InPhonic to sell MVNO business 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

InPhonic said today is selling its prepaid MVNO Liberty Wireless to focus on its core mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) business...

Nextel Partners trades barbs with Sprint Nextel about value 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Company posts strong third-quarter earnings before shareholder's vote...

Ericsson posts increased revenues 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Ericsson today reported a 14% boost in revenue for the third quarter as strong sales of network equipment in North and South America balanced out flat growth in Europe...

Wireless driving Alltel growth 

By: By Vince Vittore

Alltel reported earnings per share of 98 cents for the third quarter, mostly on the strength of the company’s wireless group...

Nokia handset sales boom, networks suffer 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia boosted its handset sales in the third quarter, maintaining its leading market share, but selling a much higher percentage of lower-end phones, which cut into overall sales figures...

Motorola tries to block new Nortel CEO 

By: By Carol Wilson

Motorola is seeking an injunction in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., to prevent Mike Zafirovski from becoming president and CEO of Nortel Networks....

Motorola market share, profits climb 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola estimated its global handset market share has increased to 19% in the third quarter off of a company record 38.7 million units shipped. ...

ARPU slip sliding away 

By: By Tim McElligott

New data from TeleGeography this week shows the all-important metric of average revenue per user for wireless operators worldwide is headed in the wrong direction...

Cingular sees slackened subscriber growth 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Despite strong profits and sales, Cingular added only 867,000 net customers in the third quarter, signaling a significant loss of momentum the company gained after acquiring AT&T Wireless last year...

InnoPath eyes North America with buy of Openwave group 

By: By Dan O'Shea

New CEO and new links to U.S. carriers could help OTA market progress...

Nortel, Putian back away from JV 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel Networks officials said today that its planned joint venture with China Putian has fizzled, but the two are looking for other ways to cooperate on 3G with in China...

Covad to acquire NextWeb; WISPers of a trend? 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Covad Communications' announcement last week that it plans to acquire wireless ISP NextWeb should deliver operational cost savings to a broadband service provider perennially squeezed by leased loop costs...

Openwave hires former Verizon exec 

Mobile phone software developer Openwave Systems has appointed of Jody Bilney as chief marketing officer of Openwave. Bilney most recently worked at The Charles Schwab Corp., where she held the position of chief marketing officer. She also used to be senior vice president in charge of brand management and marketing communications at Verizon, and president of Verizon's Consumer Markets enterprise....

Broadcom exploring mobile TV with Athena purchase 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Broadcom today signaled its intentions to expand its wireless silicon business into mobile TV by announcing the purchase of Athena Semiconductors, a fabless radio chipmaker specializing in video, audio and low-power Wi-Fi...

Motorola cutting 1900 jobs 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola is culling its ranks for the second time in less than a year, laying off 1900 of its roughly 68,000 employees from all of its major project divisions and facilities around the world...

MetroPCS gets new investors 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

MetroPCS today announced a hefty cash infusion of $739 million in private equity, but most of that money isn’t earmarked for MetroPCS’s ambitious buildout plans...

Covad takes ‘less expensive’ NextWeb route 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Charlie Hoffman, president and CEO of Covad, told Telephony this afternoon, “We always thought that wireless access would be an ultimate goal. One very compelling reason is that it’s less expensive."...

Voiceglo disputes Sprint Nextel patent suit 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Voiceglo Holdings has issued a statement disputing a lawsuit filed this week by Sprint Nextel alleging that Voiceglo and Vonage had infringed on seven patents related to voice over packet technology that are held by Sprint Nextel...

Deals & deployments 

BellSouth has completed the sale of its stake in Cellcom, a mobile carrier in Israel, to a subsidiary of Discount Investment Corp...

Former BellSouth exec named CEO at fastmobile 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Fastmobile, a provider of instant communication applications that was among the first companies to launch a competitive push-to-talk-like instant messaging service usable on GSM phones, announced that John Hoffman, who formerly held executive positions at BellSouth and the GSM Association, has been named CEO of fastmobile...

Sprint estimates additional $2.5 billion cost savings 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint today said it has recalculated the value of its acquisition of Nextel Communications and is now estimating that the combined companies will enjoy a $14.5 billion in savings over the costs of operating separately...

Nextel Partners sets shareholder vote 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Nextel Partners, the affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp that is seeking to exercise the “put right” provided by its certificate of incorporation, announced today that it has set a special meeting of Class A shareholders for Oct. 24. ...

WFI hires former Nextel exec 

By: By Dan O'Shea

San Diego-based Wireless Facilities Inc. (WFI), which designs, deploys, and manages of wireless networks, technology networks, has hired Gregory Meacham, a former Nextel Communications executive and FBI administrator, as vice president of business development for public safety at WFI. ...

Nokia pushes e-mail and raises guidance 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia today unveiled its new Java-based e-mail platform, its answer to the growing demand for integrated business e-mail solutions...

Reports: Good laying off staff 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Good Technology laid off 100 employees or a fifth of its staff in recent weeks as the increasingly competitive wireless e-mail has forced the company to revamp its workforce, according to wire reports....