LONDON-Traditional GSM device manufacturers, including Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc., are leading the charge in music-focused cellular devices, or “Cellular Music Decks,” according to new research from Strategy Analytics. “Music …
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans today to launch the Ogo wireless-messaging device. Ogo, targeted at teens and young adults, supports AOL, MSN and Yahoo!, allowing users to instant message, e-mail …
No matter what you call them-ringtones, true tones, master tones, hi-fi ringers-mobile music downloads are producing huge revenues. After a few years of market trials and quiet experimentation, ringtones took …
WASHINGTON-The wireless and public-safety communities lost another battle for 700 MHz spectrum to the powerful TV broadcasting lobby. Last week started out well: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the …
Nortel Networks Ltd and UTStarcom are on two sides of a stormy boat: Both multinational vendors face accounting travails and both are still gaining contracts, and both are convinced they …
WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration weathers criticism from Democrats over delays in modernizing the nation’s emergency warning system and insists help is on the way, a small GSM carrier in Wisconsin …
The headline in a Sept. 20 story on Page 8 about the government’s Jan. 12 auction was inaccurate. Auction 58 includes 123 licenses for which any company, regardless of size, …
Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.’s $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Microcell Telecommunications Inc., Canada’s smallest wireless operator, could propel Rogers Wireless past Bell Mobility as the nation’s largest wireless operator with …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. will stop selling ring tones, games and other content from its Club Nokia Web site. The world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones began offering entertainment-themed content through …
WASHINGTON-A new lawsuit filed in Illinois state court alleges a driver talking on a cell phone hit and injured a woman crossing the street, litigation that comes as the mobile-phone …
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular said it sold its 65-percent holding in Millicom Argentina, a high-speed wireless data joint venture, to its local partner after receiving regulatory approval. The carrier did …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless said it has agreed to supply Symbol Technologies’ mobile computers with its CDMA2000 1x modules. The modules, known as EM3420, will be embedded in Symbol’s MC9000 …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has entered into a deal with Microsoft Corp. to allow Windows streaming capabilities in wireless devices. Through the deal, consumers will be able to play back and …
NEW YORK-Telecommunications-focused investment bank Waller Capital Corp. reported that its client RFB Cellular Inc. has entered into an agreement with Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. to sell RFB’s Michigan wireless assets, …
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. has lowered its fourth-quarter guidance, attributing the fall in revenue and margins to carrier consolidation and delays in commitments to next-generation technology. The company revised its …
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp.’s new Nokia Remote Camera wireless home monitoring solution features an integrated motion detector and video capture with sound. The product includes a digital camera with zoom, video and …
Verizon Wireless increased the stakes in the wireless data market last week, announcing the expansion of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO-based BroadbandAccess service to 11 new markets as well as limited …
MAITLAND, Fla.-MeshNetworks Inc. said it has received a new experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy a number of fixed and mobile mesh networks. The company said the …
First there is a date. If sparks fly, the romance eventually may graduate into a union. But in the wireless business, not all mergers and acquisitions result from long-standing engagements, …
WASHINGTON-Tim Donahue, chief executive officer of Nextel Communications Inc., said Thursday morning Nextel finds nothing in the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to solve public-safety 800 MHz interference that it opposes …
