Monthly Archives: June, 2003

Unlicensed wireless tops WRC-03 issues list

WASHINGTON-Securing additional spectrum for unlicensed wireless technologies will be a top issue for the World Radiocommunication Conference, which began this week in Geneva.The Bush...

Cooking lessons

A certain RCR Wireless News reporter based in D.C. who shall remain nameless likes to hold onto her stories for a little bit before...

T-Mobile to launch color-screen Sidekick, rate plans

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it launched a color-screen version of its Danger Inc.-produced Sidekick device, as well as introduced new rate plans for...

Visto, ViAir to merge

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Visto Corp. announced it will merge with ViAir Corp, and the combined company will do business under the Visto name.Visto provides personal...

TeliaSonera’s MMS to be standardized in 4 countries

HELSINKI, Finland-TeliaSonera will standardize its multimedia messaging system across four Nordic countries using equipment from Nokia Corp. The Finnish vendor said its equipment will...

Ericsson, HP sign outsourcing deal

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed a five-year contract to outsource its information technology infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard Co.HP will provide IT services for...

Palm holds Handspring’s hand

The founders of personal digital assistant pioneer Palm Inc. have returned to the fold as the company announced an all-stock, $169 million plan to...

ITU, CEA partner

GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union, the international standards body, said it formed a relationship with the Consumer Electronics Association to work together on wireless and...

Telia announces new Swedish data offering

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia announced a new mobile data service in Sweden called Telia Go, which offers user-friendly menus and preset mobile phones, including the Nokia...

Midwest Wireless launches 1st phase of 1x network

MANKATO, Minn.-Midwest Wireless launched the first phase of its cdma2000 1x network, spanning 68 counties in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin and covering more than...

Global Markets

Correction

In the "GoAmerica may be coming to a stop" story on page 18 in the June 2 issue of RCR Wireless News, GoAmerica's debt...

Sun, Intel partner to further VM expansion

Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a new partnership with chip maker Intel Corp. as well as new plans to sell wireless application services to...

Verizon may launch PTT in July

DENVER-The next phase in the push-to-talk wars is expected to begin in less than a month as industry sources claim Verizon Wireless will launch...

Sprint PCS to take billing in-house

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Billing and customer-care provider Convergys Corp. said it signed an agreement with billing customer Sprint PCS to support the carrier's migration from...

O2 inks MVNO pact with supermarket, hires Lucent to deploy UMTS service

LONDON-Tesco, one of the United Kingdom's major supermarket chains, announced plans to launch its own mobile service in partnership with MmO2.The supermarket will offer...

Wi-Fi business model remains precarious

Without going too far out on a limb, it seems a safe bet to claim the wireless industry has gone crazy for most anything...

SpectraSite tells mall rats to ‘talk on’

Highlighting its major stake in the in-building arena, SpectraSite Inc. is making an unusual move for a tower company, directly marketing its infrastructure to...

AAT to purchase Wisconsin towers

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. announced AAT Communications Corp. will purchase 122 towers in Wisconsin for $43 million, the last chunk of the 801...

Paging auction nets $2.4M for a few thousand licenses

A recently completed Federal Communications Commission paging spectrum auction generated about $2.4 million for a total of 2,832 licenses, numbers that come nowhere near...

Fourth right

Time was when all roads led to Baltimore federal court, where U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake oversees everything from elevator operations to cell-phone health...

Microsoft details smart watch plan

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. released details of MSN Direct, the service plan it will offer for the smart watches that Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and...

Verizon to combine all data services under Get It Now brand

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless continued to tout its wireless data services-the carrier said almost 75,000 applications are downloaded per day-numbers that could increase following the...

Sendo sues Orange on patent infringement claims

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is...

Collins urges GSA to consider WorldCom suspension

WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) today urged the General Services Administration to consider cutting ties with WorldCom Inc., potentially putting lucrative...
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