2003

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 deal were not disclosed. “The acquisition …

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 transaction follows last month’s announcement Ricochet …

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 multi-modal TalkBack feature that enables cell-phone …

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 are flawed, claiming on appeal that …

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 to increase traffic flow and safety. …

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 communication technology to another planet. Tropos …

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 wireless carriers based on the recently …

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. said it is in talks with …

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 the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. Garmin, …

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 the troubles the carrier has encountered …

While Intel Corp. was reorganizing its operations to adjust for disappointments in its chip business, Texas Instruments Inc. was presenting an upbeat picture for the fourth quarter last week. Looking …

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 filings. Motient said it did not …

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 desktop computer business? Will Symbian manage …

LGP Allgon has been awarded a contract to provide an indoor distributed antenna system to improve wireless phone and data coverage at Moscone West, the expansion of San Francisco’s Moscone …

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 switching equipment. Value: $100 million …

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 Federal Communications Commission. “If the goal …

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 it deploys its 2.5-generation network and …

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 deal were not disclosed. “The acquisition …

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 sell scalable multi-line telephone, data services …

Nearly 10 percent of current wireline customers surveyed by Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Services said they would take their wireline numbers to wireless carriers based on the recently implemented …

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 noted that in addition to …

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 Commission filings. Motient said it did …

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 the Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. Garmin, …

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 its turbulent years behind it. In …

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 it is in talks with wireless …