Monthly Archives: December, 2005

2006 and the third screen’s gravitational pull

The wireless sector will enter 2006 with great expectations, everybody watching third-generation systems shift into higher gear with all that jazzy, digital content whose...

Nokia supplies softswitch for Hutchison 3G Austria

Nokia Corp. announced that its softswitch solution has been chosen by Hutchison 3G Austria to optimize the operator's mobile network."We are confident that Nokia's...

RIM’s stock surges on positive 3Q, though NTP issues cloud future

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. jumped Thursday morning after the company reported strong third-quarter sales of its BlackBerry devices. RIM reported $560 million...

News Briefs

After just 18 months on the job, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced that its chief marketing officer, Clent Richardson, plans to leave the company March...

Alvarion powers Texas network, lands Latin American deal

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Ltd. announced that its BreezeACCESS VL is the wireless broadband base station muscle behind Rioplex Wireless' 5,000-square-mile deployment in Texas targeting...

Sierra releases embedded modem compatible with Sprint Nextel’s EV-DO network

VANCOUVER, B.C.-Sierra Wireless Inc. unveiled a new embedded laptop card ready to operate on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network. The Sierra Wireless...

Siemens sells investment boutique

MUNICH-Siemens AG said it has sold Siemens Accelerations to an undisclosed investor for an undisclosed amount. The company explained that Siemens Acceleration was an...

Correction

The Dec. 19 "Person of the Year" story on Motorola Inc.’s Ed Zander should have noted that Zander’s predecessor, Christopher Galvin, brought Geoffrey Frost,...

STMicroelectronics joins EWC

GENEVA-STMicroelectronics announced it has joined the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is developing a Wi-Fi standard proposal for the IEEE 802.11n Task Group. ST says...

Vivato pulls the plug

SPOKANE, Wash.-Wi-Fi antenna supplier Vivato Inc. decided to close its doors, leaving several municipal Wi-Fi networks up in the air, or at least not...

Convergys slashes 4Q projections

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp., which provides outsourced customer services, human resources and billing services for some telecom companies, has slashed its fourth-quarter earnings projections by more...

Rest easy

This is a somewhat official update on the other war: the war on spam. Like the other war, this one is global and asymmetrical...

Sprint Nextel, Clearwire seek to swap 2.5 GHz assets

WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. have sought Federal Communications Commission approval of a deal involving the swap of hundreds of broadband radio service...

Verizon picks up Ohio spectrum from Highland

Highland Cellular Holdings Inc., which operates a GSM network under the Cellular One brand name in parts of Virginia and West Virginia, said it...

Top Stories of 2005

Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and...

Alltel offering music bonus with gift cards

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-In the spirit of the holidays, Alltel Corp. said it is offering eight credits to download content from the Sony Music Box...

U.S. Cellular, TDS gain AMEX extension

CHICAGO-The American Stock Exchange accepted plans by U.S. Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., to regain compliance with AMEX...

Ericsson supplies mobile TV services to Swiss carrier

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Swiss operator Sunrise announced they've signed a partnership agreement to launch mobile TV services in Switzerland and plan to offer...

MPEG LA looking to consolidate content patents

DENVER-Licensing clearinghouse MPEG LA L.L.C. said it is working to assemble a patent portfolio for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, which is used in South Korea...

A strange trip

If life is a journey, 2005 has been a long, strange trip for the wireless industry.Looking back at the events of this year only...

Siemens to supply GSM R network to Saudi rail line

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it received a $70.8 million order from the Saudi Railways Organization to upgrade more than 600 miles of the Saudi...

Big gulp: Sprint Nextel swallows largest affiliate

Sprint Nextel Corp. will purchase the 68 percent of Nextel Partners Inc. it does not currently control for $6.5 billion, the two companies have...

Bell Canada, New Zealand Telecom launch downloadable music service from Groove

TORONTO-Bell Canada launched a full-track music download service powered by Groove Mobile, which also enables a similar service recently launched by Sprint Nextel Corp....

Ericsson set to tie up Marconi buy

After receiving clearance from Marconi Corp.'s shareholders and from the European Commission, L.M. Ericsson says it's ready to complete its $2.24 billion acquisition of...

GAO: Auctions best licensing tool

WASHINGTON-The Government Accountability Office is recommending that Congress extend the Federal Communications Commission's auction authority past its current expiration date of Sept. 30, 2007....
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