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ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. announced a new contract to supply Cingular Wireless L.L.C. with its third-generation network testing equipment for a nationwide quality benchmarking program. Cingular recently announced that it …

WASHINGTON-A Texas law firm said it filed a class-action lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp. on behalf of thousands of landowners in the state. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court …

IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. announced it will acquire Athena Semiconductors Inc. for $21.6 million in cash. Athena makes chips for Wi-Fi and mobile TV technologies. Broadcom’s stock was down slightly after …

WASHINGTON-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it signed a three-year agreement with electronics manufacturing services company Celestica Corp., giving Celestica exclusive rights to manufacture Lucent’s existing and new wireless products, according to …

BOSTON-The U.S. wireless industry is expected to become a larger sector of the U.S. economy than the agriculture and automobile industries within five years, according to a report from Ovum …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Telemar Oi, a Brazilian telecommunications company, to start trials of Nokia’s Fixed Mobile Convergence solutions. The solutions make …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it has established a Mobile Search Working Group that will establish guidelines for a search marketing ecosystem. The group’s goal is to develop common …

LOS ANGELES-Jamdat Mobile Inc. said it is participating in McDonald’s annual Monopoly contest for the second year. Jamdat prizes include two wireless games-Jamdat Sports NBA Three-Point Shootout and Blue Blocks-as …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has been dragged into a dispute with potentially far-reaching implications between a major airline and one of the nation’s busiest airports over an issue that has …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Vidiator Technology Inc. today announced it will acquire the Platform division of Seoul-based Nextreaming Corp., a move the company said would add extra features and functions to its encoding, …

ST. LOUIS, Miss.-Centurion Wireless Technologies, a unit of Laird Technologies, announced it crossed the 1 billion threshold. The company said it has shipped more than 1 billion mobile-phone antennas through …

 Wi-Fi frenzy has hit a number of U.S. cities. I hope they know what they’re getting into. EarthLink Inc. has promised the city of Philadelphia it will roll out a …

WASHINGTON-Alltel Corp. said it will not meet the Dec. 31 enhanced-911 handset deadline and asked the Federal Communications Commission for a year-and-a-half extension. “Alltel has initiated numerous marketing and communications …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said the mobile-phone industry remains competitive and consumers continue to benefit, despite increased consolidation among wireless carriers and questions by a Democratic member of the commission …

The burgeoning Voice over Internet Protocol industry clipped a hurdle last week as Sprint Nextel Corp. reported that its subsidiary, Sprint Communications Co. L.P., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit …

DSL provider Covad Communications Group Inc. announced it purchased pre-WiMAX carrier Next-Web Inc. for $24.7 million in cash and stock. NextWeb offers wireless broadband services to 3,000 business customers in …

Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. attracted $600 million in venture-capital funding from Madison Dearborn Partners L.L.C. and TA Associates as part of a $739 million minority equity investment in …

SEOUL, Korea-SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile services provider, selected LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and Nortel Networks Ltd. to provide equipment to support new high-speed wireless broadband services throughout southern Korea. …

SanDisk Corp. and Sony Corp. introduced the industry’s third major removable memory card format specifically designed for space-conscious mobile phones. The companies unveiled their new Memory Stick Micro product, a …

Prepaid services are continuing their march up the feature-rich ladder with an increasing number of operators beginning to offer wireless Web browsing services to their noncontract subscribers. Many operators offer …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission ruled to clear the backlog of antenna-siting applications subject to a nationwide programmatic agreement designed to elicit dialogue among tower owners, mobile-phone carriers, Native American tribes …

DALLAS-Nokia Corp. will include software from Quickoffice Inc. in its Series 60 platform for smart phones, a move that will give its Series 60 users the ability to view and …

The wireless Internet is coming to European users in a big way this week, as two European operators launched high-speed mobile Web services. T-Mobile U.K. aggressively is pursuing wireless Web …

InterDigital Communications Corp. released its HSDPA coprocessor terminal for mobile phones. The company said the chip offering features low-power usage and a small, flexible design. Philips Semiconductor N.V. purchased the …

Initial shipments of Motorola Inc.’s long-anticipated iTunes-capable phone appear somewhat sluggish, according to a recent analyst report from Piper Jaffray. The firm said its recent store checks show that some …