2005

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission ruled to clear the backlog of antenna-siting applications subject to a nationwide programmatic agreement designed to elicit dialogue among tower owners, mobile-phone carriers, Native American tribes …

SanDisk Corp. and Sony Corp. introduced the industry’s third major removable memory card format specifically designed for space-conscious mobile phones. The companies unveiled their new Memory Stick Micro product, a …

SEOUL, Korea-SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile services provider, selected LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and Nortel Networks Ltd. to provide equipment to support new high-speed wireless broadband services throughout southern Korea. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said the mobile-phone industry remains competitive and consumers continue to benefit, despite increased consolidation among wireless carriers and questions by a Democratic member of the commission …

WASHINGTON-Alltel Corp. said it will not meet the Dec. 31 enhanced-911 handset deadline and asked the Federal Communications Commission for a year-and-a-half extension. “Alltel has initiated numerous marketing and communications …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Telemar Oi, a Brazilian telecommunications company, to start trials of Nokia’s Fixed Mobile Convergence solutions. The solutions make …

BOSTON-The U.S. wireless industry is expected to become a larger sector of the U.S. economy than the agriculture and automobile industries within five years, according to a report from Ovum …

WASHINGTON-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it signed a three-year agreement with electronics manufacturing services company Celestica Corp., giving Celestica exclusive rights to manufacture Lucent’s existing and new wireless products, according to …

IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. announced it will acquire Athena Semiconductors Inc. for $21.6 million in cash. Athena makes chips for Wi-Fi and mobile TV technologies. Broadcom’s stock was down slightly after …

LOS ANGELES-Jamdat Mobile Inc. said it is participating in McDonald’s annual Monopoly contest for the second year. Jamdat prizes include two wireless games-Jamdat Sports NBA Three-Point Shootout and Blue Blocks-as …

Prepaid services are continuing their march up the feature-rich ladder with an increasing number of operators beginning to offer wireless Web browsing services to their noncontract subscribers. Many operators offer …

Motorola Inc. scored its first content agreement for its forthcoming iRadio service, a deal that will make Universal Music Group’s extensive music catalog available to iRadio subscribers. The news comes …

Eminem’s publishing companies filed suit last week to stop the sale of ringtones they say are pirated from the hip-hop star’s hit tunes. Michigan-based publishers Eight Mile Style and Martin …

Sprint Nextel Corp. closed on its $287.5 million acquisition of network affiliate Gulf Coast Wireless Ltd. Partnership. The closing resolves litigation Gulf Coast filed against Sprint Nextel in connection with …

ST. LOUIS, Miss.-Centurion Wireless Technologies, a unit of Laird Technologies, announced it crossed the 1 billion threshold. The company said it has shipped more than 1 billion mobile-phone antennas through …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has been dragged into a dispute with potentially far-reaching implications between a major airline and one of the nation’s busiest airports over an issue that has …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it has established a Mobile Search Working Group that will establish guidelines for a search marketing ecosystem. The group’s goal is to develop common …

The latest consensus puts China’s third-generation licenses on track for release in the first half of next year-a move that would finally open up the world’s largest wireless market to …

SAN FRANCISCO-Mforma Group Inc. said it raised $30 million in a third round of institutional financing. The round was led by venture-capital firm Institutional Venture Partners. Existing investors Bessemer Venture …

Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. again outranked the competition in a J.D. Power and Associates consumer survey, this time posting the highest retail sales satisfaction among the wireless industry’s …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Microprocessor company Arm unveiled its newest offering, the Cortex-A8 processor, which the company said will give low-power mobile devices the computing strength of desktop computers. “The rapid convergence …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Vidiator Technology Inc. today announced it will acquire the Platform division of Seoul-based Nextreaming Corp., a move the company said would add extra features and functions to its encoding, …

WASHINGTON-A Texas law firm said it filed a class-action lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp. on behalf of thousands of landowners in the state. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court …

Thanks to an off-kilter-reporting schedule, Centennial Communications Corp. got a jump on quarterly reporting season last week, posting improved financial and mixed operations metrics for its first fiscal quarter that …