WASHINGTON—Nextel Communications Inc. said it donated 1,500 mobile phones to public safety and law enforcement officials in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston in the aftermath of terrorist strikes Tuesday …
WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless lost 11 cell sites in the attacks on Tuesday in New York and at the Pentagon but service has generally been restored except in lower Manhattan by the …
AMSTERDAM—Dutch carrier KPN Telecom’s chief executive Paul Smits stepped down early this week, most likely as a result of the company’s failure to cut its $20.7 billion loan. The company …
RALEIGH, N.C.—High Speed Net Solutions Inc. (d/b/a Summus) announced its BlueFuel Image media module for Qualcomm’s BREW platform is now available. According to Summus, BlueFuel is a SuperFast-SuperThin media module …
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo announced it plans to increase the speed of its i-mode and DoPa mobile Internet services by almost 20 Kbps and hopes to launch the enhanced service in spring …
WASHINGTON—A traffic systems advocate on Sept. 10 said the current debate over whether using wireless phones is a distraction is a continuation of a debate that has gone on for …
NEW YORK—Verizon said its wireless network experienced congestion due to heavy calling in the aftermath of yesterday’s terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon …
Cingular this morning said its network is operating normally following yesterday’s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. The company said it …
SAN DIEGO—Amid the horror of yesterday’s terrorist attacks in New York City and the nation’s capital, CTIA’s Wireless I.T. conference in San Diego is continuing, even as the show’s participants …
MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless Inc. (TIW) said the holders of its senior discount notes due 2007 have tendered 99.9 percent of the outstanding notes in exchange for a combination of cash …
HAYWARD, Calif.—Certicom announced its movianVPN security software will be available with the new HP Jornada 560 Series Personal Digital Assistant. “Certicom’s movianVPN client provides a critical component of a total …
INDIANAPOLIS—Brightpoint Inc. announced its Brightpoint North America L.P. subsidiary has entered an agreement with Pumatech Inc. to market, sell and support Pumatech products in the U.S. Pumatech develops enterprise-level software …
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—YourMobile/PWS has been awarded a publishing license for the Quincy Jones Music catalog, a compilation of jazz, pop and rhythm & blues hit songs by Quincy Jones and …
OTTAWA, Ontario—EMS Technologies Inc. and Cabit Systems have launched the Cabit Online Service Bureau (OSB) packet data satellite solution, which the companies call a total communications solution for the transportation …
LOS ANGELES—The Personal Communications Industry Association’s annual trade show, which should have begun today, has been cancelled. There are no plans to reschedule.
DENVER—All U.S. financial markets have been closed following the attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
SAN DIEGO—This year’s Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s Wireless I.T. & Internet show will begin today and continue as scheduled until further notice.
NEW YORK-Miami-based Advanced Electronic Support Products Inc. announced Sept. 4 it has completed the acquisition of Intelek Spol s.r.o., a distributor and manufacturer of wireless networking products and networking hardware …
The acclaimed but expensive Ricochet high-speed wireless data network built by Metricom Inc. may be getting a second chance courtesy of Aerie Networks, a privately held, Denver-based fiber-optic broadband start …
DALLAS-Cellular One Group, a fully-owned subsidiary of Western Wireless Corp., launched a new branding campaign on the Internet using Superstitials, which is a technology that waits for the television-quality commercial …
