UTStarcom COO resigns 

By: By Ed Gubbins

UTStarcom's executive vice president and chief operating officer, Mike Sophie, is resigning effective May 5, the company announced late Thursday. ...

FCC to keep AWS auction under wraps 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

The FCC is keeping secret the identities of bidders in each round of the upcoming auction of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum in order to promote competition and prevent participants from colluding with one another during the auction process. ...

Qualcomm accused of colluding with Flarion before merger 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm's $600 million acquisition of Flarion was supposed to be a done deal, but three months after its close, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust suit against Qualcomm, accusing it of illegally colluding with Flarion before the merger was final....

Andrew acquires Precision Antennas  

By: By Dan O'Shea

Westchester, Ill.-based Andrew Corp. announced that it has acquired Precision Anetnnas, of Stratford, England, for $26 million. ...

Sprint offers family tracking service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint is taking a page from one of its MVNOs' books, announcing today that the carrier will be offering the family tracking service it is enabling for Disney Mobile over its own Sprint and Nextel services...

MetroFi lands Portland, Ore. Wi-Fi deal 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Mountain View, Calif.-based MetroFi has won a contract from the City of Portland, Ore.,--beating out Earthlink and other candidates--to build and operate a free citywide Wi-Fi network....

Nokia quotes higher phone prices in Q1 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia hinted at some positive news for next week's first quarter earnings report, saying that the average sale price for its handsets was 103 euros ($124.80) over the first three months of the year, 4 euros ($4.84) higher than expected....

Convergys and Visage behind Disney Mobile launch 

By: By Tim McElligott

Now that Disney Mobile introduced itself as the newest--and most functionally interesting--mobile virtual network operator on the block, those enabling the entertainment giant's service, such as Convergys and Visage Mobile, are taking their bows....

Adaptix adopts new management team 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Broadband wireless vendor Adaptix has named a new management team, led by President and CEO Mike Pisterzi, who formerly was CEO of Transat Technologies, Photuris and AccessLan Communications...

CTIA: Mobile WiMAX in Muskegon? 

By: By Dan O'Shea

LAS VEGAS--As the CTIA's Wireless 2006 trade show was winding down here, Samsung Telecommunications America turned a few of the remaining heads with an announcement that it will work with regional service provider Arialink in Michigan to deploy what it claimed could be the first commercial Mobile WiMAX network in North America...

CTIA: Day 3 keynote a carrier sit-down 

By: By Dan O'Shea

LAS VEGAS--CTIA president and CEO Steve Largent gathered three carrier C-level executives together for the Day 3 keynote at Wireless 2006 here today. There were few surprise statements and many reassurances that competition continues to thrive globally despite carrier consolidation...

CTIA: mPortal powering Disney family app 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Pantech and LG Electronics won the handset deals. Telcordia won the data hosting contract. And now mPortal put the world on notice that it is powering Disney Mobile’s new Family Center communications and access portal...

Macroport taps into smartphone OS 

Mobile technology software provider Macroport announced this week that its Universal Loader technology is now available for the three most widely used smartphone operating systems...

Motorola offers cable wireless alternative 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cable operators now have a new weapon in their arsenal for addressing business customers. Motorola on April 6 announced a version of its Motorola MOTOwi4 Canopy wireless broadband solution specifically aimed at the cable industry....

CTIA: Qualcomm TV debuts 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Though Qualcomm billed it merely as a demo, a live Forward Link Only (FLO) network blanketing Las Vegas was in full operation in all but name only, powering concept TV phones and multimedia devices both in and outside of CTIA’s Wireless 2006 conference this week...

Tellabs beefs up 3G backhaul 

LAS VEGAS--Tellabs said at CTIA’s Wireless 2006 that it has expanded the capability of the Tellabs 5500 digital cross-connect to support the increasingly bandwidth-intensive needs for backhaul of 3G mobile networks...

CTIA: Agilent drives drive-testing, optimization 

By: By Tim McElligott

LAS VEGAS--Agilent Technologies launched enhancements to its Wireless Network Optimization Platform and other network- and service-assurance solutions for CDMA this week that raises drive-testing to the service layer and protocol analysis across voice, video and data...

CTIA: Cingular, MySpace to make original ringtones 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Cingular and MySpace today kicked off the Mobile Music Studio, an online portal that will allow any of MySpace’s thousands of bands to submit their original music for conversion into a ringtone...

CTIA: Ericsson won't rush for more M&A 

By: By Dan O'Shea

LAS VEGAS--Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg, speaking at the Wireless 2006 trade show here, reiterated comments he recently made to a Swedish magazine...

CTIA: PayPal brings Magic to m-commerce 

By: By Tim McElligott

LAS VEGAS--Using the only Magic to rival that of Disney’s Magic Kingdom, PayPal President Jeff Jordan brought former NBA star and now entrepreneur Magic Johnson on stage to help present the company's new PayPal Mobile payment solution...

EarthLink, Google win San Francisco Wi-Fi bid 

By: By Vince Vittore

EarthLink and Google have been tabbed as the most viable bidders to blanket San Francisco with a Wi-Fi network, based on a review by the city’s Department of Telecommunications and Information Services, or DTIS....

Arcadian launches national wireless data network 

By: By Carol Wilson

A new national service provider is moving out of stealth mode today, offering a private broadband wireless data network for companies with dispersed assets, including rural areas....

CTIA: Amp’d unveils TV platform 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

LAS VEGAS--Amp’d Mobile today said it would be the first carrier in the U.S. to produce its own television network, announcing a new mobile TV platform that would consist of four streamed TV stations from major broadcasters and a fifth channel that will carry self-produced shows ranging from action sports coverage to its own spoof reality TV shows...

CTIA: Verizon Wireless faces auction decision 

By: By Dan O'Shea

LAS VEGAS--Verizon Wireless executives said at Wireless 2006 here that they will decide in the next few weeks whether they will bid on spectrum in the Advanced Wireless Services auction scheduled to take place this June or wait and invest resources in bidding in a 700 MHz auction that will not occur until at least next year...

New spectrum legislation crafted 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Five members of the U.S. House of Representatives have announced new legislation that allow broadband wireless carriers and other companies to use television spectrum in the band between 608 Mhz and 614 MHz for unlicensed wireless services. ...