VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless said its AirCard 775 wireless wide area network card is now available from Guangdong Mobile Communications Corp. for use on the company's newly launched EDGE network in the Guangdong province of China.The EDGE network services more than 18 million customers...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. launched a package of integrated wireless remote access options for its virtual private network portfolio that the company said would help business travelers access network applications and information when out of the office.The package, dubbed VPN RoadWarrior, combines SBC's PremierSERV...
Sprint Corp. signed Wi-Fi roaming agreements with four broadband Internet service providers and a virtual network enabler that the carrier said will increase the number of Wi-Fi locations accessible by its customers to more than 19,000 domestic and international hot spots. The agreements, which...
Sprint Corp. signed Wi-Fi roaming agreements with four broadband Internet service providers and a virtual network enabler that the carrier said will increase the number of Wi-Fi locations accessible by its customers to more than 19,000 domestic and international hot spots. The agreements, which...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. appointed Joan Waltman president of the company's Wireless Business Solutions business-to-business wireless solutions division.She replaces Chris Wolfe, who is retiring but will remain with QWBS until Aug. 31. Waltman most recently was senior vice president of engineering, product development and global...
NEW ORLEANS-Sprint Corp. said business customers will be eligible for a credit of 10 percent of their monthly wireless data bills if service quality falls below certain levels. Sprint said service level agreements, or SLAs, are intended to erase artificial barriers between wireless and...
TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Holdings Inc.'s initial public offering did little to rally investors as the company's stock remained relatively flat during its first morning of trading. The company is offering around 17 million shares for $16 per share in order to raise about $282 million.Syniverse's...
SAN DIEGO-Semiconductor company Sequoia Communications led the fund raising pack last week with $15 million in its fourth round of financing, while ringtone company Improvista Interactive Music Inc. and wireless credit card processing company Way Systems Inc. also announced new funds.Sequoia sells technology that...
Semiconductor company Sequoia Communications led the fund raising pack Wednesday with $15 million in its fourth round of financing, while ringtone company Improvista Interactive Music Inc. and wireless credit card processing company Way Systems Inc. also announced new funds. Sequoia sells technology that integrates...
Wireless technology and service company InPhonic Inc. enjoyed a major initial public offering last week, raising a total of $108.9 million in net proceeds. The company initially expected to raise about $83.5 million. InPhonic's stock began trading at around $19 per share, but quickly...
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio-Sprint PCS affiliate Horizon PCS Inc., which emerged from bankruptcy protection last month, posted $45.7 million in total revenues during the third quarter of this year, which was a 32-percent drop from the $67.2 million the carrier reported during the third quarter of...
BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom-Motorola Inc. unveiled six new clamshell handsets in the hopes of expanding its popularity among wireless users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The new devices are designed to exploit network services such as Vodafone Live, T-Mobile t-zones, O2 Active, Orange...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported a multi-year agreement with bakery products manufacturer and distributor Dawn Food Products Inc. to provide a portfolio of integrated telecommunications solutions, including Sprint PCS Connection Cards designed to use Sprint PCS' wireless data network. Sprint added the PC Cards...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Public wireless local area network services are in danger of caving under third-generation services as carriers are offering all-you-can-eat services and replicating WLAN pricing, according to analyst firm Analysys.The report, however, warns that such strategies may hurt 3G technology's economic prospects at...
GALWAY, Ireland-AM-BEO Ltd. and MoreMagic Solution announced a joint marketing partnership.AM-BEO provides rating, charging and revenue settlement software products. MoreMagic provides software for charging and payment of premium content and services.The companies said they will undertake a variety of joint activities focused on next-generation...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C., AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and AT&T Corp. reported an agreement resolving issues related to the use of the AT&T brand in connection with Cingular's pending acquisition of AWS, as well as a provision for the purchase of AT&T network services by...
Change has been afoot in the wireless tower industry. In the past 18 months, two of the industry's five public players have gone through bankruptcy and returned, businesses have been divested and restructured, and stock valuations have fallen and risen like the tides. Meanwhile,...
ROSEMENT, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its field tests and research have proved that its Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology can provide future all-Internet Protocol mobile networks with user experience "previously thought to be unattainable" with peak downlink speeds of up to 300 megabits per second.The...
Enterprise users can now seamlessly switch between outside GSM networks and enterprise 802.11-based wireless local area networks for both voice and data using Motorola Inc.'s Enterprise Seamless Mobility solution, launched today in collaboration with Avaya and Proxim.The solution features Motorola's new CN620 mobile office...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. unveiled a bundled offering for business customers allowing them to integrate wireline and wireless services, including Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry service plans from wireless subsidiary Cingular Wireless L.L.C., traditional wireless plans and SBC local and long-distance voice services that...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish wireless carrier TeliaSonera announced it launched a streaming music service from Sony Corp., following up on an agreement between the two companies first announced in March at the CeBit trade show.TeliaSonera said it will initially offer the service free, minus data transfer...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Wi-Fi is not for the traditional wireless service provider alone, as evidenced by a new partnership between wireless local area network access solution provider Colubris Networks and broadband local access network solution provider ARRIS TeleWire Supply. The companies announced a sales, marketing and...
Removing concern over its future network coverage, T-Mobile USA Inc. agreed last week to acquire Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s California and Nevada operations for $2.5 billion, properties that are currently part of the carriers' Empire network-sharing arrangement that also includes operations in New York. The...
RESTON, Va.-Transaction Network Services Inc., a provider of data communications services for transaction applications, said it has acquired certain assets from bankrupt U.S. Wireless Data, including its Synapse wireless point-of-sale payment platform."This is the first acquisition for TNS since going public in March and...
