ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it expects its third-quarter handset sales to leap above 4.5 million units, representing approximately 50 percent of revenues.The company describes the estimate as its highest revenue to date for handset shipments."UTStarcom has maintained strong handset and subscriber growth, as well...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it expects its third-quarter handset sales to leap above 4.5 million units, representing approximately 50 percent of revenues.The company describes the estimate as its highest revenue to date for handset shipments."UTStarcom has maintained strong handset and subscriber growth, as well...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc.'s reported founder Harvey White will retire as chief executive officer of the wireless communications company he started five years ago as a spinoff from technology giant Qualcomm Inc. White will continue to serve as CEO until a replacement is...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket Communications Inc. subsidiary named Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners as the agency of record to handle its advertising account, which the carrier said is worth between $20 million and $25 million annually."We are pleased to be on board...
HELSINKI, Finland-In a strategic blitz to take advantage of the revenue streams in what industry experts call emerging or new-growth markets, Nokia Corp. has rolled out a string of mobile phones, business models and network solutions.Pointing out Russia, India and Latin America as prime...
In a strategic blitz to take advantage of the revenue streams in what industry experts call emerging or new-growth markets, Nokia Corp. has rolled out a string of mobile phones, business models and network solutions.Pointing out Russia, India and Latin America as prime examples...
Following a hastily retracted announcement earlier this month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially announced last week it would purchase 34 PCS licenses covering 83 million potential customers from bankrupt license holder NextWave Telecom Inc. for $1.4 billion.The official announcement, which was strangely similar to a...
Leap Wireless International Inc. continued its climb back to financial solvency. The San Diego-based company said its bankruptcy court approved a disclosure statement Leap filed in connection with its reorganization plan. Leap said the court approval, which was granted by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. said its Cricket Communications subsidiary has narrowed its choices of advertising agencies to Kansas City, Mo.-based Bernstein-Rein; Sausalito, Calif.-based Butler, Shine & Stern; and Los Angeles-based Suissa Miller.Leap, which is currently under chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said it will...
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California approved Leap Wireless International Inc.'s disclosure statement filed in connection with the company's proposed reorganization plan, which Leap said it plans to mail to creditors and shareholders by Aug. 7 and expects to be...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-Worldwide sales revenues from wireless local area network chipsets will reach $1.7 billion by 2007, according to new research from technology analyst firm CIR Inc., a huge leap from the $938 million WLAN chipsets will garner in 2003. CIR expects WLAN chipset sales...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced two new CDMA phone deals, moves that follow on the company's promise to expand its CDMA phone business, but ones that do not involve big-name CDMA carriers.Nokia said it will sell its advanced 1xRTT-capable 3586i through U.S. Cellular, and its...
WASHINGTON-Congress returns to work this week to a brewing controversy over funding for first responders and what to do when states raid wireless enhanced 911 funds like North Carolina did on June 30.The action by North Carolina comes as the Senate Commerce Committee is...
Verizon Wireless has taken to heart the old adage that goes "if you cant beat em, join em." The nation's largest carrier broke rank with the industry last week when it said it would make local number portability easy for customers and urged its...
Battle won, even before the first shot is fired.Early in the life of the technology, industry analysts and players already regard Cisco Systems Inc. as the big tree in the wireless local area network jungle.Leveraging its channels and products in the wired market, Cisco...
SAN DIEGO-A bankruptcy court judge in San Diego said Leap Wireless International Inc. improperly prepared schedules of assets and liabilities that were filed with its amended reorganization plan that may have inflated the carrier's debt holding to bondholders from $774 million to $2.6 billion.Judge...
LONDON-Siemens AG said it has collaborated with Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time communications technology called OpenScape for enterprise.The application converges voice and data and combines instant messaging, presence information, a range of multimedia collaboration tools, e-mail and the Outlook calendar for office communication."I...
SAN DIEGO-Palm Inc. announced agreements with several companies to add voice over Internet Protocol, Wi-Fi and authentication software to the Palm Tungsten C handheld.VL Inc. will deliver VoIP technology to the Tungsten C via its Gphone solution. Linksys, Wayport and WiFinder will offer solutions...
MIAMI-Nearly $1 million worth of Nokia Corp. wireless handsets destined for Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket service were recovered in Florida after having been reported stolen from an Advantage Wireless retail outlet in Colorado last weekend.The nearly 11,000 phones were recovered after two men...
With the deadline for reporting first-quarter results last week, a number of carriers posted financial and operating results including another strong showing from nationwide provider T-Mobile USA Inc. and mixed results for rural operators.Seeming to be saving the best for last, T-Mobile USA Inc....
Although GSM proponent Nokia Corp. continues to profess plans to improve its CDMA phone sales, the company's efforts to date in the United States seem relatively unimpressive.Of the two major CDMA carriers in the United States-Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS-only Sprint sells Nokia phones....
SAN DIEGO-Highlighting its focus on fiscal responsibility, Leap Wireless International Inc. reported a year-over-year increase in revenues and a drop in its net losses for the first quarter of 2003. The carrier, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, reported $183.8 million in total...
SAN DIEGO-A Leap Wireless International Inc. survey conducted by an independent research firm showed customers of the carrier's Cricket service who do not also have regular phone service at home increased from 26 percent last June to 37 percent this year. The...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. said it beat five other proposals for standardizing a cdma2000 wideband speech codec with the Third Generation Partnership Project 2."The new Variable Rate Multi-Mode Wideband speech codec offers superior wideband speech quality at data rates comparable to current narrowband speech codecs,...
