Monthly Archives: September, 2005

Carriers should segment wireless data market

RARITAN, N.J.-Wireless data and content delivery will account for as much as 25 percent of overall wireless revenues in five years, generating $50 billion...

Eatoni targets boomers with e-mail software

NEW YORK-Software developer Eatoni Ergonomics Inc. has developed a new e-mail application aimed at helping older mobile-phone users more easily send and receive e-mails....

Motorola prepares to play to its strengths in WiMAX

Motorola Inc. says it is playing its trump card-wireless mobility-in the WiMAX space, skipping over 802.16 Revision D in favor of getting Revision E...

Mobile-phone testing provider Applied Wave buys rival

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Mobile-phone design and testing company Applied Wave Research Inc. announced it acquired Aplac Solutions Oy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....

W-CDMA uptake slower than expected, says ABI report

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Consumption of data-centric W-CDMA technology has been slower than expected, said a report by ABI Research. "We have refined our appraisal of...

Nextel Partners loses bid to stall Sprint Nextel brand rollout

Nextel Partners Inc. lost its bid to stall Sprint Nextel Corp.'s national brand rollout as a three-member arbitration panel ruled Nextel Partners had not...

Sprint Nextel offers new Samsung CDMA phones

SHAWNEE MISSION, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced two new phones from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to sell over the carrier's CDMA network. Samsung's A560 features...

FCC gives Cingular until August 2006 to make certain GSM hearing-aid-compatible handsets

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday granted Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s waiver of the hearing-aid-compatibility rules, delaying for nearly a year hearing-aid compatible GSM handsets...

Motorola could cut EDGE from initial shipments of new phones

Motorola Inc. may cut EDGE technology from the initial shipments of its forthcoming handsets-including the highly anticipated Pebl and Slvr models-due to problems with...

Customers stay connected in wake of Katrina

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry averted a potential public-relations disaster, assuring government leaders that wireless services for Hurricane Katrina evacuees would not be cut off for...

Cellular South sees 50% jump in traffic following hurricane

JACKSON, Miss.-Regional wireless operator Cellular South, which claims to have been operational in some of the hardest hit areas of Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina...

Clarity amid chaos

Looking for clarity amid the chaos caused by Hurricane Katrina is like looking for the needle in the proverbial haystack. In the race to...

Telus clears No. 1 spot in analyst rankings

Canadian operator Telus Mobility regained the top spot in N. Moore Capital Ltd.'s ranking of North America's top wireless operators based on a handful...

Alvarion ships WiMAX-ready gear with Intel chip

TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband solutions provider Alvarion Ltd. said it is filling commercial orders and shipping its WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX PRO customer premises equipment, which...

People

MobiTVAndy Missan has joined MobiTV as vice president and general counsel. Missan will oversee legal affairs and general corporate matters at the company. Missan...

Smaller carriers aim to differentiate with local content

While Tier 1 carriers scramble to deploy sexy applications like full-track downloads and on-demand mobile movies, smaller operators are looking in their own backyards...

Skype announces second wireless deal

LUXEMBOURG-Skype Technologies S.A. notched another wireless deal this week, announcing a joint venture with China-focused wireless Internet portal Tom Online Inc. The companies plan...

HP to supply Wi-Fi gear in Tennessee, Florida cities

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Franklin, Tenn., and St. Cloud, Fla., have signed agreements to use Hewlett-Packard Co. equipment for their metro-scale Wi-Fi projects. HP said the...

Alltel taking time to integrate Western assets

Alltel Corp. is taking a slow and steady approach to integrating its recently acquired Western Wireless Corp. assets. The company is expected only to...

Tower industry rolls up sleeves, pitches in

Most wireless communications towers were able to remain at least upright through Katrina's wrath. Power and telecommunications facilities sustained widespread damage from water in...

Cyclists raising funds for cancer to be tracked via CSI’s GPS software

More than 20 cyclists will pedal their way across 2,400 miles from Calgary, Alberta, to Austin, Texas, this October to help raise awareness and...

Inside insider trading

After the line from the '80s movie "Wall Street"-"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good"-insider trading got a bad rap. In that...

Military testing balloons as communications option

Balloons as communications tools? Of course, says Chandler, Ariz.-based Space Data Corp. In late August, the Arizona National Guard's 111th Space Operations Squadron and...

Pace quickens in race to build wireless homes

The race to bring the much-hyped wireless home to market continued to heat up last week as two major wireless mesh-networking chipmakers gained traction...

Verizon Wireless, Dobson ink new financing deals

NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless signed a fixed-rate promissory note permitting the carrier to borrow, repay and re-borrow up to $9 billion from parent company Verizon...
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