SEOUL, South Korea—LG Electronics Co. Ltd. said it plans to bring its Chocolate phone to the United States sometime this year. The company said the move is part of its plans to more quickly bring its advanced Korean handsets to U.S. shoppers. LG has...
LAS VEGAS—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. plans to shut off both its TDMA and analog networks by 2008, chief executive officer Stan Sigman told attendees during a keynote address earlier this week at the TelecomNext conference. Cingular spokesman Ritch Blasi noted that about 95 percent of...
SEOUL, South Korea—Do Europeans like chocolate as much as South Koreans? If we’re talking food, the question is crazy. But because we’re talking about LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s new Chocolate mobile phone, which has done well since its release in South Korea in November—300,000...
Mobile virtual network operator Cool Mobile has big plans for this year, starting off today by expanding its cool.Prepaid handset lineup to six Motorola Inc. devices and aiming to offer hybrid and postpaid service plans by the end of the year. The MVNO also...
Mobile virtual network operator Cool Mobile has big plans for this year, starting off today by expanding its cool.Prepaid handset lineup to six Motorola Inc. devices and aiming to offer hybrid and postpaid service plans by the end of the year. The MVNO also...
CAMBRIDGE, England—Mini-base station developer Ip.access Ltd. picked up $8.5 million in funds to develop in-building third-generation access points for homes and small businesses. Scottish Equity Partners led the round, joined by Intel Capital and Rothschild Gestion. The company said it has successfully produced and...
WASHINGTON-Iraq officially launched the first mobile-phone license tender under the new government, a competition intended to result in four national wireless carriers. "After decades of oppression under the Saddam, Iraqis are keen to express themselves via all forms of telecommunication. Mobile phones, literally, put...
Now that the Chinese government has sanctioned its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology as the preferred third-generation technology of the land, and with precious 3G licenses about to be granted to Chinese operators, Qualcomm Inc.'s claims on TD-SCDMA products bear more weight. The CDMA developer said...
The market outlook for CDMA handsets may be described as a tale of two contrasting regions. And therein lies a few wireless lessons about the difference in how profits are made in emerging and mature markets. The emerging market is the Asia-Pacific region, led...
HANNOVER, Germany-Pantech Group spotlighted a variety of upscale handsets at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, in an effort to further establish itself as a new player in European and global markets. The company, one of the largest handset makers in South Korea,...
SAN DIEGO—Now that the Chinese government has sanctioned its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology as the third-generation technology of the land, and with precious 3G licenses about to be granted to Chinese operators, Qualcomm Inc.'s plans to charge royalties on TD-SCDMA products now carry more weight....
HANNOVER, Germany—Pantech Group spotlighted a variety of upscale handsets at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany this week in an effort to further establish itself as a new player in European and global markets. The company, one of the largest handset makers in...
It may seem like Unlicensed Mobile Access has only recently burst onto the wireless scene, but the Third Generation Partnership Project standard that enables handovers between GSM-based cellular networks and Wi-Fi hot spots has been in development since the turn of the century. For...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. said it signed an agreement with WorldCell Inc. to expands international service options for Dobson wireless customers. The companies said the agreement provides Dobson's subscribers with discounts on international phone rentals, including cellular and satellite phones. Dobson currently offers domestic...
WASHINGTON—Iraq today officially launched the first mobile phone license tender under the new government, a competition intended to result in four national wireless carriers. "After decades of oppression under the Saddam, Iraqis are keen to express themselves via all forms of telecommunication. Mobile phones,...
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. and Telenor R&D announced that after teaming up to develop converged services, they are now able to deliver Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem-based services over Nokia’s broadband platform, along with Voice over Internet calls between mobile and fixed Session Initiation Protocol clients....
While regional carriers might not be able to call their fourth-quarter performances revivals, companies that reported results last week seemed to be stemming the flood of subscriber losses and, unlike national carriers, managed to increase their average revenue per user-though the positives didn't necessarily...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Two new reports on the wireless infrastructure market offered an upbeat review and outlook. Dell'Oro Group released a new study that found the mobility infrastructure equipment market grew 7 percent last year to reach $40.1 billion, the highest level recorded in a...
Eager to capture a piece of an estimated $2 billion equipment market, Texas Instruments Inc. is plunging into the WiMAX infrastructure business. The company today introduced a number of components it said comprise an end-to-end solution that gives carriers and infrastructure vendors the ability...
Syniverse Holdings Inc. capped its first year as a publicly traded company with improved net income despite a decline in revenues for the fourth quarter.Revenues for the quarter totaled $83.6 million, down 5.3 percent from fourth-quarter revenues of $88.3 million during 2004. Total revenues...
TAMPA—Syniverse Holdings Inc. capped its first year as a publicly traded company with improved net income despite a decline in revenues for the fourth quarter. Revenues for the quarter totaled $83.6 million, down 5.3 percent from fourth-quarter revenues of $88.3 million during 2004. Total...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Two new reports on the wireless infrastructure market offered an upbeat review and outlook. Dell’Oro Group released a new study that found the mobility infrastructure equipment market grew 7 percent last year to reach $40.1 billion, the highest level recorded in a...
LOS ANGELES—Dobson Communications Corp. posted mixed results for the fourth quarter, earning increased average revenue per user, losing more money overall than the same quarter last year, and seeing its subscriber numbers continue to slide—but not as steeply as the same period in 2004....
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—Rural Cellular Corp. slowed its losses in the fourth quarter, although the company still posted a net loss of $64 million for 2005, or $5.62 per share. However, the company added customers for the first time in six quarters.The carrier continued to lose...
