Leap Wireless International Inc. announced it bought NeoPoint Inc.'s myAladdin.com location-based content aggregation portal and wireless information technology.Leap said it will extend the service to its Cricket customers and others in the first half of the year. Financial details of the transaction were not...
As wireless operators enjoyed their holiday break from the Federal Communications Commission's re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses, a fair share of pre-auction predictions made by analysts were being discarded along with the holiday wrapping paper.Some of those early forecasts included predictions of...
The year is ending on a bleak note for Motorola Inc. after it cut its fourth-quarter sales and earnings expectations, causing its stock to hit a new 52-week low and sending a tremor throughout the market to other telecom and technology companies.The No. 2...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission frantically prepared to re-auction 422 C- and F-block personal communications services licenses beginning tomorrow, the agency on Dec. 1 released the names of those planning to participate in the auction and those that had been rejected.Of the large companies...
Wireline technologies continue to trump broadband wireless in the journey to the last mile.In a new study on multidwelling units, Washington-based market research and consulting firm The Strategis Group says that cravings for high-speed data and video on demand among U.S. residents for cable...
WASHINGTON-While the world awaits the final outcome of the seemingly endless process in Florida to pick the president of the United States, members of the wireless world are also awaiting a decision expected today about an F-block license for a market in (you guessed...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday released the list of applicants to participate in the re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses, scheduled for Dec. 12.The FCC accepted 44 applications, including Alltel Communications Inc. and Cook Inlet/VoiceStream Wireless Corp., and told 66 other entities-including...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced it will offer logistics, fulfillment and value-added services to support the expansion of Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket service in various U.S. markets.CellStar, a value-added wireless services provider, will offer management, procurement and logistics services, as well as handset programming,...
In tune with its philosophy that small is beautiful, Leap Wireless International Inc. has moved to extend its grip on small and rural communities across the United States by signing multiple agreements to acquire wireless operating licenses from CenturyTel that encompass 11 million customers.Launching...
WASHINGTON-Carriers last week overwhelmingly warned the Federal Communications Commission that while they will make their best efforts to meet implementation deadlines for enhanced 911 Phase II, they are concerned that solutions-whether they be handset, network or hybrid-will meet the time lines or accuracy requirements...
AlcatelEurope. With Orange as a strategic supplier for its third-generation networks throughout Europe.Value: UndisclosedItaly. With Wind Telecomunicazioni as a preferred third-generation network supplier.Value: UndisclosedEricssonChina. With China Telecom and Guangdong Mobile Communications to build a fixed network and expand Guangdong mobile networks.Value: US$550 millionChina. With China Mobile for...
SAN DIEGO-Knoxville, Tenn., is the third market to gain Cricket Comfortable Wireless, a service from wireless communications carrier Leap Wireless International Inc.Chattanooga and Nashville, Tenn., already get the company's Cricket service and are part of Leap's goal of offering Cricket in 10 markets across...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. has begun carrier trials of its first Bluetooth-capable wireless phone, the Timeport 270, and expects to begin shipping the CDMA handsets by year-end.Depending on "carrier testing regimens," the manufacturer expects to ramp up to full production of the tri-mode PCS, analog...
WASHINGTON-In what appears to be a win for bankrupt PCS carriers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans has ruled in favor of Metro PCS (formerly General Wireless Inc.) and against the Federal Communications Commission.The current and future fate...
DETROIT-Automotive telematics applications are going to influence most auto electronics, and a wide variety of high-profile players will compete for market share, according to a new study from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.The study predicts telematics subscribers in the United States will grow from about...
The wireless industry is hoping to mirror the wireline industry in one aspect: the money-making potential of Internet advertising.But big questions remain. How will consumers react to advertising on their wireless devices? If they do, on which devices will advertising work most effectively?Advertising.com, which provides...
WASHINGTON-Cook Inlet/VoiceStream bid $195 million for 12 licenses owned by a Pocket Communications Inc. subsidiary in a private bidding war with Leap Wireless International Inc. However, Cook only expects to keep a few of the licenses, selling the others to Leap.On a separate front...
Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PCS licenses in Eugene, Ore., and Fort Collins and Greeley, Colo., from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. The licenses, covering 700,000 potential customers, were the subject of a previous memorandum of understanding between the...
CHICAGO-"Spectrum is like money, everyone always wants more of it and you can never get enough of it," said Mark Kelley, chief technology officer of Leap Wireless International Inc.It is a widely held theory in the wireless industry. But is it accurate?This was a...
Verizon Wireless turned the industry on its ear last week, announcing plans to support legislation in Illinois that would ban cell-phone use while driving unless the caller is using a hands-free device.The decision is "in direct response to the political situation in Illinois and...
CHICAGO-Telcordia Technologies Inc. said last week it will now offer the Telcordia Service Management Gateway for Wireless Number Portability.The announcement comes two years before wireless carriers must begin wireless number portability functions. While wireline carriers began phasing in local number portability years ago, the...
WASHINGTON-If Al Gore becomes the next president of the United States, as polls increasingly are suggesting, Big Telecom could gain unprecedented access to the White House and have extraordinary influence on high-tech policy for the next four years.It's not that Big Telecom is any...
BOSTON-Wireless operator Cricket Communications, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International Inc., signed a three-year supply agreement with Nortel Networks Corp. for wireless network infrastructure equipment and services.Cricket said the agreement, valued at $350 million, will support its network expansion throughout the Northeast. Leap plans...
Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market as early as mid-1999.Those early predictions seemed believable at the time. Who would not...
