Yearly Archives: 2003

SmartServ Online to purchase Mobile Airwaves

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.-Wireless content and technology company SmartServ Online Inc. announced it plans to purchase wireless e-mail company Mobile Airwaves Inc. Terms of the...

Ricochet’s new owner plans to revive network

DENVER-Ricochet Networks Inc. may have a new lease on life following its sale to EDL Holdings Inc., a Victor Mitchell Family L.P. company. The...

Wireless2Web founder receives patent for LinkPush technology

LOS ANGELES-Richard Helferich, Wireless2Web founder, has been awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its LinkPush technology included in Wireless2Web's...

Cingular argues CPUC fine is flawed

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. told the five California Public Utility Commission members that findings leading to a record $12 million fine against the mobile-phone carrier...

Historic council objects to FCC ruling that towers can go up on scenic highway

WASHINGTON-The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation rejected the government's argument that towers along scenic highways are the same as large signs and other improvements...

Tropos studies Wi-Fi with NASA

Even as wireless industry watchers debate whether Wi-Fi technology will be long for this Earth, the Wi-Fi business is preparing to send its wireless...

S&P survey finds 10% of wireline customers ready to cut the cord

NEW YORK-Nearly 10 percent of current wireline customers surveyed by Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services said they would take their wireline numbers to...

CenturyTel looks to re-join wireless as reseller

NEW YORK-Nearly a year and a half after selling its wireless properties to Alltel Corp. for $1.6 billion, regional telecommunications service provider CenturyTel Inc....

RIM, Garmin to join Nasdaq-100 Index

NEW YORK-Research In Motion Ltd. and Garmin Ltd. announced they will be added to the Nasdaq-100 index, and their shares will be included in...

AT&T Wireless answers LNP inquiry

Following on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the agency outlining...

Semiconductor biz pushes ahead, while Intel overhauls wireless unit

While Intel Corp. was reorganizing its operations to adjust for disappointments in its chip business, Texas Instruments Inc. was presenting an upbeat picture for...

Nextel spends $2.7M on Motient SMR spectrum

Nextel Communications Inc. bought $2.7 million of specialized mobile radio spectrum from wireless data carrier Motient Corp., according to Motient's Securities and Exchange Commission...

Linux OS loved, still faces murky future

There are plenty of contentious questions in the operating system business. Will Microsoft Corp. dominate the mobile-phone field as it has done in the...

Business Briefs

LGP Allgon has been awarded a contract to provide an indoor distributed antenna system to improve wireless phone and data coverage at Moscone West,...

Infrastructure Contracts

Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in November:Philippines. With Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) for GSM/GPRS and EDGE equipment, including radio base stations and mobile...

Powell: VoIP could supplant need for universal service subsidies

Voice over Internet Protocol can be delivered cheap enough that it might negate the need for universal-service subsidies, said Michael Powell, chairman of the...

Cingular selects Racal test solution for GSM/EDGE

BURNHAM, United Kingdom-Cingular Wireless has chosen wireless test systems from Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS) to ensure a high level of service quality while...

SmartServ Online to purchase Mobile Airwaves

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.-Wireless content and technology company SmartServ Online Inc. announced it plans to purchase wireless e-mail company Mobile Airwaves Inc. Terms of the...

WireIntel looks to business wireline replacement with new technology

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-WireIntel is raising the stakes for wireline replacement in the business sector with its patent-pending technology that allows wireless service providers to...

S&P survey finds 10% of wireline customers ready to cut the cord

Nearly 10 percent of current wireline customers surveyed by Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services said they would take their wireline numbers to wireless...

Ericsson to manage Western Wireless’ CDMA MMS offering

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will host, operate and manage Western Wireless Corp.'s multimedia messaging service offering throughout the carrier's domestic CDMA coverage area.Ericsson...

Nextel spends $2.7M on Motient SMR spectrum

Nextel Communications Inc. bought $2.7 million worth of Specialized Mobile Radio spectrum from wireless data carrier Motient Corp., according to Motient's Securities and Exchange...

RIM, Garmin to join Nasdaq-100 Index

NEW YORK-Research In Motion Ltd. and Garmin Ltd. announced they will be added to the Nasdaq-100 index, and their shares will be included in...

Lucent says orders up 16%

Lucent Technologies Inc. said its orders have climbed 16 percent compared to the same period last year, confirming the company's claim to have put...

CenturyTel looks to re-enter wireless as reseller

Nearly a year and a half after selling its wireless properties to Alltel Corp. for $1.6 billion, regional telecommunications service provider CenturyTel Inc. said...
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