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Sprint PCS introduced a new multimedia message service that can deliver more than 600 new streaming audio and video clips per day to subscribers carrying the new Samsung MM-A700. MobiTV …

WASHINGTON-A group of nine wireline companies, two with wireless affiliates, are proposing to radically change the way carriers compensate each other to carry traffic on each other’s networks, and most …

WASHINGTON-Rap and hip-hop music make up the most popular downloads of short message service users, according to a new survey from ForceNine Consulting and SMS.ac Inc. The survey showed 25 …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week opened up a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today opened a huge swath of spectrum for wireless broadband services, creating incentives for businesses to invest in a third digital pipe to homes and businesses …

AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Bill Carney, senior director of strategic marketing and business development for Texas Instruments’ Wireless Networking Business Unit, has been elected as its new chairman. Carney, …

GOTHENBURG, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has sold its wireless data division known as Mobitex to a U.K. investment group. The major investors include two former executives of U.K Mobitex network operator Transcomm …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) said it has raised $9 million from existing investors to drive adoption of its Matrix location technology. The technology provides accuracy within 100 meters …

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-Certicom Corp. said Sierra Wireless has embedded its secure movianVPN solution into its VoqMail Professional Edition wireless e-mail solution for the new Voq Professional Phone. Certicom’s solution was designed …

CHICAGO-Telecom equipment vendor Andrew Corp. said it posted a second-quarter net profit of $10.2 million, or 6 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $3.4 million, or 3 …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell will deliver the keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association’s 2004 conference taking place June 3 in Washington, D.C. “Our industry and its consumers …

With what it describes as the first clearinghouse of its kind, LightSurf Technologies Inc. hopes to raise the bar on how wireless operators will do business by democratizing the ebb …

Privately held wireless carrier Cellular South, which controls spectrum licenses covering more than 5 million potential customers in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, said it recorded a 23-percent improvement in …

ORLANDO PARK, Ill.-First Cellular of Southern Illinois said it has selected Andrew Corp.’s caller location system known as Geometrix to provide public-safety agencies with accurate information on cellular calls to …

LONGMONT, Colo.-Intrado Inc. reported contracts to provide Emergency 911 Phase I and Phase II services to eight rural Texas wireless operators serving more than 100,000 subscribers. The carriers include Cellular …

GALWAY, Ireland-Rating, charging and revenue settlement software provider AM-BEO Ltd. announced the availability of its new nRate rating solution, designed to price existing and advanced communication and content services. nRate …

NEW YORK-Shares of equipment maker Andrew Corp. jumped 13 percent after it raised its revenue forecast for the second quarter. The company said its second-quarter earnings will range between 4 …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission got doubly spooked Thursday and decided not to vote on its plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band at its meeting April 15. …

NEW YORK-Shares of equipment maker Andrew Corp. jumped 13 percent after it raised its revenue forecast for the second quarter. The company said its second-quarter earnings will range between 4 …

On both technology and adoption fronts, EDGE technology is forging ahead. While the protocol contends with handset challenges, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association puts the number of network operators that …

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s board of directors adopted a proposal to restructure the company’s board, committees and councils. The restructure calls for a two-year transition from a board …

When Monet Mobile Networks Inc. launched service in November 2002, many in the industry believed that the promise of advanced wireless data technology had finally become a reality-which is why …

HERNDON, Va.-XY-Mobile, a distributor of wireless software rating, billing and customer management solutions, said it acquired Bonsai Networks, which provides service enabling platforms for convergent Wi-Fi networks. Bonsai’s SEP integrates …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Steve Largent, president and chief executive officer of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, will be a featured speaker at the 14th Annual Invitational Wireless Dinner sponsored by …

CANNES, France-Some wireless players around the world have come together to form the UMTS TDD Alliance to share information, set requirements for future solutions and foster market growth based on …