These include Sierra Wireless, Novatel Wireless, and a number of wireless chipset vendors.
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At Verizon Wireless, the number of text messages sent by its retail customers dropped from an average of 2, 110 in the third quarter of 2010 to 2, 068 in the fourth quarter, then reached 2, 104 in the first quarter of this year.
Vodafone recently joined Verizon Communications as a major investor in Iusacell, Mexico's number two wireless operator.
The market should decide whether the optimal number of wireless carriers is three or four or five, not the regulators.
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"Short form communication is defining modern culture, and every phone number-wireless or wired-should be able to support the text medium, " said John Lauer, CEO of Zipwhip.
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The Indian government says the number of wireless connections in the country jumped 68%, from 99 million to 166 million, in the year ended March 31.
The company's 2013 AV products feature a number of wireless connectivity enhancements, including the industry's first soundbar that can connect with a TV using wireless Bluetooth technology.
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This concept has been generalised by a number of wireless-software firms into the idea of digital graffiti messages that can be posted using a handset, and which correspond to a particular location.
In fourth-quarter 2012, Verizon Wireless delivered the highest number of retail postpaid net additions of any quarter in its history, strong growth in revenues, an increase in smartphone penetration, and continued low retail postpaid churn.
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"As the number of wireless devices increases in a household, consumers are always looking to expand and strengthen their Wi-Fi coverage into the farthest corners of the home, " said Daniel Kelley, associate vice president of marketing, D-Link Systems, Inc.
Verizon Wireless previously said the number of iPhones it sold in the first two hours of availability exceeded the one-day total for any other device's debut in the carrier's history, though it declined to say how many were ordered.
The most-discussed spoiler suspect is current number two wireless provider Verizon Wireless , a joint venture of Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ) and Vodafone Group (nyse: VOD - news - people ).
My reasons are many and include the fact that Clearwire is using a wireless technology that is not mainstream (WiMAX) on a portion of spectrum that requires building out many more cell sites than its competitors, and that it has chosen to enter major metro markets already served by wired DSL, cable, and a number of wireless broadband companies.
Wireless Intelligence estimates that the number of 3G users will reach 2.8 billion by 2014.
Samsung countersued, saying Apple has infringed a number of its wireless patents.
Google and PayPal are also in the mobile payment space, as are a number of national wireless carriers, retailers, and financial institutions.
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Investors were spooked over the company's gross margins of 41.4% in its wireless business--a number that was significantly lower than what analysts had been expecting.
The Compaq IPaq I-A1 is a cute little beige number with a wireless keyboard and a tiltable color LCD screen about the size of a makeup mirror.
It also has a majority share in Verizon Wireless , the nation's number two cellular provider, and a particularly profitable growth business.
Forrester Research, a technology consultancy, argues that, although a huge number of fancy new wireless data devices will be manufactured, few will gain mass-market acceptance.
The stakes are high: With cell number portability looming, wireless users who get fed up with paying for incoming spam could desert their carriers in droves.
San Diego is the base for companies like Qualcomm that make the underlying technology for wireless communications, and to a number of smaller companies with demand for tech talent.
TSMC, unlike Intel, has benefited from close ties to a number of winners from the wireless boom, including Qualcomm and Broadcom.
But he's part of an increasing number of regular folks leaping into wireless connectivity.
Wireless mesh networks, comprised of a large number of tiny nodes were set up in a specific area.
Google has long realized that the hot market of wireless is a great place to grow the number of eyeballs and it has become very active in this space.
In July 2007, there were 157 models from eighteen vendors, and the number of networks with approved embedded wireless for notebooks has risen to 20, based on Qualcomm's and network operators' figures.
Last year her intelligence got a whole lot better when the show organizers agreed to outfit each attendee with a name tag that includes a paper-thin wireless chip encoded with a 24-digit number.
Not only are a few large wireless firms likely to innovate less than a larger number of small firms.
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