AT&T Inc., which controls the nation’s largest mobile-phone carrier Cingular, agreed pay more than $30 million and withdraw a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to end a highly controversial, seven-year-old case …
European Union telecom regulators have settled on a price they would like to see for roaming rates that EU operators can charge customers, although the new rule has yet to …
Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. announced it has settled its legal battle with Sprint Nextel Corp. The affiliate said it reached new agreements with the national carrier that include the transfer of …
CDMA pioneer Qualcomm Inc. sat atop a busy week-with many more likely to come-as the company made moves in its legal battle with Broadcom Corp., stirred up the dust in …
Wireless users may be warming to the idea of mobile advertising, according to new figures from Harris Interactive.The market research group found that 35 percent of adult mobile users in …
Game-maker Electronic Arts Inc. announced it will offer a new sports service, and that the offering will be first available through AT&T Inc.’s Cingular Wireless. The company’s new EA Sports …
Wireless communications company CalAmp Corp. announced it will purchase the GPS-based vehicle-tracking service of AirIQ Inc. for $19 million in cash.“The acquisition of AirIQ’s Vehicle Finance division significantly expands CalAmp’s …
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to rule next week that wireless broadband is an information service, a move that would put wireless Internet access in the same deregulated category …
The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Handset and infrastructure vendors CIBC World Markets further lowered its …
The infrastructure market will see another combined entity step onto the playing field April 1, the date Nokia Siemens Networks announced it will formally begin operations. Nokia Siemens Networks gets …
A year after the companies first announced their plans for the offering, Verizon Wireless and TiVo said the TiVo Mobile application for BREW-capable cellphones is now available to Verizon Wireless …
L.M. Ericsson, the world’s largest equipment manufacturer, announced it will acquire Mobeon AB, which produces an IP-based voicemail system called Messaging over IP (MoIP). Ericsson plans to accelerate the development …
Mobile media company Mobifusion Inc. said it picked up $3.1 million in its first round of venture funding.Mobifusion targets carriers and publishers with a content-delivery platform designed to increase customer …
Chinese mobile content behemoth Tom Online blamed policy changes by China Mobile as it posted a fourth-quarter loss of a half million dollars.The Nasdaq-listed firm reported a net loss of …
Sprint Nextel Corp. PCS affiliate iPCS Inc. reported increased revenues and net customer additions for the fourth quarter of 2006, but still recorded an overall loss for the quarter of …
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for …
Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced it acquired voice-services company Tellme Networks Inc., which offers a variety of speech-recognition services for cellphones and other platforms. Microsoft said it will integrate the …
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Digital rights management is an inevitable byproduct of the capabilies consumers now have to store and stream large amounts of information, but for it to function properly it must …
Location-based developer uLocate Communications Inc. is hoping to help even the smallest publishers get attention with a new application from Sprint Nextel Corp.The Framingham, Mass.-based company this week unveiled WHERE, …
SkyPilot Networks, which provides broadband wireless mesh network equipment, launched its SkyAccess DualBand product, a dual-radio product the company said complements its existing citywide Wi-Fi products.The product incorporates a dedicated …
L.M. Ericsson announced it will support the recently approved EDGE Evolution network standard, which the company said can support data speeds of up to 1 megabit per second.“EDGE Evolution builds …
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Nokia Corp. are partnering to launch the carrier’s mobile WiMAX network in four Texas markets to provide customers with wireless broadband access. Nokia said it will …
LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will hold a “National Texting Championship” competition in order to promote its enV and V cellphones, which are selling through Verizon Wireless. The phones …
Viacom is suing YouTube and Google for “massive intentional copyright infringement” of Viacom’s entertainment properties. The suit was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of …
