Sprint PCS’ recently launched Ready Link walkie-talkie service drew mixed performance reviews last week from industry analysts who noted that while the service was superior in many ways to Verizon …
WASHINGTON-The wireline industry quickly ran to federal appeals court Friday morning after the Federal Communications Commission late Thursday turned down a request to delay wireless local number portability. “In the …
ORANGEBURG N.Y.-Verizon Wireless said it has invested nearly $1 billion during the past three years to enhance its digital wireless network in the New York metropolitan area. The announcement comes …
MONTREAL-TelePlus Enterprises Inc. said its subsidiary TelePlus Retail Services Inc. will acquire all the assets of TelePlus Services, providing the company with a network of 19 wireless retail outlets. TelePlus …
WASHINGTON-More than one-third-35 percent-of respondents to a survey by the National Regulatory Research Institute would give their mobile-phone carriers D or F grades, said the NRRI in a report released …
NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc. is reportedly set to refinance up to $2.2 billion in existing loans in an attempt to take advantage of what it called “favorable bank loan market …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-With the view of diversifying the company’s debt profile, L.M. Ericsson said it has launched a bond exchange offer for its euro medium term notes. The offer, which is …
TORONTO-Mobile Diagnostix Inc. said it has secured an undisclosed amount of investment from Bell Wireless Accelerator Fund to develop its Mobile Care Framework. MCF has an engine that detects configuration …
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said its mobile Internet platform and i-mode handsets are being used by Wind Telecomunicazioni for its i-mode launch, announced earlier this week, in Italy. In addition, NEC Italia …
With the blessing of its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is reportedly set to acquire one of its competitors as early as next year, …
Sprint PCS said it has deployed a Session Initiation Protocol platform, and its Ready Link push-to-talk service uses the protocol. Sprint purchased the platform from SIP company Dynamicsoft. “As we …
With the holiday season around the corner, Motorola Inc. made several device-related announcements this week. The company said the new Motorola V300 camera phone will be available through T-Mobile USA …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Danger Inc. said Cable & Wireless will offer its Hiptop mobile-phone device through its Cayman Islands mobile operation. Cable & Wireless is the first Caribbean operator to launch …
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has retained a law firm, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, to review the restatement of its results for 2000 through 2002 and the first half …
RESTON, Va.-NII Holdings, which operates iDEN-based networks in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru, said it will expand its portfolio of handsets with new models from Motorola Inc. The new handsets, …
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. has recorded a negative first as it has dropped from the first place in flash memory sales to fourth place, according to market research firm iSuppli. The …
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. signed $10 million in contracts with L.M. Ericsson and Nortel Networks Ltd. to upgrade the carrier’s current TDMA-based network in Alaska with GSM/GPRS/EDGE technology and said …
CRYSTAL CITY, Va.-If the Coalition Provisional Authority had wanted Iraqis to have access to communications through three mobile-phone networks by now, this-like most everything else in Iraq these days-is not …
BOULDER, Colo.-SpectraLink Corp. said its board of directors will shell out dividends of 10 cents per share of its common stock payable Dec. 23. The company said it has enjoyed …
LONDON-Virgin Mobile U.K. said it received the lowest number of complaints in the latest customer satisfaction report from U.K. telecom regulator Oftel compared with the other five U.K. mobile operators. …
