Tower owner and operator SpectraSite Inc. this week released fairly solid third-quarter 2003 financial results.SpectraSite reported total revenues of $83.9 million, up from $79.3 million for the third quarter of 2002. Revenues from site operations were $79.5 million, up from $72 million in the...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. reported a slight year-over-year increase in total revenues during the third quarter from $227.4 million last year to $235.6 million in total revenues during the third quarter of 2003. The increase included a dramatic drop in network service revenue from...
Crown Castle International Corp. reported a slight year-over-year increase in total revenues during the third quarter from $227.4 million last year to $235.6 million in total revenues during the third quarter of 2003. The increase included a dramatic drop in network service revenue from...
Customers of Vodafone Group plc in Europe, Australia and New Zealand will have access to content from the TV show "The Simpsons" under a new deal announced between the global operator and THQ Inc. The deal comes just a week after RCR Wireless News...
LAS VEGAS-The Fox TV network is planning a major new wireless effort centered on one of television's most well-known families-the Simpsons.Homer, Marge and the rest of the cast of the hit animated series will soon make the jump to wireless, said Jim Beddows, Fox's...
LAS VEGAS-The Fox TV network is planning a major new wireless effort centered on one of television's most well-known families-the Simpsons.Homer, Marge and the rest of the cast of the hit animated series will soon make the jump to wireless, said Jim Beddows, Fox's...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell told Congress he is opposed to an amendment in a spending bill that would exempt from spectrum auction an application of a wireless startup with strong political connections to provide digital broadcast service to rural areas using hybrid...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. joins several other major wireless players in introducing an over-the-air updating service that will allow the carrier to remotely send software patches or even new applications to mobile-phone subscribers.DoCoMo said its mova and FOMA handsets will be able to access the...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is preparing to send a letter, perhaps by the end of this week, to the Senate leadership asking it to strip language favorable to Northpoint Technologies L.L.C. from the spectrum-relocation bill and to move the relocation bill as quickly as...
TOKYO-Japanese operator KDDI Corp. raised its profit estimate for the year by 34 percent due to strong sales of its CDMA2000 1X service. The carrier now expects a full-year profit of $864 million compared with its previous forecast of $646 million. The operator has...
Sometime in the future, wireless users may never again have to mail in their phones to get a software glitch repaired. If such a vision holds true, users won't even know there's a problem."Subscribers just want to make these things work," said Gene Wang,...
MILAN, Italy-Italy's largest mobile operator Telecom Italia Mobile said that although it has not commercially launched its third-generation network, it has launched services that will become available on UMTS, including television services.TIM said beginning this week, users can connect via WAP to a "virtual...
WASHINGTON-Nov. 24 is the day for wireless local number portability, and carriers need to be technically capable of porting numbers on that day, or they face enforcement action, said FCC Chairman Michael Powell.The Federal Communications Commission will give the industry the guidance it says...
Hollywood, meet wireless.It seems the Boob Tube is the latest mobile phone add-on for the world's wireless industry, a business constantly hunting the next new technology to astound and astonish the average phone shopper. Indeed, U.S. shoppers will get their first taste of a...
Hollywood, meet wireless.Several new products from the world's biggest consumer electronics companies could allow mobile-phone users in the near future to tune into their favorite TV shows, from soap operas to the latest Broncos game.Most recently, Sony Corp. introduced a new video recorder accessory...
Jeffrey Glass could be considered a player in the mobile-commerce industry, although you won't find the "m-commerce" designation in any of the literature about his company. However, as president and chief executive officer of M-Qube Inc., Glass for almost three years has been encouraging...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-U.S. company Anystream said its broadcast video encoding software is in use by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.'s third-generation subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Australia, along with Mobilkom Austria.Anystream said it Agility software automates the process of repackaging broadcast video for use within mobile...
WASHINGTON-An amendment to the bill that would fund the Federal Communications Commission for Fiscal Year 2004 was passed late Thursday by the Senate Appropriations Committee and would grant Northpoint Technology Ltd. spectrum without an auction, but could also end auctions altogether if a powerful...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Telenor Mobile Interactive said it will use technology from Irish mobile applications company Xiam to offer wireless services that allow U.S. TV viewers to interact with broadcasters using their mobile phones.Telenor Mobile Interactive is the U.S. arm of Norwegian mobile communications company Telenor...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, announced that its Optus C1 communications, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as a large area from Malaysia to Hawaii, has successfully completed in-orbit tests.Australian...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. launched a marketing and sales initiative targeting the U.S. Hispanic community that will include the carrier's first Spanish language advertising campaign in broadcast television, radio, billboard and print media.The campaign will begin in Chicago, San Diego and San Antonio, with...
CARY, N.C.-SpectraSite Inc. released solid second-quarter 2003 results, reflecting improved revenues and decreased losses.The company said total revenues were $80.9 million, up from $73.2 million recorded in the second quarter of 2002. Site leasing revenues were up 15.8 percent from last year to $77.5...
Nextel Communications Inc. launched a marketing and sales initiative targeting the U.S. Hispanic community that will include the carrier's first Spanish language advertising campaign in broadcast television, radio, billboard and print media.The campaign will begin in Chicago, San Diego and San Antonio, with plans...
TOKYO-Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. will consolidate their wireless technology operations in a joint venture company. The new company will focus on development, production, sales, maintenance, construction, and export of broadcast antennas, fixed communications aerials and feeder components to support...
