Aether Systems Inc. announced solid first-quarter earnings last week along with a slightly revised business plan, but the results were not enough to please investors who once cherished the company …
NEW YORK-Good news for carrier access to capital arrived from the debt markets May 9 as WorldCom Inc. broke a record for debt deal size by a U.S. corporation and …
The wireless industry has already admitted-repeatedly-that it jumped the gun a bit on the whole wireless Internet thing, acknowledged that its fruition still is more than a bit in the …
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company’s platform by 2004. The move ends speculation on whether Symbian’s stakeholders, …
The growth potential of the wireless high-speed data market is inspiring companies to modify technology and previously unused spectrum to enable delivery of these data services. But the journey into …
If teens remain `talkaholics’ and have fun doing it, Voyant Technologies wants to provide the fuel. With an instant voice-messaging solution in a next-generation environment, the company thinks it is …
If the economy is going south for both vendors and operators in the United States, part of the solution may lie in going south, literally. According to a Strategis Group …
WHEATON, Md.-Not even the faster speeds and packet-based design of GPRS networks can save the WAP standard, which is of such poor quality that operators will continue to be forced …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG has announced layoffs of 2,000 workers as part of its measures to make the company more profitable. The German phone maker and infrastructure supplier, which entered the …
TOKYO-Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo reported strong earnings for its fiscal year ended March 31. Net profit jumped 45 percent to $3 billion, compared with the previous year’s results, on …
HELSINKI, Finland-European wireless operator Sonera Corp. sold 17.4 percent of its interest in VoiceStream Wireless Corp. to Germany’s Deutsche Telekom for approximately $319 million. Sonera said it would use the …
By nature, political debate in the nation’s capital is one-dimensional. The predominantly two-party system forces consideration of issues into the narrow confines of Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal. …
Wireless operators continued to post stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, showing wireless carriers are weathering fairly well the general economic downturn. The largest carrier reporting results last week was VoiceStream Wireless Corp., …
As wireless carriers spend billions of dollars to purchase spectrum and build out vast wireless networks, several smaller companies are offering similar services but on a much, much smaller scale-out …
For the introduction of its initial wireless data offering, Leap Wireless International Inc. went back to its roots. The flat-rate, all-you-can-talk carrier will launch the first channel of its Telephone …
One of the big stumbling blocks remaining for widespread Bluetooth adoption continues to be interference issues in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed spectrum band, which the technology uses. In addition to …
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericcson has signed an agreement to market and sell Aspiro’s portfolio of WAP, SMS and GPRS applications and concepts for entertainment and messaging as part of Ericsson’s WISE Portal. …
LUBBOCK, Texas-Alamosa Holdings Inc. reported an agreement with PVT Networks Inc. for PVT to construct a CDMA personal communications services network in Artesia, Roswell and Carlsbad, N.M. PVT will market …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS introduced its Wireless Web for Business starter kits for its customers, including Internet-ready phones, service plans, corporate data access software, connectivity devices and customer support for …
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. completed its underwritten public offering of 3 million shares of its common stock at $33.50 per share, netting approximately $97.9 million in proceeds. The sold …
