Verizon Wireless again raised the stakes in the wireless local number portability fight, urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from a number...
Heavy call volumes on wireless networks frustrated end users and led cell sites, operating on backup generators and batteries, to quickly falter during the...
An Internet worm that attacked enterprise and home computers this week, exploiting a flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, cannot affect devices running...
The telematics market appears to be improving, according to two new studies, but the auto and wireless industries need to focus on offering specific,...
NEW YORK-Shares of semiconductor giant Texas Instruments were up Thursday morning following SoundView Technology Group's ratings upgrade to "outperform" from "neutral."The company was trading...
SAN DIEGO-China Unicom will conduct the first handset trial of Qualcomm Inc.'s GSM1x technology, allowing testers to roam from GSM to CDMA networks.Kyocera Corp....
MOSCOW-Lucent Technologies Inc. said Moscow Cellular Communications will use Lucent equipment for its 450 MHz CDMA2000 1x network in Moscow. The IMT-MC network will...
EDISON, N.J.-Regional sales company Business Payment Systems announced it will resell a wireless credit card processing service from Comstar Interactive Corp.Comstar's CHARGE ANYwhere wireless...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. will lay off about 8,900 employees by year-end-about 1,700 more than it planned at the beginning of the year-the company revealed...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC has chosen Robert Switz, who has been with the company since 1994, to serve as its new president and chief executive officer, replacing...
REDMOND, Wash.-Terabeam Corp. announced China Unicom has purchased its Free Space Optics (FSO) system for use in its network in Chongqing, China, operated by...
Verizon Wireless provided details on its highly anticipated Push to Talk service set to officially launch Aug. 18. As RCR Wireless News reported yesterday,...
T-Mobile USA Inc. reported 606,000 net customer additions during the second quarter of this year, including 652,000 postpaid subscriber additions and the loss of...
Manufacturing giant Flextronics announced it will buy Finnish mobile-phone design company Microcell Group for $80 million in cash. Flextronics said the move would strengthen...
Mobility infrastructure revenues were $6.5 billion for the second quarter of 2003, up 1 percent compared with the first quarter of 2003, according to...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Universal Music Group signed an agreement with Sprint PCS allowing the carrier to offer downloadable ring tones to its PCS Vision customers,...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. and American Cellular Corp., which is currently a joint venture between Dobson and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., said they have...
EMR Network's request that the Federal Communications Commission consider revisiting its radio-frequency radiation regulations and guidelines has been denied.EMR was fighting the earlier dismissal...
OTTAWA-Canadian wireless carriers are now required to provide wireless enhanced 911 service everywhere E911 network access services are available, according to a ruling this...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission stepped up its consumer-education campaign regarding wireless enhanced 911 Thursday when FCC Chairman Michael Powell appeared on the "CBS Early...
WASHINGTON-Two rural trade associations tried Wednesday to shoot down Western Wireless Corp.'s basic argument that competition and universal service can co-exist."Congress was careful to...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc., which recently announced it would transfer its nearly 1 million wireless customers to Sprint PCS' network, is reportedly eliminating wide-area...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Brazilian fixed-line operator Embratel plans to acquire Brazilian wireless local loop carrier Vesper from Qualcomm Inc. The amount of the deal was...
