NEW YORK-Citing financial profile improvement, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed its CCC- corporate credit rating and 'C' subordinated debt rating for Sprint PCS...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Following calls from several victims checking on the status of orders, Verizon Wireless said it has notified authorities of a telephone scam offering...
Two marquee chipmakers Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics said they are sampling what they describe as the first standard CDMA2000 1x EV-DV solution.The chips will...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau said Thursday that it had turned down Qualcomm Inc.'s extension request to use the remaining 5 percent of its...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. joins Nextel Communications Inc. in offering a mobile phone-based global positioning system service through a deal with Televigation. The service...
CLEVELAND-AG Interactive, the wireless subsidiary of greeting card company American Greetings Corp., announced it acquired European wireless content company K-Mobile in an effort to...
TORONTO-As it grapples with its accounting woes, Nortel Networks Ltd. dashed market expectation by failing to announce its second-quarter results.This drove down the company...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced a $50 million contract with Indosat in Indonesia to enhance GSM service coverage and capacity in East Java.The first phase...
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. elected former Petry Media Corp. chairman Arnold Sheiffer to its board of directors. Sheiffer last month left Petry, where...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Bill Carney, senior director of strategic marketing and business development for Texas Instruments' Wireless Networking Business Unit, has been...
OSAKA, Japan-Japanese electronics manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., which makes Panasonic-brand mobile phones, announced it will build a manufacturing center specifically for mobile...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it will provide 2,500 PCS Connection Cards and handsets to healthcare supplies and services manufacturer and distributor Medline Industries...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission has selected the carrier to provide 800 Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry...
BOSTON-Predictive analytics firm Compete Inc. reported that Adam Guy has joined the company as director of its wireless industry practice. Prior to joining Compete,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm used in its Canopy wireless broadband radios to ensure secure data communication has been...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-First Avenue Networks, holder of an expansive portfolio of licensed spectrum, and wireless Internet service provider WindChannel Communications have partnered to build out...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House Commerce Committee said Wednesday he wants his committee to consider a "Berlin" subsidy plan to end the transition to...
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will take into account recommendations by The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc. that...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Two reports confirm the growing optimism about the semiconductor market. Research Group Gartner said general global chip sales will grow 25 percent...
SAN DIEGO-The first major casualty in the declining market for personal digital assistants appears to be Sony Corp., which said it won't release any...
WASHINGTON-Two California Public Utilities Commission members are crafting a new plan that could reduce or erase the record $12 million fine the agency...
WASHINGTON-Cellular pioneer Craig McCaw today unveiled plans to leverage wireless broadband technology to compete against telephone and cable TV companies in the high-speed Internet...
