BROWSING: T-Mobile

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,...

Wireless carriers' spectrum positions have changed radically during the past six months due to industry consolidation, spectrum auctions and other spectrum deals. These changes have been driven mostly by the country's larger operators, which-in addition to supporting an increasing number of wireless subscribers-are being...

NEW ORLEANS-Customer relationship management provider eAgency Systems is targeting small and mid-sized offices this week with the launch of Nice Office. The new offering from the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company is supported by RIM's BlackBerry, and features over-the-air wireless synchronization of sales and customer...

David Steinberg stands as an example of the surplus of opportunity within wireless. As chief executive officer of Internet activation company InPhonic Inc., Steinberg has overseen the growth of the company's revenues from $0 five years ago to between $315 million and $325 million...

Motient Communications Inc. announced it will shut down the rural sections of its network, reducing its DataTAC network coverage from 200 million people to 137 million. The move is not totally unexpected-Motient has been bleeding customers and revenues for years, and has lately been...

Danger said it plans to put "fixes in place" to restore Sidekick users' data functions, Danger and carrier partner T-Mobile USA Inc. said in a statement."Danger and T-Mobile regret any inconveniences experienced by Sidekick customers as a result of an identified technical issue that...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. announced T-Mobile in Germany will join T-Mobile in the United States in selling its innovative Hiptop device. T-Mobile in Germany will sell it as the T-Mobile Sidekick II."The obvious success of the Sidekick II in the U.S. has compelled us...

Some users of Danger's innovative Hiptop device are experiencing a "degradation of service" and are unable to use various functions, including e-mail and other data services, according to information on Danger's Hiptop user Internet site.Representatives from Danger and T-Mobile USA Inc.-Danger's primary carrier partner-were...

T-Mobile USA Inc. reported $3.2 billion in revenues for the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 37-percent improvement compared with the $2.4 billion the carrier posted during the fourth quarter of 2003. Full-year revenues increased 40 percent from $8.4 billion in 2003...

PARIS-SmartVideo subscribers can stay stylish and ogle supermodels with a new 24-hour-a-day channel from the mobile-video provider. SmartVideo Technologies Inc. said it has agreed to carry Fashion TV, streaming fashion, style and beauty programming to subscribers with smart phones and personal digital assistants. The...

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry has signaled it will aggressively litigate taxes deemed illegal, suing the City of Baltimore over a wireless fee and persuading an Illinois court to order hundreds of towns to return to wireless subscribers $1.3 million in charges ruled unconstitutional by the...

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has changed its accounting for operating leases related to cell sites to conform to generally accepted accounting principals resulting in restated financial results for fiscal years 2000 through 2003 and the first three quarters of 2004. The carrier noted...

WASHINGTON-Rural wireline carriers can no longer file tariffs with state commissions that charge wireless carriers to terminate calls, said the Federal Communications Commission Thursday, but did not say the termination tariffs were unlawful as requested by a group of carriers."Because the existing rules do...

WASHINGTON-Four national mobile-phone carriers have filed suit in Maryland Tax Court against the City of Baltimore seeking more than a $2 million refund of all wireless taxes paid since August 2004. T-Mobile USA Inc., Sprint PCS, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless said they...

News on the phone front continues in anticipation of the upcoming CTIA trade show, with Motorola Inc., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sanyo making announcements.First up is LG, which appears to be readying a new slider-style phone for Sprint. Sprint...

T-Mobile USA Inc. is investigating what appear to be pictures, phone numbers and other information taken from socialite Paris Hilton's phone and posted on the Internet. "T-Mobile's computer forensics and security team is actively investigating to determine how Ms. Hilton's information was obtained,"...

CANNES, France-Alcatel Alsthom won a contract to supply T-Mobile USA with its core infrastructure. Alcatel will deploy its Alcatel 5020 Spatial Atrium Distributed MSC solution to upgrade and optimize T-Mobile's core network. "The solution will allow T-Mobile USA to continue to deliver product and...

TORONTO-Redline Communications said it is working with Nomad Digital to offer high-speed Internet for Southern Trains. The project is a joint effort among Nomad, T-Mobile U.K. and Southern Trains and will see the deployment of Redline's AN-50e broadband wireless platforms on selected trains along...

The hacker accused of breaking into T-Mobile USA Inc.'s computer systems and accessing customer information has pleaded guilty. Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 22, pled guilty in U.S. district court in Los Angeles to "gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer and recklessly causing at least...

Less than three weeks after it began, the Federal Communications Commission's Auction 58 of 242 spectrum licenses in the 1.9 GHz band came to a quiet close last Tuesday, having garnered just more than $2 billion in net bids including FCC credits for 217...

In the juggling act between GSM and W-CDMA, dilemma is beautiful.But it is a terrible kind of beauty because both vendors and carriers must decide how much of their resources to devote to GSM without jeopardizing the promise of W-CDMA.Today, GSM provides the main...

TORONTO-Redline Communications said it is working with Nomad Digital to offer high-speed Internet for Southern Trains. The project is a joint effort among Nomad, T-Mobile U.K. and Southern Trains and will see the deployment of Redline's AN-50e broadband wireless platforms on selected trains along...

SmartVideo subscribers can stay stylish and ogle supermodels with a new 24-hour-a-day channel from the mobile-video provider.SmartVideo Technologies Inc. said it has agreed to carry Fashion TV, streaming fashion, style and beauty programming to subscribers with smart phones and personal digital assistants. The channel...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Yahoo! has quietly rolled out a service that allows users to send driving directions from computers to mobile phones.After accessing directions through the Yahoo! Maps portal, a wireless subscriber can click on a link and enter a mobile phone number to send a...