November 1998

LAS VEGAS-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will offer J.P. Systems Inc.’s NetCradle in its Web@Hand product portfolio, extending Internet access to personal digital assistants made by 3Com Corp. The GoAmerica …

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-PageMart Wireless Inc. and Motorola Inc. have signed strategic alliance agreements with Monitel Products Corp. to provide various aspects of a two-way wireless remote monitoring system. Monitel provides …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Unwired Planet Inc. announced it has licensed its Wireless Application Protocol based UP. Browser to LG Information & Communications Inc., which plans to integrate the microbrowser into its …

NEW YORK-John T. Stupka, president and chief executive officer of SkyTel Communications Inc., said a BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. advertisement that’s been running in the Wall Street Journal, as well …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s Integrated Network Group announced its modular voice processing system is being used by Motorola Inc.’s Ground Systems Division to deploy voice messaging and other enhanced services …

This year’s holiday season promises to be an interesting one for wireless carriers and vendors offering their products to online buyers. Jupiter Communications, a new media research firm, predicts holiday …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Despite the reluctance of some carriers to report fraud figures and the inability of many to distinguish fraud from bad debt, a popular consensus is that fraud against wireless …

LOS ANGELES-Nortel Networks said it is conducting live trials of cdmaOne circuit-switched data services with Bell Mobility and other selected customers and in the Nortel Networks Wireless Internet Lab in …

Nextel Communications Inc. is testing nationwide pricing plans that fall in line with high-end one-rate plans offered by national mobile phone competitors. Analysts say the company quietly is rolling out …

Horizon Personal Communications Inc. launched its personal communications services network in seven basic trading areas in Ohio and West Virginia, under an affiliate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. Horizon, which …

As I debate again this year whether to actually make mashed potatoes to bring to the family Thanksgiving dinner or whether to buy them and pretend I made them (you …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week officially proposed rules that could lead to the end of spectrum caps. Additionally, the FCC announced rules to relocate incumbents in the 2 GHz …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it established a software developers program for the pdQ smartphone. The program will provide applications developers with the resources and tools needed to create new applications …

WASHINGTON-Daniel Phythyon, capping a stormy year-and-a-half stewardship of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, which had him under constant siege from feisty bankruptcy lawyers, angry lawmakers and high-powered lobbyists, …

Nearly a year in the making, Geoworks Corp. has introduced a long-awaited software solution that allows carriers to add enhanced data services to otherwise voice-only phones. Called Premion Interface+, the …

LONDON-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced 11 new companies have joined the organization, and it appointed three additional members to its board of directors. New to the board are Hiroshi …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., a provider of chipsets, software and intellectual property to the wireless industry, said it received investments from two venture capital firms. Boston-based Greylock and Lucent Venture …

HOUSTON-Equiva Services L.L.C., an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition Inc. signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using the TruePosition Wireless Location System. Under terms …

MONTREAL-Harris Corp. announced research and development plans to create new point-to-multipoint and wireless local loop systems to serve global markets. The R&D program is being initiated by Harris’ Microwave Communications …

ORLANDO, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said its FraudX product is commercially available. FraudX, the company’s second-generation wireless fraud detection system, addresses fraud in both home and roaming markets as well …

NEWBURY, Berskshire, England-Vodafone Group plc said it purchased from BellSouth New Zealand the national New Zealand GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) cellular network and related assets. BellSouth New Zealand …

WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission set the stage for auctioning nearly 500 returned C-block personal communications services licenses next March, agency lawyers successfully fought lenders Friday in Baltimore bankruptcy court …

Chesapeake Microwave Chesapeake Microwave Technologies Inc. introduced a 50-watt personal communications services Global System for Mobile communications amplifier and a 30-watt DCS GSM amplifier. The 50-watt PCS GSM amplifier is …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose to $55.6 billion at the close of third quarter, an 11-percent increase from the same period of …

Collocation has evolved from something wireless carriers used to resist to something they do as a matter of course. The idea of collocation increasingly becomes important to independent tower companies, …