WASHINGTON-Six of the seven largest mobile-phone carriers have sent Congress letters supporting a no-charge opt-in approach for a 411 wireless database directory and vowing to remove from existing contracts language allowing subscribers' phone numbers to be used in a directory. The letters, released by...
WASHINGTON-The General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, will issue a legal opinion in October as to whether the Federal Communications Commission violated the Miscellaneous Receipts Act or the Anti-Deficiency Act when it crafted rules to implement its plan to solve public-safety interference...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile software developer Intellisync Corp. established a mobile carrier organization to target emerging opportunities and build on current carrier relationships, the company announced.Korak Mitra, who was tabbed as senior vice president of worldwide carrier operations, will lead the organization. Mitra is charged...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless users with Get-It-Now-enabled phones have new ways to stay in touch or show their school spirit.America Online Inc. users can access their e-mail accounts on their Verizon Wireless handsets through a new service launched Wednesday. Mobile AOL Mail is available for...
WASHINGTON-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed legislation requiring mobile-phone carriers to obtain consent from consumers to list their phone numbers in an upcoming 411 wireless directory, despite voicing displeasure with a bill provision creating additional paperwork for wireless operators.The bill, signed into law Friday...
WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration weathers criticism from Democrats over delays in modernizing the nation's emergency warning system and insists help is on the way, a small GSM carrier in Wisconsin is poised to deploy technology capable of delivering the kind of real-time alerts to...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has entered into a deal with Microsoft Corp. to allow Windows streaming capabilities in wireless devices. Through the deal, consumers will be able to play back and stream Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video content on handhelds that have Qualcomm's...
Verizon Wireless increased the stakes in the wireless data market last week, announcing the expansion of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO-based BroadbandAccess service to 11 new markets as well as limited coverage at 10 airports in eight additional markets. The expansion brings the carrier's total...
WASHINGTON-Tim Donahue, chief executive officer of Nextel Communications Inc., said Thursday morning Nextel finds nothing in the Federal Communications Commission's plan to solve public-safety 800 MHz interference that it opposes and believes that the issues it has been discussing with the FCC can be...
General Motors Corp. plans to double production of vehicles equipped with OnStar's in-vehicle communications systems in 2006 models. The company said that for the 2006 model year, 3 million GM vehicles in the U.S. and Canada will be equipped with OnStar, up from 1.4...
Sprint Corp. and RadioShack Corp. reported a multi-year agreement to develop, deploy and operate Sprint-branded kiosks in about 500 shopping malls across the country following a 10-month test program involving 10 Sprint kiosks. The new agreement calls for RadioShack to provide Sprint with a...
Regional telecommunications provider CenturyTel Inc. said it has entered into a reseller relationship with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. that will allow CenturyTel to provide wireless voice and text-messaging services as part of a bundled service offering. CenturyTel said it will be responsible for all marketing,...
Before she launched into her rip-roaring rant and head-butted Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Steve Largent after his "my-friend-on-the-far-left" comment at a hearing last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) calmly asked the NFL Hall of Famer and former Oklahoma congressman a question whose...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to allow Windows streaming capabilities in wireless devices.Through the deal, consumers will be able to play back and stream Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video content on wireless handhelds that...
Nortel Networks Ltd. and Lucent Technologies Inc. both announced contributions to Verizon Wireless’ planned CDMA2000 1x EV-DO high-speed wireless data service launch in 11 new markets and a number of airports scheduled for Monday.Nortel, which was the primary infrastructure provider for Verizon Wireless’ San...
Verizon Wireless said it plans to extend its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network coverage to 11 new markets and eight airports in six additional markets, bringing the network's total coverage to 13 metro areas. The additional markets are scheduled for commercial launch Sept. 27.The new...
WASHINGTON-House Democrats today criticized the Bush administration for delays in modernizing the nation's emergency warning system, but a homeland security official told lawmakers progress is now being made, and a six-month pilot project here involving at least two national mobile-phone operators is about to...
WILMINGTON, N.C.-Verizon Wireless opened a $30 million, 160,000-suqare-foot call center facility in Wilmington, N.C., which the carrier said will eventually employee 1,200 people by the end of next year. The center currently employs 900 people who have completed four- to six-week training programs and...
MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc.'s first-quarter fiscal-year 2005 earnings showed the company's revenue grew to $273.1 million, reflecting a 62-percent increase from the year-ago quarter. Net income was $19.6 million, or 38 cents per share, compared with a loss of $16.9 million, or 57 cents per...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless users can browse restaurant recommendations, read reviews and get driving directions with a new service launched Tuesday.Verizon teamed with software developer Vindigo Studios, location-based services provider MapQuest and travel and lifestyle Web site Gayot.com to offer the application, which is available...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. filed its most detailed letter yet about its concerns about the retuning process contemplated by the Federal Communications Commission in its plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band."Nextel has identified a number of areas in which clarification of...
WASHINGTON-Congress is getting into the wireless 411 act, with key lawmakers expressing concerns and a hearing planned for Tuesday."While presenting an opportunity for wireless telephone consumers, including subscribers without wireline phones and small-business users, to make their telephone numbers more widely available to friends...
WASHINGTON-Consumer groups today warned federal and state regulators that a merger of Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. would lead to excessive concentration in the local telecom access market in top U.S. markets. "Approval of a merger between the No. 1 and...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has sent a blistering letter to the Federal Communications Commission charging that the FCC is illegally negotiating with Nextel Communications Inc. regarding a key portion of the FCC's plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band."We filed the attached letter...
