Yearly Archives: 2003

Cingular announces AOL partnership

Cingular Wireless and instant messaging company America Online Inc. announced an expansive partnership to allow Cingular subscribers to send and receive AOL instant messages...

Powell prefers best practices over mandates for network outages

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he does not favor mandating the use of best practices developed by the FCC's Network Reliability & Interoperability Committee...

Qualcomm expected to hit high end of guidance

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it expects its revenue and earnings per share for the fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal 2003 to achieve the high...

Cingular to buy some US Unwired assets

Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. said it has entered into agreements to sell certain "non-core operating assets," including its cellular operations that served...

EV-DO to gain traction faster than W-CDMA

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Despite the dominance of the GSM family of network technologies over the CDMA family of technologies in the wireless market, next-generation CDMA,...

Bush proposes Commerce reorg to stem trade deficit

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration, charging Chinese trade practices hurt U.S. tech firms and facing mounting criticism about layoffs heading into the 2004 election season, has...

Motorola adds to i.MX multimedia processor line

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has unveiled an addition to its i.MX line of multimedia applications processors with the i.MX21, which is based on...

Chipmakers show diverse solutions

On balance, wireless chips have carried a small swagger as the industry's only oasis of good news. But Texas Instruments Inc. caused the sector...

Digital content debate creeps into Congress

WASHINGTON-Congress last week dipped its toe into the dirty waters of digital pornography, an emerging issue with financial and intellectual property implications for mobile-phone...

FCC to check up on wireless LNP readiness

WASHINGTON-The chiefs of the FCC's Enforcement and Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus want to go on field trips to see how well carriers are implementing wireless...

Cingular talks data

Often seen as lacking a strong next-generation wireless data roadmap, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has began to nudge its way up the wireless data ranks...

Tropos connects Baton Rouge with Wi-Fi network

Tropos Networks Inc. will supply equipment to enable Verge Wireless Networks Inc.'s metro-scale Wi-Fi network in downtown Baton Rouge, La. The Tropos system works...

Nextel ready to ‘do’ ad campaign

During the past 11 years, Nextel Communications Inc. has carved out a healthy niche for itself in the wireless market while using a proprietary...

Converged devices to buoy PDA space

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The emergence of converged wireless handheld devices capable of multiple communications tasks may provide relief for the seemingly slowing PDA industry, according...

Lauer adds new titles at Sprint

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS President Len Lauer added the title of president and chief operating officer of Sprint Corp., where he will lead the...

Ntelos exits bankruptcy as private company

WAYNESBORO, Va.-Rural telecommunications provider Ntelos Inc. said it had completed its financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings following the confirmation of...

Competing bills address export issues

WASHINGTON-With the United States facing $4 billion in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union by month's end, telecom and high-tech firms find themselves split...

Cingular to offer call forwarding via parents

ATLANTA-Reinforcing its relationship with parent companies BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its FastForward device that allows wireless customers to...

America Movil buys Salvadorian operator

MEXICO CITY-America Movil is continuing its buying spree by acquiring 51 percent of Salvadorian company CTE, which provides mobile and fixed services in El...

724 touts successful tests of alert platform

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-724 Solutions announced that a recent series of integration tests of its X-treme Alerts Platform, released in March, showed a "significant level"...

House keeps punishment for raiding E911 funds in bill

WASHINGTON-States shouldn't raid funds collected from wireless subscribers for enhanced 911services, and carriers shouldn't collect additional money to use to deploy E911 service if...

With much fanfare, CTIA unveils consumer code amid criticism

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association fell short in proving to critics that its voluntary code of conduct, which it officially unveiled Sept. 9,...

Between Gulliver and Gilligan

It is a curious contrast, not without painful irony, this reconstruction business in Iraq and democratic experiment in the Middle East. The United States,...

Greece picks Telcordia for nationwide LNP

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Greece's National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) has awarded a five-year exclusive contract to Telcordia Technologies Inc. for number portability. Telcordia will support...

AT&TW to sell Motorola-made phone using Microsoft platform

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans to sell a Motorola Inc.-manufactured smart phone that incorporates Microsoft Corp. technology.Motorola said it will launch a Microsoft Smartphone-powered...
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