Yearly Archives: 2005

WiMAX Forum appoints new directors

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum appointed Jeff Orr director of marketing and Matt Wangler director of operations. Orr will oversee global marketing strategy and...

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...

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...

Senate confirms Tate, Copps to FCC

WASHINGTON-The Senate late Wednesday confirmed the nominations of Deborah Taylor Tate and Michael Copps to the Federal Communications Commission. The confirmations had been in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

DTV hard date tripped up in unrelated budget delay

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry was as close to getting its hands on 700 MHz spectrum as it ever has been. A hard date had been...

Grain departs Global Signal, Edens takes over president title

Global Signal Inc. announced that David Grain is stepping down from his position as president of the nation's third-largest tower company. The company said...

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...

Progress continues on dynamic software radios at 5 GHz

WASHINGTON-A government-industry meeting last week on protecting military radar from new 5 GHz Wi-Fi operations appears to have confirmed progress-but not completion-of testing analyses...

Truth-in-billing regs under microscope

WASHINGTON-The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to scrap Minnesota's wireless consumer protection law could come into play as truth-in-billing litigation moves into...

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...

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....

Fitch predicts happy new year for wireless carriers

CHICAGO-Fitch Ratings released a new report on the wireless industry in which it said large North American wireless operators will maintain stable credit profiles...

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...

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...

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...

Study shows benefits enjoyed by Wi-Fi users

A study commissioned by the Wi-Fi Alliance not surprisingly found that Wi-Fi users in fact do enjoy the convenience of Wi-Fi technology. Survey.com conducted...

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...

Alcatel extends OEM contract with Tekelec

PARIS-Alcatel Corp. signed a three-year extension to an OEM deal with Tekelec that will allow the infrastructure provider to continue deploying its 8000 Media...

Consumers expect impact from wireless next year

SEATTLE-Nearly half of U.S. consumers said they expect wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Internet-capable personal digital assistants, to have the greatest impact on...

Nokia supplies softswitch for Hutchison 3G Austria

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