Monthly Archives: December, 2005

CRM vendor Par3 acquires EnvoyWorldWide

SEATTLE-Customer relationship management provider Par3 Communications Inc. announced the acquisition of EnvoyWorldWide, a Massachusetts-based notification services company.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Par3 provides...

UbiquiTel lawsuit against Sprint Nextel delayed, combined with similar complaints

WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. wireless affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. said its lawsuit against Sprint Nextel has been pushed back from its original trial date of Dec....

Vodafone picks up chairman from HSBC

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc named banking group HSBC Holdings plc Chairman John Bond as its new chairman.Bond, who announced his resignation from HSBC last week,...

Orthogon to provide high-speed network equipment to Aurora schools

WALTHAM, Mass.-Orthogon Systems said it has deployed its OS-Gemini and OS-Spectra Ethernet point-to-point bridges at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. Orthogon said the equipment...

Public-safety organizations urge FCC to deny 800 MHz rebanding delay

WASHINGTON-A handful of public-safety organizations, led by the Association of Public-safety Communications Officials, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the government...

Oklahoma carrier buys 10 MHz from Alamosa, plans to partner with Sprint Nextel

NEW YORK-Alamosa Holdings Inc. subsidiary Southwest PCS said it sold 10 MHz of spectrum covering portions of Oklahoma and Texas to Panhandle Telecommunications Systems...

Qualcomm joins Wi-Fi Alliance

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said it has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance, saying it aims to be directly involved with ensuring wireless local area network...

Ericsson to manage 3’s U.K. network

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it won a seven-year contract to manage wireless operator 3's network and IT infrastructure in the United Kingdom. The deal...

House of Blues to use Soapbox mobile marketing and CRM platform

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-House of Blues Entertainment licensed Soapbox Mobile's Anywhere product, a mobile marketing and customer relationship management platform. Soapbox Mobile said its product...

SavaJe tallies $40 million in financing as part of corporate refresh

CHELMSFORD, Mass.-Operating system company SavaJe Technologies raised $40 million in equity financing, which the company said it plans to use to enhance its sales...

Cingular joins high-speed battle with UMTS/HSDPA launch

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially took the high-speed plunge with the launch of its UMTS/HSDPA-based BroadbandConnect network. The carrier said its next-generation network is initially...

Nokia announces Forum Nokia PRO awards

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced the winners of its annual Forum Nokia PRO Awards, which recognize accomplishments in the development of content and applications during...

Jamster working with Melodeo on music downloads

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. said its Jamster subsidiary is working with Melodeo Inc. to develop a digital music platform that will support full-track music...

JumpTap garners $21 million in financing

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Mobile search technology provider JumpTap Inc. snared $21 million in its latest round of financing.New investor Redpoint Ventures joined existing backers General Catalyst...

Vodafone expanding mobile TV offering

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it plans to launch eight new mobile TV channels including wireless versions of HBO, MTV and Twentieth Century Fox Television....

RLECs tell Capitol Hill that VoIP is not possible without cost recovery

WASHINGTON-In an attempt to educate Capitol Hill staff about the importance of cost recovery, the Foundation for Rural Service released a paper saying that...

Samsung base stations to sport ArrayComm’s antenna technology

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will use ArrayComm L.L.C.'s smart antenna technology in its wireless base stations, the companies announced.ArrayComm said its antenna...

Verizon Wireless tops in Consumer Reports’ annual survey

YONKERS, N.Y.-Wireless carriers struck out for a fourth straight year in the annual survey of cellular service and phones conducted by independent evaluator Consumer...

Wireless works to keep brain-cancer lawsuits away from states

WASHINGTON-The U.S. mobile phone industry, having watched a slew of headset and brain cancer suits returned to state courts the past year and a...

Industry asks Secretary Snow to stop tax on talking

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, joined by the rest of the telecommunications industry, last week asked the Treasury Secretary to intervene and stop the Internal Revenue...

Visage pockets $30 million in Series D funding

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile accumulated $30 million in Series D funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to...

Cisco enters IMS fray

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc. announced it's updating several products with Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem standards in order to enable cellular carriers to bring...

USF Fair Coalition petitions FCC with 600,000 e-mails

WASHINGTON-A group opposed to assessing universal-service contributions based on telephone numbers said it had sent nearly 600,000 e-mails and letters to the Federal Communications...

Sprint Nextel users can get local weather, news

Japan-based weather content provider Weathernews Inc. this week plans to launch a Java-based video application for users with Sprint Nextel Corp. multimedia phones.The Weathernews...

Verizon receptive to MediaFLO TV

Qualcomm Inc. snared its first customer for MediaFLO last week, as Verizon Wireless said it will use the chipmaker's new network to broadcast live...
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