Monthly Archives: March, 2004

Qualcomm ups dividend

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its board of directors has approved a 43-percent increase in quarterly cash dividend from 7 cents to 10 cents per...

UTC says 'Balanced Approach Plan' is the way to solve 800 MHz interference

WASHINGTON-Just as public safety confirmed its support for the Consensus Plan, the United Telecom Council, a major proponent of the Balanced Approach Plan, confirmed...

Siemens to invest in Brazil

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Mobile phone maker Siemens said it will invest $40 million in Brazil to foster the development of mobile phones, cordless phones and...

Motorola launches Rock the Mobile Vote campaign

LOS ANGELES-Rock the Vote, a non-profit, non-partisan group aimed at engaging young adults in the political process, and Motorola Inc. will launch Rock the...

SanDisk T-Flash memory card enhances phone capabilities

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Memory card company SanDisk Corp. announced its new T-Flash removable storage format, a technology the company said will even further expand the capabilities...

Senators urging Budget Committee to restore funding for first responders

WASHINGTON-A bi-partisan group of 23 senators are urging the Senate Budget Committee to reject a Bush administration proposal that would cut state and local...

Vodafone Live!, DoCoMo i-mode both poised for wider growth

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-New research shows Vodafone's Live! wireless data service and NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service are both poised for growth outside of Japan.According to...

ENS offers softswitch

DALLAS-Emergent Network Solutions Inc. said it has introduced a new mobile softswitch known as Entice mobile Softswitch, for wireless service providers.The company, formed by...

SBC confirms inquiries about access lines but says it has capital to fund AWS deal

SAN ANTONIO-Rebuffing claims that it was looking to sell up to 650,000 rural access lines in Michigan and Texas to help fund subsidiary Cingular...

Lucent shuffles executives

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced two new executive changes as part of its efforts to expand its global business development.The moves involve the...

Spatial Wireless to trial switching platform on Hutchison

CANNES, France-Spatial Wireless announced it will commence a market trial of Spatial Atrium, its new high-capacity distributed mobile switching platform, on India's Hutchison Essar...

Senate staffer predicts passage of E911 bill by end of March

WASHINGTON-A key Senate staffer predicted the Senate will pass a bill in the next month to create a grant program to help deploy wireless...

Business briefs

L.M. Ericsson said it has signed separate deals with operators in the United States, Switzerland and Nigeria. With operator Econet Wireless Nigeria, the vendor...

UMTS TDD Alliance formed

CANNES, France-Some wireless players around the world have come together to form the UMTS TDD Alliance to share information, set requirements for future solutions...

GSMA outlines anti-theft initiative

CANNES, France- The GSM Association and manufacturers-including Alcatel, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Sagem, Siemens and Sony Ericsson-announced a new strategy to reduce the theft...

Openwave announces deals with Microsoft, Motorola

Wireless Internet company Openwave Systems Inc. announced a new deal with Microsoft Corp. as well as a major sale to handset maker Motorola Inc....

Donahue OK'ed Wheeler bonus

WASHINGTON-Former Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler's employment contract was altered to pave way for a $500,000 bonus he received from the...

Some on House committee want to deny Nextel 1.9 GHz spectrum

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission received some unsolicited advice from 23 members of Congress on Thursday about how not to solve the public-safety interference problem...

DoJ probing PTT industry on antitrust issues with Motorola, Nextel, Verizon

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. and Verizon Wireless confirmed being contacted by the Justice Department in what could be the early stages of an antitrust probe...

The passion of the states

In this case, the suffering is widespread, with states north to south and east to west bleeding in an uncertain economy with costly homeland...

Lucent, Novatel Wireless supply Telefonica Moviles Espana with 3G cards

CANNES, France-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless, Inc. announced that Telefonica Moviles Espana is offering the Merlin U53 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Wireless PC...

Lucent, Cisco team for VoIP solutions

CANNES-Lucent Technologies Inc. teamed with Cisco Systems Inc. to develop voice over Internet Protocol and multimedia communications solution for mobile carriers.The agreement will combine...

Alcatel reports mobile video deals

CANNES, France-Alcatel scored several new mobile video deals, including an agreement with Hutchison 3G Austria for its video gateway product.Alcatel said it will offer...

Handset makers try to lure enterprise market with new devices

Although wireless by and large caters to the consumer market, many of the industry's major mobile-phone makers zeroed in on the high-margin business user...

Nextel subsidiary comes out on top in 900 MHz auction

WASHINGTON-The auction for 55 licenses in the 900 MHz band closed last week with 46 of the licenses going to a subsidiary of Nextel...
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