Wireless continues to boost Verizon profits
By: By Dan O'Shea
Verizon reported positive earnings of $1.8 billion for the first quarter, powered by $18.2 billion in combined revenue from its wireline and wireless divisions. ...
Jamdat acquires Blue Lava
By: By Jason Ankeny
Mobile entertainment publisher Jamdat Mobile announced today its $137 million acquisition of rival content developer Blue Lava Wireless. ...
NextWave emerges from Chapter 11
By: By Jason Ankeny
With this week's completion of its $3 billion spectrum sale to Verizon Wireless, broadband wireless provider NextWave Telecom officially emerged from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan it originally filed on June 8, 1998. ...
Seven acquires Smartner
By: By Dan O'Shea
Seven, the wireless push e-mail developer that has gained traction in the Asian and U.S. markets over the last few years, has acquired Finland-based Smartner to add new leverage to its efforts in the European market....
Colubris acquires Kiwi
By: By Dan O'Shea
Colubris Networks, a vendor of wireless LAN access and management products near Boston, has announced its acquisition of Kiwi Networks, an early-stage company in Campbell, Calif., developing cellular and Wi-Fi solutions, including RF planning and control products for enterprises and service providers....
AirBand dusts off BWA expansion plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Southwest broadband wireless access provider AirBand announced today it has acquired the fixed wireless assets of Baltimore ISP Accelacom, marking the company's return to the East Coast after scaling down its operations during the economic downturn...
Symbian, Microsoft ink Exchange deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Symbian today announced it has licensed rival smartphone OS-maker Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, filling a key gap between the Symbian's popular phone OS and the ever prevalent Exchange e-mail servers....
Adamind launches with a big splash
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The merger and IPO last month of two of the world's leading media adaptation companies resulted in Adamind, a funny name the industry is increasingly hearing more and more about as MMS gears up. ...
Global Signal acquires Triton PCS towers
By: By Jason Ankeny
Communications tower management firm Global Signal announced today it will acquire 169 wireless towers from wireless service provider Triton PCS. ...
US Wireless Online acquires iSkywire
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless broadband service provider US Wireless Online today announced its acquisition of fellow wireless Internet provider iSkywire. ...
Qualcomm names Paul Jacobs CEO
By: By Jason Ankeny
Qualcomm today named its wireless and Internet group president Paul Jacobs to succeed his father Irwin Jacobs as the chipmaker’s CEO, effective July 1, 2005...
Cingular, CWA reach tentative agreement
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless has reached a tentative four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America that would result in an 11% raise for 5300 Cingular workers. ...
Exclusive: Nokia courts T-Mobile for Preminet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile International is evaluating Nokia's Preminet content distribution service as a possible technology to augment its T-zones download center, an international repository of games, ringtones and other multimedia applications. ...
NextWave bankruptcy plan approved
By: By Jason Ankeny
NextWave Telecom announced Tuesday that its reorganization plan has received the approval of a U.S. bankruptcy court, paving the way for the company to finally launch its broadband wireless network. ...
Cingular to restate earnings
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular is restating its earnings from 2000 all the way up to the third quarter of 2004, correcting an accounting error in the way it records operating releases--an issue on which the SEC has come down across multiple industries. ...
IPWireless to focus on chips
By: By Kevin Fitchard
IPWireless is dumping its infrastructure business in favor of becoming a core technology vendor...
WLAN equipment revenues, shipments rise in 2004
By: By Jason Ankeny
Global wireless LAN equipment revenue hit $2.8 billion in 2004, a 15% increase from 2003, according to new data issued this week by Infonetics Research...
ArrayComm CEO jumps to WiMAX chipmaker
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ArrayComm CEO Sam Endy has thrown his lot with a small wireless chipset manufacturer, announcing yesterday he had left the broadband wireless heavyweight to take the chief executive job with Telecis Wireless...
Ericsson closes Swedish plant, announces layoffs
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless equipment manufacturer Ericsson said Monday it plans to close a production and design facility in Nynaeshamn, Sweden, resulting in the layoff of 393 workers...
US Wireless Online merges with Air2Lan
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless broadband providers Air2Lan and US Wireless Online announced today their pending merger, a transaction expected to close on or before Feb. 28. ...
Cingular and Motricity team on mobile content
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless announced today it has partnered with mobile content solutions provider Motricity to enhance the delivery of content, applications and games available via Cingular's MEdia Mall service. ...
Can Verizon succeed where Ebbers failed?
By: By Carol Wilson
There is an ironic twist in the fact that today's announcement that Verizon will acquire MCI Communications for $6.7 billion comes as former Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers's fraud trial is proceeding. ...
Sprint/Nextel merger casts doubt over iDEN's future
By: By Jason Ankeny
The future of Motorola's iDEN wireless standard grew dim this week in the wake of new details concerning the proposed merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications, the latter by far iDEN's biggest customer. ...
U.S. Cellular nearly doubles Q4 profit
By: By Jason Ankeny
U.S. Cellular, the nation’s seventh-largest wireless operator, nearly doubled its net income for the fourth quarter of 2004, crediting the increase to market expansion, new subscribers and the sale of some operations to fellow regional operator Alltel...
Ericsson posts profits for quarter, year
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless handset maker Ericsson today posted fourth-quarter and full-year profits, enjoying sales increases in all of its markets except one: North America...
