LONDON-Mobile carrier T-Mobile International will deploy intelligent packet core networking equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd. to allow for more flexible mobile-data billing. The value of the agreement was not disclosed. …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission planned July 8 vote on its solution to the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band likely won’t resolve the issue, as details of the …
WASHINGTON-As one of its final acts of business before handing over limited authority to an interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority referred to …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The mobile gaming industry continued its contraction, with the announcement that InfoSpace Inc. acquired the assets of Atlas Mobile Inc., a provider of wireless multiplayer tournament games.The value of …
LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. said it has amended its management and services deals with Sprint PCS for back-office billing and service charges, activation fees for new users …
Autodesk Location Services and Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of location-based traffic alert services for Verizon’s vtext.com text-messaging portal. With the service, Verizon customers can log into www.vtext.com and …
Crown Castle International Corp. last week confirmed it is selling its U.K. business, including 3,600 tower sites, to British utility company National Grid Transco plc for $2.035 billion cash. “The …
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported the closing of the public offering made by its wholly owned subsidiary Vodafone International Holdings B.V. for the shares that Vodafone and its subsidiaries did not …
“It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.” -Bruce Schneier Imagine a world where your every possession-clothes, books, cash-could be precisely and invisibly …
Metro-scale broadband networks based on Wi-Fi technologies are popping up across the country, with big and small industry players alike endorsing the systems for use by municipal entities and consumers. …
Freud is looking down on us, smiling at how the most powerful, the most-manly city on earth has learned to cope with the stress of war and peace and scandal. …
STOCKHOLD, Sweden-A handful of wireless operators lodged a joint application with Sweden’s National Post and Telecom Agency that calls for altered license terms for third-generation network construction that would allow …
New Jersey motorists should think twice before they reach for their cell phones while driving as a state law took effect July 1 banning the use of handheld phones and …
Radio Frequency Identification tags-labels the size of a credit card or smaller containing a silicon chip and an antenna-are destined to replace the ubiquitous bar code, and can be attached …
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, having decisively triumphed in health litigation, believes more than ever science is solidly in its corner as a result of a growing number of new studies that …
In a move expected to bolster its spectrum position and coverage in the western United States, Verizon Wireless reported late last week that it had agreed to acquire Qwest Communications …
Subscriber numbers are an important metric for the wireless industry because the industry is still growing, so an inquiry by a federal agency into how those numbers is calculated is …
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry continues to find its battlefield expanding, with carriers increasingly drawn into fights with one state after another on issues ranging from billing to contracts to taxes. Last …
Signifying a strategic shift away from infrastructure manufacturing, Nortel Networks Ltd. reached an agreement last week to divest certain production operations and related activities in Canada and Brazil as well …
LONDON-Orange U.K. said it will launch its third-generation W-CDMA network July 19. The launch will include the country’s major cities. The company’s French subsidiary will launch 3G service this fall. …
