BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Unplugged Games Inc., a developer of multiplayer games for wireless devices, will provide Verizon Wireless games for its Mobile Web customers. Verizon Wireless customers will be able to access …
FRANKFURT, Germany-Siemens AG expanded its presence into the crowded U.S. wireless handset market, signing a marketing deal with mobile-phone operator Cingular Wireless that allows Cingular to market Siemens’ S40 GSM …
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last week heard arguments on whether the Federal Communications Commission violated the law and hurt small businesses in crafting rules for 800 MHz specialized mobile radio …
WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America signed a contract with employees of the newly formed Cingular Wireless Inc. in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland. “The negotiations between several CWA regions …
WASHINGTON-Even as industry and government officials struggle to figure out how to implement the recommendations of the World Radiocommunication Conference held last June in Istanbul, the Federal Communications Commission last …
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. changed its name to Cingular Interactive L.P. and will become a business unit of wireless operator Cingular Wireless. “As a member of the Cingular Wireless …
WASHINGTON-Consumer advocate and failed presidential candidate Ralph Nader last week called for the creation of a world consumer protection organization that would be similar to the existing World Intellectual Property …
WASHINGTON-The EMR Network-a grassroots organization of people opposed to wireless facilities due to a fear of the impact of radiation-has come out strongly against a recent publication of the National …
PHOENIX-Verizon Wireless launched digital service in Yuma, Ariz., offering consumers enhanced features including caller ID, wireless Internet access, extended battery life for their handsets and enhanced protection against cloning fraud. …
COLUMBUS, Ga.-Nextel Partners Inc. launched wireless service in Columbus, Albany and Valdosta, Ga., and Auburn and Opelika, Ala. “Nextel service will offer strategic capabilities to this region,” said Laura Bowden, …
NEW DELHI, India-The Indian mobile subscriber base has doubled in a year-from 1.59 million subscribers at the beginning of 2000 to 3.1 million users at the end of the year. …
The prospects for wireless Internet use in Asia-Pacific during the next decade will be both a leap forward and a heartbreak. The Strategis Group concluded in a recent study that …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.- Motorola Inc. is ditching its troublesome Communications Enterprise unit and streamlining its operations, creating three new units and promoting executives to head each unit in the company. Under …
NEW YORK-Paratek Microwave Inc., a Columbia, Md., company established by a former U.S. Army researcher, plans to accelerate the evolution of communications capacity with DRWiN, short for Dynamically Reconfigurable Wireless …
The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies, whose members often provide wireless as well as wireline service to rural America, is calling for the 107th Congress …
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. sold 127 of its towers in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas to SBA Communications Corp. for about $40 million. SBA paid $313,000 per tower, and US …
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Taiwan chipset designer VIA Technologies has neither confirmed nor denied a report that the world’s CDMA leader, Qualcomm Inc., has settled a deal to buy a five-percent share of …
WINNIPEG, Manitoba-Canadian cellular service provider Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. said it will spend $50 million to extend digital service in south and central Manitoba. MTS also said it is preparing …
BEIJING-Zhejiang Unicom, the subsidiary of China Unicom in Zhejiang province, slashed its mobile-phone rates by 12.5 percent in early December. The move is significant as it is the first time …
HAYWARD, Calif.-In a move to offer secure wireless applications to the financial services, media, travel and wireless telecommunications industries, Wysdom Inc. announced it licensed Certicom’s Wireless Transport Layer Security Plus …
