Vendors news from FierceWireless

SBA Communications agreed to buy up to 430 wireless towers from TowerCo for $193.5 million in a deal that is expected to close by the end of May. The companies have yet to work out the specific Read more...

Texas Instruments lowered its range of expected profits for the first quarter of 2008 to between 41 cents and 45 cents a share, which is 3 cents lower than its previous forecast from January. Read more...

Are the mobile vendor giants of the world back to bashing WiFi? At the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Johan Bergendahl of Ericsson said the WiFi Read more...

Thanks to the heavy competition coming from Chinese vendors the infrastructure business is a low-margin business. Indeed, Huawei and ZTE are striking fear in the likes of Ericsson, which partly Read more...

Ericsson reported $886.7 million in net profits, marking a 42 percent decline during the fourth quarter of last year. While analysts expected the decline in net profits, the company surprised the Read more...

Following up on Broadcom's acquisition of Global Locate earlier this year, WiFi chipmaker Read more...

That was quick. Padmasree Warrior, who just resigned as EVP and CTO of Motorola yesterday, Read more...

Last September an arbiter acting under the guidance of the International Chamber of Commerce awarded InterDigital a $134 million settlement from Samsung over royalties owed the company from 2G Read more...

Last week Motorola announced the departure of its CEO, Ed Zander, and now activist investor Read more...

Wireless voice service in developing countries is growing like gangbusters but infrastructure vendors aren't reaping the benefits. That's because GSM has quickly become a low-margin network rollout. Read more...