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Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. jumped headfirst into the mobile gaming waters Friday, acquiring New Jersey-based technology company Stadeon Inc. and launching a studio to develop games for wireless phones. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The portal said it will use the Stadeon acquisition...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday approved the sale of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s remaining PCS licenses to Verizon Wireless for $3 billion.NextWave now expects to emerge from bankruptcy protection next month, said Michael Wack, NextWave senior vice president and deputy general counsel."Verizon Wireless' acquisition of...

WASHINGTON-CTIA has joined with several trade associations and telecommunications companies in opposing the entertainment industry's effort to create what it calls "a secondary copyright liability.""The judicial expansion of secondary copyright liability advocated by petitioners is precisely the wrong approach. It is simply impossible for...

Regional wireless provider MetroPCS Inc. has reportedly agreed to sell 10 megahertz of spectrum in the San Francisco Basic Trading Area to Verizon Wireless for $230 million. The carriers also signed a nationwide roaming agreement that will allow MetroPCS to expand its regional offering,...

WASHINGTON-A key House lawmaker today said the proposed $36 billion merger between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. would bring added competition to a broadband market currently dominated by Bell telephone companies and cable TV giants. "The combination of Sprint and Nextel will create...

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecommunications Inc. Tuesday emerged from bankruptcy following approval of its plan by Bankruptcy Judge Adlai Hardin Jr. NextWave filed for bankruptcy June 8, 1998."It has been a long and challenging road to get to this moment, which makes it all the more special....

ST. CLOUD, Minn.-Verizon Wireless said it has completed the purchase of Cellular 2000 of St. Cloud from St. Cloud Wireless Holdings L.L.C. and that it has begun offering Verizon Wireless branded services to Cellular 2000's approximately 42,000 subscribers.The transaction, which was announced earlier this...

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today said cell-phone use by drivers is on the rise. In 2004, according to a new NHTSA survey, approximately 8 percent of all motorists in the United States-or about 1.2 million drivers-used cellular phones (both handheld and hands-free)...

Two key lawmakers recently introduced legislation that would authorize the Justice Department to use wiretaps to investigate and prosecute criminal antitrust conspiracies. Somehow I cannot not see Big Brother listening in on a day in the life of Ivan Seidenberg, whose Verizon Communication's Inc....

DENVER-The National Basketball Association wants to be on the forefront of technology, be it the Internet, High-Definition TV or satellite radio. And to be on the cutting edge, the NBA also recognizes it needs a wireless presence. "It's important ... that the NBA be...

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...

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...

Qwest Communications International Inc. submitted a revised proposal to acquire MCI Inc. that included a collar on its stock price and accelerating the timing of cash payments. The collar fixes the equity portion of the deal at $15.50 per share, while maintaining the original...

Sprint said it will begin selling a Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. phone that will work on both CDMA and GSM networks. Verizon Wireless already sells a similar device.Sprint said the new Sprint PCS International Phone IP-A790 by Samsung will sell for $550 and will...

DENVER-Following on a government filing last week, regional telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. is reportedly set to submit a revised bid for MCI Inc. that will include a greater percentage of cash than what was included in the initial $8 billion offer. Qwest's...

DENVER-Verizon Wireless continues to gradually roll out its ring-back tone offering, announcing that the service is now available in Colorado, Idaho, Utah and southern Wyoming.Ring backs are snippets of music that a caller hears instead of a traditional ring, and many believe the application...

ALPHARETTA, Ga.-Verizon Wireless said it has won a contract to provide wireless voice and data to all state, local and county government agencies and municipalities throughout the state.The carrier said it will offer discount wireless packages to more than 500,000 government employees, including the...

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...

The battle for wireless supremacy heated up this week as current No. 2 operator Verizon Wireless unveiled a slew of rate plan and service offerings that could help the carrier regain its position atop the domestic wireless market-a spot currently occupied by Cingular Wireless...

Rebuffing a more substantial offer from Qwest Communications International Inc., MCI Inc. agreed last week to be acquired by Verizon Communications Inc. for approximately $6.7 billion. Qwest, which initiated the latest bidding for MCI, reportedly offered $8 billion but was turned down due to...

The battle for wireless supremacy heated up this week as current No. 2 operator Verizon Wireless unveiled a slew of rate plan and service offerings that could help the carrier regain its position atop the domestic wireless market-a spot currently occupied by Cingular Wireless...

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...

Nokia Corp.'s longtime stranglehold on the U.S. mobile-phone market appears to be broken-at least for now-by a major surge in sales from Motorola Inc. "Motorola products are really just more appealing right now," said Mark Bremer, an analyst with research and consulting firm Stax...

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...