WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, besieged by educators who oppose any auction of their spectrum, is expected this week to approve a new 2.5 GHz...
WASHINGTON-Craig McCaw, who made a fortune in the cellular industry before stumbling in satellite and local telephone ventures, last week unveiled plans to leverage...
WASHINGTON-A plan to use auction revenues to fund grants for first-responder interoperable communications was withdrawn Thursday, allowing the House Commerce Committee to pass the...
LONDON-U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom said U.K. mobile carriers must reduce their mobile termination rates, in a further blow to the highly competitive market, which...
WEST TRENTON, N.J.-DotPhoto Inc. introduced a new service for camera-phone users that the company said would allow them to quickly and easily print camera-phone...
MUMBAI, India-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...
DALLAS-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...
Paul Neilson, senior vice president of technology services for Monster Worldwide, doesn't really care about latency statistics for push-to-talk services, kilobit-per-second measurements of high-speed...
The new wireless gizmos may be humming with new applications, but promises keep outweighing results. CDMA, the technology leading the march toward a full...
WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless L.L.C's proposed $41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. picked up support from a leading disability organization, but the deal...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd.'s stellar growth was dimmed slightly due to a downgrade from Bank of America Securities, which forced the company's stock...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless purchased a 10-megahertz section of a C-block PCS license from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. covering 1.1 million potential customers in...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said the Securities and Exchange Commission has selected the carrier to provide 800 Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices for...
Validation of increased efforts by carriers to improve the quality of service of their still-expanding wireless networks recently came in the form of ramped...
As it continues to grapple with accounting woes, Nortel Networks Ltd. dashed market expectations last week by failing to announce its second-quarter results. The...
North Korea has apparently banned the use of mobile phones, according to international news reports. Details on the secretive country's ban were unclear.The country...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House Commerce Committee said last week he wants his committee to consider a "Berlin" subsidy plan to end the transition...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is reportedly set to launch high-speed UMTS services as soon as this summer in select U.S. markets, according to published...
BOSTON-A new report by Strategy Analytics found high interest among cell-phone users in cordless headsets and push-to-talk connectivity.The report, "US Cellular Device Market Dynamics:...
DALLAS-Although it is often thought of as a single wireless standard, WiMax actually addresses multiple areas of the telecommunications market, according to a new...
AUSTIN, Texas-Dell has joined the Wireless Networking and Communications Group at the University of Texas at Austin as an industrial affiliate sponsor.WNCG is an...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Citing higher-than-expected demand for its memory chips, Intel Corp. said its second-quarter revenue will reach the top end of its expectations.The company...
