Monthly Archives: November, 2003

Globalstar announces reorg plan, cancels ICO buy

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Bankrupt mobile satellite services company Globalstar announced a new reorganization plan to secure $43 million in financing, effectively canceling its expected acquisition...

Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless ink porting agreement

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has signed an agreement with Verizon Wireless detailing number porting plans between the two carriers once local number portability...

AT&T Wireless launches EDGE service

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its nationwide EDGE network at this year's Comdex technology show in Las Vegas. The carrier said the network would...

MmO2 launches music download service

LONDON-MmO2 has inked an agreement with audio compression specialists Coding Technologies under which the operator will use MPEG-4 aacPlus as the audio compression standard...

Parks optimistic on unlicensed broadband wireless

DALLAS-Research firm Parks Associates said unlicensed broadband wireless technologies will bring recurring revenue of approximately $2 billion by 2008, with a compound growth rate...

Nextel names NASCAR marketers

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. named communications and marketing directors for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, which the carrier in June signed a 10-year contract...

Qwest posts drop in wireless revenue

DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. reported its wireless operations posted a 15.1-percent drop in revenues from $179 million during the third quarter of 2002 to...

Qwest to deploy Lucent solution merging voice, multimedia

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said Qwest Communications Inc. plans to deploy the Accelerate voice over Internet Protocol solutions the vendor just introduced for...

Alcatel purchases PacketVideo network division

Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video...

Sprint PCS prepares new text messaging service, without WAP

Sprint PCS said it will launch a new text messaging service in the coming weeks, a move that will allow users to fire off...

Wind launches i-mode service in Italy, participates in Wi-Fi trial

TOKYO-Following a partnership signed in June, Italian operator Wind Telecomunicazioni said it began i-mode services in Italy today based on technology from Japanese...

Alcatel demos EDGE download with Philips

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Alcatel Corp said it has joined with Royal Philips Electronics to showcase EDGE technology in an interoperability test.The companies said the...

Paging industry consolidates with Metrocall buying WebLink

The long, blustery relationship between paging and messaging carriers Metrocall Holdings Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. appears to have come to a close, with...

Donahue expects to ring in market share following WLNP implementation

Nextel Communications Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Donahue admitted that while the wireless industry will encounter bumps associated with the impending local number portability...

PalmSource signs Sprint PCS for development program for carriers

PalmSource Inc. made several announcements at the COMDEX show in Las Vegas this week. The company announced the launch of the Palm Powered MobileWorld...

U.S. Cellular not planning price cuts

NEW YORK-U.S. Cellular Corp. Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Meyers said the regional operator has no plans to cut prices ahead of the Nov. 24...

Powell expects only modest hiccups with WLNP

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday he expects there will be hiccups next week when customers are allowed to port their telephone numbers, but...

InterWave launches IP-based CDMA2000 infrastructure

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-InterWave Communications Inc. said it has launched what it calls the world's first Internet Protocol-based cellular infrastructure network that uses CDMA2000 technology.The...

SureWest offers flat-rate pricing in Calif.

ROSEVILLE, Calif.-Rural telecommunications service provider SureWest Communications introduced flat-rate unlimited wireless local calling plans. The plans, which require two-year contracts, cost $30 per month...

Vodafone to buy back shares, increase dividend

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it will increase its cash returns to investors by buying back $4.2 billion of its shares and increasing its dividend...

Southern LINC launches prepaid PTT offering

ATLANTA-Regional operator Southern LINC launched its Recharge prepaid offering designed for business users, which includes cellular, text messaging and its Instant LINC two-way radio...

PointShot secures $1M in funding for wireless train service

OTTAWA-PointShot Wireless has secured $1 million in Series A funding from institutional investors, bringing the company's total investments to $1.5 million. The company currently...

Nextel to highlight services in Vegas monorail venue

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. signed an agreement with the Las Vegas Monorail Co. to house a 15,000-square-foot theme venue in the Las Vegas Convention...

Crown Castle prices notes

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. has priced $300 million of its 7.5-percent senior notes due Dec. 1, 2013.The company expects to receive $293 million in...

RFS antenna tilt system compliant with open specs

MERIDEN, Conn.-Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) announced its Optimizer RT remote antenna tilt system is compliant with the Antenna Interface Standards Group's recently released open...
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