Monthly Archives: December, 2004

Sprint moves forward with DO deployment

While Sprint Corp. had little to say about a possible deal with Nextel Communications Inc., the carrier did report $3 billion worth of multi-year...

MmO2 offers mobile greeting cards

SLOUGH, United Kingdom-U.K. customers of carrier MmO2 can make animated invitations, greeting cards and other messages through a new service, the operator announced Tuesday....

Wireless Internet device displays full-sized Web pages

MONTREAL-DataWind Corp. released its new PocketSurfer wireless Internet device, a unique offering that allows users to view full-sized Web pages by connecting their PocketSurfer...

T-Mobile USA puts UMTS on hold for 2 years

Citing spectrum constraints, T-Mobile USA Inc. said it does not expect to launch UMTS-based services for at least two years and instead will rely...

Not-yet-released handsets fetch pretty penny on Ebay

Unsatisfied with the same old phone selection from your local wireless provider? Shopping for a unique device that will amaze your friends and colleagues?...

Spidey slings into wireless Web with Mforma deal

Enchantress, Deathlok, Nightcrawler and Ant-Man-coming soon to a cell phone near you. Those characters, as well as more familiar Marvel comics stars like Spider-Man...

Business Briefs

Nortel Networks Ltd. has set Jan. 10, 2005, as the date it will file the unaudited statements for 2003 as well as the first...

Software vendors position for shares of mobile-phone market: PalmSource acquires China MobileSoft, LG partners with SavaJe

LG Electronics Co. Ltd., PalmSource Inc., SavaJe Technologies and China MobileSoft Ltd. all made waves on the operating-system front last week, announcements that further...

Industry asks court to dismiss health suits

WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone industry lawyers asked a court here to dismiss six brain-cancer suits, arguing the plaintiffs' complaints are pre-empted by federal law. "The federal government...

U.K. court ruling allows Motorola to seize Uzan assets

LONDON-In another legal triumph, a High Court has given Motorola Inc. the authority to seize assets belonging to Turkey's Uzan family. The decision confirms...

Flarion reports Flash-OFDM contract with Cellular One in Texas

Flarion Technologies Inc. reported that rural wireless provider Cellular One of Amarillo plans to deploy commercial wireless broadband services using Flarion's Flash-OFDM technology in...

Cingular creates group to focus on enterprise market

In the wake of its acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. created a new Business Markets Group, which the carrier said...

CTIA, IEEE create working group to address issue of faulty batteries

WASHINGTON-Wireless industry officials and engineers expect to meet in San Diego this week to continue work on a mobile-phone battery standard, an effort that...

Senate squeaks through on USF E911, spectrum

WASHINGTON-Minutes (literally) before the Senate adjourned for the year, it managed to pass a troika of important wireless bills-spectrum relocation, enhanced 911 upgrades and...

Alamosa Holdings buys fellow Sprint PCS affiliate AirGate PCS

Sprint PCS' largest affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. made good on previous comments that it was interested in acquiring a fellow affiliate by signing a...

Next up: Sprint/Nextel?

Less than two months after Cingular Wireless L.L.C. garnered governmental approval for its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., creating the nation's...

With $2.6B, NextWave reorg to repay creditors, launch broadband

Following the recent sale of its remaining spectrum licenses to Verizon Wireless for $3 billion, NextWave Telecom Inc. filed its third joint plan of...

Former lawmaker agrees to settlement in driver distraction case

WASHINGTON-Former Rep. Wes Watkins (R-Okla.) agreed to a $2 million settlement in connection with a fatal car crash in which driver cell-phone use is...

NEC to sell EDGE phone on the Web

IRVING, Texas-Since it was unable to score a distribution deal with Cingular Wireless and other GSM carriers, NEC America Inc. plans to sell its...

Carb craze hits wireless through Atkins deal

Wireless entertainment publisher Digital Chocolate plans to announce an agreement next week to work with Atkins Nutritionals Inc. to develop wireless content for carb...

T-Mobile USA puts UMTS on hold due to lack of spectrum

Citing current spectrum constraints, T-Mobile USA Inc. said it does not expect to launch UMTS-based services for at least two years and will instead...

Intel to work with AT&T on wireless

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. said it has signed a deal with AT&T Corp to research and develop high-speed wireless broadband, Internet telephone technology and converged...

Lucent distributes warrants as part of class-action settlement

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has distributed 200 million warrants to buy shares of the same amount at $2.75 as part of...

Yahoo! buys mysterious Wuf Networks

Internet portal Yahoo! Inc. acquired startup Wuf Networks for an undisclosed sum, the company said. The acquisition is somewhat shrouded in mystery. Wuf was...

Siemens acquires Chantry for larger WLAN play

Siemens AG has acquired Chantry Networks, a step that will extend its enterprise offerings and Voice over Internet Protocol into the wireless local area...
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