Monthly Archives: May, 2004

APCO endorses Media Bureau DTV plan

Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that...

Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile offer new phones

Wireless users will soon have several new gadgets to play with, as Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA Inc. and others announced the release of new...

Wine magazine to offer mobile info

MONTREAL, Canada-The wireless Web just got a little tastier.Wine magazine Wine Spectator announced a deal with wireless content company Airborne Entertainment to offer wine...

Verizon, Nextel continue sparring over 800 MHz replacement spectrum

WASHINGTON-The battle for the heart of the Federal Communications Commission continued last week as internal debate raged on regarding the best solution for solving...

S&P rates U.S. Cellular debt

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its preliminary 'A-' rating to U.S. Cellular Corp.'s $500 million unsecured debt shelf registration, which the carrier...

Global carriers push forward with varying PTT technology

Countering a similar offering by rival wireless provider Tata Teleservices, Indian wireless carrier Hutchison Essar launched Fastmobile Inc.'s push2talk service, which combines walkie-talkie services...

Mobile video boon dependent on solid carrier plans

LONDON-A new study forecasts the market for wireless video will generate worldwide revenues of $5.4 billion by 2008, but industry players will have to...

Ericsson snags GSM expansion contract in China

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson signed a $58 million GSM/GPRS expansion contract that includes equipment that supports the latest GPRS and EDGE versions with Jiangsu Mobile Communication...

APCO endorses Media Bureau DTV plan

WASHINGTON-Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that...

Calif. bill of rights issue likely to spill into 2005

WASHINGTON-Harsh political and industry criticism of the California Public Utilities Commission's bill of rights for telecom consumers likely signals the controversy will carry over...

CSI announces GSM/GPRS fixed wireless phones

CALGARY-CSI Wireless Inc. announced product details and shipping plans for its new 410 series of GSM/GPRS fixed wireless telephones. CSI said product shipments are...

NEC agrees to $20.6 million fine for rigging E-rate bids

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice Thursday announced the biggest guilty plea yet in a two-year investigation of fraud and abuse of the E-rate program, which...

US Unwired retires debt with exchanges

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. retired approximately $41.6 million worth of its 13.375-percent senior subordinated discount notes due 2009 through a...

Nextel to launch new NASCAR TV ads

RESTON, Va.-Capitalizing on its 10-year, $750 million sponsorship of the NASCAR racing series, Nextel Communications Inc. said it plans to launch the second phase...

China Unicom to use LG phones with DoOnGo OTA software

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Following an announcement of the companies' new teaming, LG Electronics said it will ship its first phone using DoOnGo Technologies Inc. technology...

VoIP files for patent on 911 technology

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-VoIP Inc. has filed a patent application titled "Method and System for Back-up of Voice Over IP Emergency Calls," for a technological...

Motorola launches wireless data center in China

BEIJING-Motorola Inc. said it has launched a center to research new wireless data services and enable operators to evaluate applications for their networks. Motorola...

CellStar warns on 2Q revenues

CellStar Corp. warned today that it expects its second-quarter revenues to be lower than those garnered in last year's second quarter. The company's stock...

Lucent announces CDMA2000 1x deals

KARACHI, Pakistan, and RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. made two CDMA2000 1x-related announcements.In Brazil, Lucent said VIVO, the country's largest wireless carrier, will...

Motorola receives $1B replacement loan

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has received $1 billion loan from its banks led by JP Morgan Chase Bank and Citibank N.A.The line of...

DoCoMo sells stake in U.K. 3G carrier

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo sold its 20-percent stake in Hutchison 3G UK Holdings Ltd. to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. for $220 million in a transaction that has...

TNS buys U.S. Wireless Data assets

RESTON, Va.-Transaction Network Services Inc., a provider of data communications services for transaction applications, said it has acquired certain assets from bankrupt U.S. Wireless...

Nokia signs $275M contract in India

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a three-year GSM/EDGE contract worth approximately $275 million to build core and radio-access networks for Indian carrier...

Skyworks component available for CDMA

WOBURN, Mass.-Wireless semiconductor company Skyworks Solutions Inc. said licensing rights for its patented Selectable Mode Vocoder technology are immediately available to be incorporated into...

ComCARE Alliance readies RFP for emergency provider directory

WASHINGTON-When an emergency event occurs, there is currently no directory of available entities-both public and private-to use for contact and information sharing. The ComCARE...
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