Yearly Archives: 2006

Sprint Nextel ups text messages to 15 cents

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. raised the price it charges users to send a text message to 15 cents, up from a previous price...

Firm wins patent for cell-phone alert

LOS ANGELES—Cellular Jewelry Inc. said it won a U.S. patent for its line of products that alert users when a cellular signal is received...

Report: Ultra-low-cost handset sales could total 48M by end of 2007

BOSTON-Rapid product development among semiconductor players could pave the way for nearly 50 million ultra low cost handset shipments by the end of next...

Sprint Nextel can continue to operate iDEN network in iPCS territory

RESTON, Va.—Sprint Nextel Corp. has been granted a stay in its ongoing legal battle with PCS affiliate iPCS Inc. that will allow the national...

InfoSpace cuts 250 workers following loss of Cingular’s business

BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. said it plans to lay off about 250 employees as part of a restructuring plan. The move follows news late last...

ITC judge rules against Qualcomm but stops short of taking action

SAN DIEGO-An administrative law judge with the International Trade Commission handed down a split decision in the acrimonious patent dispute between chipmakers Qualcomm Inc....

Tough choices

It's not a good sign when your name starts popping up in the press with the kind of foreboding and frequency otherwise reserved for...

FTC guide helps cities decide how to deploy muni Wi-Fi

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission issued a guide of sorts for municipalities considering wireless broadband, offering city planners and policy-makers a list of the pros...

RIM delays quarterly statements due to internal stock-options probe

WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. said it will delay filing its interim financial statements for the quarter that ended Sept. 2 until the company...

Nebraska town uses 4% cell-phone tax to offset declining landline revenues

WASHINGTON-A major fallout of Congress' failure to pass telecom-reform legislation this year is the continued imposition of new state and local cell-phone taxes, like...

ROK shows off free, WAP-based mobile video with FreeBe TV

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.-ROK Entertainment Group U.S. expanded its mobile video offerings with 13 free channels of news, music and sports. The subsidiary of the...

Private equity scooping up wireless values

Representatives from the former Flextronics Software Services business are making the media rounds, clamoring for attention, now that the company is about to announce...

BenQ closing down in South America

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—On the heels of closing its German-based handset business, BenQ has also decided to shutter operations in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, according to...

Indian wireless operators shake up state of industry

There's never a dull moment in India's wireless marketplace. Media reports streaming out of the country last week indicated that Motorola Inc. and ZTE...

Vendors eye ‘belle of the ball’ Sprint Nextel at WiMAX World

BOSTON-There is nothing like a few billion dollars up for grabs to get a trade show buzzing as was the case for this year's...

Analyst Angle: Trading Freedom for Security

Editor's Note: Welcome to a new weekly feature at RCRNews.com, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their...

Boston turns on two hot spots for Wi-Fi network

BOSTON—Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston unleashed the city’s wireless initiative today, announcing that a square-mile Wi-Fi network is being built in Roxbury’s Gove Hall...

U.S. Cellular nets $100M from sale of Midwest Wireless

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. said it received $95.1 million from the sale of its stake in regional operator Midwest Wireless Holdings L.L.C. to Alltel Corp....

Sprint Nextel to offer new made-for-mobile content

NEW YORK—FremantleMedia has teamed with Mobliss to power a new, made-for-mobile video offering from Sprint Nextel Corp. The companies launched Atomic Wedgie, an offering...

Supreme Court declines to hear Minnesota consumer protection law

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that voided a Minnesota wireless consumer protection law. Minnesota Attorney General Mike...

Not how much, but how

Every time someone tries to fix interoperability problems for first responders, it seems the first response is to throw more spectrum at the problem.So...

Sprint Nextel knows what’s good for it, to offer Mr. T content

NEW YORK-In a move showing the true maturation of wireless services, Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin offering access to content based on TV Land's...

Nokia to outsource handset logistics, repair

Nokia Corp. will shutter a Fort Worth, Texas-based facility next spring that provides handset logistical and repair services for the American market and will...

Samsung handset shipments up

NEW YORK—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. increased its shipment volume in the third quarter to 30.7 million, a 17-percent increase from the previous, disappointing quarter,...

Hedgehogging

It was a fairly quiet week in the wireless world, but we still managed to share a few observations and kvetches-or as we like...
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