Monthly Archives: August, 2005

San Fran looks at Wi-Fi as Intel pilots city initiative

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...

Nokia to supply T-Mobile, 3 Ireland with HSDPA network gear

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...

IPass looks to MVNO game with EV-DO offering

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...

Tropian chip to enable smaller devices

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...

Sprint to offer full-track downloads

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....

Telecom excise tax under assault in court: Bills pending in House, Senate to repeal tax

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...

Tele2 ends wireless service in Finland

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...

FCC proposes fining more resellers for not paying fees

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...

Alcatel, Datang to deliver TD-SCDMA products

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...

Symbian boosts revenues, shipments

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....

BenQ posts profit on declining sales

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,...

CEA targets wireless retailers with certification program

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...

Sprint Nextel goes long with 5-year NFL sponsorship

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...

M-Qube scores $10M in funding

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...

Asian carrier alliance adds Ericsson, Motorola, ZTE to roster

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....

Alltel forges first MMS agreements with Cingular, Verizon

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...

Guide to memory cards

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...

Content Briefs

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...

Memory cards get skinny

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...

Disguising content to get through walled garden

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...

Speculation grows that Palm will use Windows Mobile

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...

Lack of handsets limits W-CDMA infrastructure growth

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...

Sony Ericsson to sell first Walkman phone in U.S. via Web site

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...

Merrill Lynch expects solid 3Q wireless growth

Financial investment firm Merrill Lynch said it expects wireless carriers to post solid revenue growth and sequential margin gains for the third quarter, though...
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