Speedus Files Patent Suits Against Verizon Wireless

Speedus Corp. on Friday said its unit, CellularVision Technology & Telecommunications L.P., has filed patent infringement suits against Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group.

The suits address technologies now used by Verizon Wireless to transmit television to wireless users over cellular networks, and the simultaneous transmission of analog and digital signals within the same bandwidth, Speedus said.

The complaints were filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida.

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Posted to the site on 13th May 2006