ATLANTA-Speech recognition company Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) and Clarity Technologies Inc, which provides noise and echo cancellation software for wireless communications, announced their solutions will be integrated and sold together.Specifically, Clarity's Clear Voice Capture (CVC) noise and echo suppression software suite and ART's...
Editor's Note: This item originally ran in Monday's Web update. However, information regarding CTIA's position on cell broadcasts was misstated. The corrected version is below.WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association has had to clarify for some of its members what maps must be available...
After nearly six years of semi-autonomous trading on the open markets, Sprint Corp. decided last week to rein in its wayward wireless division by folding in Sprint PCS' tracking stock under the company's wireline-based FON common stock symbol. Sprint PCS' stock has been trading...
TORONTO-Canadian operator Rogers Wireless Communications Inc., which operates under the co-brand Rogers AT&T Wireless, reported that its board of directors has authorized an agreement with AT&T Corp. to transition the company's corporate branding to Rogers Wireless.Rogers, which said the brand transition will begin early...
The Customer Respect Group has released its Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study of the telecommunications and networking firms, including wireless companies, that are among the largest 1,000 companies in the United States.MCI and Nextel Communications Inc. tied for first place in customer respect...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it will roll out Hitachi's Windows-based mobile phone known as the SH1000, the first Pocket PC to integrate a rotating camera, built-in keyboard and wireless phone all in one device."The Hitachi G1000 is a powerful tool that lets you...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved NextWave Telecom Inc.'s partnership plan with venture capital firm Clarity Partners in an attempt to acquire additional spectrum for NextWave's plans to launch a nationwide data network.The $150 million partnership, which the...
NextWave Telecom Inc. said it filed for permission with its bankruptcy court to form a partnership with California-based venture capital firm Clarity Partners L.P. to acquire additional spectrum. The partnership, which NextWave said would be named IPCom, would be formed and funded by Clarity...
NEW DELHI, India--India, one of the fastest-growing wireless markets in the Asia Pacific region, is set for a churn. But it is unable to decide which way it will go--toward GSM or CDMA or perhaps both.The battle lines are clearly drawn between full mobility...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. said it downgraded Lucent Technologies to "junk" status, even as the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has broadened its investigation regarding the vendor's possible accounting violations.Moody's slashed Lucent's senior unsecured debt rating two...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has declined to propose rules requiring wireless carriers to receive a customer's consent before divulging the customer's location to marketers."Because the statute imposes clear legal obligations and protections for consumers and because we do not wish to artificially constrain the...
LONDON—The mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model has arrived in the United States.Sprint and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group officially announced their teaming, a saga that has been in the works for several years. Virgin Mobile USA will offer its popular pay-as-you-go wireless...
SANTA CLARA, California, United States—Palm announced it will create a wholly owned subsidiary for its operating system business, a move marking a more formal separation between the company's device and operating system (OS) operations.The company said the new subsidiary, which will separate by the...
Many people have claimed the success of the Internet really took off once service providers implemented one-rate plans for unlimited usage. The plans allowed computer users to surf all they wanted without having to worry about a surprise bill at the end of the...
NEW YORK-Volantis Systems Ltd., Guildford, England, has crossed the pond and established U.S. offices on both coasts to market its new Mariner software, which is designed to improve the speed, display and usability of data delivered over any wireless or wireline device on today's...
Just beating a federally mandated deadline, Verizon Wireless sold off its Chicago interests in PrimeCo Personal Communications last week to a telecommunications investment group led by Southern California-based Clarity Partners L.P. Other members of the investment group include Pacific Capital Group Inc., Trimaran Capital...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week was set to pass a new budget that embraces President Bush's plan to delay two auctions of valuable radio spectrum but rejects an administration proposal to impose fees on TV broadcasters in order to encourage the clearing of frequencies sought by...
Siemens AG is eliminating 6,100 jobs from its mobile handset and network operations. The German telecom equipment and handset company, which shied away from offering its earnings picture for the second half of the year, said 2,600 jobs would be cut from the mobile-handset...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), angered by the Federal Communications Communication's approval of the VoiceStream Wireless Corp.-Deutsche Telekom AG merger last week, said he will introduce legislation that would force the German government to drastically reduce its stake in DT by year's end and ban...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he is bullish on third-generation wireless services but believes not only is new spectrum needed, but carriers must also make efficient use of the spectrum they currently have."I am one who is bullish about the prospects...
NEW YORK-Lenders anted up significant capital during the first quarter for the five publicly traded wireless tower companies, even as their share prices declined amid the stock market's general concerns about telecommunications."At a time when companies like PSINet made announcements that their stock is...
Wireless carriers like to promote the clarity of their digital wireless voice services every chance they get. Whether it's in commercials or how they word press releases, each carrier wants the public to think of their service as the clearest choice.Unfortunately, in the real...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Communications is talking up legislation that would deregulate the broadband industry using the way wireless is "regulated" as a model, noting the wireless industry was exempted from state regulation when the Communications Act was changed in 1993.The bill advocated by Verizon would have...
DUBLIN, Ireland-When companies with international aspirations make their cases for being allowed to own mobile networks across a number of countries, one argument put forward is that pan-European operators will hasten the standardization and even reduction of roaming call charges. However, developments to date...
