Monthly Archives: April, 2005

Sprint wins contract with Georgia

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it was awarded a one-year contract by the Georgia Technology Authority to provide wireless voice and data services to...

Flash supplier Silicon Storage acquires Actrans for $20M

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Flash memory technology vendor Silicon Storage Technology Inc. announced it purchased privately held Actrans Systems Inc. for around $20 million in stock and...

Nortel to expand CDMA network in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-Nortel reported that Haiti Telecommunications International S.A., a wireless voice and Internet service provider in Haiti, is expanding and enhancing its CDMA network...

Seven buys Smartner to try to combat RIM

Wireless e-mail company Seven Networks Inc. today announced it acquired Helsinki, Finland-based rival vendor Smartner. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "It's much...

Voluntary negotiations for fixed-microwave to leave PCS band ends after 10 years

WASHINGTON-The voluntary negotiation period for fixed-microwave licensees to leave the PCS band ended April 4-10 years after it began. When the Federal Communications Commission...

VoIP providers defend 911 practices

WASHINGTON-VoIP providers claim customers are informed that when they dial 911 using a Voice over Internet Protocol service, it is different than calling 911...

Gaming No. 1 download

Gaming is the fastest-growing category of mobile data services, with more than 6 million wireless users downloading a game in February, according to a...

Orange France to launch EDGE later this month

PARIS-French wireless operator Orange S.A. said it will launch EDGE services geared toward business customers beginning April 18 with plans for a consumer launch...

Nextel invests in French content protection company

PARIS-Medialive SA snared $4.2 million in Series A funding from Nextel Communications Inc. and Sophia Euro Lab, the French content protection provider announced Friday....

Clarification

In the April 4 story about complaints from wireless users (on page 11), the score from U.S. Cellular Corp. was not mentioned. Among nationwide...

World Briefs

TURKEYTurkish carrier AVEA Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. selected Nokia to supply a commercial Push to Talk over Cellular solution. The deal also includes Nokia's Presence...

ATIS, ETSI meet on network standards for next-generation

HERNDON, Va.-The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions sent representatives from its member companies to meet with the European Telecommunication Standards Institute TISPAN Committee last...

Trucking company tracking market slows

Wireless appears to be busting at the seams. Carriers have been signing on record numbers of subscribers, handset makers have enjoyed double-digit growth and...

Centennial loses domestic customers, but posts profit

Regional wireless operator Centennial Communications Corp. said it lost 500 domestic wireless customers during its third fiscal quarter of 2005 ending Feb. 28-compared with...

Smaller carriers look to ringbacks, local content to compete

With the overwhelming array of wireless content and applications on the market, even the nation's biggest carriers are struggling with what to offer and...

Firefighter union seeks funding for tower health study

WASHINGTON-The International Association of Fire Fighters, the union representing more than 85 percent of firefighters and emergency medics in United States and Canada, today...

9/11: From repeaters to jammers

It undoubtedly will take years to sort out why some first-responder communications worked and why some did not after terrorists navigated jet planes into...

Financial Briefs

SpectraSite Inc. filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer 250,000 shares of its common stock to adjust to a market...

Mobilkom Austria demos HSDPA technology

VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria, the largest Austrian wireless carrier, demonstrated High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology from Nortel Networks Ltd. At a retail store in...

Motorola, RadioShack invest $10M total in device power company

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Mobility Electronics Inc. announced it scored a $10 million investment from Motorola Inc. and RadioShack Corp. to expand its itip power products for...

IEEE to begin 802.11 amendment

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-IEEE said it has approved work to begin on an amendment to the 802.11 standard for wireless local area networks. The project involves...

Personal wireless broadband network launches in Tanzania

RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks and Benson Online said they've teamed to establish the first personal wireless broadband network in Africa. The new network was deployed...

Carriers expand offerings to reach unpenetrated subs: Family plans growing piece of strategy

"We have run out of people (in the United States) who can pass a credit check and want a wireless phone," said Roger Entner,...

Q1 expected to continue trend of solid subscriber adds

The nation's big five operators are not about to slow down. Following a record-setting year in which the wireless industry added more than 22...

Verizon to offer Treo 650 ‘soon’

Verizon Wireless confirmed it will sell PalmOne Inc.'s Treo 650. Many in the industry had expected such a move, although neither Verizon nor PalmOne...
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