Monthly Archives: December, 2004

All good things change

Everything has to come to an end, whether it's Ken Jennings' winning streak on Jeopardy! or Tom Brokaw's 23-year reign on NBC Nightly News...

Ericsson teams with Warner on mobile music offering

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telefon AB Ericsson will team with Warner Music International to offer polyphonic ringtones, master tones and other mobile content from the label's artists,...

Cingular optimistic on AWS buy, UMTS build

Just more than a month after closing its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it expects to post...

Cingular divests markets as part of AWS buy

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. continued the business of integrating AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with a pair of deals to sell spectrum and wireless assets designed...

From cellar to stellar

Funny how things change sometimes, how fortunes can so dramatically turn around.Take the case of Democratic Federal Communications Commission member Jonathan Adelstein, central actor...

Turning on, tuning in to TV: 4 protocols in hunt to be standard

The world's two most popular consumer electronics devices may soon be combined into one-the mobile TV phone. Behold. Although one is designed for sedentary,...

InterOp makes messaging headway with eight regional carriers

FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies said it is providing products and services for WAP, short message service and multimedia messaging service delivery for eight U.S....

Wireless industry tops $100B, says U.S. Census Bureau

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is a $100 billion business. The U.S. Census Bureau today said revenues for cellular and other wireless telecom firms rose to...

Nokia, Siemens sign China Mobile contracts

BEIJING-Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG announced GSM network contract awards in China, both with separate divisions of China Mobile Communications Corp. Nokia said it...

Verizon to sell Telus stake

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. said it plans to sell its 20.5-percent stake in Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. beginning early next week. Verizon noted...

Industry groups align on RFID certification

CHICAGO-The Computing Technology Industry Association and The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility plan to cooperate on developing a vendor-neutral certification program for radio-frequency...

ACLU says RFID in passports leaves Americans vulnerable

WASHINGTON-The American Civil Liberties Union said it obtained State Department documents that show the Bush administration ignored security and privacy warnings by experts and...

Andrew wins Hong Kong railway contract

ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it won a two-year contract to upgrade Hong Kong's mass transit railway underground communications network with third-generation wireless technology....

‘The remote control of your life’ DoCoMo vision revolves around software

"The future is in the software," said Nayeem Islam, vice president of NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s mobile software laboratory in San Jose, Calif. "The hardware...

Verizon offers LG phone upgrade for blind users

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it is offering a software upgrade to its VX4500 phone, built by LG Electronics Co. Ltd., that will allow users...

Business uptick ahead for infrastructure players

KINGS PARK, N.Y.-Infrastructure vendors will benefit as hundreds of thousands of base stations will be deployed globally every year through the rest of the...

Carrier Briefs

Verizon Wireless said it completed the purchase of Northern California wireless operator Mountain Cellular from Sierra Tel Communications Group. The deal includes Mountain Cellular's...

Lawmakers try to get 3G bill passed as Bush orders policy changes

WASHINGTON-President Bush last week signed an executive order directing federal agencies to implement recommendations in two spectrum reports, while a more pressing White House...

Rogers Wireless service allows texting to landline phones

TORONTO-Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. launched its TXT 2 Landline service, which will allow customers to send text messages to landline phones...

Freescale becomes independent company

Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Motorola Inc.'s former semiconductor subsidiary, became a free, independent company following the completion of the spin-off. As a result, Motorola issued...

Regulators say wireless has won the battle for the customer

WASHINGTON-Wireless is here to stay and it is becoming more important. That was the take-away message from Thursday's 22nd annual Institute on Telecommunications Policy...

Two top execs leave Nokia

Nokia Corp. announced Simon Beresford-Wylie will head its networks division following the resignation of Sari Baldauf.Nokia said Baldauf had long planned to leave the...

Playboy bunny hops into U.S. wireless market

Having spent much of the year tapping mobile markets around the globe, the bunny is coming to North America. Playboy Enterprises Inc. announced a...

Cruise lines offer cell-phone service via Cingular

MIAMI-Guests on Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises ships can soon use their personal cell phones to stay in touch while at sea.Royal Caribbean...

MobiTV celebrates first birthday

BERKELY, Calif.-The nation's first live mobile TV broadcaster celebrated its first birthday Thursday. MobiTV, which recently reached an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.,...
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