With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country’s second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to race past the United States as …
Just days before embarking on an unprecedented merger under concurrent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, Metrocall Inc. pulled out of its deal with WebLink Wireless Inc., citing WebLink’s recently announced layoffs …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry may be an unwitting accomplice to mass-scale looting of an African mineral used in mobile-phone capacitors, a situation some believe is prolonging war, causing environmental destruction and …
While seven-digit numbers are usually reserved for a company’s bottom line or telephone number, the seven digits in 6,219,694are of extra importance to Canadian-based wireless messaging company Research In Motion …
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Intel Corp. and British Telecommunications plc’s BTexact Technologies and BT Wireless businesses said they will work together to develop applications and services for next-generation mobile Internet devices. The …
Citing the slowdown in the U.S. economy and market conditions, personal digital assistant stalwart Palm Inc. and Extended Systems Inc., which provides mobile information management solutions, ended their proposed merger …
DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that CTIA President and Chief Executive Officer …
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular’s Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association late Friday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reallocate spectrum assigned to struggling mobile satellite firms to cellular phone carriers struggling to capture additional …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that could lead to the eventual end of analog cellular service, a move that could hurt telematics and other security businesses. However, the commission …
The General Accounting Office said a new procurement program established by the Department of Defense to ensure that new weapons systems do not interfere with commercial wireless systems appears to …
CHICAGO-Centerpost Corp. and Infotriever Inc. announced an alliance to combine and co-market their technologies in order to offer businesses a new communication product. Centerpost, which provides electronic messaging services, and …
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week said he only partially agreed with an exhortation by the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union that the United States is …
Transition is the word of the year, according to UBS Warburg’s analysis of mobile handset sales for the first quarter and forecast for the rest of 2001. Suppliers are struggling …
WASHINGTON-The lawyer representing rural carriers hoping that a federal appeals court will overturn the enhanced 911 mandate because of the deletion of a cost-recovery mechanism was cautiously optimistic following oral …
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. added 86,174 wireless subscribers during the first quarter of 2001, bringing the wireless operator’s customer base to 752,599 subscribers. Total postpaid customer additions …
WASHINGTON-The nominees for the Federal Communications Commission had a “walk in the park” as they appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee last week, while FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell was …
LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety …
In a complicated stock and cash transaction, Motient Corp. last week acquired Internet software company Rare Medium Group, a move that will bolster Motient’s wireless application and integration offerings and …
As technologies continue to advance and third-generation becomes more imminent, the mobile phone may be moving back into the place it began-the car. An increasingly mobile work force has led …
