Year: 2005

The FCC issued $1.5 million in fines to two telecom carriers for apparent violations to of the Universal Service Fund ...

Sprint and Nextel Communications completed their merger, creating a larger company with extensive nationwide spectrum, more than 44 million wireless ...

Sony Ericsson announced the release of its first Walkman phone in North America. The new W800 combines a Bluetooth-enabled GSM ...

the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) will establish a sixth division whose sole focus is increasing federal funding for communications technology ...

NASA successfully launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 12 on a mission to provide a high-resolution survey of the ...

Siemens Venture Capital has made an equity investment in Dune Networks, a developer of traffic management and scalable switching fabrics. ...

Vodafone New Zealand is launching 3G enabled services. In May 2004, Vodafone announced that it had chosen Nokia to supply ...

Effnet has licensed its IP Header Compression software to QUALCOMM for future integration into select chipsets for CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and ...

Siemens predicts that future transport networks will be able to transfer up to 30% more data than at present simply ...

Alcatel Shanghai Bell and Datang Mobile completed the industrialization phase of TD-SCDMA in China and are now ready to deliver ...

STMicroelectronics and Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) have joined the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. The HomePlug alliance noted several major events underway: ...

The Texas House voted 144-to-1 to pass a bill that updates regulation of telecommunications in the state and allows for ...

Scott Sullivan, the former CFO of WorldCom, was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Sullivan had plead guilty to ...