for-stock exchange.The companies did not, however, disclose the value in dollar terms.ProQuent provides multiple-services switching platforms for intelligent tracking, analyzing, authorizing and enforcing solutions for operators.Bytemobile also said T-Mobile UK has...

NEW ORLEANS-Several infrastructure suppliers announced third-generation contract wins. L.M. Ericsson said Swedish 3G operator Svenska UMTS-Nät AB, the joint venture between Tele2 and TeliaSonera, awarded it a new three-year frame agreement for the delivery of a core and radio access network. Under the agreement,...