Monthly Archives: October, 2005

Global ARPU drops 13%, study finds

WASHINGTON—Despite the increasing use of wireless services worldwide, companies offering wireless services have seen their monthly recurring revenues drop by 13 percent during the...

Wisconsin gets Wi-Fi fever

Wireless Facilities Inc. announced a contract win to provide network design and deployment services for Madison, Wis.'s proposed municipal Wi-Fi network. The company said...

Motorola goes to court to stop Zafirovski from taking Nortel’s top job

Motorola Inc. nixed a smooth transition for its former president and chief operating officer, Mike Zafirovski, to take the top seat at Nortel Networks...

NTP likely to ask court to make RIM stop selling product

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Research In Motion Ltd.'s motion to stay further proceedings in a patent case between...

House subcommittee questions FCC’s role in E-rate program

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may not be the best agency to oversee the E-rate program, according to a House Commerce subcommittee report critical of...

Manx Telecom to launch HSDPA network Nov. 1

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man-O2, Manx Telecom and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that Europe's Isle of Man will have a commercial HSDPA network by Nov....

NeuStar introduces services for VoIP, multimedia

WASHINGTON-NeuStar Inc., together with Equinix Inc., announced a suite of services called SIP-IX for direct network-to-network peering between trading partners for voice, video and...

Swenson jumps T-Mobile ship, joins Amp’d as COO

LOS ANGELES-Soon-to-launch mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. reported that Sue Swenson has joined the company as chief operating officer and a member...

Verizon joins others seeking to delay E-911 mandate

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive its rules requiring location technology to be embedded in 95 percent of a carrier's...

GPS-the newest tool for fighting crime

Technologies that employ some aspect of tracking and monitoring are all around these days, and although many people might consider such applications an invasion...

Senate Commerce approves creation of emergency alert system

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved legislation to create a national emergency alert system designed to take advantage of wireless, Internet and other advanced...

Mich. House passes teen ban on cell phones while driving

WASHINGTON-The Michigan House of Representatives passed legislation making it illegal for teens under 18 years old to talk on cell phones while driving. The...

Alltel still hurting from Cingular acquisition

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. posted a disappointing 20,887 internally driven net customer additions during the third quarter, less than half the 58,254 customers the...

Ericsson earnings solid, vendor expects market growth

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson described its third-quarter results as solid. The company reported a net profit of $672.8 million, a 22-percent increase from results a...

Senate committee sets 2009 for DTV transition

WASHINGTON-After an unsuccessful effort to push up by two years the hard date to transfer spectrum from broadcasters, the Senate Commerce Committee voted to...

Sprint Nextel completes IWO buy

RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. completed its $427 million acquisition of affiliate IWO Holdings Inc. The deal includes the assumption of approximately $208 million in...

WFI to build Madison Wi-Fi system

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. announced a contract win to provide network design and deployment services for Madison, Wis.'s proposed municipal Wi-Fi network. The company...

RadioShack’s wireless sales jump 15 percent in quarter

FORT WORTH, Texas-RadioShack Corp., which sells wireless products and services from Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Tracfone Wireless Inc., reported a 15-percent increase...

Worldwide phone shipments hit 200M mark

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-New product launches and portfolio updates helped the worldwide phone market surpass 200 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2005, according...

Madison Dearborn banks on prepaid cell service

BY KATE RYAN Madison Dearborn Partners L.L.C. is betting $300 million that people who pay their cell-phone bills in advance will pay dividends for...

Doom goes mobile

LOS ANGELES-Jamdat Mobile hopes to bring a little hell to your handset with a mobile version of Doom.The game-maker launched the much-awaited Doom RPG,...

RIM trading halted following NTP ruling

TORONTO-NTP Inc. said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has denied Research In Motion Ltd.'s motion to stay or suspend the...

KGI to place towers on Kum & Go stores

AUSTIN, Texas-Tower company Kampen and Greenwell Inc. announced a deal with Kum & Go L.C. to license space on the chain's 425 or so...

Senate Commerce approves creation of emergency alert system

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved legislation to create a national emergency alert system designed to take advantage of wireless, Internet and other advanced...

Manx Telecom to launch HSDPA network Nov. 1

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man-O2, Manx Telecom and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that Europe's Isle of Man will have a commercial HSDPA network by Nov....
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