NEW YORK—Content provider Mobile Streams said it built an off-deck WAP portal to provide content from Showtime Networks Inc. The company said it will...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Leap Wireless International Inc. saw a big jump in customer additions during the third quarter, gaining 161,000 new subscribers and reporting a...
RESTON, Va.—In the second departure of a high-ranking leader within the past two months, Sprint Nextel Corp. announced that Chairman Tim Donahue is retiring...
WASHINGTON—One of the three Republicans of the five-member, GOP-controlled Federal Communications Commission has decided not to participate in the agency’s vote on the proposed...
SAN FRANCISCO—AirPlay said it secured $14 million in its second round of venture financing. Qualcomm Inc., Motorola Inc., JK&B Capital, Onset Ventures and Redpoint...
CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. announced improved service revenues and operating income, as well as a jump in its customer base. Although the numbers were mostly...
NEW DELHI—Reports are streaming out of India indicating that Motorola Inc. and ZTE Corp. have been eliminated from the bidding process for state-owned Bharat...
BOSTON—Nortel Networks Ltd. introduced its mobile WiMAX portfolio at the WiMAX World trade show and is hawking its new offering as 4G mobile broadband...
While many in the wireless industry consider Sprint Nextel Corp's decision to build a WiMAX network the technology's defining and legitimizing moment, vendors that...
Crown Castle International Corp.'s $5.8 billion acquisition last week of Global Signal Inc. not only altered the tower industry's leadership position, but could spark...
PURCHASE, N.Y.—MasterCard Worldwide customers can find nearby ATMs with their mobile phones thanks to a new application from Mobile 365. Under the new service,...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.—Mobile handset display shipments could exceed 1.2 billion units this year, up 17 percent from 1.05 billion in 2005, according to new...
WASHINGTON—As Congress broke for midterm elections, the wireless industry won a few battles, but for the most part failed to get legislation it supported...
With big fanfare but little surprise, T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it would begin deploying UMTS technology across its network beginning early next year. The...
RESTON, Va.—Ali Tabassi, vice president for technology development at Sprint Nextel Corp., predicted diverse spectrum and technology assets, combined with proven strategic partners, will...
WASHINGTON—A three-judge panel on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed its rejection of a Federal Communications Commission decision pre-empting states from regulating...
WASHINGTON—The Telecommunications Industry Association and the United States Telecom Association announced plans for a new industry conference that will replace Globalcomm and TelecomNext next...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission tapped cell-phone association CTIA and wireless infrastructure trade group PCIA as clearinghouses for moving existing 2.1 GHz licensees to new...
WASHINGTON—ADT Security Services Inc. is urging the Federal Communications Commission to force wireless carriers to keep offering analog service until 2010, noting it cannot...
WASHINGTON—AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. urged the Federal Communications Commission not to give in to congressional pressure by requiring them to divest their 2.3...
Newsflash—third-generation networks are not dead and they are not obsolete. Just because Sprint Nextel Corp. is building a WiMAX network doesn't mean 3G network...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Following Google Inc.'s lead, Yahoo Inc. said it expanded its sponsored-search offering to wireless phones in the United States and United Kingdom. The...
SINGAPORE—The Asia Pacific premium content market will explode from a $9.4 billion industry this year into a nearly $33 billion market by 2011, according...
