UbiquiTel Inc. said it has reached a three-year agreement with network partner Sprint PCS covering a number of inter-carrier issues, including roaming, reseller and back-office rates that UbiquiTel noted would …
The Open Mobile Alliance industry standards group announced a major new specifications release aimed at breaking down the barriers between GSM and CDMA carriers. The specifications center around picture messaging …
SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM Corp. said it has rolled out new database software known as DB2 Everyplace that provides customers with real-time access to business information on their wireless handhelds. “DB2 Everyplace …
ROUND ROCK, Texas-Dell Inc. this week released its Dell TrueMobile 5100 Tri-Band GPRS PC Card with a choice of wireless access service plans from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. or T-Mobile …
HOUSTON-TWR Lighting Inc. recently introduced its L864/865 dual lighting system for tower structures and touted it as a potential source of cost savings for tower operators. The new system, which …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its W-CDMA chipset known as MSM6200 has been tested and validated by 13 worldwide infrastructure vendors. “Qualcomm’s chipset solution is the first to achieve voice, circuit …
WASHINGTON-The White House opposes a spending measure provision enabling Northpoint Technology Ltd. to acquire wireless licenses free rather than competing for licenses at a government auction next year, objecting to …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Monday said wireline carriers must port customers’ telephone numbers to wireless carriers even if the wireless carrier does not have a switch in the wireline carrier’s …
LONDON-LogicaCMG said Portuguese mobile operator Optimus has deployed its Wireless Service Broker product, which will enable Optimus to deliver mobile Internet services based on WAP 2.0 and multimedia messaging services. …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless Inc. said it has priced its public offering of 4 million shares, announced Nov. 4, at $16.25 per share. Gross proceeds from the offering will be …
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s minority interest parent company BellSouth Corp. told industry analysts at a New York briefing that while it expects to see continued strong growth from its wireless …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules on how a non-service initialized mobile phone must be identified to a public-safety answering point. “The standard recommended by the Emergency Services …
Postings on Internet video games sites indicate that the security settings on Nokia Corp.’s N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device may have been breached, allowing hackers to play N-Gage games on other devices …
REDMOND, Wash.-Following a Financial Accounting Standards Board directive Oct. 8 on how companies report their interests in certain partnerships, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. posted an additional $27 million in net …
Just what are Craig McCaw and Nextel Communications Inc. up to, separately or together? Is there a grand plan waiting to be hatched or just some heady hedges that may-or …
Because operators prefer to manage capacity rather than allow it to dictate their businesses, the nation’s expanding subscriber base continues to pose problems. The traditional answer has been to build …
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Mobile gaming will be gangbusters in Western Europe, according to a new study, increasing from $228 million last year to nearly $3.4 billion in 2008. The total gaming …
An Oct. 31 article in RCR Wireless quoted Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska as saying, “We should let cell-phone companies get additional price support to expand cell-phone towers into rural …
BANGKOK, Thailand-Continuing its push to expand its CDMA business, Nokia Corp. said it will sell a dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 CDMA handset starting next year. The company said the phone will serve …
HELSINKI, Finland-Several European groups said they have demonstrated the first vertical handover in commercial networks providing seamless switching among different network connections while an application was running. L.M. Ericsson, TeliaSonera …
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Airspan Networks Inc., provider of broadband fixed wireless DSL networks, announced it plans to acquire Nortel Networks’ fixed wireless access business for $12.9 million by the end of …
To the Editor, I read your opinion piece, and agree that the parties to the Consensus Plan seem like they cannot get on the same page. I take issue with …
London Following its launch of an MVNO service in the United Kingdom promoted through a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, British Telecommunications Inc. launched a new service, BTringtones.com, on its public Internet …
WASHINGTON-The ransacking of a U.S.-owned mobile-phone company in Cote d’Ivoire, the recent jailing of a billionaire oil tycoon in Russia and geopolitical instability associated with global terrorism represent the kind …
