NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its CCC rating to Western Wireless Corp.'s $100 million convertible subordinated notes offering and placed the rating...
WASHINGTON-Connecticut won a two-year fight to implement a specific area code for wireless and certain other phone numbers. The Federal Communications Commission said the...
Japan's second-largest wireless operator KDDI Corp. led its bigger and smaller rivals in customer additions last month as the carrier said it added 162,000...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Thursday announced it signed contracts for phase two of industry-funded health research called for under an agreement with...
Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. launched its latest youth-oriented advertising campaign this week titled "Live Without a Plan."The mobile virtual network operator said the campaign,...
TORONTO-Rogers AT&T Wireless customers can now download English- and French-language Java technology-based games and applications published by Tira Wireless to their mobile devices. "Rogers...
SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. and Chile's Telefonica Movil, an affiliate of Telefonica Moviles, announced the availability of the Merlin G100 Wireless PC Card Modem.Telefonica...
WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association urged the Federal Communications Commission to keep in place rules that require telecom carriers that receive auction bidding credits...
BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems Inc. said it has adopted a stockholder rights plan to fend off unsolicited takeover attempts. This will be applied by issuing...
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...
DALLAS-Verizon Wireless will sell Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s new SCH-a530, which features Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW application download technology, as well as CDMA 1xRTT services...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp.'s InterDigital Technology Corp. subsidiary has signed a patent license agreement with Nakayo Telecommunications Inc. covering wireless terminal units...
WASHINGTON-Nokia Corp. reached an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to fix a glitch in one of its U.S. mobile phones that does not...
The long, hard road of Wireless Knowledge seems to have finally come to an end.Starting Monday, Wireless Knowledge will fold into Qualcomm Inc.'s Wireless...
BIRMINGHAM, U.K.-Developer Silicon Village has launched its Fortress SMS encryption application for sending secure end-to-end short message service messages on Series 60 and Symbian...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp.'s stock jumped on the company's announcement that it narrowed its sales estimates for the second quarter owing to improved demand.The...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will partner with its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to offer residential customers a single bucket...
WASHINGTON-The board of directors of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Wednesday voted to join a coalition that supports technical solutions to solving...
LONDON-U.K. newcomer Hutchison 3G U.K. will slash prices for its third-generation services beginning Monday. The two new service packages offer up to a 50-percent...
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...
Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is infringing on...
BOSTON-Two mobile marketing companies announced deals today, news that shows the continuing growth and potential of the wireless advertising industry.First, marketing company M-Qube announced...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Tecnomen Inc. said its prepaid solution has achieved interoperability approval from Nortel Networks based on GSM infrastructure equipment tests.Tecnomen's intelligent network supports CAMEL...
