WASHINGTON-Audiovox Corp. and Dr. Bonnie O'Day have reached a settlement and are asking the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss a complaint filed by Dr. O'Day last February."I filed this complaint because blind and low-vision people were frustrated with the pace of progress achieved by...
Editor's Note: Each year, RCR Wireless News chooses the person who has most impacted the wireless industry. Our choice for 2003 is the consumer, the collective 150 million wireless subscribers who are changing the wireless industry with both their praises and their complaints. ...
Even with the promise of a tech recovery and emergence of new applications for wireless gadgets aimed at free-spending teenagers, information-starved road warriors and the rest of us, 2004 is apt to be no more than a sexed-up version of the year that was....
The segregated world of wireless local area networks took a giant step toward integration as the nation's largest Wi-Fi hot spot provider T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a deal with software-enabled virtual network operator iPass Inc. allowing iPass' corporate customers to roam onto T-Mobile USA's...
Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points. MCI noted it currently has about 600 Wi-Fi access...
WASHINGTON-As the calendar turns over to 2004-a biennial year as defined by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996-a federal appeals court will decide exactly what kind of review the Federal Communications Commission must undertake to satisfy the telecom act's mandate. Verizon Communications Inc....
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless announced a major step in the wireless instant messaging industry with its new application that will combine MSN Messenger, AOL IM and Yahoo! Messenger.Verizon said the Yahoo! Messenger service will be available early next year.Verizon said the service will initially work...
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 past few years have forced mobile carriers to change tactics on many fronts. During the telecom boom, having a global presence seemed essential. But wireless carriers recently have been selling stakes in operations outside their core markets and honing in on their main...
WASHINGTON-Audiovox Corp. and Dr. Bonnie O'Day have reached a settlement and are asking the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss a complaint filed by Dr. O'Day last February."I filed this complaint because blind and low-vision people were frustrated with the pace of progress achieved by...
Verizon Wireless announced a major step in the wireless instant messaging industry, with the first application to combine MSN Messenger, AOL IM and Yahoo! Messenger.Verizon said the Yahoo! Messenger service will be available early next year.Verizon said the service will initially work on its...
SEATTLE-Wireless retailer Car Toys said it added Sprint PCS products and services to its 59 outlets across the country, bringing the company's total wireless selection to five of the top six nationwide providers, including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Nextel Communications Inc., T-Mobile USA and...
Following on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the agency outlining the troubles the carrier has encountered with the LNP mandate, as well as the steps it has taken to fix...
News on the handset front continues its frantic pace as retailers gear up for the holiday season. Today, Verizon Wireless announced its second camera phone and Sprint PCS released a new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. handset.Verizon said it will sell the Audiovox Corp. CDM-8900...
Citing its stringent testing standards, Verizon Wireless has reportedly delayed the launch of its Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. supplied CDMA/GSM world phone until early next year after previously announcing plans to launch the device before the end of this year.The device is built to...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. said it expects to record an after-tax fourth-quarter charge of approximately $2.8 billion related to a voluntary separation plan under which 21,260 employees left the company's payroll this quarter. Verizon, which is the majority owner of Verizon Wireless, added that...
After more than two weeks of availability, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. led its nationwide competition in local number portability customer complaints, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission this week, with the carrier garnering more than half of the 600 complaints...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless received a pair of 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards from the CDMA Development Group, including industry leadership and service innovation.The CDG awarded the industry leadership to Richard Lynch, Verizon Wireless executive vice president and chief technical officer, in recognition of his...
Qualcomm Inc. announced a series of new partners for its BREW application download service, including Internet heavyweight America Online Inc.AOL said it will sell a variety of BREW applications, including those supporting its instant-messaging service, its e-mail service and its MapQuest location-services offering. Qualcomm...
He is permanently disabled, his medical practice long gone. He is now divorced, but can spend time with his kids. He was crushed in court. He has a few bucks left. He is dying.So what. The $80-billion mobile-phone industry wants its money. Specifically, the...
Local number portability reality set in last week when early industry initiatives to accomplish the porting process in less than three hours quickly fell by the wayside as many customers have been forced to wait days and in some cases more than a week...
WASHINGTON-Global giant Vodafone Group plc and U.S. mobile-phone operators are aggressively lobbying policy-makers to stay out of a controversy that already has rocked Europe and now is erupting in other regions over fees charged by wireless carriers to connect calls to their subscribers. The...
Wireless entertainment companies have dreamed up all manner of enticements to encourage mobile-phone users to drop a few dollars on wireless games. There are games for kids, games for hard-core gamers, games for sports fans, games running on crystal-clear color screens, games based on...
