Monthly Archives: December, 2005

Sprint Nextel picks up Enterprise for $98 million

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will acquire another of its CDMA affiliates, this time picking up Enterprise Communications for about $98 million including the...

NRIC VII explores partnerships between public safety and commercial groups

WASHINGTON-Public-safety network operators should consider partnerships with commercial wireless businesses, said Timothy Donahue, executive chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. and NRIC VII chairman. Acting...

Cingular to no longer ‘Find Friends’

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it plans to shut down two AT&T Wireless Services Inc. location-based services in 2006 as it continues to integrate AWS'...

I-Play to release new Boulder Dash game

LONDON-Mobile game-maker I-play said it plans to publish a second wireless version of the PC classic Boulder Dash. I-Play unveiled an exclusive global deal...

DeMint introduces telecom-reform bill

WASHINGTON-A junior member of the Senate Commerce Committee introduced legislation to transform communications regulation by modeling the Federal Communications Commission's work after the Federal...

Wireless wins one: Appeals court overturns Minnesota consumer-protection law

WASHINGTON-The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gutted Minnesota's wireless consumer-protection law, defeating Attorney General Mike Hatch (D) and handing the mobile-phone industry a...

Sununu: FCC unfair to VoIP carriers on E911 regulations

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should not discriminate against Voice over Internet Protocol providers when there are more than 100 counties that do not offer...

RockitTalk takes dealers on wild ride

Cellular phone dealers and customers around the country have found themselves burned by the quick take-off and crash of a self-proclaimed mobile virtual network...

Cingular part of NFC trial in Atlanta, Ga.

ATLANTA, Georgia-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is among a half-dozen technology and financial companies teaming on a contactless payment and content trial at Atlanta's Philips Arena....

U.S. suggestion to Japan not always followed at home

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration asked Japan to promote competitive wireless policies and to improve spectrum management, but some reforms pushed by trade officials here are...

Visto joins lawsuit frenzy

The wave of litigation in the mobile e-mail space continued last week as Visto Corp. filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. Visto claims...

Nextcode seeks consumers for bar code product

The thought of bar codes typically goes hand-in-hand with sleep-inducing topics like managing inventories, tracking shipments and supermarket check-out lanes. But Jim Levinger wants...

Feeding the beast

It is the high-octane caffeine of Wall Street, the financial news media, Internet tip sheets and corporate America: quarterly earnings forecasts. It is the...

Amp’d ready to rock with MTV $$, Web launch

Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. last week made its long-awaited and much-hyped soft launch. The carrier is offering a range of postpaid...

Cingular unveils CingularVideo with HBO

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced plans to launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, featuring two channels of content from premium cable channel HBO....

Danger pushes new features to T-Mobile Sidekick users

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Device vendor Danger Inc. announced it is conducting an over-the-air updating campaign for all T-Mobile Sidekick II users in the United States...

Verizon Wireless snags Ga. counties contract

ATLANTA-The Association County Commissioners of Georgia endorsed Verizon Wireless as the preferred wireless provider for county governments across the state. ACCG and Verizon Wireless...

Siemens to supply GSM R network to Saudi Arabian 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...

Sprint Nextel picks up Velocita

RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it will acquire Velocita Wireless through a stock purchase agreement, and that the national carrier will begin using some...

Verizon Wireless, WB hook up for Vcast content

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Adding to its quickly lengthening list of video content partners, Verizon Wireless announced that scenes and trailers from the WB Network shows "Everwood,"...

Amp’d partnering for original mobile content

LOS ANGELES-Amp'd Mobile Inc., which began offering wireless plans and phones last week through its Web site, announced a string of collaborations with television...

Sprint Nextel juggle credit facilities

RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it entered into a new 5-year, $6 billion revolving credit facility and a new 364-day $3.2 billion term loan....

Motorola’s Zander RCR Wireless News ‘Person of the Year’

Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past...

Enpocket partnering with Internet Broadcasting for local mobile TV content

BOSTON-Enpocket Inc. reported a partnership with Internet Broadcasting to provide wireless access to 32 of Internet Broadcasting's partner television stations using Enpocket's Mobile Content...

All they want for Christmas is high-tech devices

U.S. consumers will be shopping for high-tech phones to take advantage of new high-speed networks this holiday season, according to a new study from...
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