LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. said it intends to offer $125 million of first-priority senior secured floating rate notes due 2010 and $160 million of second-priority senior …
ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom said it has established new service and support centers for its service provider customers in India and Mexico. These centers build on the company’s International Professional Service organization, …
MILPITAS, Calif.-Ireland’s broadband wireless access provider Leap Broadband has begun deploying 3.5 GHz systems from Aperto Networks to complement its existing 5.8 GHz PacketWave point-to-multipoint systems from Aperto, throughout metro-Dublin. …
Public safety remains committed to the idea of a hard 2007 give-back date for TV broadcasters to relinquish their analog spectrum. But if that is not realistic, the public-safety community …
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it recorded a total of 13.5 million text-message votes cast during the past season of reality TV show “American Idol.” The carrier said the …
Motorola Inc. has unveiled what it describes as the first cross-technology Push-to-Talk over Cellular solution rooted in wireless networks. The announcement comes against the background of an industry search for …
WASHINGTON-Harsh political and industry criticism of the California Public Utilities Commission’s bill of rights for telecom consumers likely signals the controversy will carry over into 2005, when pro-business GOP Gov. …
MONTREAL, Canada-The wireless Web just got a little tastier. Wine magazine Wine Spectator announced a deal with wireless content company Airborne Entertainment to offer wine information along with its 130,000 …
Removing concern over its future network coverage, T-Mobile USA Inc. agreed last week to acquire Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s California and Nevada operations for $2.5 billion, properties that are currently part …
SAN DIEGO-Indian carrier Tata Teleservices is the first operator to launch a push-to-talk service based on Qualcomm Inc.’s BREWChat solution. The technology enables person-to-person and person-to-group communication between subscribers at …
At this writing, I haven’t a clue which bill of rights the California Public Utilities Commission will embrace or what plan the Federal Commissions Commission will adopt to remedy public-safety …
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the subsequent creation of a still-evolving homeland security regime in the United States probably did more for the wireless industry than all …
The worldwide wireless local area network hardware market in the first quarter of this year trumped the fourth quarter of 2003 by 2 percent, with revenues of $696.4 million, according …
Kyocera Wireless Corp. said it is recalling an additional 40,000 mobile-phone batteries because they are potentially faulty. The company said the situation stems from the previously announced battery recall for …
Camera phones are the most rapidly accepted consumer electronics device in history. Yet it appears that wireless carriers-a group many assumed would reap the rewards of a camera-phone revolution-are sitting …
DENVER and WASHINGTON-Arriving at the current state of post-deployed wireless enhanced 911 Phase II capabilities has been a feat in and of itself, but deployment does not mean success, and …
WASHINGTON-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) wants excess revenue from a future third-generation mobile-phone auction to help fund deployment of enhanced 911 service, according to sources. The plan could …
EDINBURG, Va.-Rural telecommunications provider Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. reported that its wireless subsidiary and Sprint PCS affiliate Shenandoah Personal Communications Co. signed an addendum to its management and services agreement with …
I was just out of college in 1993 when “Demolition Man” was released. Remember that movie? Set 40 years in the future, all personal freedoms had been removed in the …
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. used last week’s Lehman Brothers 2004 Global Wireless financial conference to announce its UMTS rollout plans, while rival carrier Sprint Corp. backed off earlier promises that it …
