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There was no parade. Not even a press release to accompany Intel Corp.’s unveiling of its new Rosedale 2 WiMAX chip for both fixed and mobile broadband access during the …

You think Ed Whitacre, head honcho of AT&T Inc., was worried powerful members of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee didn’t like the idea of his spending $67 billion to buy …

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the …

ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. says it hopes to attract rural, high-speed-Internet-access-deprived customers as it expands its wireless broadband service into Melbourne, Fla., Chattanooga, Tenn., Greenville, Miss., Charleston, S.C. and Albany, Ga. Set …

NEW YORK—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is not completely opposed to its customers running Voice over Internet Protocol services over its high-speed UMTS/HSDPA wireless data network. However, the carrier would like to …

ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. chose Alcatel Inc.’s Evolium mobile WiMAX technology portfolio for testing in its lab next quarter, saying it plans to “assess the viability of offering a simple and seamless …

As the idea of a combined Alcatel Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. settles in, Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG skated into the wireless infrastructure marketplace with plans to combine Nokia’s …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Inc. Chairman Edward Whitacre last week told the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee he would not oppose conditions on special access lines as part of any regulatory approval of the …

EXTON, Pa—Wireless infrastructure engineering services firm WPCS International Inc. announced it will spend $3.2 million to acquire Southeastern Communication Service Inc. of Sarasota, Fla. SECS has deployed and maintained wireless …

WASHINGTON—AT&T Inc. Chairman Edward Whitacre told the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee he would not oppose conditions on special-access lines as part of any regulatory approval of AT&T’s proposed $67 billion …

WASHINGTON-The state of New Jersey and the federal government are in a public fight about whether five telecommunications companies turned over customer call records to the National Security Agency and …

WASHINGTON—The state of New Jersey and the federal government are in a public fight about whether five telecommunications companies turned over customer call records to the National Security Agency and …

WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject the proposed $67 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. because of the negative impact it would have on …

WASHINGTON-The telephone companies accused of allowing the National Security Agency access to customer calling patterns will not have to testify on the matter. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the …

WASHINGTON—The telephone companies accused of allowing the National Security Agency access to customer calling patterns dodged a bullet Tuesday when the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to defer …

WASHINGTON—Sprint Nextel Corp. urged the Federal Communications Commission Monday to reject the proposed $67 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. because of the negative affect it will have …

ATLANTA-Whereas BellSouth Corp. tried legal maneuvers to shut down New Orleans’ free municipal Wi-Fi network even though the city’s hurricane-weary residents and thousands of relief and rebuilding workers had no …

WASHINGTON-XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and WCS Wireless L.L.C. said they terminated an agreement that called for XM to buy WCS after the companies failed to secure government approval for …

NEW ORLEANS—Whereas BellSouth Corp. tried legal maneuvers to shut down New Orleans’ free municipal Wi-Fi network even though the city’s hurricane-weary residents and thousands of relief and rebuilding workers had …

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said it will not investigate whether telephone companies violated consumer-privacy laws by reportedly releasing millions of phone records to a U.S. spy agency. In a letter …

WASHINGTON—XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and WCS Wireless L.L.C. said they terminated an agreement that called for XM to buy WCS after the companies failed to secure government approval for …

WASHINGTON-Even with carefully worded denials by two large telephone companies and outright denials by two national mobile-phone carriers, the Bush administration and the telecom industry last week failed to quell …

WASHINGTON—Verizon Communications Inc. became the second large telephone company to explicitly deny turning over to the National Security Agency phone call records of millions of Americans. “Contrary to the media …

WASHINGTON—The Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping controversy has landed at the Federal Communications Commission, with a key telecom lawmaker and an FCC member calling for the agency to investigate whether laws …

WASHINGTON-T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Wireless said they did not participate in a data-mining operation run by the National Security Agency that collects phone records and looks for trends that …