Monthly Archives: June, 2005

Family plans, customer service driving wireless carrier selection

Family or peer groups as well as customer service are increasingly affecting U.S. consumers' selection of their wireless service providers and driving customer churn,...

Verizon requests waiver of wireless priority access rule

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for a waiver of the priority access service rule, telling regulators network and software used in...

Viper updates Wi-Fi/VoIP phone

SAN DIEGO-Viper Networks Inc. updated its Wi-Fi phone, which the company said will allow users to make Voice over Internet Protocol calls from any...

Ericsson, Starent win deals with Brazil’s Vivo

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two wireless equipment suppliers said they won deals to supply gear to Vivo, Brazil's largest mobile operator.L.M. Ericsson said it will expand...

FCC asks court for delay of truth-in-billing challenges

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked a federal appeals court in Atlanta to delay setting a briefing schedule for challenges to the agency's truth-in-billing...

McCain wants to work with Stevens on DTV bill

WASHINGTON-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he hopes to work with Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to craft a bill that would end...

Connexion by Boeing scores in-flight pacts

SEATTLE-Connexion by Boeing inked several announcements this week. The company signed a deal with TeliaSonera that allows the carrier's customers in Denmark, Norway and...

Whether SAT prep or romance read, Vocel pushes text to mobile readers

While cutting-edge technologies allow wireless subscribers to use their handsets as TVs, radios and camcorders, Carl Washburn would like users to see their phones...

Sprint inches toward DO launch

Sprint Corp.'s planned launch of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO-based high-speed wireless data services continues to inch ahead as the portion of the carrier's Web site...

Leap posts first income since exiting bankruptcy

Leap Wireless International Inc. reported delayed first-quarter results that were in line with recently released guidance. Leap previously stated that the delayed reporting was...

Nokia: Phones to take over many PC tasks

HELSINKI, Finland-Industry got a good look at the new phones on line for the end-of-the-year shopping rush, as Nokia Corp. and Sony Ericsson Mobile...

Ericsson adds more W-CDMA frequencies

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it plans to expand its W-CDMA portfolio into new and existing frequency bands to prepare for mass market uptake of...

Asian carrier alliance launches roaming service in 8 countries

An alliance of wireless carriers in Asia, which first formed last year, launched services at the Com- municAsia show this week in Singapore. Bridge...

Nextel expands in S.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it has added more than 3,800 square miles of coverage to its network in South Carolina. The expanded coverage...

T-Mobile USA releases Wi-Fi customer numbers

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported insight into the usage patterns of its Wi-Fi subscribers as well as several Wi-Fi roaming agreements, which the carrier...

U.S. service allows parking time purchases via cell phones

TORONTO-Motorists can use their cell phones to pay for parking at nearly 5,000 meters in Coral Gables, Fla., through a new m-commerce application powered...

Worker’s comp claim for brain cancer settled

WASHINGTON-The lawyer for a former cell-phone programmer in California said a settlement totaling $180,000 was reached on a worker's compensation claim that alleged Sharesa...

Nation’s Briefs

A bill passed by the Illinois legislature and headed to Gov. Rod Blagojevich would make it illegal for minors to operate handheld mobile phones...

Motorola’s iRadio to test in D.C., LA

Seventy-five years after it sold the first car radio, Motorola Inc. wants to get back into your dashboard. The world's No. 2 handset manufacturer...

Verizon to hire 200 Spanish-speaking employees

LAUREL, Md.-Verizon Wireless said it will hold a job fair June 25 in an attempt to add 200 bilingual Spanish-speaking employees to its Washington-Baltimore-Virginia...

World Briefs

CHINAElectronics manufacturing services company Flextronics said it will score more than $550 million in upfront cash payments from the sale of its network and...

Mobile 365 makes strides with Asian operators

SINGAPORE-Mobile 365 has inked deals to provide text messaging delivery and data services with six Asian operators since January, the company said. Using the...

New content company targets U.S., Asian markets

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Intel Capital and Japanese TV production company Yoshimoto Kogyo are among those backing Bellrock Media Inc., a new company that will develop,...

Proxim sells assets to Moseley, files for bankruptcy

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Proxim Corp., which provides Wi-Fi and broadband wireless access solutions, has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Moseley Associates Inc....
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