August 2005

A day after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a citywide initiative to close the gap between San Francisco’s wireless broadband haves and have-nots by providing free or low-cost Wi-Fi …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. is set to deploy its High-Speed Downlink Packet Access solution in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom after signing a deal with T-Mobile International AG. The …

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Managed enterprise mobility solutions provider iPass Inc. added mobile virtual network operator to its list of offerings with the addition of CDMA2000 1x EV-DO capabilities to its iPassConnect …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Founded in 1996, chip startup Tropian Inc. today released its first product, an RF transceiver for mobile phones that combines the transmissions of GSM and EDGE technologies. The company …

Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to launch a full-track music download service by the holidays, an executive from the newly merged carrier said last week. The operator looks to be the …

WASHINGTON-The pesky tax on talking may finally be headed for the door-more than a century after it was established to pay for the Spanish-American War. It is not the legislative …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Tele2 AB has given up on the Finnish market, where it has operated a mobile virtual network operator service since 2003, due to competitive and regulatory challenges. The carrier, …

WASHINGTON-Continuing its crackdown on companies that it says are delinquent in paying universal-service and other regulatory fees, the Federal Communications Commission proposed $1.5 million in fines against two companies that …

PARIS-Alcatel Corp. and Datang Mobile, a telecom equipment developer, said they are ready to deliver end-to-end TD-SCDMA products after completing the industrialization phase and jointly demonstrating a live end-to-end TD-SCDMA …

LONDON-Symbian Ltd. reported $48 million in revenues in its second quarter, up from the $24.6 million it posted in the same quarter last year. Sales of phones with the company’s …

TAOYUAN, Taiwan-Manufacturing giant BenQ Corp. posted $24 million in net income during the first six months of this year. The company’s sales dropped, however, due to competition in its various …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Consumer Electronics Association announced it will team with training firm Corporate Dynamics Inc. to help sell its Wireless Certification Program to independent wireless retailers. “Wireless retailers, both carrier …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. reported a five-year agreement with the National Football League for the wireless carrier’s Sprint-branded service to become the official wireless telecommunications service sponsor of the …

BOSTON-M-Qube Inc., a mobile channel enabler, announced it secured $10 million in new financing in a round led by HarbourVest Partners L.L.C. Existing investors also participated in the funding. The …

L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and ZTE Corp. joined Asia-Pacific’s largest mobile alliance group, Bridge Mobile Alliance, increasing the membership base from eight to 11. The vendors joined the alliance through …

Alltel Corp. finally joined the multimedia messaging service interoperability bandwagon, announcing deals with the nation’s two largest wireless carriers. Alltel said it signed agreements allowing its subscribers to exchange picture …

Memory Stick-Developed by Sony Corp. and used in a range of Sony products like the PSP. Memory Stick Duo is the small version, which measures 31 x 20 x 1.6 …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. subscribers can access the ringtone from a new Foo Fighters single before the song hits radio airwaves. Cingular and Sony BMG announced the availability of a ringtone …

Apparently it’s the mini, not the meek, that shall inherit the Earth. Everything is going small and portable, from video-game machines to music players to mobile phones. The latest to …

Third-party content providers are becoming increasingly savvy in hiding wireless transactions from the network operators that deliver them, industry insiders say. A handful of direct-to-consumer content providers in the United …

Rumors continue to circulate that Palm Inc. will build a version of its Treo smart phone using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile platform, spurning its longtime support for Palm operating-system vendor …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-The Dell’Oro Group reports that the mobility infrastructure market grew 13 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period in 2004. The group also reported that …

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. is gearing up to sell its first Walkman phone in the United States. However, the company is planning to sell the phone through its Web …

Financial investment firm Merrill Lynch said it expects wireless carriers to post solid revenue growth and sequential margin gains for the third quarter, though the results could fall short of …