Yearly Archives: 2003

VeriFone releases CDMA POS product

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Electronic payment company VeriFone Inc. released a new CDMA point-of-sale payment product, which the company said the State of Wisconsin will use...

Flextronics ordered to pay $934M in lawsuit

SINGAPORE-A jury ordered contract manufacturer Flextronics to pay more than $934 million to Beckman Coulter, which makes medical equipment.Flextronics said it would appeal the...

FCC rejects Northrop Grumman request for broadband spectrum

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday rejected Northrop Grumman Corp.'s request for broadband spectrum to support emergency and homeland security wireless applications.Northrop Grumman filed a...

AirGate PCS details financial restructuring proposal

Following in the financial restructuring footsteps of fellow Sprint PCS affiliates, AirGate PCS Inc. said it intends to pursue a registered exchange offer for...

AT&T Wireless begins GSM/GPRS service in more Wisconsin cities

MILWAUKEE-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its GSM/GPRS service in Madison, Green Bay and Appleton, Wis., as part of its planned overlay of its legacy...

Agilent sells network-planning line to Setram

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. said it has sold its wireless network planning design tools known as Wizard to Setram International, a software company.The...

Largent has celebrity endorser links to McCaw Cellular

WASHINGTON-When Stephen Largent was chosen as the new president of the Cellular & Telecommunications Association, his only connection to the wireless industry appeared to...

Nokia announces three wearable devices, W-CDMA phone

Nokia Corp. continued to push the boundaries of the mobile-phone industry with three new wearable devices designed to bolster the camera-phone market, as well...

‘Fear Factor’ content coming to mobile phones

SEATTLE-Fans of the TV show "Fear Factor" will be able to download music, images and sounds-including screams from the show's contestants-to their mobile phones,...

Wireless’ role in USF debated in House

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers currently finance about 30 percent of the universal-service fund, but only get about 2 percent of the money available, John Stanton, chairman,...

Internet tax bill could costs states, cities up to $9B

WASHINGTON-A group of states said the House-passed Internet tax moratorium will cost cities and states up to $9 billion a year annually by 2006.A...

EC commissions study on spectrum trading

LONDON-The European Commission has commissioned a study on trading radio spectrum within the EC. The study begins this fall and will be completed in...

U.S. Cellular expands in-building coverage with Spotwave repeaters

OTTAWA-U.S. Cellular Corp. said it will use Spotwave Wireless Inc.'s SpotCell adaptive repeater to provide in-building coverage. The repeater will allow U.S. Cellular to...

Lucent, Nokia sign contracts with China Unicom

BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nokia Corp. both signed contracts with divisions of China Unicom. Lucent said it has signed a CDMA contract worth more...

Universal service heats up in Washington with newspaper ads, hearings, seminar

WASHINGTON-Universal service is a hot topic in Washington this week with two House panels hearing testimony, a think-tank seminar and an ad campaign launched...

U.S. Army awards $11M contract to M/A-COM

LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-COM Inc. has been awarded an $11 million contract by the U.S. Army to deploy and link critical communications to 10 Army installations,...

Alan Dick acquires EXi

LONDON-Alan Dick & Co. has acquired telecommunications infrastructure service company EXi Ltd. making Alan Dick & Co. a single-source supplier for the telecommunications industry."Acquiring...

Iraq licenses to be awarded within 10 days

WASHINGTON-L. Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led occupational authority in Iraq, today told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that mobile-phone licenses in the war-torn...

Visto files patent-related lawsuits

Patent battles continue to rage across the wireless enterprise industry, as Visto Corp. joins the fray with separate lawsuits against rival wireless e-mail companies...

S&P gives Nextel notes B+

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's assigned its B+ rating to Nextel Communications Inc.'s offering of $1 billion worth of 7.375-percent senior serial redeemable notes due...

Vodafone signs exclusive content deal for Tomb Raider game

LONDON-European carrier Vodafone announced a deal with video game company Eidos for the exclusive rights to the Tomb Raider game across 22 countries, a...

Lucent receives court approval for class-action settlement

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Denying any wrongdoing, Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has received preliminary court approval to settle pending class action shareowner litigation against the...

Nextel continues legal tit-for-tat with Verizon Wireless

Citing false and unsubstantiated advertising claims, Nextel Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court against Verizon Wireless seeking unspecified damages...

TelASIC rolls out chip for all standards

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-TelASIC Communications said it has rolled out what it calls the world's first cost-effective wideband radio chipset known as baseFlex to support...

House telecommunications subcommittee passes E911 bill

WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee Tuesday passed the E911 Implementation Act of 2003 changing the rural provisions and making it possible for public-safety answering points...
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