WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless appealed a decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month to return 85 percent of the deposits for the winning bids...
NEW YORK—AT&T Wireless sold $3 billion worth of global bonds on Thursday, according to co-lead manager Lehman Brothers Inc. Due to nervous investors the...
VIENNA, Va.—There are opportunities for newspapers across the country to sell news and information to wireless users, but the service must be tailored, personal...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said has begun to concentrate on profits instead of sales following reports the wireless company will fall short of its originally...
WASHINGTON—Alltel Corp. withdrew a $1 billion shelf offering filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last May, but left intact a $5 billion shelf...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Following the massive interest in cross-carrier text messaging in the United States, Motorola Inc. released its own interoperability product.Motorola's new Short Messaging...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS launched its Project Connect nationwide phone collection and recycling campaign benefiting Easter Seals and the National Organization on Disability. Wireless...
BEIJING—Motorola Inc. said it has demonstrated the first high-speed audio and data call through a live, completely integrated end-to-end UMTS system in several locations...
NEWARK, N.J.—Verizon Communications is offering its One-Bill service to its customers in New Jersey allowing the consolidation of their local, wireless, high-speed Internet access,...
MANILA, The Philippines—Leading Philippine wireless operator Smart Communications and Yahoo Southeast Asia, a leading online and wireless service provider in the region, announced the...
NEW YORK—EarthLink, the Atlanta-based Internet service provider, will expand the usability of its EarthLink Everywhere wireless access by making it available to Pocket PC...
AUSTIN, Texas—Wi-Fi service provider Wayport Inc. will provide high-speed Internet access in the meeting facilities and common areas of eight Windsor Capital Group Inc.-managed...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. stumbled after the company warned its revenues next year would be lower than what Wall...
HOUSTON—Crown Castle International Corp. said its subsidiary, Crown Castle UK Ltd., reached an agreement with British Telecommunications plc to defer paying until March 2003...
ATLANTA—Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) announced Inventec Appliances Corp. (IAC) of Taiwan has licensed its SmARTspeak speech recognition software for use in its wireless...
KIRKLAND, Wash.—Nextel Partners Inc. signed a seven-year contract with Amdocs, St. Louis, for provision of a customer care and billing system, data center services...
LONDON—BT Group announced details of its wireless initiative, five months after spinning off its mobile subsidiary MmO2. BT plans to create a U.K. public...
WASHINGTON—The Department of Transportation convened a summit to discuss the thorny issue of wireless enhanced 911 service."Events of Sept. 11 highlight the need to...
MINSK, Belarus—Belarus has finally given a green light for the biggest Russian carrier, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), to launch a second GSM network in the...
NEW DELHI, India—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, the 50:50 joint venture between Ericsson and Sony Corporation, hopes to grab a substantial share of the emerging...
MOSCOW—The Russian Ministry for Anti-Monopolist Policy (MAP) ruled in April that the decision of the Communications Ministry to oust U.S.-developed CDMA and AMPS carriers...
WASHINGTON—Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) plans to pursue spectrum reform legislation later this year, a move that comes as the mobile-phone industry renews its campaign...
