2004

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 a quicker return on its investment …

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 $104 billion in 2003 from $92 …

“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 is a commodity.” Islam’s assertion, spoken …

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 or wireline telephony. OK. That’s a …

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 identification technology in an attempt to …

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, the companies announced Wednesday. Ericsson will …

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 in a now-concluded political drama …

Dear Editor, I read Tina Eichner’s opinion on Rural Connections. I continue to be amazed at the lack of interest and outright opposition to the communications interests of really rural …

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 to operate the phone through verbal …

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 decade, according to a new report …

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 that its current stake in the …

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-In a sign of the continuing proliferation of Wi-Fi technology, Boingo Wireless and Tropos Networks have entered a partnership to allow operators of Tropos-powered metro-scale Wi-Fi networks to …

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 to comply with government divestiture requests …

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, passive entertainment and the other for …

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 signed a $200 million contract with …

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 foreign governments when it was promoting …

NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc. was able to support marketing claims for its Nationwide Direct Connect service, but modified pricing claims following a ruling by the National Advertising Division of the …

WASHINGTON-Cricket Communications Inc. has created a storm of controversy over a request for special relief from requirements of California’s bill of rights for telecom consumers. Cricket, which serves the California …

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. mobile carriers. InterOp said it has …

BURNABY, British Columbia-WebTech Wireless, a fleet telematics company, said it plans to acquire all of GlobeTrac Inc.’s European location-based and telematics business. GlobeTrac plans to seek new business opportunities, according …

Dan Meyer Verizon Communications Inc. is expected to raise $1.9 billion from its sale of 73.5 million shares of Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. The sale will include 48.55 million …

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 its shareholders 0.110415 of a share …

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile International said it named consumer-goods marketing executive Ulli Gritzuhn as its new chief marketing officer to replace Nikesh Arora, who left T-Mobile in September “at his own request,” …

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-J.D. Power and Associates announced it certified Nokia Corp.’s call center in Tampa, Fla. The firm said the certification indicates Nokia’s call center provides an “outstanding” customer service …

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 & Regulation sponsored by the Practicing …