Monthly Archives: April, 2004

Quanta Computer to use Comsys EDGE technology

HERZELIA, Israel-Quanta Computer said it has selected the EDGE technology of Comsys Communication and Signal Processing Ltd. as an add-on to its GSM/GPRS products.Quanta...

Smaller carriers brace for May 24 LNP deadline

The liberation of wireless local number portability is scheduled to sweep across the nation May 24 as carriers serving markets outside of the already...

More Americans will use Wi-Fi than 3G by 2007

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-By 2007, more Americans will access mobile data via Wi-Fi than 2.5-generation or third-generation networks, according to a new report from Pyramid....

Risk and responsibility

Once again, there is a fresh example of people using lawsuits to avoid taking responsibility for their own actions. The same day last week...

World Briefs

L.M. Ericsson said it was selected by Austrian wireless carrier One as the sole supplier for its UMTS radio access network. The contract has...

Lawmakers push to classify VoIP as 'info' service

WASHINGTON-Legislation has been introduced that would classify voice over Internet Protocol as an information service, releasing it from telecommunications regulation. "VoIP-technology that enables efficient,...

SEC probes Nortel, Lucent fires staff charged with bribery

Just as major manufacturers seem to have found steady ground by concentrating on their core competencies and get commitments for carriers to deploy advanced...

Nokia reveals chink in handset armor with 1Q financials

Amid predictions of the largest year ever for the mobile-phone industry, market leader Nokia Corp. stunned investors with news that its first-quarter revenues will...

DoCoMo repairs phone glitch via OTA technology

Last month, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo said it sold more than 160,000 faulty mobile phones. The carrier said its new FOMA N900i handset, built...

CPUC author tries to get media support for bill of rights

WASHINGTON-California Public Utility Commission members Carl Wood and Geoffrey Brown said they will try to enlist support of the media and public for a...

Something Sununu

First, New Mexico, the state where President Bush March 26 unveiled his broadband policy for dummies. Now, New Hampshire, the state where Federal Communications...

Digital Fountain deal with XM could be prep for cellular app

Both Honda Motor Co. Inc. and XM Satellite Radio today announced licenses for mobile data broadcasting technology from start-up Digital Fountain. Although the news...

RIM enjoys another strong quarter, Sprint expected to sell BlackBerrys

WATERLOO, Ontario-BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. announced another gangbuster quarter, showing increasing revenues, a rising net income and an even better outlook ahead."Innovation...

Verizon Wireless to move service centers to N.C.

ORANGEBURG, N.Y.-Verizon Wireless said it plans to relocate its customer service and customer financial services positions in Orangeburg, N.Y., and Morristown, N.J., to a...

Cingular argues for 80 MHz of spectrum

Citing the need to support two networks serving more than 20 million subscribers, its future ability to provide wireless data services on par with...

Diversinet works with Chinese company on m-commerce

TORONTO-Diversinet Corp. and China's Guangdong Electronic Certification Authority recently began working together to stimulate China's emerging mobile commerce and mobile digital certificates market.Under the...

Andrew raises quarterly revenue forecast

NEW YORK-Shares of equipment maker Andrew Corp. jumped 13 percent after it raised its revenue forecast for the second quarter.The company said its second-quarter...

Wavecom partners with Orange for M2M offering

Wavecom SA and European carrier Orange announced a partnership to provide a joint machine-to-machine industry offering. The two companies plan to market and co-sell...

DHS: First-responder grants bogged by bureaucracy

WASHINGTON-Just as the Federal Communications Commission is grappling with how to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band, the Department of Homeland Security's...

Motient to offer stock in closed sale

Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced a closed sale of common stock to institutional investors, a move the company said would generate $23.2...

Agere tops Motorola for No. 2 DSP spot

If Motorola Inc.'s position as the No. 2 handset maker has remained tenuous during the past two years, the company just lost that same...

Bush hints at WTO action on standards, interconnect fees

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week identified exclusionary wireless standards and high mobile-phone interconnection fees as barriers to telecom trade in a new report, and...

Consumers Union asks FCC to outlaw handset locking

WASHINGTON-The Consumers Union is asking the Federal Communications Commission to force wireless carriers to stop locking handsets, saying the move would lead to better...

Qwest to offer Wi-Fi-capable DSL

DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. said it will begin offering all new digital subscriber line customers and small business subscribers a Wi-Fi-capable DSL model that...

Simpay eyes alternative way to bill for content

"What Simpay is all about is opening up the mobile Internet space beyond the carrier's branded portal," said Jim Wadsworth, Simpay's chief marketing officer.Described...
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