Yearly Archives: 2003

Cingular makes it official, carrier to buy some NextWave spectrum

Following a hastily retracted announcement earlier this month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced last week it would purchase 34 PCS licenses covering 83 million...

Corrections

The headline in the July 28 issue on page 12 about American Tower earnings should have read "American Tower to shed tall tower construction...

Swiss court rules in Motorola’s favor

CHICAGO-Motorola Inc. won another legal victory over Turkey's wireless carrier Telsim in a Swiss court ruling to freeze the $800 million of assets controlled...

Vodafone signs Sony Pictures for content, purchases U.K. reseller

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc signed a deal with Sony Pictures Mobile for new entertainment products based on Sony Pictures Entertainment, as well as original and...

3G, the Chinese way

Most people agree China offers a lucrative wireless landscape. It is already the world's largest market with one of the lowest mobile penetration rates....

American Tower closes stock, notes offerings

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. has closed its previously announced offerings of Class A common stock and 3.25-percent convertible notes due 2010.With the closing of the...

RIM can continue to sell BlackBerrys amid NTP legal battle

Research In Motion Ltd. entered the appeals phase of its patent battle with NTP Inc. following a U.S. district court order that essentially stalls...

Acterna files for reorganization, hires CEO

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Bankrupt communications test and measurement company Acterna Corp. has filed reorganization plans with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New...

CPA allows 10% gov’t stakes for Iraq bidders

WASHINGTON-The Coalition Provisional Authority loosened rules regarding government ownership of telecommunications companies wanting to offer mobile-phone service in Iraq from 5 percent to 10...

Hollings to retire in ’05

WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking member on both the Senate Commerce Committee and the appropriations subcommittee with control over the Federal Communications Commission's...

FCC expects to finish 5 GHz unlicensed rules by end of year

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission committed on Thursday to complete rules for unlicensed use of the 5 GHz band by the end of the year.The...

Wireless directory assistance more than dialing 411

Wireless directory assistance, one of the more complicated issues in wireless, is gaining steam following recent analyst predictions the market holds an ample $3.3...

IEEE increases speeds for WPAN networks

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has increased the speed of wireless personal area networks to 55 megabytes per second from 1...

Home-networking concept embraced, but execution needs work

In the networked home of the future, wireless likely will play a major role, connecting family members to their loved ones, music collections and...

DoCoMo reports profit on cautious outlook

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported a net income of $1.65 billion in the first quarter ended June 30 in its first quarterly financial report.DoCoMo said...

Mobile triggers bomb in terrorist attack

WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security last week said mobile phones and other small electronic devices could be used by terrorists in government buildings and...

Rural carriers less dependent on roaming revenues

Of the handful of rural carriers that reported second-quarter results last week, including Western Wireless Corp., Dobson Communications Corp., Rural Cellular Corp., Triton PCS...

Leap reorg progresses, carrier to quit N.C. town

Leap Wireless International Inc. continued its climb back to financial solvency. The San Diego-based company said its bankruptcy court approved a disclosure statement Leap...

Management shake-up at Kyocera

SAN DIEGO-A delayed initial public offering and the resulting moves toward integration with the company's parent in Japan compelled top executives at mobile-phone maker...

ITU partners with TM Forum on OSS standards

GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union partnered with TeleManagement Forum to allow TM Forum standards to be published by ITU as ITU-T Recommendations. ITU-T is ITU's...

ABI: 2Q handset sales up 12 %

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Total wireless handsets shipped reached 107 million units in the second quarter, demonstrating 12-percent year-on-year growth and 2-percent sequential growth, according to...

Dobson to offer pics with LogicaCMG services

Regional wireless carrier Dobson Communications Corp. today announced it will jump into the picture messaging business later this year through a new deal with...

As carriers look at Wi-Fi, Wayport wins

The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left...

Standards struggles riddle enabling technologies

One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of...

EU urges Microsoft to untie Media Player from Windows

The European Commission gave Microsoft Corp. one more chance to remedy what it terms as monopolistic behavior. "The commission has gathered additional evidence from...
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