Yearly Archives: 2004

Financial briefs

Standard and Poor's ratings services lifted Lucent Technologies Inc.'s corporate rating to B from B- in its review of the telecom equipment industry. "Standard...

Growth predicted for semiconductors, even as TI stock drops on 1Q news

Texas Instruments Inc. may have experienced the flip side of optimism when its stock fell on its guidance last week. But a recent study...

Europe grapples with spectrum issues as U.S. finds no market yet for secondary spectrum

WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission tries to encourage a secondary market for spectrum, Europe is also trying to figure out how to have the...

Solutions to help users transfer personal info gain attention with LNP

In addition to the freedom of keeping your cell-phone number when switching between carriers, local number portability has also brought frustration for some porting...

White House outsourcing

Team Bush is back on message, sending out minions to declare the only thing we have to fear is economic isolationism itself. This is...

American Greetings plans wireless division

CLEVELAND-Greeting card giant American Greetings announced it will form a wireless division headed by Bryan Biniak, a former executive from Moviso."We plan to exponentially...

Relm settles 11-year-old lawsuit

WEST MELBOURNE, Fla.-Relm Wireless Corp. said it has reached an agreement during pretrial discussions to settle a lawsuit filed in 1993 against its predecessor,...

AOL Canada to trial BWA network

TORONTO-AOL Canada Inc. and the venture of Inukshuk Internet Inc., Allstream Inc. and NR Communications L.L.C. announced a service trial of the venture's new...

CellStar plans IPO in China

CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless logistics services provider CellStar Corp. has proposed an initial public offering of its operations in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong...

Extend America secures $9.5M funding

BISMARCK, N.D.-Nextel Communications Inc. network partner Extend America, which announced last year plans to build an iDEN-based network using Nextel's spectrum in a number...

Peeping camera phones

Are state legislatures beginning to over-legislate? It seems when states are not busy addressing hands-free legislation, they are trying their collective hands at laws...

Moody's rates AirGate notes

NEW YORK-Moody's Investor Services assigned a Caa1 rating to AirGate PCS Inc.'s recently issued 9.375 percent senior subordinated secured notes due 2009 and a...

Manufacturers gear up for biggest handset year ever

As mobile-phone makers gear up for what likely will be their biggest year ever, Motorola Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. and several other...

Nortel stock drops on earnings restatement news

Nortel Networks Ltd. suffered a short-term stock plunge last week after announcing it will delay its 2003 annual financial statement filing with the U.S....

Turkish gov't seizes Uzan's assets

It may turn a Pyrrhic victory for Motorola Inc., which may not collect any damages in spite of defeating Turkish operator Telsim in the...

AWS' recent troubles likely pushed decision to sell

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s presence in the wireless industry is set to come to an end sometime later this year when Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s...

Monet closure adds to list of data-only defeats

When Monet Mobile Networks Inc. launched service in November 2002, many in the industry believed that the promise of advanced wireless data technology had...

TCS gets another E911 deal, this time with Centennial P.R.

ANNAPOLIS, Md.- Centennial Communications Corp. announced it will use technology from TeleCommunication Systems Inc. to meet the Federal Communications Commission's E911 Phase I and...

Nextel gets 10 MHz, but will pay more under FCC staff plan

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is considering a staff proposal that would give Nextel Communications Inc. 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.9 GHz band...

SBA's Bernstein to sell stock

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp.'s Chairman of the Board of Directors Steven Bernstein plans to trade up to 1.4 million shares of SBA common...

InphoMatch platform expands company's play in content biz

Text messaging interoperability company InphoMatch announced plans to expand into the wireless content market with its new InphoMatch Interactive (Imi) platform, which the company...

TeliaSonera Sweden launches 3G system

SWEDEN-TeliaSonera Sweden has launched its nationwide Telia GO third-generation network.Telia GO will provide TeliaSonera customers with access to mobile Internet at broadband speeds and...

FCC to study foreign mobile termination fees

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week launched an inquiry to assess the impact of high foreign mobile termination fees on American consumers, dragging the...

D.C. Circuit Court may pre-empt intercarrier compensation forum

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court's interest in how the Federal Communications Commission solves carrier compensation issues could pre-empt a telecom industry group's efforts to solve...

Intel, Bush administration get tougher on China

WASHINGTON-The stakes have been raised in the U.S.-China wireless trade dispute, with the Bush administration last week issuing a veiled threat about seeking redress...
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