LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched its Simple Freedom prepaid wireless service in more than 1,500 Wal-Mart stores nationwide. The plan, which includes voice mail, caller identification, call waiting and text …
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Tower owner and operator SBA Communications Corp. said its chief financial officer John Marino will resign effective March 31, 2003. Merino will return to the banking industry, which …
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday reintroduced legislation designed to promote diversity in the telecommunications industry by giving tax breaks to companies that sell wireless and wireline …
WASHINGTON-A U.S. government-sponsored study said mobile-phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Environmental Heath Perspectives, is said to represent …
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Indosat-M3 (IM3), the pioneer of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services in Indonesia, has encountered a 90-percent drop in GPRS traffic after beginning fees for the service. I Made …
TOKYO-NTT East and NTT West said telephone fees from fixed-line users to mobile-phone users should be determined by fixed-line operators. In Japan, the fee has been traditionally decided by mobile …
LONDON-British Telecommunications said it has rolled out new wireless hot spots across Hilton hotels, airports and motorway service stations in the United Kingdom. The operator said it has installed 80 …
WASINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today authorized mobile satellite service providers the flexibility to integrate ground-based transmitters into their operations, but it also reallocated 30 megahertz from the troubled satellite sector …
WASHINGTON-A Swedish-funded study published in a journal of a U.S. health agency says mobile phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-A range of big-name wireless players within the Java Community Process released what they call the road map for dealing with Java technology within the wireless industry, specifications …
MISSION VIEJO, Calif.-Bird-B-Gone Inc. released its Bird Spike 2000, a solution for eliminating power outages caused by birds and animals interfering with wireless communications towers. Bird Spike is a non-conductive, …
MIAMI-Prepaid wireless service provider TracFone Wireless Inc. said it has reached a company milestone in having served more than 2 million customers nationwide. “This rapid growth is evidence that our …
SAN DIEGO-In One Voice Technologies Inc.’s recent comments on its corporate outlook for 2003, Dean Weber, chairman and chief executive officer, acknowledged the economic downturn of late, but he optimistically …
PARIS-Maporama has partnered with Danem, a mobile software editor and reseller, to develop and market new generation mobile applications for mobile personnel in the retail and services industries. The companies …
ATLANTA-BellSouth filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Call Sciences Inc. alleging that the companies are infringing on BellSouth’s patent on call routing technology, used for “one …
PARIS-French Telecom equipment maker Alcatel said it has acquired Aravox Technologies Corp., which makes real-time packet technology for Internet Protocol. “The acquisition of this technology by Alcatel will significantly enhance …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following last week’s decision from cell-phone operator MmO2 that it will delay the deployment of its U.K. third-generation (3G) service until the latter half of 2004, other European …
BEIJING-China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up from 100 million last year, while …
OSLO, Norway-Sales of handheld computing devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, rose 3.5 percent in the final quarter of 2002 in Sweden, reversing a slide that began …
