2004

Lucent Technologies Inc. reinforced its CDMA profile and its place in the heart of Verizon Wireless with a whopping $5 billion contract with the biggest wireless carrier in the United …

WASHINGTON-Leucadia National Corp., the New York investment firm seeking to buy at least 50 percent of MCI Inc., is remaining mum on whether it backs the revamped long-distance carrier’s plans …

ANDOVER, Mass.-Millions of European wireless phone customers can now download entire songs directly to their handsets, mobile music company Chaoticom, Inc. announced. European carriers Orange U.K., Eurotel and Telenor Mobile …

HAMBURG, Germany-CoreMedia announced the launch of its new generation of digital rights management software. The company’s DRM for Mobile Services version 2.1 enables mobile service providers and content suppliers to …

WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Donald Evans today named Dan Caprio as the agency’s chief privacy officer. The department said Caprio would add privacy to his current responsibilities as assistant secretary for technology. …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has declared a two-for-one stock split and approved a 40-percent increase in the company’s quarterly cash dividend. The dividend, which will be payable Sept. 24, …

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-First Avenue Networks announced it plans to acquire wireless broadband service provider Teligent Inc., including its 24 GHz spectrum licenses, fixed-wireless broadband operations and radio assets in a stock …

BOSTON-Mobile handsets from Samsung Corp. and LG Electronics lead in customer satisfaction in the U.S. market, according to new research from Strategy Analytics Inc. The survey showed advanced feature-rich devices, …

Wireless gaming publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of common stock. The company, which has agreements to …

The continued emphasis carriers are placing on alternative sales and information channels appears to be paying off as a report from industry research firm Compete Inc. showed a dramatic increase …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless said the Voq Professional Phone will be available to resellers in North America through distribution agreements with CellStar and Brightpoint North America L.P., a subsidiary of …

Sprint Corp. and Audiovox Corp. released the Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone PM-8920, the United States’ first megapixel camera phone. The phone features Sprint Picture Mail service, which allows users …

European mobile operator Orange S.A. said it will sell its 100-percent owned Danish subsidiary to Nordic operator TeliaSonera for $743 million in cash. The buy will add 605,000 mobile subscribers …

BECKLEY, W.V.-Pegasus Tower Co. Ltd. has acquired three wireless communications sites from New York-based A.P. Cell Towers, a division of Apollo Real Estate Advisors. The towers, located in West Virginia’s …

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. reported that it reached an agreement with the board of directors of subsidiary IWO Holdings Inc. and IWO’s senior lenders for US …

BEIJING-Internet access technology provider Access announced it will provide Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. with technology to enable advanced mobile services over China’s third-generation TD-SCDMA networks. Under their agreement, …

ROCKVILLE, Md.-Airbee Wireless Inc., which develops intelligent software for wireless voice, data and video communications, announced it has opened a new development center in Chennai, India, that will function as …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it planned to launch its mobile wallet service using the mova P506iC handset July 10. The new service and smart-card handsets will allow users to buy …

LONDON-LogicaCMG will become a member of the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC), a program that encourages Microsoft Corp. partners to create software solutions for Windows Mobile-based devices. “Mobility is …

Vodafone Sweden launched multimedia consumer services via its UMTS-based network in Sweden along with promotional rate plans that include up to 120 free minutes of video calls each month to …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Thursday urged the Federal Communications Commission to open the bidding to all companies for the recently returned spectrum of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. “Significant …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. remains silent as to whether it plans to accept a government offer to pay $5 billion in cash and spectrum to gain access to spectrum in the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission modified several of its spectrum rules hoping that wireless services can be made more readily available, but its decision to eliminate rural cellular cross-ownership rules was …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s thorough review of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s $41 billion play for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. represents a new level of merger analysis likely to be applied to …

WASHINGTON-Nortel Network Corp.’s mounting accounting problems continued last week, as a New York law firm announced it was investigating the Canadian telecom equipment giant for possible violations of the federal …