August 2003

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Tower owner SBA Communications Corp. has reported its second-quarter 2003 financial results. The company said its total revenues for the quarter were $50.4 million, down from $63.6 million …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola made a handful of public-safety related wireless announcements in conjunction with this week’s Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Indianapolis. The supplier released a full …

WASHINGTON-In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Skyworks Solutions Inc. said it will periodically sell up to $250 million in common and preferred stock and debt securities. The …

WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc. said Monday that its suspension from doing business with the government could cost the company as much as $137 million by 2005. In a filing with the Securities …

Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. reported $66 million in total revenues during the recently completed second quarter, a 23-percent increase compared with the $53.6 million the carrier reported last year. …

SAN DIEGO-Samsung Electronics said it will work with chip maker Staccato Communications to develop ultra-wideband products, a short-range technology with a data-transfer rate of up to 480 megabits per second. …

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell invited all state officials responsible for deploying wireless enhanced 911 to the Federal Communications Commission in late October for the second part of the E911 Initiative, …

MANKATO, Minn.-Rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched a range of entertainment applications and communications services on its recently deployed CDMA2000 1x network using Qualcomm Inc.’s BREW platform. The applications will …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Aug. 11 that California could change its allocation of numbers in the 310 and 909 area codes, but not statewide. The California Public Utilities Commission …

The camera-phone craze appears to have officially hit the United States, with Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless both boasting of millions of picture messages passing over their networks every month. …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau said Aug. 8 that the 15 licenses owned by Airadigm Communications Inc., a bankrupt PCS C- and F-block licensee in Iowa and Wisconsin, did not …

CARY, N.C.-SpectraSite Inc. released solid second-quarter 2003 results, reflecting improved revenues and decreased losses. The company said total revenues were $80.9 million, up from $73.2 million recorded in the second …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems released an advanced messaging interface (AMI) for high-speed communications and applications processing in next-generation mobile phones. “With the continued growth in mobile-phone use and the convergence of …

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itronix, which specializes in ruggedized mobile computing systems, announced it has been awarded new project contracts worth $14 million. The company is involved in the Dismounted Intelligence Situation Mapboard …

HONG KONG-China Mobile reported a 13-percent increase in profit in its first-half results, but noted declining average revenue per user and warned on increased competition. For the six months to …

Following a hastily retracted announcement earlier this month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced last week it would purchase 34 PCS licenses covering 83 million potential customers from bankrupt license holder …

The headline in the July 28 issue on page 12 about American Tower earnings should have read “American Tower to shed tall tower construction service subsidiary.” In the “Cingular to …

WASHINGTON-Safety Cell Inc. and Rhino International Inc., which marketed and sold fake cell-phone radiation protection patches, have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and misleading claims about …

STAMFORD, Conn.-One day after a surprising surge in its stock price, wireless data company I3 Mobile Inc. announced it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with ACE*COMM Corp. to …

CHICAGO-Motorola Inc. won another legal victory over Turkey’s wireless carrier Telsim in a Swiss court ruling to freeze the $800 million of assets controlled by the Uzan family, which owns …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc signed a deal with Sony Pictures Mobile for new entertainment products based on Sony Pictures Entertainment, as well as original and third-party content for Vodafone’s Live! multimedia …

Most people agree China offers a lucrative wireless landscape. It is already the world’s largest market with one of the lowest mobile penetration rates. The opportunities for vendors and operators …

GENEVA, Switzerland-Nokia Corp. said it has inked an agreement to supply Switzerland’s Sunrise with its W-CDMA core network, which will be commercially available by the end of 2004. The Finnish …

If you go into someone’s shop and take something without paying, it’s shoplifting and is punishable by jail time and a fine. But when a customer who owes a carrier …

BEAVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said its UMTS protocol tester has been chosen by the Beijing Northern Fiberhome Technologies Co. Ltd. “UMTS release 4 is the next step in the migration toward …