The popularity of Wi-Fi, decreasing wireless chipset prices and consumer affinity for high-tech gadgets combined with a desire for simplicity all add up to...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Investors appeared to cheer what seems to be the end of Symbol Technologies Inc.'s long financial restatement road. The company announced it filed...
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. released updated financial and operating guidance for the fourth quarter of 2003. The company said it expects earnings...
Following years of steady decline, the wireless industry looks to have turned the corner during the past several quarters in posting year-over-year gains in...
Few wireless companies have been able to target the often sought-after youth market like Boost Mobile L.L.C. Despite being owned by business-focused Nextel Communications...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced it will use search technology from Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), which the companies said will allow users to search...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless signed a definitive agreement to acquire 10-megahertz PCS licenses from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. covering 1.1 million potential customers in...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of NPI-Omnipoint Wireless L.L.C., which provides GSM service...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish company Svenska UMTS-nat AB, jointly owned by TeliaSonera and Tele2, has agreed to purchase the fourth third-generation license in Sweden from Orange...
Qualcomm Inc. announced Pegaso Comunicaciones y Sistemas S.A. de C.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegaso Telecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless operator...
Billing and customer retention management provider Amdocs Ltd. said it has reached an agreement to acquire privately held mediation software provider XACCT Technologies for...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless operator Rogers AT&T Wireless reported an agreement with handset supplier LG Electronics Canada Inc. to provide LG GSM/GPRS handsets to Rogers AT&T...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA...
New ownership has provided mobile satellite services company Globalstar L.P. with hope in the new year.The company last month announced plans to be acquired...
After almost four years of waiting, Jason Devitt believes the time is now.Packet-switched networks are online. Mobile phones feature color graphics. And-perhaps most importantly-carriers...
Industry has hailed the coming of packet technology, which has turned circuit networks into anachronisms. But the technology still has its challenges, one of...
In the search for killer applications and other services that rake in revenue, independent software vendors are the new brides of wireless.With software expanding,...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Mobility Electronics Inc. and RadioShack Corp. announced a global distribution agreement under which Mobility can sell RadioShack-manufactured power products to non-RadioShack outlets.Under...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it expanded its partner network agreement with Kuwait mobile operator Mobile Telecommunications Co. to include the Bahraini market.MTC-Vodafone launched services...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will expand Pakistani mobile operator Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd.'s GSM 900 MHz national network under a $56 million...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. announced last week amended financial reports for full-year 2002 and the first two quarters of 2003, following up on a previously...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell said Turkey's Telecommunication Authority has fined the mobile operator $64.1 million, claiming Turkcell made inadequate annual frequency usage fee payments. TA has...
