Yearly Archives: 2006

FCC sets June 29 as wireless auction date

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today set June 29 as the date to sell advanced wireless service licenses. The FCC said it plans to sell...

Sprint Nextel closes on Enterprise acquisition

RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it completed the acquisition of CDMA affiliate Enterprise Communications Partnership. The move ends Enterprise's litigation against Sprint Nextel, which...

Kyocera to build CDMA/Wi-Fi devices using Marvell chips

SAN DIEGO-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...

Muni Wi-Fi vendor Cohda raises $1.8 million

ADELAIDE, Australia-Cohda Wireless Pty. Ltd., a public-safety and municipal wireless technology developer, said it raised $1.8 million in its first round of venture funding....

Nortel partners with Huawei for broadband

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...

DoCoMo announces HSDPA handset prototypes from Motorola, others

TOKYO-Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it will join Cingular Wireless L.L.C. in upgrading its W-CDMA-based network to HSDPA technology. As proof of its...

W3C releases mobile browsing guidelines

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-More than two dozen companies are backing a preliminary "best practices" agreement for wireless Internet content, according to the World Wide Web Consortium.Mobile...

Privacy group sues AT&T as part of NSA wiretapping scandal

WASHINGTON-A San Francisco-based privacy group claims in a new class-action suit that telecom giant AT&T Inc. violated the law by cooperating with the National...

DoCoMo financials mixed, buys stake in Philippine operator

TOKYO-Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. posted weaker year-over-year third quarter fiscal 2005 results. For the nine months ended Dec. 31, 2005, the consolidated...

SIPquest claims VoIP application first to be optimized for Mobile 5.0

OTTAWA-SIPquest, a developer of Session Initiation Protocol applications, said its Mobile Console application has been optimized for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.The...

Visto sues Good for wireless e-mail patent infringement

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The flurry of legal wrangling in the wireless e-mail space continued as Visto Corp. filed a patent infringement suit against competitor Good...

Ericsson posts 4Q results in line with guidance

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson posted $1.1 billion in net income for the fourth quarter, a 52-percent increase over the $738 million the company reported for...

Summus becomes Oasys Mobile, launches mobile content locker

RALEIGH, N.C.-Summus Inc. launched a mobile portal designed to allow users to purchase and manage digital content. The company unveiled OasysMobile.com, which it described...

FCC proposes $100,000 fines for Alltel, AT&T over call-record scandal

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining AT&T Inc. and Alltel Corp. each $100,000 for not having certifications on file showing that they are protecting...

Cingular unveils iTunes-capable Slvr, T-Mobile counters with Pebl

ATLANTA-Following the success of its wildly popular Razr, Motorola Inc. is expanding its range of sleek, four-letter phones with the retail release of its...

Motorola deploys PTT in Yemen, Sonim unveils OMA-compliant PoC server

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...

Nokia reorganizes Finnish workforce

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced a workforce reorganization that will affect almost 300 total employees in its infrastructure and enterprise businesses. The company said the...

Venture capitalists target Heavy.com, DxO Labs

NEW YORK-Two emerging mobile players announced new funding this week. Broadband network Heavy.com closed a $10 million round of financing led by Polaris Venture...

Conflicting studies muddy cell-phone health risks

WASHINGTON-A pair of studies reach different conclusions on whether cell phones pose health risks to consumers, continuing a trend of conflicting scientific results that...

Dobson to get $30 million annually from USF

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. announced that two of its subsidiaries have been designated as eligible telecommunications carriers (ETC) in rural areas of Alaska and...

Cingular partners with Gigante to target Latinos in California

CERRITO, Calif.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a deal with Gigante USA Inc. targeting Latino wireless users in Southern California. The carrier said it plans to...

DataPath acquires Third Rail

DULUTH, Ga.-Systems integration company DataPath Inc. announced it acquired wireless broadband company Third Rail Americas Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DataPath...

Wireless Matrix, MSV extend partnership

RESTON, Va.-Wireless Matrix Corp., which provides enterprise wireless data services, extended its contract with satellite provider Mobile Satellite Ventures through January 2008.Wireless Matrix uses...

Sona Mobile gets $3 million boost

NEW YORK-Shuffle Master Inc. made a $3 million private equity investment in Sona Mobile Holdings Corp. via the purchase of 2.3 million shares of...

Google expands wireless options to SMS

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. launched a personalized tool bar that allows PC users to share Web pages via text messages. The tool bar-installed in...
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