April 2004

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Handset maker LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will use push-to-talk software from Sonim Technologies in its line of GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA phones. “Sonim enables us to develop …

NEW YORK-Turkey’s Uzan family, which has been battling wireless suppliers in legal challenges regarding vendor financing arrangements to Turkish mobile operator Telsim, said a panel of the U.S. Court of …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. expanded its CDMA2000 1x network to provide its OpenDoor wireless Internet service and Hello2Pix picture messaging service to its Cellular One customers in Colorado, North Dakota, …

OYSTER BAY, New York-Dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi mobile phones will enjoy support among business users and could grow to as much as 7 percent of the worldwide handset market by 2009, according …

NEWARK, N.J.-IDT Corp. said it will deploy commercial Wi-Fi phone service in the United States using its own network and infrastructure and Net2Phone’s voice-over-Internet Protocol platform for routing calls. The …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. soared to high profits in its second-quarter results, emphasizing the prosperity of its CDMA offerings and its place in the industry’s travel to next-generation services. The company …

Alltel Corp. posted 157,741 net customer additions during the first three months of this year, which was slightly below the 159,251 subscribers the carrier added during the first quarter of …

GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc., provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), will acquire Silicon Wave Inc., supplier of integrated circuits for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). RFMD expects Silicon Wave’s …

JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless services garnered 30 percent of total consumer spending during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter and just below the …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced two new contract wins for GSM technology. Nokia will extend its contract to Russia’s VimpelCom for GSM/GPRS equipment under a $60 million agreement for 2004. The …

CHICAGO-Tellabs Inc. posted its first quarterly profit in two years, raising its shares by 10 percent. The equipment supplier had a net profit of $13 million, or 3 cents per …

WASHINGTON-It took more than a year and it wasn’t pretty, but the Federal Communications Commission and bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. Tuesday signed an agreement requiring NextWave to sell more than …

SEOUL, South Korea-Handset maker Sony Ericsson narrowly regained the No. 5 global market share slot from rival LG Electronics Co. Ltd. in the first quarter, as LG reported shipments of …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to 170 kilobits per second and average throughput of …

SEOUL, South Korea-Although the Korean government has yet to make a decision regarding whether to mandate a wireless Internet platform for the country’s three wireless carriers, the operators plan to …

ST. LOUIS-Minute Guard, a subsidiary of McPheeters Communications Group, launched a new service it said is designed to eliminate cellular overage costs. The Minute Guard service monitors users’ minutes of …

HOUSTON-Texas Instruments has released a new Hands-Free Kit (HFK) Development Platform and a Bluetooth subsystem to go with it. According to TI, combining the digital signal processor (DSP)-based platform with …

SEATTLE-Venture capital firm eFund L.L.C. announced the launch of its new Mobilopia wireless marketing company, which is the result of a merger among Mynamics Inc., eFund’s portfolio companies Txt Talk …

SEATTLE-Annette M. Jacobs has been named president and chief executive officer of SafeHarbor Technology Corp. where she will be responsible for setting the strategic growth course of the company. Jacobs …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Off-premise automated teller machine provider Triton entered into an agreement with Verizon Wireless to support a CDMA option on Triton ATMs. The Verizon Wireless option will be offered on …

WASHINGTON-More than 100 small and medium-sized telephone companies Tuesday urged the Senate to pass the Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act. “Currently billions of dollars of investment in further deployment of high-speed …

RadioShack Corp. will begin offering Sprint Corp.’s small business wireless pricing programs and services at its retail locations across the country as an expansion of its current Sprint PCS offerings. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. and Cometa Networks, Inc. entered an alliance where Cometa Networks will incorporate some or all of the Toshiba U.S. SurfHere hot-spot locations into Cometa’s …

Motorola Inc. announced its first-quarter results to market enthusiasm, generating its best stock momentum in three years.Its shares rose $3.11 to $19.33, representing a 20-percent leap. The vendor reported net …

Enterprise software company Sybase Inc. continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of the assets of privately held wireless technology company Dejima. Sybase said it would integrate Dejima’s language processing …