January 2004

WASHINGTON-The public-safety members of the Consensus Plan coalition to solve the 800 MHz interference problem upped the ante on Thursday by delivering a letter to the White House and promoting …

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it signed an agreement with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. to add BlackBerry capability to its mobile phones. Samsung is the latest …

TORONTO-Motorola Inc. said it will sell its new V300 camera phone through Rogers AT&T Wireless in Canada for $200 with a two-year contract. The deal is notable as Motorola suffered …

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. named David Zylka chief technology officer, where he will oversee the activities in the engineering, network operations, implementation and information technology organizations. Zylka was …

BOULDER, Colo.-SandCherry Inc. announced it is offering prepackaged application bundles featuring its speech-recognition software products for wireless applications to small- and medium-sized enterprises. The company’s bundled offerings are targeted at …

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications Inc. said it has signed an agreement to supply network infrastructure equipment to T-Mobile Netherlands. The carrier covers 1.84 million customers in the country. The agreement …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless bolstered its phone offerings as well as its wireless data application listings through two new deals. First, the nation’s largest carrier announced it will sell the new …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Wireless operators are expected to battle fixed-line operators for a chunk of the broadband home market, which could be worth more than $100 billion by 2008, according to …

IRVINE, Calif.-SMC Networks said it will upgrade its 802.11g chips with multimedia-enhancing technology from Globespan Virata. The SMC g products include its router and adapters. Globespan’s product is known as …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. has teamed with Salesforce.com to make Salesforce.com’s on-demand customer relationship management service available on Nextel’s wireless network. Through the partnership, Nextel customers using BlackBerry devices can …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association praised Bush administration officials for securing trade commitments from Costa Rica to open wireless and tech sectors to competition in that country. U.S. Trade Representative Robert …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has granted Virginia Cellular L.L.C. eligible telecommunications carrier status, and in the process, has provided clues to both the divisions within the commission about what criteria …

WASHINGTON-A lawsuit was filed against a truck driver and a North Carolina company in connection with the death of a girl killed Jan. 13 when a school bus was rear-ended …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-The wireless LAN market will grow 23 percent in 2004 to $2.2 billion, with strong growth continuing through 2006, but its decline will begin in 2007, according to …

NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has reportedly set a Feb. 13 deadline for companies interested in submitting bids to acquire the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier, according to a filing with …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Internet and wireless technology company InfoSpace Inc. announced major fourth-quarter results and a positive outlook for the year, news that sent the company’s stock up almost 30 percent to …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it added nearly 4.4 million proportionate net subscribers during the final three months of last year across its international operations, ending 2003 with 130.4 million total …

PARIS-Location-services company Maporama announced it gained a new investor, a move that comes as the company will restructure its executive line-up and refocus on international markets. Maporama, which sells location …

DALLAS-Machine-to-machine (M2M) business applications-distinguished from wireless data services in their ability to automatically and autonomously communicate, control and affect the operation of remote machines or systems in real time-will create …

NTT DoCoMo Inc., which owns a 16-percent stake in AT&T Wireless Services Inc., said it has agreed to a temporary waiver of its consultation rights under its investor agreement in …

T-Mobile USA Inc. posted just more than 1 million net subscriber additions during the fourth quarter of 2003, surpassing the 670,000 customers the carrier added during the third quarter of …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. announced it will sell $225 million principal amount of 7.5-percent senior notes due 2012 through an institutional private placement. Net proceeds are expected to be approximately $221.7 …

OBERHAUSEN, Germany and LONDON-Two wireless carriers in Thailand made enhancements to their messaging services. German messaging company ConVisual said Thailand’s largest mobile operator AIS has launched its VisualTXT mobile messaging …

TOKYO-The MultiBand OFDM Alliance, which supports ultra-wideband technology, said it will publish a standard in May and plans to submit proposals for the IEEE working group. The body, which has …

LONDON-GSM operators will count 1 billion users by the end of the first quarter 2004, according to predictions from the GSM Association. More than 180 million GSM users were added …