Yearly Archives: 2003

Verizon Wireless launches 1x in Colorado

DENVER-Verizon Wireless launched its cdma2000 1x-based Express Network service in Colorado, providing customers with access to the wireless data network at average speeds between...

Qualcomm licenses Dilithium’s multimedia software

LARKSPUR, Calif.-Dilithium Networks said it has licensed its videotelephony and conferencing protocol software to Qualcomm Inc. for UMTS customers."Qualcomm's selection of Dilithium Networks' multimedia...

XO buys part of Global Crossing’s debt

RESTON, Va.-XO Communications Inc. announced it now owns approximately $790 million of Global Crossing's $2.214 billion debt after $495 million of Global Crossing senior...

Q Comm closes on public offering, ups production

OREM, Utah-Q Comm International Inc. has closed on its previously announced public offering of 1.1 million units, which priced at $13 per unit yielded...

D.C. Circuit sides with FCC regarding rural licenses

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court said Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission was correct when it opened an auction for rural cellular licenses rather than...

Tele2 launches GSM service in St. Petersburg

NEW YORK-Tele2 AB said it officially launched its third Russian GSM network under the Tele2 brand in St. Petersburg. The license covers 5 million...

Chip deal to boost mobile video

MILPITAS, Calif.-Intersil Corp. and Vixs said they have agreed to work together to create a single set of chips that will enable developers to...

Namibia to allow mobile competition

LONDON-Namibia is set to open its mobile market by issuing a tender for a second GSM operator.According to a statement issued by the Namibian...

Orthogon receives funding, releases product

WALTHAM, Mass.-Orthogon Systems, which provides non-line-of-sight wireless technology for broadband networks, has secured $7 million in venture capital, bringing its total funds raised to...

Fresh from ViAir buy, Visto adds $50M in VC funds

In one fell funding swoop, the corporate wireless e-mail market has a new major contender.Wireless e-mail company Visto Corp. announced it raised an astonishing...

MasterCard to offer wireless transfers

FRANKFURT, Germany-Under a new service launched in Europe by credit card giant MasterCard, mobile-phone users will be able to transfer money to other users...

OSHA expands tower safety program to East

WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has expanded its tower safety program to several Eastern states, another move by federal officials to curb the...

A rose by any other name… MVNOs offer services even as industry debates definition

In an industry drowning in acronyms and meaningless catch phrases, few labels are as hard to pin down as the European-derived mobile virtual network...

Summer movies, wireless tie-ins continue

REDMOND, Wash.-The summer movie season continues to tie into wireless, with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. scoring an exclusive deal with Paramount Pictures for its...

Wireless customers can register numbers on new nationwide do-not-call list

Wireless customers are now able to register their telephone numbers on a national do-not-call list, said President George Bush from the White House Rose...

Camera culture

Philippe Kahn foresees a global society transformed by mobile phones with integrated digital cameras.As industry analysts predict the vast majority all mobile phones will...

News Briefs

The number of global wireless users will increase 49 percent during the next four years to total 1.72 billion by 2007, according to the...

Sony Ericsson retreats from N. American CDMA space

What began as a rumor turned into an unpleasant reality last week for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., as the handset maker announced it...

Triton PCS purchases Lafayette’s spectrum

BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it acquired 12 personal communications service licenses from Lafayette Communications and paid approximately $28.1 million to the Federal...

Midwest Wireless to buy more licenses

MANKATO, Minn.-Midwest Wireless signed a definitive agreement to acquire wireless properties from three partnerships providing wireless service in Iowa under the name Cellcom.Midwest said...

Ericsson outsources unit to IBM

NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson said it plans to outsource its information systems unit to IBM Corp., transferring 1,000 employees to the software giant. Ericsson sees...

Telecom/IT ranks second in lobbying expenditures, BellSouth top spender

WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money,...

U.S. gets support for flexibility at 5 GHz

WASHINGTON-U.S. officials in Geneva said they are confident about securing a huge swath of global 5 GHz airwaves for Wi-Fi and other unlicensed wireless...

Nextel says nationwide Direct Connect rollout on schedule

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it will have 80 percent of its markets Nationwide Direct Connect-enabled by July 1 with the addition of 13...

Chip sales rise

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Worldwide sales of semiconductors witnessed its third consecutive monthly increase from March to May of this year, according to the Semiconductor Industry...
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