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Comcast Corp. aims to find out if customers will buy wireless service from a cable company: the nation’s largest cable provider is launching a trial of wireless service in partnership …

BOSTON-Comcast Corp. launched wireless service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in two markets: Boston and Portland, Ore. Comcast’s Mobile Access service is “a new arrangement from Comcast and Sprint …

BOSTON-There is nothing like a few billion dollars up for grabs to get a trade show buzzing as was the case for this year’s WiMAX World Conference & Exposition. Weeks …

WASHINGTON—As Congress broke for midterm elections, the wireless industry won a few battles, but for the most part failed to get legislation it supported passed. It’s not clear how industry …

The proud sage trees standing guard at the U.S. Capitol have yet come into full living color. However, the city is awash in high-definition crimson from political blood-letting and embarrassment …

LONDON—It looks like Florida-based xG Technology Inc. is ramping up for a $56.9 million IPO on the London stock exchange. Though the company wouldn’t confirm reports about its initial public …

WASHINGTON—As Congress broke for midterm elections, the wireless industry won a few battles, but for the most part failed to get legislation it supported passed. It’s not clear how industry …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—PeerMe Inc., a wireless Voice over Internet Protocol company, said it launched a free service for Sprint Nextel Corp. CDMA2000 1x EV-DO phone users that allows them to …

WASHINGTON—Voice over Internet Protocol providers and public-safety answering points will have liability protection when handling 911 calls if Congress is able to complete work on a port-security bill the Senate …

Sprint Nextel Corp. settled a patent-infringement lawsuit against two Voice Over Internet Protocol providers that have now entered into licensing agreements with Sprint Nextel. Sprint Nextel had sued tglo.com Inc. …

PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. handled roughly 42 million mobile phones last year and may handle 60 million or more this year. But whatever you do, don’t call the company a distributor. …

RESTON, Va.—Sprint Nextel Corp. settled a patent-infringement lawsuit against two Voice Over Internet Protocol providers that have now entered into licensing agreements with Sprint Nextel. Sprint Nextel had sued tglo.com …

WASHINGTON-The Association of Public-safety Communications Officials said it will examine challenges calling 911 using Voice over Internet Protocol and other advanced communications technologies as part of its Project Locate. Locate …

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. launched a handset equipped with Unlicensed Mobile Access technology in Italy. Samsung’s SGH-P200 phone runs on the Nexperia chip from Royal Philips’ Philips Semiconductor division. …

Welcome to Hedgehogging, the editorial staff’s weekly column about wireless-related stories that got us talking this week. Is it just us, or are a lot of people who work in …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court-which earlier sided with the Federal Communications Commission that VoIP and broadband Internet services must comply with the digital wiretap act-may be questioning itself. The court has …

The beauty of unlicensed mobile access, or UMA, it seems, is in the eyes of the beholder. The question of the technology’s appeal to network operators who might deploy it …

Fear not, Mike Dano-ranting fans, your leader has not disappeared, but is only resting so as to return stronger with your beloved ravings about all things wrong in wireless. In …

   SAN DIEGO—Hey, it’s all about my life, not your network. That’s the disruptive thinking that Sony Electronics—not Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., the wireless handset maker—is following in launching …

As the bidders restlessly wait for the advanced wireless services auction to begin, the big question is whether TV interests-cable TV companies and satellite TV providers-are going to make a …

Trans Con Mobile Ltd. recently announced that after two years of developing mobile Voice over Internet Protocol technology, the Israeli company’s proprietary base stations and handsets are in the final …

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court may be reconsidering its ruling that Congress’ digital-wiretap act applies to Voice over Internet Protocol and broadband Internet services. The court has asked the Federal Communications …

Marking its first commitment to Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem technology, Verizon Wireless, joined by a handful of network infrastructure heavy-hitters, unveiled Advances to IMS, or A-IMS, a concept document along …

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.—Verizon Wireless and a group of industry network suppliers have set out what they see as a path to advance mobile network architecture and transition networks to IMS, …