Sprint Nextel appears to be prepping a news blitz in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas during the first week of next year. The company issued an invitation for media only for a "4G event" Jan. 6 that...
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Wireless LAN vendor Meru Networks filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of up to $86.25 million, hoping to capitalize on what it expects to be rapid growth in the industry. The company, which partnered earlier this year with T-Mobile USA to b...
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Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit against a former Alltel executive who has since joined Allied Wireless, a new company that will run some of the former properties and assets Verizon divested as part of its $28.1 billion purchase of Alltel. Verizon...
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Verizon Wireless said it updated the technical specifications for its LTE network, giving developers access to the new specs ahead of the company's LTE network rollout next year. The company will host a webcast next month to formally review the sp...
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Palm's stock rose after Morgan Joseph analyst Ilya Grozovsky upgraded his rating on the company, though he remained skeptical that the smartphone maker could meet its revenue targets for its fiscal year, which ends in May.
Palm shares...
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AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega reiterated that AT&T has not decided to switch to a tiered, usage-based data pricing model, but he did say that one of the solutions it will use to help offload data traffic--femtocells--are not...
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Nokia contends its recent lawsuits targeting Apple, LG and Samsung and others reflect the changing, increasingly competitive nature of the wireless industry. Nokia, no stranger to litigation (see its long-running,...
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A state lawmaker in Maine is trying to get the state's legislature to mandate that cell phones carry warnings that they may cause cancer, even though there is no scientific consensus on the issue. Maine would be the first state to impose such a ma...
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Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10, the company's first phone based on Google's Android platform, passed through the FCC with support for T-Mobile USA's 3G network, spurring speculation that the device could end up on the network of the nation's No. 4 car...
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"Operation Chokehold" came and went on Friday afternoon, and AT&T Mobility's network survived the stunt.
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Fitch Ratings cut its rating on Nokia's long-term debt slightly, citing concerns about the company's handset margins as well as its exposure to its infrastructure joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks.
The ratings agency cut Nokia's long-te...
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Verizon Wireless strongly defended both its new early termination fee (ETF) policy and the minimum data charges associated with mobile Web access. The company argued that the fees promote consumer choice and broadband deployment and said that ETFs...
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Airvana has agreed to be taken private by a new private equity firm called 72 Mobile Holdings, which includes hedge-fund operator S.A.C. Capital and the Blackstone Group. Airvana, which provides IP-based wireless network infrastructure produc...
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In a bit of carefully-worded marketing, Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone expressed confidence that the carrier's network could handle all of the mobile data traffic from Apple's iPhone--if rival AT&T Mobility were to lose its exclusivity over...
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The FCC granted Verizon Wireless an extension until Monday to explain its policies regarding early termination fees (ETFs) and unintended mobile Web access charges. Verizon was originally supposed to have replied to the FCC by the end of the day y...
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T-Mobile USA said it has restored service to to customers after a brief outage affected subscribers last night in the southeastern United States and in Puerto Rico. It was the second time in less than two months that the carrier had experienced a...
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion posted notable gains in device shipments, revenues and net income in the third quarter, evidence the smartphone vendor continues to ride out a wave of competition from the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Google....
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Palm's smartphone shipments shot up in its fiscal second quarter, but it continued to post losses. Even as more carriers around the world begin selling its webOS devices, the smartphone maker was unable to translate that into quarter-over-quarter...
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The debate over how voice and SMS services should be transmitted over LTE networks could harm the LTE ecosystem if the issue is not resolved soon, according to new research by Frost & Sullivan. The research firm examined the competing proposal...
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AT&T Mobility's first smartphone based on Google's Android platform likely will come from Motorola, according to the blog Phandroid, which posted what it said are pictures and details of the device.
The phone, variously called...
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said it resolved the email outage that affected users across North America this morning, but cautioned that some customers might still be experiencing delays in receiving their email.
"RIM has isolated an...
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BendBroadband, a small cable operator in Oregon, does not have the same stature as T-Mobile USA, but the company beat the wireless operator to the punch by launching in the nation's first commercial HSPA+ network.
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