2004

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group has announced dates for the CDMA Americas Congress and the 3G World Congress and Exhibition. The CDMA Americas Congress and Test Forum will be …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Wall Street roared its approval of struggling wireless modem maker Novatel Wireless Inc. as the company reported break-even financials and a major CDMA EV-DO deal with Verizon Wireless. …

NEW YORK-Ratings company Fitch has raised its ratings on Lucent Technologies Inc. to B from CCC+ for its unsecured debt, a renewed signal that the wireless bellwether is out of …

LOS ANGELES-Consumer interest in location-based services, navigation and telematics is strong, particularly among the youngest subset of cellular users, according to a new study from Driscoll-Wolfe. Research findings showed 62 …

Movies adversely impact the privacy vs. security debate in this country. Law enforcement agents are either mythologized or demonized, using exotic technologies to monitor half the country without any obvious …

As the battle for network supremacy rages on, wireless carriers are targeting places with minimal wireless coverage, including highly trafficked indoor spaces like airports, shopping malls, casinos, office buildings, healthcare …

WASHINGTON-As the junior Democratic senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry’s record is one of deftly straddling the fence on telecom and high-tech issues by backing bills benefiting Big Wireless while championing …

You didn’t expect AT&T Wireless to go quietly into that good night, did you? AT&T Wireless has a storied history. The carrier can claim roots in both AT&T Corp., which …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc launched its commercial UMTS service in Europe offering customers data rates of up to 384 kilobits per second across its networks in major cities in Germany, Italy, …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it will make Eastman Kodak Co.’s Mobile Service available to its Get It Now customers, allowing users to view, share, organize and store their digital photos …

AMSTERDAM-Royal Philips Electronics said it has won a GSM patent lawsuit against Korean vendor Sewon Telcom Ltd. A German District Court ruled that a Sewon handset model infringed three Philips …

Telecommunications bundling has made a strong comeback over the past year, with nearly all of the country’s regional providers offering some form of packaged deal to customers. Those bundles usually …

In a presidential election year when the export of tech jobs and towering trade imbalance with China are being repackaged by Democrats as wedge workforce issues against the GOP, it …

The Simpsons. King of the Hill. The X-Files. Aliens. Predator. Ice Age. 24. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. “There’s a lot of stuff that can be used for wireless,” said …

MEERBUSCH, Germany-European wireless content company Mobile Scope announced an innovative new technology that combines perhaps the two hottest areas of wireless data: camera phones and gaming. Mobile Scope said its …

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced its board of directors replaced the company’s current president and chief executive officer with a consulting firm that will look at ways to …

EDINBURG, Va.-Rural provider and Sprint PCS affiliate Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. added 4,100 customers during the fourth quarter, ending the year with 85,100 subscribers. The company noted a reduction in churn …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s clouded future began to clear last week as suitors looking to acquire the world’s ninth-largest wireless carrier were expected to place their final bids by AWS’ …

Wireless technology is on the cusp of fulfilling its promise for homeland security, with the District of Columbia’s office of the Chief Technology Officer’s partnership with Motorola Inc. and Flarion …

Dueling lawsuits filed last year by Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc. were resolved late last week as both companies announced an “amicable resolution” to the lawsuits that were centered …

TOMBALL, Texas-LitFiber announced it has secured approximately 200 radio towers and 200 rooftop sites in the United States and plans to begin building out three distinct nationwide wireless networks. One …

Nextel Communications Inc. may have finally found some competition for its highly touted Direct Connect walkie-talkie service as independent testing of Alltel Corp.’s recently launched Touch2Talk service showed similar performance …

T-Mobile USA Inc. expanded its existing $300 million agreement with Nokia Corp. to include next-generation radio equipment, an expanded GPRS core network, implementation and optimization services and Nokia’s NetAct network …

LEVITTOWN, Pa.-FTS Wireless Inc. said it has been granted national non-exclusive marketing rights to a new line of prepaid wireless products and services provided by an unnamed national U.S. wireless …

BEIJING-Siemens AG and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said they have signed a contract to form a joint venture for the third-generation mobile standard known as TD-SCDMA. The deal, which will …