Content companies are hoping that wireless users-just like George Carlin-are looking for a place for their stuff. It seems mass-market consumers are becoming comfortable...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp., already on record with other national wireless carriers as opposing mandated roaming for voice services, has been forced to also fight...
SANA'A, Yemen-Motorola Inc. said it plans to supply and install its end-to-end push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) offering in partnership with a public-sector telecommunications company...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp.'s local communications company, which is scheduled to be spun off from the rest of the company in the second...
The IEEE'S recent decision to allow competing ultra-wideband standards in the marketplace has not deterred investors, but could spell trouble for the Bluetooth industry,...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. announced plans to re-enter the broadband access market, unveiling a teaming with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to develop access offerings for...
SEATTLE-Canadian operator Rogers Wireless Inc. and Melodeo Inc. have partnered to launch what the companies call North America's first mobile podcast service. The offering...
European telecom vendors reported strong earnings based largely on increasing sales of wireless equipment. L.M. Ericsson posted $1.1 billion in net income for the...
To the Editor, Recent results of cell-phone tumor studies are much more consistent than your news item, "Conflicting studies muddy cell-phone health risks," in...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Sprint Nextel Corp.'s $6.5 billion purchase of iDEN affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. has passed muster with U.S. antitrust authorities.The Federal Trade Commission issued...
LONDON-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. released a new high-end 3G device and also laid out its plans for wireless e-mail. The company apparently has...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc. hopes to boost text messaging with a series of new personalized services.The services include an offering that allows members to...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The packed mobile search playground got even more crowded as digital marketing company iCrossing Inc. unveiled a new business unit. The company launched...
WASHINGTON-German researchers have detected an increased risk for certain brain tumors from long-term cell phone use, a finding that is not quite statistically significant...
Alltel Corp. officials emphasized plans to continue their conservative path during a company analyst day in New York last week, even though they said...
Alltel Corp. is revamping its prepaid service to try to profit from recent trends. As the U.S. postpaid wireless market saturates, fourth-quarter results showed...
ATLANTA-The Weather Channel Interactive announced plans for a mobile marketing campaign targeting wireless Web surfers.The company said it plans to use a clickable banner...
WASHINGTON-Two licensees-one site-based and one economic area-told a federal appeals court they got the short straw when the Federal Communications Commission decided to reconfigure...
WASHINGTON-The White House said President George W. Bush intends to nominate Robert McDowell, assistant general counsel of CompTel, which represents competitive landline carriers, to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late last week opened a review of a program that gives bidding discounts to small businesses in wireless license auctions,...
Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced it plans to build dual-mode CDMA/Wi-Fi handsets using chips from Marvell Technology Group Ltd. "The footprint and adoption of (wireless...
WASHINGTON-Public-safety, communications and special-interest group representatives came together last month to tell the Federal Communications Commission what worked and what didn't during last year's...
