Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony’s Music Digital Services division. …
To the Editor, I was gratified to see that Tracy Ford presented an ultimately positive view of the tower industry in her Nov. 18 editorial, as PCIA also sees great …
NEW ORLEANS-Infrastructure services provider Morrison Hershfield released the DualPole, a new tower reinforcement solution, at the recent 2002 Tower Summit & Trade Show. The DualPole provides additional colocation capacity on …
MeshNetworks offers .11b access point, router NEW YORK-With Federal Communications Commission technical approval now in hand, MeshNetworks, Maitland, Fla., has made commercially available a new 802.11b access point and a …
Motorola Inc. scrapped its instant-messaging server business earlier this year and plans to focus solely on providing instant-messaging software in its handsets, a move that comes amid drastic cost-reduction efforts …
LONDON-Intec Telecom Systems said it acquired L.M. Ericsson’s Settler interconnect billing product unit for a cash amount of $5.1 million. The deal also allows Intel to develop and market the …
SEOUL, South Korea-Hyundai Motor Co. will begin selling vehicles with a wide range of advanced telematics features next year in South Korea, and plans to expand into other areas of …
WASHINGTON-EFJ Inc. signed a $10 million line of credit with the Bank of America N.A. it will use for working capital and to finance the performance of government contracts. The …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Investors roared their approval of a new deal between synchronization company Pumatech Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN business, sending Pumatech’s stock up almost 75 percent to $1.45 per …
NEW YORK-Tower company SBA Communications Corp. has been notified by The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. that it may be delisted from the Nasdaq National Market because its Class A Common …
Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many …
NEW YORK-CKW Wireless Pty Ltd., an Australian subsidiary of ArrayComm Inc., San Jose, Calif., has launched a pre-commercial trial in Sydney of the i-Burst personal broadband system. ArrayComm’s patented IntelliCell …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said it will decide in mid-December whether it will maintain its 15-percent interest in Dutch operator KPN Mobile by subscribing to further shares of the operator. KPN Mobile …
BEIJING-Hong Kong- and New York-listed China Unicom has acquired nine GSM networks from its parent company at a cost of CNY22.5 billion (US$2.72 billion). The carrier will pay CNY4.8 billion …
ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Chinese mobile phone maker TCL Mobile Communications will offer color LCD display phones using modules from wireless module provider Wavecom. “The flexibility of the WISMO module and Wavecom’s best-in-class …
LUBBOCK, Texas-Alamosa Holdings Inc. named Steve Richardson to fill the previously vacant chief operating officer position at the Sprint PCS affiliate beginning Dec. 1. Richardson was president of Cingular Wireless …
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Trend Micro Inc. has made commercially available the PC-cillin 2003, the latest version of its consumer and small office-home office security solution for Internet access via dial-up, wireless local …
BEIJING-The 3G Planning Group of the State Information Office of the Chinese government has discussed a proposal to waive royalties on TD-SCDMA equipment to attract more manufacturers to produce equipment …
BEIJING-According to Shanghai Customs figures, 11.14 million handsets were exported from Shanghai in the first ten months of the year, an increase of 53.4 percent. The large majority of the …
BEIJING-Consultants CCID, affiliated with China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and Analysys Consulting, a partner of the Gartner Group, published conflicting figures on China’s handset market in the third quarter. …
