WASHINGTON-The Council of the District of Columbia has voted to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld mobile phones, following the lead of New York and a handful of towns in steering the motoring public to hands-free devices that researchers say do not improve vehicular...
Affirmation from wireless carriers and equipment vendors, as well as industry analysts and Wall Street, is driving optimism from tower companies regarding new tower builds. Analyst firm Raymond James and Associates Inc. said its belief cell-site deployments are increasing was validated by equipment supplier...
Consumer Reports bashed the wireless industry again in its second annual survey of rating wireless providers. It's safe to say carriers flunked in the magazine's eyes. The editor of Consumer Reports complained cellular service hasn't improved one iota since last year. But while Consumer...
Sprint PCS kicked off fourth-quarter customer results on a positive note last week, saying it added approximately 1 million subscribers to its PCS network in the quarter, including 390,000 direct additions and more than 610,000 additions from strategic partners. Analyst expectations for Sprint PCS'...
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the activity at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Audiovox Communications Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone makers...
WASHINGTON-Top mobile-phone operators told a federal appeals court the Federal Communications Commission went astray of the law by awarding additional mobile satellite service licenses despite the sector's desperate financial condition. In its opening brief, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Verizon Wireless...
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the ongoings at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics, Audiovox Communications Corp. and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone...
Positive stock activity is greeting Verizon Wireless' announcement to launch its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO in major cities across the country, even though the carrier has not disclosed which companies will supply the equipment for the program.Already, Qualcomm Inc., the proprietor of the protocol, has...
LAS VEGAS-Bill Gates told a packed audience at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week that technology has become commonplace. Because as of this Christmas my parents have joined the world of people who use wireless phones (with a little arm twisting...
Building on the momentum of its initial two-city launch last year, Verizon Wireless said it will spend $1 billion to launch its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO service in major cities in the United States. The service, known as BroadbandAccess, will be available in the summer,...
Handset bellwether Nokia Corp. received a boost from J.P. Morgan, which upgraded the company to "overweight" from "neutral," leading to a 3.5-percent leap in shares.Another analyst Dresdner Wasserstein also lifted the vendor to "buy" from "hold," on account of a "tidal wave of handset...
WASHINGTON-The Council of the District of Columbia has voted to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld mobile phones, following the lead of New York and a handful of towns in steering the motoring public to hands-free devices that researchers say do not improve vehicular...
The latest issue of Consumer Reports comes down hard on the wireless industry in its annual wireless consumer review, referred to facetiously as an "Annual Address on the State of Consumer's Cell Hell" by Jim Guest, president and chief executive officer of Consumers Union....
Motorola Inc.'s long-awaited V600 camera phone will finally hit store shelves this month through AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the companies announced. The phone suffered from software glitches and had been delayed until after the holiday shopping season."Just as the ground-breaking Motorola StarTAC and Motorola...
If the predictions pan out, wireless carriers will loosen their purse strings in 2004 to further build out and enhance their networks. To appease unsatisfied consumers and to prove their mettle against the competition, carriers likely will be issuing search rings to locate the...
After almost four years of waiting, Jason Devitt believes the time is now.Packet-switched networks are online. Mobile phones feature color graphics. And-perhaps most importantly-carriers can bill for third-party applications."None of those things existed when we started the company," said Devitt, chief executive officer of...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA network and 10 Vodafone GSM networks beginning early next year.The inter-carrier and transatlantic service, which will be processed and converted...
Following years of steady decline, the wireless industry looks to have turned the corner during the past several quarters in posting year-over-year gains in customer growth. That turnaround was highlighted by a 76-percent year-over-year improvement in customer additions during the third quarter of 2003...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it received 2,394 informal consumer complaints targeted at wireless carriers from Nov. 24 through Dec. 24, which marked the first month of wireless local number portability. Complaints almost tripled in the latter two weeks of the month, since...
WASHINGTON-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger-despite lacking jurisdiction over the California Public Utilities Commission-is quietly pressing regulators to follow an executive order freezing pending regulations until their economic impact can be assessed, setting up a political showdown at the agency over an upcoming vote on a proposed...
It seems the wireless machine-to-machine market is finally coming into its own.The industry now boasts a range of players including major names like Nokia Corp. and IBM Corp., it enjoys a healthy value chain, there are a growing number of case studies and success...
Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc. again led the wireless industry in N. Moore Capital Ltd.'s ranking of wireless carriers during the third quarter of this year, with the carriers garnering a first-place tie in the ranking of five select operational metrics with 31...
The Federal Communications Commission said it received 2,394 informal consumer complaints targeted at wireless carriers from Nov. 24 through Dec. 24, which marked the first month of wireless local number portability. Complaints almost tripled in the latter two weeks of the month, or since...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and minority interest parent company Vodafone Group plc said they plan to launch transatlantic text messaging capabilities between Verizon Wireless' CDMA network and ten Vodafone GSM networks beginning early next year.The inter-carrier and transatlantic service, which will be processed and converted...
