The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersFitch Ratings affirmed its A+ issuer default rating on Verizon Communications Inc. and removed it from Rating Watch Negative, where it was placed nearly a...
CHICAGO-MobileIgnite declared its autonomy as an independent industry association, announcing that its top priority is to accelerate the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence interoperability. The new trade group said 16 industry players are set to join as members and that it has granted "affiliate" status...
CHICAGO-Pctel Inc. said it has acquired all the shares of Dublin-based Sigma Wireless Technologies Ltd. from Sigma Communications Group Ltd. SWT develops antennas for public-safety applications as well as for the UMTS market. The company will become part of Pctel's Antenna Products Group, which...
CHICAGO—Pctel Inc. said it has acquired all the shares of Dublin-based Sigma Wireless Technologies Ltd. from Sigma Communications Group Ltd.SWT develops antennas for public-safety applications as well as for the UMTS market. The company will become part of Pctel’s Antenna Products Group. The total...
The Unlicensed Mobile Access group is shuttering its doors after getting its specifications included in the Third Generation Partnership Project's Release 6. "It has always been the intent of the UMA participating companies to transition our efforts into a formal, global standards organization," wrote...
CHICAGO-PCTel Inc. said it signed a contract with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to develop and customize client software for converged handsets from Motorola Inc.According to the deal, PCTel will port its handset-based connection manager to Symbian-enabled handsets that can operate on both Wi-Fi and third-generation...
ORLANDO PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it has agreed to sell its mobile antenna product business to PCTEL Inc. for $10 million in cash. This includes its global positioning satellite, consumer and professional antenna products, according to the company.The company also is exiting the automotive...
CHICAGO-Comarco Wireless Test Solutions will begin distributing PCTEL Inc.'s Wi-Fi Analyzer, marking Comarco's entrance into the Wi-Fi space. The analyzer operates on PocketPC platforms to allow information technology managers to optimize performance on Wi-Fi networks, detect rogue access points and manage interference problems. "We...
CHICAGO-Comarco Wireless Test Solutions will begin distributing PCTEL Inc.'s Wi-Fi Analyzer, marking Comarco's entrance into the Wi-Fi space. The analyzer operates on PocketPC platforms to allow information technology managers to optimize performance on Wi-Fi networks, detect rogue access points and manage interference problems. "We...
CHICAGO-PCTel Inc. said it reached an agreement with Chrysalis Development L.L.C. to distribute a keychain-sized device that locates Wi-Fi hot spots and determines signal strength level.The agreement calls for PCTel to distribute the product to wireless carriers. Chrysalis has filed for a patent covering...
The acquisition beat goes on in the wireless equipment sector with several companies recently announcing purchases of other players. The increasing number of mergers is not surprising given the specific, still-developing sectors in which many of them are occurring, according to Ray Jodoin, director...
The acquisition beat goes on in wireless as two companies, Agere Systems Inc. and PCTEL, announced they bought other companies. Agere said it has acquired TeraBlaze Inc., which makes a switch on a chip. PCTEL said it has bought Maxrad, which makes antennas for...
PCTel Inc. has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Lucent Technologies Inc., Agere Systems Inc., Broadcom Corp. and Robotics Corp.PCTel, which supplies 802.11 software, software-defined products and Internet access technology gear, also filed a complaint against 3Com Corp. in March this year."We enter litigation reluctantly,...
CHICAGO-PCTel Inc. said it has unveiled a soft access point module, known as Segue, to enable notebooks or desktop PCs to function as Wi-Fi access points and routers."With the Segue, any location that has wired broadband access can be instantly converted to a wireless...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Dynamic Telecommunications Inc., a PCTEL company, released its Forward Dedicated Control Channel Decoding Receiver for IS-136 wireless networks, which provides network measurements enabling wireless carriers to optimize network performance via drive testing. "These products improve network performance by effectively providing radio propagation measurement,...
CHICAGO-PCTel Inc., which provides 802.11 mobility software and software defined radio products, reported revenues of $13.1 million for the first quarter, compared with revenues of $10.3 million reported during the first quarter last year.The company reported a net loss of $900,000, or 5 cents...
NEW ORLEANS-PCTel Inc., an Internet access products and wireless mobility software provider, announced its Segue Roaming Client for PocketPC. With this release, PocketPC users can now realize the same Wi-Fi roaming benefits that the Segue Roaming Client laptop users now have, said the company.The...
CHICAGO-PCTEL Inc. has acquired wireless communications equipment manufacturer Dynamic Telecommunications Inc. for $10 million in cash. "We are extremely excited that DTIA is joining the PCTEL team," said Marty Singer, PCTEL's chairman and chief executive officer. "We believe DTI's technology, when applied to WLANs...
CHICAGO-PCTel Inc. has made commercially available its new Segue Roaming Client, which it said would help "resolve the problems that service providers and subscribers encounter when roaming (between) wide area cellular data service and wireless local area networks."The dual-mode client software helps end users...
MUNICH, Germany-PCTEL Inc. recently announced the availability of its new Segue Network Gateway, capable of performing routing, IP addressing, security and billing access for 802.11 networks."We will continue to press the envelope on reducing the costs of operating and establishing 802.11 networks," said Marty...
MIAMI-Norweigen Cruise Lines has introduced wireless Internet access to the high seas with the announcement it has partnered with Maritime Telecommunications Network and PCTEL to offer Wi-Fi high-speed wireless Internet access to guests with laptops.With a wireless network card, guest will be able to...
SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. announced it will partner with PCTEL Inc. to offer PCTEL's Wi-Fi Roaming Clients as an option with all Novatel GPRS and CDMA 1x Merlin PC Card modems.The combined solution will allow users to access the Internet, e-mail, personal information and...
