Yearly Archives: 2006

OMA consortium attacks game specs

DALLAS—The Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. (OMA) will lead a consortium of companies looking to create an open gaming specification for high-end wireless games. The...

Pearl drawing strong demand

NEW YORK-Demand is strong at T-Mobile USA Inc. retail stores for the recently launched Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry Pearl, according to a national...

Qualcomm licenses Indian CDMA handset maker

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. handed Indian device-maker Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd. a royalty-bearing license agreement to make and sell CDMA2000 handsets and modem cards. Qualcomm...

Tower officials: Preparing for the next disaster

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Tower industry officials last week said lessons learned from last year's horrific storms have made them better prepared for the next big one....

Verizon Wireless won’t jump 4G gun

Unlimited video streaming is unlikely to be in wireless carriers' interest, Verizon Wireless President and Chief Executive Officer Denny Strigl told a New York...

PCIA panelists tackle today, tomorrow

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The Wireless Infrastructure Association's annual convention began with the launch of a new a new forum that says its mission is to promote...

Call for 800 MHz rebanding extension raises public-safety’s ire

WASHINGTON--Don't blame the public-safety community if the 800 MHz reconfiguration process is not going smoothly, said Wanda McCarley, president of the Association of Public-Safety...

Carriers increasingly turning to fiber for backhaul needs

Exchanging data over wireless networks is expected to grow at a steady rate in North America, according to the latest data from ABI Research....

Cingular to add Walkman handsets to lineup

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. will add two more handsets to its portfolio-both Walkman music phones-from Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. in the next couple of...

Senate telecom-reform bill debate slips to November

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications-reform bill, which includes the all-important wireless pre-emption provision, will not be debated on the Senate floor this week so its only hope...

Wireless in the real workplace

As a growing number of companies make efforts to take their workforces mobile, new stories are emerging as to how companies are actually making...

ADC fires 225 in restructuring effort

MINNEAPOLIS—ADC Telecommunications Inc. said it will lay off about 225 people as part of a restructuring program. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing,...

Leap, MetroPCS break into major markets with AWS spectrum

There were no last-minute bombshells when the advanced wireless services spectrum auction wrapped up last week after a few final, tedious rounds with a...

Medical industry increasing reliance on mobile

The health-care industry increasingly is looking to wireless technologies to save money, reduce inefficiencies and cut down on human errors. And the wireless industry...

Old phones stifle new mobile games

Less than two years ago, carriers were blaming publishers for stifling mobile gaming by churning out a surfeit of high-profile, licensed games that made...

Motorola pays $4 billion to walk enterprise talk

Big deals attract attention. Watching mergers and acquisitions play out is a perennial spectator sport in the technology business, in part because the results...

.20 working group officers dismissed after in-fighting about standard

The IEEE standards association announced a leadership shake-up in its troubled 802.20 working group, which is supposed to get the work on a mobile...

Study: Global wireless market strong

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The global wireless market has experienced strong growth during the past five years, according to a study from Pyramid Research. The consulting firm’s...

Sprint Nextel’s call for a two-year delay on 800 MHz rebanding raises public-safety’s ire

WASHINGTON—Don’t blame the public-safety community if the 800 MHz reconfiguration process is not going smoothly, said Wanda McCarley, president of the Association of Public-Safety...

New group addresses international WiMAX roaming

PARIS—The newly formed WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance left their inaugural meeting in Paris yesterday determined to sign an international WiMAX roaming agreement by December...

NeuStar extends porting contracts, changes pricing structure

STERLING, Va.—NeuStar Inc., the company which issues phone numbers, has been awarded extensions on the seven contracts that allow it to manage wireline and...

Andrew streamlines business units

WESTCHESTER, Ill.—Roll with it—that’s what Andrew Corp. is doing as it streamlines its executive team and reorganizes its product groups to "capitalize on the...

FCC’s Martin forgoes conditions in proposed AT&T-BellSouth merger vote

WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Communication Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for an Oct. 12 vote on the proposed $67 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth...

I-play offering NBC’s ‘Office’ on mobile

LOS ANGELES—NBC Universal and mobile entertainment company I-play are offering on-demand scenes from the NBC comedy series "The Office" on mobile platforms. The agreement...

Sprint Nextel bucks court ruling, will continue selling iDEN in iPCS territory

RESTON, Va.—Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans to seek a stay in a court decision that orders the carrier to divest its iDEN operations...
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