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After months of uncertainty peppered with glimpses of hope, Iridium L.L.C. officially settled into its new home last week as a mobile satellite service provider for government and remote commercial …

Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson and IBM’s subsidiary Tivoli Systems Inc. have allied to roll out a set of managed devices the companies believe will be easy for consumers and …

WASHINGTON-The C-block auction isn’t a cheap date. Bids topped more than $1 billion in early rounds of an auction taking place largely because a previous winner was unable to pay …

As the industry whets its appetite on the prospect of third-generation services and all the revenue-generating opportunities wireless Internet access can bring, telecom vendors are watching their stock prices fall …

A week after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey, TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation’s fourth largest paging carrier, announced Friday it will continue to keep its network up …

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. will ship with its suite of mobile developer tools the Lutris Enhydra 3.5 Java/XML Open Source application server, including the Nokia WAP phone emulator, WAP gateway and WAP …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced a “wireless travel concierge” portfolio to its Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service via partnerships with several companies and content providers. Alaska Airlines, Biztravel.com, Delta …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.’s financial expectations from its CDMA technology fell on account of the ruling by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce that it share …

Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services. PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video …

Globalstar USA, in desperate need of some debt relief, announced it launched Globalstar Data Services, which will provide 9,600 bit per-second Internet connectivity for the same per-minute rate as voice …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems further staked its position in the wireless technology market by buying Exi0 Communications for $155 million in stock. The deal which is Cisco’s 22nd this year …

BRUSSELS, Belgium-KPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgium operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for $443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership. France Telecom had to divest its KPN …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission last week began looking into the various consumer questions-including privacy-and emerging technologies of the wireless Web by holding a day-and-a-half workshop. “If people can be located …

TORONTO-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it will purchase airtime and services from Microcell Connexions Inc. to offer Canadian customers wireless data services based on GPRS technology over Microcell’s GSM-based network. …

WASHINGTON-A new book describes top cellular lobbyist Thomas Wheeler as obsessed with controlling public relations for industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research conducted in the 1990s and claims he attempted extraordinary measures …

From left FCC Commissioner Susan Ness, FCC Chairman William Kennard and FCC Commissioner Michael Powell look on as Mikel Thomsen, president and chief operating officer of Western Wireless Corp., and …

To the Editor: Dick Lyons, president of Cellular One, misses the point when he claims that the “Death Row Ad” is “not about the death penalty.” No one has ever …

To the Editor, According to Tina Eichner (Missed Opportunity, RCR, Dec. 11), it is time for the wireless industry to join the cause that infects America-the assumption that people have …

SAN DIEGO-Littlefeet Inc. said it needs to expand. But that expansion won’t be into new business markets. It will be into a new corporate headquarters. Littlefeet’s headquarters will move from …

BRAZIL ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a $16 million contract to supply GVT Brazil with a broadband access bundled solution for the southern and central regions of Brazil. ADC …

FREMONT, Calif.-The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum announced it has finalized its recommendation for a new Layered Functional Architecture, designed to provide a unified structure for better integration of the mobile …

In the Page 2 story, “Lucent shaken after sales warning (Nov. 27 issue of RCR Wireless News) it should have stated that Merrill Lynch downgraded its rating from “buy” to …

BOULDER, Colo.-Siemens AG selected SignalSoft Corp.’s location technology to enhance its deployment of WAP gateways. The software will allow mobile network operators to combine the location of their customers with …

Motorola Inc. and Oracle Corp. teamed last week to create a UNIX-based e-business platform designed for carriers, Internet service providers, enterprise customers and application vendors. The deal is the second …

STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. and Swisscom announced they are concluding definitive agreements to allow Swisscom to license SmartServ’s Web and wireless application technology. The technology will allow Swisscom to offer …