Wireless Services

DENVER, United States-While some countries in Latin America are moving forward with advanced wireless networks, Central American nations are not likely to see commercial next-generation systems any time soon. Mass-market …

As technologies duel and markets discriminate, the impression is growing that TDMA will roll over in the dust trail and exhaust fumes of GSM and CDMA as both whistle past …

ADC introduced the Axity Base Transceiver Station, designed for multicell deployments. The product will allow carriers to address capacity issues of super-cell network architectures and fill out coverage areas. It …

In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline. Against a background of outsized estimates, employee downsizing, technological miscues and …

With AT&T Wireless Services Inc. behind it, Panasonic Telecommunications Systems Co. hopes to rise out of the shadows of the U.S. market and push its weight around with two new …

NEW YORK – Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services to provide its unified messaging solution for AT&T Wireless’ recently announced third-generation network. …

WASHINGTON-Despite uneven progress of fixed wireless broadband carriers in recent years, the ability of newcomers to the local market-small and large alike-to offer voice, data, video and Internet services competitively …

TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. posted less-than-spectacular fourth-quarter results with average revenue per user falling from $32.06 during the fourth quarter of 1999 to $30.39 during the fourth quarter of 2000, …

Although U.S. trade negotiator Richard Fisher called the mobile Internet arm candy, the delicacy may have to improve into an eye candy for Americans to call it sweet. But, so …

Schlumberger Ltd. spent close to $6 billion across three technology acquisitions last week, proof the oil services giant is serious about moving into the technology sector, with special emphasis on …

According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users …

WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra time to deploy enhanced 911 Phase …

NEW YORK-With the stocks of mobile operators down from their 52-week highs, despite some recent rebounding, now is a good time to buy them, said Sean P. Butson, wireless services …

WASHINGTON-Spectrum-management policy looms large on the agenda of a key lawmaker even as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he will not comment on the policy initiatives …

NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it …

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. completed a $200 million sale of series AA preferred stock to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Dobson said AT&T Wireless could exchange the stock for series A …

Several large wireless operators showed proof of continuing strength in the wireless industry, amid rumblings of a general slowdown in the economy. AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless …

AT&T Wireless wasted little time in exploiting its relationship with Japan’s NTT DoCoMo in an attempt to jump start its wireless Internet offerings. AT&T, which received nearly $10 billion from …

Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com’s recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS …

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should be exempt from the actual or threatened rolling blackouts that have plagued California in recent weeks in the same way wireline carriers are exempt, two of the …

Residential customers paid an average of $9 per month for wireless services in 1999, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which examined residential phone bills as part of its research …

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.-Nextel Partners Inc. announced it launched wireless services in Terre Haute, Ind., as well as the Interstate 70 corridor east from Terre Haute to Green Castle through Indianapolis; …

A year ago, if a company was looking for a few million dollars in investment money, all it needed to do was call on Wall Street and wait for the …

Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly …