Verizon Wireless continued to accumulate spectrum Tuesday, announcing the purchase of licenses of 10 megahertz of spectrum in Pennsylvania for $15.15 million from Ntelos Inc.The agreement includes licenses for the Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading and York areas, which cover a population of 2.1 million people....
AALBORG, Denmark-Danish mobile data delivery company End2End announced that it will deliver content for Swisscom Mobile's third-generation streaming service. The carrier has been using End2End to deliver downloadable content for its Vodafone live! service, which launched in Switzerland last year. With the new agreement,...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L. C. announced a contest encouraging would-be film directors to create 15-second film clips with their video phones.The carrier is offering $5,000 in cash and a Motorola V551 handset to creators of winning film shorts in two categories: one for college film...
TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. said its independent committee of directors has called the plan to take Rogers Wireless private "fair and reasonable" to minority shareholders of the Canadian wireless carrier following its review. Parent company Rogers Communications Inc. has proposed to buy all the...
LONDON-Gracenote, a 6-year-old digital entertainment technology provider, has put its huge musical database to use for a song identification system for mobile users. Earlier this year, Gracenote launched Mobile MusicID in several European and Asian markets, allowing users to identify a song by sending...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it has won a contract with Telefonica Moviles to deploy and integrate a video gateway solution into the carrier's third-generation network in Spain.This will enable the carrier to provide services such as video calls between 3G mobile handsets and fixed PCs,...
Virgin Mobile USA is considering an initial public offering worth up to $2 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times.A Virgin Mobile USA spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the report.The report cited unnamed sources pointing to an IPO in...
Fed up with what it said were sluggish negotiations, Sprint network affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. took its bid to merge with fellow affiliate AirGate PCS Inc. public to score the approval of AirGate's investors. Wall Street appeared to cheer the move, sending Alamosa's stock...
Mobile ringtone provider and game publisher Dwango North America reported record revenues but a nearly $2.8 million loss for the third quarter of 2004.The company earned $545,000 during the period, more than doubling its revenues in the second quarter. Raising $3 million through a...
WASHINGTON-Sprint PCS was granted eligible telecommunications carrier status for parts of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, making it able to collect universal-service subsidies for customers in some of the rural areas of those states.The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau limited...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it was eliminating local number portability-related monthly regulatory charges for its customers beginning with upcoming customer billing cycles. The carrier said it has been charging 40 cents per customer per month since March to help defray the cost of implementing...
When it comes to mobile music, few people have the perspective of Thomas Dolby Robertson. The singer/songwriter-turned-software developer used last week's MobileMusiCon to launch his latest offering, a Web-based software application for ringtone creators and wireless carriers. RetroFolio 1.0 allows music producers, copyright owners...
SAN DIEGO-Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus have signed a deal to acquire Telcordia Technologies Inc. for $1.35 billion in cash, according to Science Applications International Corp., which owns Telcordia. Telcordia makes software that develops, maintains, monitors and fixes carrier networks accounting for 80...
Wireless technology and service company InPhonic Inc. enjoyed a major initial public offering last week, raising a total of $108.9 million in net proceeds. The company initially expected to raise about $83.5 million. InPhonic's stock began trading at around $19 per share, but quickly...
The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc. recommended that Verizon Wireless modify or discontinue its "anytime, anywhere" claim for the carrier's "IN-Network" calling plans to "avoid potential consumer confusion and to avoid potentially conveying the inaccurate and overly broad...
WASHINGTON-Democratic Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein won strong bipartisan support for a new term at a Senate confirmation hearing, with Senate Commerce Committee members venting anger at the Bush White House for delaying the reappointment for two years. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) said...
Wi-Fi is quickly taking the place of integrated cameras and push-to-talk functions as the new hot technology for the handset market. As a result, chipmakers, carriers and handset suppliers are rushing to take advantage of the perceived demand for such converged devices. And the...
LONDON-The world's largest mobile operator said it grew its proportional customer base to 146.7 million at the end of September and will double its dividend for the most recent six-month period to about 4 cents. Vodafone Group plc reported a pretax profit of $10.6...
BoingoWireless local area network provider and aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. named David Hagan chief executive officer, replacing company founder Sky Dayton, who will remain chairman of the board at Boingo. Hagan previously served as Boingo's president and chief operating officer. Boingo said that Hagan...
DALLAS-Handset makers opened the floodgates on new phones and carrier deals for the holiday season, with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Nokia Corp., Research In Motion Ltd. and others making announcements. First up is Samsung, which said it will sell nine new phones in the...
WASHINGTON-U.S. and global unions accused T-Mobile USA Inc. of embracing an anti-union policy here that would not be permitted in Germany, where the wireless company's parent company is based. The Communications Workers of America and the Geneva-based Union Network International are protesting T-Mobile's alleged...
Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications. The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock placement to increase its stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures from 29.5 percent to 38.6...
CHICAGO-Regional wireless provider U.S. Cellular Corp. launched its nweb Internet browsing service providing customers with access to Web pages using their wireless handsets. The service, which was developed in conjunction with wireless software provider Novarra and uses U.S. Cellular's CDMA2000 1x-based easyedge data network,...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s integration of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. gained steam last week as Cingular converted more than 1,000 AWS retail outlets to the Cingular moniker. The timing of the conversion was important as Cingular had previously stated it wanted to provide a seamless...
