Following is a list of public wireless companies that have had ratings changes and investment notes from investment-banking and financial firms this week.
TAMPA, Fla.-Nearly a dozen major players from the wireless and technology industries unveiled a joint venture that will offer a registry service for the ".mobi" Internet domain. The suffix was approved early this month by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
WASHINGTON-Nine wireless carriers said they will send text messages to people who opt in to receive Amber Alerts over their cell phones in the culmination of a movement CTIA President Steve Largent began more than a year ago.Participating carriers are Alltel Corp., Cingular Wireless...
Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. filed plans for a $690 million initial public offering last week, a further sign that the financial drought of the past few years is slowly washing away. Indeed, companies across the economic spectrum are seeing the light at the end...
SBC Communications Inc. reported Wi-Fi roaming agreements with Airpath Wireless and Boingo Wireless that will add 3,300 nationwide and international hot-spot locations to SBC's FreedomLink service and open the company's network to Boingo's Platform Services partners. SBC said the roaming deals will provide revenues...
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...
TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies Inc. set its previously announced initial public offering at 17.6 million shares selling between $20 and $22 each.The company in Securities and Exchange Commission filings said its underwriters would have the option to buy an additional 2.6 million shares. Lehman Brothers,...
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...
TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies announced it plans to acquire EDS Interoperator Services North America, a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems Corp., for $57 million cash.IOS North America is a third-party clearinghouse service provider for wireless carriers, offering clearing and settlement services for roaming and business...
TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies announced it will acquire EDS Interoperator Services North America, a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems Corp., for $57 million cash.IOS North America is a third-party clearinghouse service provider for wireless carriers, offering clearing and settlement services for roaming and business intelligence...
CLEVELAND-SBC Communications Inc. launched its FreedomLink Wi-Fi service at Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport, providing high-speed wireless Internet access to the facility's gates, ticket counters and baggage claim areas using more than 30 access points. In addition to providing access to passengers with Wi-Fi-enabled devices,...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. has signed several deals in an effort to expand its FreedomLink Wi-Fi network coverage area. The company will provide hot spots at 300 Caribou Coffee shops in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District...
ATLANTA-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Pronto Networks unveiled the iForce Wi-Fi Hotspot Appliance at last week's CTIA Wireless 2004 show in Atlanta. The tool enables operators to quickly and cost-effectively roll out a medium-sized public hot-spot network that includes 25, 50 or 100 hotspots and...
ATLANTA-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Pronto Networks unveiled the iForce Wi-Fi Hotspot Appliance at this week's CTIA Wireless 2004 show in Atlanta. The tool enables operators to quickly and cost-effectively roll out a medium-sized public hotspot network that includes 25, 50 or 100 hotspots and...
A quick Google of the acronym "TSI" can turn up at least 10 different companies, all using the same three letters to sell wildly differing products and services. However, Googling the word "Syniverse" turns up only one company-Syniverse Technologies Inc."It's like an alphabet soup,"...
