Yearly Archives: 2004

Cingular expands EDGE in So. Florida

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to...

Competitors gain from high sub losses at AWS

The wireless industry's first full quarter of operating under local number portability provided few surprises as Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint PCS, Nextel Communications Inc....

Motorola to use Picsel browser technology

GLASGOW, United Kingdom-Handset-maker Motorola Inc. announced support for mobile Internet browsing technology from Picsel Technologies Ltd. Motorola's A768, A1000 and MPx phones will feature...

CellStar announces management changes ahead of Asia IPO

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said James Johnson will step down as chairman of the board, effective April 30, and his position will be assumed by...

Sprint stock recombination complete

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported that the recombination of its FON and PCS tracking stocks into a single common stock was completed today, and...

T-Mobile enhances customer service technology

AKRON, Ohio-T-Mobile USA Inc. has chosen Virtual Hold Technology's Virtual Queuing technology for use in 11 contact centers to help the centers handle more...

Somera cuts net loss

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Somera Communications Inc. said it had a net loss of $4.1 million, or 8 cents per share, compared with the prior quarter...

TIA asks Congress to support R&D tax credit

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association urged Congress to support legislation extending and strengthening the research and development tax credit.The R&D credit is due to...

Nextel downplays viability of 2.1 GHz spectrum idea

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. Thursday said it would take too long and would not survive a legal challenge for the Federal Communications Commission to seriously...

Cingular to offer personalized service summaries

SAN ANTONIO-A new Cingular Wireless customer service will give its customers a personalized summary of their service plans immediately following signing up for service.The...

Ericsson posts strong results on growing infrastructure orders

L.M. Ericsson edged out market expectations in its fiscal first-quarter results with a net income of $387 million, showing not only the resilience of...

Infineon to spend $1B on U.S. chip plant

RICHMOND, Va.-Infineon Technologies AG said it plans to spend $1 billion to build a chip plant here, a move that stokes anxiety that it...

Tecnomen joins forces with Nokia on mobile video

HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish companies Tecnomen and Nokia Corp. agreed to join forces to promote video mail services to the third-generation services market. The companies will...

U.S. settles wireless trade disagreement with Korea

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today said it settled a major wireless trade disagreement with South Korea that could have locked Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW technology out...

AT&T Wireless' 1Q results disappoint

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. posted disappointing first-quarter results, highlighted by the loss of 367,000 customers during the quarter and a 3.7-percent customer churn rate,...

UTStarcom acquires Telos to boost CDMA strategy

ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it has agreed to acquire the assets of Telos Technology Inc., a move that will rev up its CDMA business...

DoCoMo boosts dividend on i-mode milestone

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will pay a $4.58 year-end "commemorative" dividend in addition to a previously proposed $4.58 ordinary dividend, raising the wireless...

RF Micro Devices buys Bluetooth player Silicon Wave

GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc., provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), will acquire Silicon Wave Inc., supplier of integrated circuits for wireless personal area...

Brazil's Vivo selects Comverse's MMSC

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse said it will supply a multimedia messaging service center for Brazil's largest wireless carrier Vivo."Vivo already offers the FotoTorpedo to its customers,...

China blinks on WAPI, 3G standard

WASHINGTON-China scrapped plans to implement its controversial Wi-Fi encryption standard and agreed not to mandate a home-grown third-generation mobile-phone technology, concessions made to Bush...

Survey highlights phone recycling to mark Earth Day

More than 70 percent of respondents to a recent survey by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC) said they were unaware that cell phones...

Nokia gets I Wireless GSM contract

URBANDALE, Iowa-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a $15 million deal to supply GSM equipment for carrier I Wireless, formerly known as Iowa Wireless...

Qualcomm enjoys profit rise on 3G uptake

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. soared to high profits in its second-quarter results, emphasizing the prosperity of its CDMA offerings and its place in the industry's...

IDT to deploy Wi-Fi service using VoIP platform

NEWARK, N.J.-IDT Corp. said it will deploy commercial Wi-Fi phone service in the United States using its own network and infrastructure and Net2Phone's voice-over-Internet...

Alltel grows revenue, but income drops

Alltel Corp. posted 157,741 net customer additions during the first three months of this year, which was slightly below the 159,251 subscribers the carrier...
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