LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. completed two transactions in which it exchanged class A common stock for the minority interests in its Sprint PCS operating subsidiaries, Louisiana Unwired L.L.C. and …
HELSINKI, Finland- Nokia Corp. has selected subcontractors to supply its 3G equipment around the world. The subcontractors are Skanska Telecom networks and Flextronics Network Services in Sweden; Boke and Walterfang …
Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, one of the world’s premier breeding grounds for mobile-phone technology, wireless network security developer Columbitech is gearing up to take on the United States with a …
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission considers proposals to select a nationwide number-pooling administrator, two leading contenders are duking it out at the state level in winning pooling contracts. Number pooling …
Two-way messaging licenses held by the now-bankrupt paging company TSR Wireless L.L.C. will be auctioned off near the end of this month, according to the company’s bankruptcy trustee Charles Forman. …
The path to third-generation services for many wireless operators appears to be anything but smooth. While Asian carriers seem to be taking the high-speed approach, European carriers recently have seen …
LOS ANGELES-Telemac Corp., a provider of network-independent billing and accounting technologies for the wireless industry, announced it has been granted broader U.S. and European patents covering a network-independent, handset-based prepaid …
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration is unlikely to stem the tide of telecom mergers headed for the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in the next four years and may …
FAIRFAX, Va.-One must first define the world before predictions can be made about how soon the world will be connected to the Internet, said an expert at last week’s 2001 …
MONTREAL-TIW added 878,300 net subscriber during the fourth quarter to reach a total of more than 4.4 million cellular subscribers, an increase of 97 percent from 1999. ClearWave N.V., a …
While the digital divide holds out hope of shrinking in the next half decade, signs persist that vendors and operators have yet to come to grips with the special needs …
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Mainspring Inc., a digital strategy consulting firm, and Nordic Spring, a Swedish consultancy specializing in wireless and mobile strategies, have partnered to share research and analysis of the mobile …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. said it opened a direct sales and service office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to serve as its headquarters for its Latin American marketing thrust. The …
SAN FRANCISCO-Aspiro and Wysdom Inc. signed an agreement that enables Aspiro to deliver short message service traffic within North America and Wysdom to deliver SMS traffic to the European market. …
WHEATON, Md.-Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. is now The Shosteck Group. According to the company, the new name commemorates its 20-year anniversary and reflects the firm’s changing nature, from Herschel Shosteck’s …
SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. reported it is voluntarily replacing approximately 11,000 of its QCP 3035 wireless handsets sold to Qwest Wireless customers in 12 states since December. Kyocera said it …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-TDMA’s advocacy body, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, said TDMA subscribers had increased by 74 percent to 61 million at the end of 2000. “TDMA continues to be the …
SALT LAKE CITY-Verizon Wireless said it will construct a $42 million customer service call center in West Valley City, Utah, bringing more than 1,000 new jobs to the local economy. …
DES MOINES, Iowa-Nextel Partners Inc. was awarded the “Business of the Year” award from the Iowa Crime Prevention Association for its Nextel Partners Project Patrol the company launched last May …
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Group Inc. said it would use most of the $6.5 billion the company raised in its recent bond offering, in conjunction with the $6.2 billion it received …
