VANCOUVER, British Columbia-The mobile enterprise market continued its contraction with Infowave Software entering an agreement to acquire Telispark, an Arlington, Va.-based provider of enterprise mobility applications, for $8.4 million. The …
Sprint PCS made several gaming announcements related to its popular PCS Vision service, through which it said more than 5 million games were purchased in 2003, at this week’s Consumer …
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it signed a $14 million GSM expansion contract with Gansu Mobile Communication Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China Mobile. Under the project, which is expected to be …
WASHINGTON-Congress should sunset all telecommunications regulation including spectrum allocations and let the private sector innovate if true telecom progress is ever to occur, according to a paper released by the …
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has unveiled a universal router known as wONE that delivers simultaneous 802.11g and 802.11a from a single chipset. This also incorporates central processing units, baseband, …
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is rejecting the notion that because 2004 is a presidential election year, its legislative priorities-led by class-action reform-cannot be passed. “Backed by the Chamber’s Institute …
Handset bellwether Nokia Corp. received a boost from J.P. Morgan, which upgraded the company to “overweight” from “neutral,” leading to a 3.5-percent leap in shares. Another analyst Dresdner Wasserstein also …
WASHINGTON-The Council of the District of Columbia has voted to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld mobile phones, following the lead of New York and a handful of towns in …
WASHINGTON-Meredith M. Attwell, a former wireless industry lobbyist, has joined the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as a senior advisor to Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce Michael Gallagher. “Meredith has …
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Symbian will come out the winner in the battle for mobile-phone operating systems, followed closely by Microsoft Corp. and the Linux open source OS, according to research and …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile-phone design company Cellon said it managed to cut its product design times down from 18 months to less than six months using product design efficiencies from Agile …
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has gained two customers for every one customer it has lost since the implementation of wireless local number portability. “T-Mobile is a net winner in …
The latest issue of Consumer Reports comes down hard on the wireless industry in its annual wireless consumer review, referred to facetiously as an “Annual Address on the State of …
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. said it was awarded a contract with Polish cellular operator Era/PTC to deploy its wireless access system in major cities in Poland. The company’s 25 …
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. has joined other operators around the world in blaming a lack of available third-generation handsets for its 3G rollout delay. The Singapore operator said it postponed consumer …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors cheered AirNet Communications Corp.’s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending the wireless base station maker’s stock up almost 80 percent to $1.70 per share. AirNet previously expected fourth-quarter revenues …
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Brazil’s largest mobile operator signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand the operator’s CDMA2000 1x network. The expansion will cover Vivo’s network in Sao Paulo, Rio …
LAS VEGAS-RealNetworks Inc. said it will include support for PalmOne Inc.’s Treo 600 smart phone in its newly unveiled Internet music download service. The move marks likely the first such …
ST. LOUIS-AAT Communications Corp. announced it plans to acquire all tower assets of Signal One L.L.C., a privately held Chattanooga, Tenn.-based tower owner and site management company. The assets include …
LONDON-British Telecommunications plc said it will expand its Wi-Fi network to 500 U.K. McDonald’s restaurants during the next few months. Plans call for BT Openzone access points to be installed …
