Wireless Internet

Internet portal Yahoo! dropped its stake in TeliaSonera’s Zed wireless data portal, but said it will continue to offer co-branded services with Zed across Europe. Yahoo! purchased a 15-percent equity …

WASHINGTON-The United States and South Korea appear headed for a showdown over Bush administration allegations that Seoul is violating global trade law by trying to impose wireless standards that would …

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. …

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 …

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. …

Even as some are predicting the impending demise of WAP, others are betting their futures on it. One such player is Obigo, a longtime participant in wireless data that is …

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile Deutschland became the first German operator to offer television on mobile phones through an agreement with n-tv news channel signed earlier this year. The news channel programs can …

BONN, Germany-T-Mobile Deutschland Friday became the first German operator to offer television on mobile phones through an agreement with n-tv news channel signed earlier this year. The news channel programs …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will host, operate and manage Western Wireless Corp.’s multimedia messaging service offering throughout the carrier’s domestic CDMA coverage area. Ericsson noted that in addition to …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will host, operate and manage Western Wireless Corp.’s multimedia messaging service offering throughout the carrier’s domestic CDMA coverage area. Ericsson noted that in addition to …

SEOUL, North Korea-Hewlett-Packard Co. said it has entered into a wireless Internet alliance with KT Corp., South Korea’s biggest fixed-line and broadband firm. KT said the alliance will enable both …

Struggling wireless Internet services provider Ricochet Networks Inc. has been rescued by EDL Holdings Inc., a Victor Mitchell Family L.P. company. Victor Mitchell is chief executive officer and founder of …

Western Wireless Corp. launched its OpenDoor wireless Internet access service for its Cellular One customers using the carrier’s CDMA2000 1x network in select markets in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. launched its OpenDoor wireless Internet access service for its Cellular One customers using the carrier’s CDMA2000 1x network in select markets in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, …

TOKYO-KDDI Corp. signed up more subscribers than its Japanese rivals during November, according to statistics from the Telecommunications Carriers Association in Japan. KDDI added 239,3000 cellular users compared with 63,800 …

FREMONT, Calif.-NextWeb has acquired managed telecom services provider Libritas Inc.’s managed service platform technology and customer base. The fixed wireless Internet service provider said the assets will expand its customer …

WASHINGTON-Ten years after Congress authorized auctions to award wireless permits, the market-based licensing scheme continues be a magnet for those needing funding for pet projects, but the Federal Communications Commission’s …

Jon Tetzchner wants to kill WAP. And he’s not alone. “It makes no sense to have two systems,” said Tetzchner, chief executive officer of Internet browsing company Opera Software ASA. …

New wireless Internet browsing technologies may be giving rise to new business models for wireless content developers, and it appears the nation’s No. 1 wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless, is looking …

Sprint PCS said it will launch a new text-messaging service in the coming weeks, a move that will allow users to fire off text messages without the need of a …

Sprint PCS said it will launch a new text messaging service in the coming weeks, a move that will allow users to fire off text messages without the need of …

OTTAWA-PointShot Wireless has secured $1 million in Series A funding from institutional investors, bringing the company’s total investments to $1.5 million. The company currently offers wireless Internet service on passenger …

Premium text messaging is now a reality in the United States-essentially creating a new market in the U.S. wireless industry. Most of the nation’s wireless carriers have installed the necessary …

WASHINGTON-The chairs of the E911 Congressional Caucus, Sens. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), have amended the agricultural spending bill to include money for a loan program aimed …

Just what are Craig McCaw and Nextel Communications Inc. up to, separately or together? Is there a grand plan waiting to be hatched or just some heady hedges that may-or …