WASHINGTON-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger-despite lacking jurisdiction over the California Public Utilities Commission-is quietly pressing regulators to follow an executive order freezing pending regulations until their...
When tight carrier capital spending forced tower companies to focus on their primary businesses, non-core assets like managed rooftop portfolios justifiably became a second...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile operators SK Telecom and KTF launched their W-CDMA networks last week to meet a year-end deadline, although full commercial services...
Few wireless companies have been able to target the often sought-after youth market like Boost Mobile L.L.C. Despite being owned by business-focused Nextel Communications...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced it will use search technology from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), which the companies said will allow users to search...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless signed a definitive agreement to acquire 10-megahertz PCS licenses from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. covering 1.1 million potential customers in...
Industry has hailed the coming of packet technology, which has turned circuit networks into anachronisms. But the technology still has its challenges, one of...
In the search for killer applications and other services that rake in revenue, independent software vendors are the new brides of wireless.With software expanding,...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Mobility Electronics Inc. and RadioShack Corp. announced a global distribution agreement under which Mobility can sell RadioShack-manufactured power products to non-RadioShack outlets.Under...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it expanded its partner network agreement with Kuwait mobile operator Mobile Telecommunications Co. to include the Bahraini market.MTC-Vodafone launched services...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will expand Pakistani mobile operator Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd.'s GSM 900 MHz national network under a $56 million...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. announced last week amended financial reports for full-year 2002 and the first two quarters of 2003, following up on a previously...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell said Turkey's Telecommunication Authority has fined the mobile operator $64.1 million, claiming Turkcell made inadequate annual frequency usage fee payments. TA has...
HONG KONG-Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies co. Ltd. said it agreed with Hong Kong wireless carrier Sunday to supply equipment and financing to assist...
After almost four years of waiting, Jason Devitt believes the time is now.Packet-switched networks are online. Mobile phones feature color graphics. And-perhaps most importantly-carriers...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of NPI-Omnipoint Wireless L.L.C., which provides GSM service...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish company Svenska UMTS-nat AB, jointly owned by TeliaSonera and Tele2, has agreed to purchase the fourth third-generation license in Sweden from Orange...
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 operator...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless operator Rogers AT&T Wireless reported an agreement with handset supplier LG Electronics Canada Inc. to provide LG GSM/GPRS handsets to Rogers AT&T...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA...
New ownership has provided mobile satellite services company Globalstar L.P. with hope in the new year.The company last month announced plans to be acquired...
A savvy Amazon.com shopper can find Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P.'s color-screen T616 camera phone with service from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for -$150....
