Yearly Archives: 2006

Some broadcast users slow to move off 1.9 GHz band

WASHINGTON-As part of the Federal Communications Commission's plan to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band, Sprint Nextel Corp. was given...

NTP’s next move likely to defend patent claims

Congratulations. You've just been awarded $612.5 million. But if you're NTP Inc., you're probably not headed to Disneyland. Instead, the company likely is going...

Senate committee set to vote on McDowell

WASHINGTON-Evoking visions of the Battle of Yorktown, Robert McDowell appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday hoping to be confirmed as a member of...

Court strikes down Colorado requirements for ETC status

WASHINGTON-A federal court in Colorado told state regulators there that they cannot require Alltel Corp. to file rate statements and agree to certain service-quality...

VCs bet $10 million on m-commerce for Obopay

PALO ALTO, Calif.-M-commerce software developer Obopay said it has snared $10 million in Series A venture funding. Obopay, which was founded last year, plans...

Opera scores T-Mobile deal for mobile browser

HANNOVER, Germany-Opera Software ASA scored a major win, inking a deal to pre-load its Java-based mobile browser on T-Mobile International phones in Europe. The...

Nortel $2 billion loss in 4Q stings

Nortel Networks Ltd. plans to restate its financial results-again-as well as push back filing its 2005 annual report to the end of April. The...

Once and future customer

What a long, strange trip it's been.Almost two years ago, I renewed my cell-phone contract with what was then AT&T Wireless Services Inc. I...

ZigBee-enabled products to shine in ’06

DENVER-Although monitoring and control-enhancing technology hasn't garnered many headlines in the past, ZigBee-enabled products are likely to burst into prime-time later this year with...

RIM acquires Ascendent Systems for campus mobility solution

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it purchased Ascendent Systems, which sells products that extend desk phone connectivity to wireless handsets in a campus...

TI, Qualcomm project healthy chip sales

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. honed its financial estimates for the first quarter, projecting a narrower range of solid sales, from $3.22 billion to $3.35 billion,...

Unity Wireless raises $2.2 million

BURNABY, British Columbia-Unity Wireless Corp. said it closed a $2.2 million three-year debt financing by institutional investors. The company, which develops wireless subsystems and...

Verizon Wireless signs voice/data pact with restaurant chain

ALPHARETTA, Ga.-Verizon Wireless inked a two-year deal to provide wireless voice and data services for Chick-fil-A Inc. As part of the deal, the Georgia-based...

States, feds attack cell-phone driving from all angles: Even as new study finds other activities cause greater distractions

WASHINGTON-The lawyer for a 20-year-old Michigan man charged with criminally negligent homicide in connection with a fatal car crash initially attributed to driver cell-phone...

Verizon Wireless prepaid service sold at Wal-Mart

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless inked a major retail distribution deal for its wireless service, agreeing to sell its INpulse offering through 2,300 Wal-Mart Stores Inc....

RadioShack joins Brightstar, others in phone-buying group

FORT WORTH, Texas-RadioShack Corp. reported plans to team with three other phone resellers to form a purchasing alliance that the companies said expects to...

Leap joins growing list of carriers restating financials

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. joined several wireless operators in announcing financial restatements-though the company said it expects the adjustments would result in improved...

Pantech underscores phone ambitions at CeBIT show

HANNOVER, Germany-Pantech Group spotlighted a variety of upscale handsets at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, in an effort to further establish itself...

Motorola hedges value of investment in Sprint Nextel

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. hedged the value of the 37.6 million shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. stock it owns, which represent about 1.25 percent of...

Equipment makers to lose another customer

AT&T Inc.'s planned acquisition of BellSouth Corp. could be great for consumers, but the news isn't so great for telecom equipment vendors, already suffering...

CDMA’s shifting landscape: From emerging India to mature U.S.

The market outlook for CDMA handsets may be described as a tale of two contrasting regions. And therein lies a few wireless lessons about...

Lucent rings up $300M in global agreements

Lucent Technologies Inc. is swimming in new contracts, announcing seven deals valued at more than $300 million at the CeBIT 2006 trade show. "Our...

Intel speeds up WiMAX plans

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. says its WiMAX cards for laptops will be available sometime in the second half of this year, not in 2007 as...

Net-neutrality backers to seek conditions

WASHINGTON-When the government broke up Ma Bell more than 20 years ago, it did so because it did not want one company controlling computer-to-computer...

Razr sales halted by T-Mobile, Cingular in component glitch

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. halted retail sales of Motorola Inc.'s best-selling Razr handset, after the vendor informed the carriers that a...
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