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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. completed the spinoff and merger of its wireline business, and now is officially a pure wireless player in the telecom industry. Alltel announced in December that …

STANFORD, Calif.—Number portability has translated into lower wireless costs for consumers due to increased competition, according to research done at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Since the Federal Communications …

WASHINGTON—An influential House Democrat said policy-makers should consider requiring wireless carriers and other communications service providers to participate in any overhaul of a Cold War-era emergency alert system. At a …

FORT WORTH, Texas—A slight increase in wireless sales wasn’t enough to offset lagging overall sales and an expensive turnaround program for RadioShack Corp. during the second quarter. The electronics retailer …

Qualcomm Inc. is faring well based on fiscal third-quarter results, albeit with a cautious outlook for its fiscal fourth quarter, reflecting the wireless industry’s robustness. In contrast, Intel Corp.—the world’s …

When discussing the disappointing results for the second quarter by South Korean vendors Samsung Electronics Co. or LG Electronics Co. Ltd., one has to begin by noting the robust performances …

Boston Communications Group Inc. settled its long-running dispute with Freedom Wireless Inc., agreeing to pay $55.3 million to the patent-holding firm. BCGI suffered a potentially fatal blow last year when …

RESTON, Va.—Wireless Matrix Corp. stepped into the breach to purchase the intellectual property and customer contracts of bankrupt MobileAria for about $11 million, a day after @Road Inc. announced it …

Consolidation in the mobile content space remains white-hot, with Motricity Inc. the most recent player to tap the booming off-deck market with the acquisition of GoldPocket Wireless Inc. Terms of …

WASHINGTON—Internal controversy over the Bush administration’s plan to protect wireless telecom networks and other critical infrastructure against terrorist threats and natural disasters broke open last week after a top Department …

Without divulging financial details, Nortel Networks Ltd. bagged what is likely a hefty contract to supply Verizon Wireless with CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network technology beginning in the third …

WASHINGTON—Wireless carriers that plan to use traffic studies to determine their universal-service contributions must maintain all of the necessary data in case the Federal Communications Commission decides to audit the …

Amdocs Ltd. continued its spending spree last week, agreeing to shell out $375 million to acquire operations support provider Cramer Systems Group Ltd. Cramer, a privately held, London-based outfit, produces …

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp.’s Mobile and Embedded Devices division achieved profitability for the first time, the company announced. The division houses the company’s smart-phone efforts. Microsoft’s division logged an operating income …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shares of L.M. Ericsson dipped after the infrastructure provider posted a slight decline in second-quarter net profit due to its recent acquisition of Marconi Corp. Ericsson said its profit …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Yahoo Inc. took yet another step onto the wireless playground, inking a deal to preload its Go for Mobile service on “tens of millions” of handsets from Motorola Inc. …

While the world watches Intel Corp. try to position itself at the top of the WiMAX market for laptop chips, French chipmaker Sequans Communications quietly announced that its low-power-consuming WiMAX …

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.—As multimedia-enabled handsets flood the market, so are external memory options, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The number of handsets equipped with removable media …

WASHINGTON—The Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police is urging Congress to lean on the Federal Communications Commission to put the 700 MHz Cyren Call Communications Corp. proposal out for comment. …

WASHINGTON—Instead of giving subsidies to rural telephone companies, the government could save $1 billion a year by giving away free wireless and satellite phones to Americans who do not have …

SEATTLE—Starbucks Coffee Co. is the latest mega-brand to go mobile, launching a scavenger-hunt promotional campaign for wireless users. The coffee giant launched a Web site, starbuckssummer.com, that allows customers to …

NEW YORK—Spending on wireless equipment is in a bit of a slump, according to Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.’s U.S. telecom capex preview. The firm said Cingular Wireless L.L.C., the …

Although much attention has been focused on the network transitions and upgrades of national carriers, many regional operators around the country also are deciding how to implement new technologies and …

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-MobiTV Inc. said it snared a whopping $70 million in a Series C financing round led by Oak Investment Partners. The three-year-old wireless video provider said it will use …

Business forecasts are integral to industry, wireless or otherwise. Vendors crunch them, analysts parse them, investors fret over them, bloggers disparage them and reporters write about them. Early in the …