Yearly Archives: 2003

US Unwired continues asset sales with tower deal

Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported an agreement to sell up to 97 communications towers to AAT Communications Corp. at an average price...

Nextel says FCC has legal authority to approve Consensus Plan

Nextel Communications Inc. filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission that the carrier said demonstrates that the FCC has full legal authority to approve...

Pegaso prepays equipment loans to Qualcomm

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced Pegaso Comunicaciones y Sistemas S.A. de C.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegaso Telecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless...

Xivo Wireless changes name to Xovix

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Xivo Wireless Inc. said it will change its name to a similar but slightly different moniker-Xovix Inc. The company said the change...

Nokia to open N.Y. office next year

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will open a New York office next year and reassign some of its top management staff to the city.Chief...

Consumers spend more on wireless than other telecom services

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Personal use of mobile devices is on the rise, according to a new survey from IDC.The research group found that consumers spend more...

Astron Wireless releases new antenna series

STERLING, Va.-Astron Wireless Technologies Inc. has released its new DirectConnect series of antennas, including the DirectConnect Omni and Yagi antennas.The new antennas allow the...

Boingo gains Wi-Fi roaming agreement with MCI

ASHBURN, Va.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote...

FCC takes another step toward software-defined radios

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday proposed allowing the development and use of software-defined radios, also known as cognitive radios."While the amount of available spectrum...

Turkcell buys majority stake in Ukraine operator

ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell said it entered the Ukrainian mobile market by establishing a new company with the current shareholders of Digital Cellular Communication, which holds...

FCC approves spectrum for intelligent transportation system

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band can be used for the intelligent transportation system."The FCC's action carefully...

DoCoMo sells AOL stakes

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. has sold all its shares in Japanese Internet service provider DoCoMo AOL Inc. to America Online Inc., scaling back its ambitions...

TIM merges GPRS, Wi-Fi services

ROME-Italy's Telecom Italia Mobile launched a new service that connects a cellular phone's subscriber identity module and wireless local area networks using SIM-based authentication....

President Bush signs bill to limit wireless spam

WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush Tuesday signed the CAN-SPAM Act, which includes a move toward prohibiting wireless spam.The bill includes language seeking to ban transmissions...

Jamdat updates bowling game with multiplayer, audio features

LOS ANGELES-Wireless gaming company Jamdat Mobile Inc. announced a sequel to its popular Jamdat Bowling application, a game that will feature enhanced audio and...

Verizon collects 3 major IM services with new offering

Verizon Wireless announced a major step in the wireless instant messaging industry, with the first application to combine MSN Messenger, AOL IM and Yahoo!...

Motorola files $2B chip unit IPO

In what might be the first stamp of Edward Zander, new chief executive officer, Motorola Inc. said it has filed with the Securities and...

InterDigital signs new licensee

KING of PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its InterDigital Technology Corp. subsidiary signed a nonexclusive worldwide royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Taiwan's High Tech...

Lattice acquires 13 towers from Vertical RealEstate

CINCINNATI-Lattice Communications L.L.C. has acquired 13 communications towers in the Indianapolis metro area from Vertical RealEstate Inc. Lattice did not disclose the purchase price."The...

Centennial reports improved quarterly subscriber adds

WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it added 2,400 wireless customers in its U.S. operations and 23,300 customers in its Caribbean operations during the company's...

Samsung plans Linux-based smart phone for Chinese market

BEIJING-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is planning to sell a Linux-based smart phone, the CDMA i519, in the Chinese market.The phone is the latest wireless...

Williams & Moore Capital invests in Sinclair

TORONTO-Williams & Moore Capital Corp., private equity investment arm for the Reliance Aerotech group of companies, will become a strategic investor in Sinclair Technologies...

Amdocs reiterates guidance without Sprint contract

Amdocs attempted to assuage shareholders Tuesday, following news earlier in the week that Sprint has backed out of a previously announced billing migration project,...

FCC denies requests to postpone 900 MHz SMR auction

The Federal Communications Commissions' Auction No. 55 of Specialized Mobile Radio service licenses in the 900 MHz band will take place as scheduled Feb....

Airwalk gets $8M in funding for product launch

RICHARDSON, Texas-Airwalk Communications announced it has received $8 million in funding from venture partners TL Ventures and the Korean Global IT Fund (KGIF), allowing...
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