Monthly Archives: February, 1999

MOTOROLA, CISCO TEAM ON IP

NEW ORLEANS-Following a trend of convergence between the wireless and Internet industries, Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced the first phase...

OPENIPO COULD MAKE PUBLIC OFFERINGS EASIER, CHEAPER

NEW YORK-Going public could get a bit easier and cheaper if William Hambrecht succeeds in his goal, announced last week, to conduct initial public...

SPRINT PCS ADDS NEW AFFILIATES

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced it signed new affiliation agreements with seven companies. Sprint PCS has signed 16 affiliates to date, representing licensed personal...

ALLTEL OFFERS CELLEMETRY

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Communications Inc. announced an agreement with Cellemetry L.L.C., under which it now offers new services for remote monitoring or control of...

SMARTSERV ENTERS AGREEMENT WITH BAM

STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. signed a joint marketing agreement with Bell Atlantic Mobile to extend wireless access to its financial and information applications via...

ARRAYCOMM LANDS CONTRACT IN UAE

NEW ORLEANS-ArrayComm Inc., San Jose, Calif., announced a contract with the Emirates Telecommunications Corp. (Etisalat), the official telecommunications provider for the United Arab Emirates,...

NETTECH OPENS CONSULTING UNIT, NEW SALES OFFICES

PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. announced an expansion plan that included establishing a Professional Services consulting division to help software developers deploy wireless data solutions...

MORE WIRELESS USERS CONSIDER ‘CUTTING THE CORD’

NEW ORLEANS-Calling wireless the poster child for competitive telecommunications, Tom Wheeler, head of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said today's wireless industry will serve...

SUGRUE: FCC SHOULD UNDERSTAND WIRELESS TELECOM DIFFERENCES

NEW ORLEANS-The wireless industry should expect the Federal Communications Commission to better understand the differences between the wireless and common carrier industries, said Tom...

SANDERS ANNOUNCES PCS-OVER-CABLE AGREEMENT

NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co., announced it entered into a long-term agreement with WirelessNorth to supply its PCS-Over-Cable distributed antenna system to support...

PREMIERES BEGINS SELLING ORCHESTRATE

ATLANTA-Premiere Technologies Inc. said it began selling its suite of Orchestrate Web-enabled communications products, priced at a flat rate, to individual consumers and business...

NEXTEL’S TOWER SALE TO SPECTRASITE SETS MARK FOR FUTURE CARRIER DEALS

Nextel Communications Inc. last week agreed to sell its portfolio of towers to independent tower company SpectraSite Communications Inc., ending months of speculation about...

INTEK SIGNS PACT WITH SEMELAB

PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. announced its Intek Global Technologies Ltd. unit signed an agreement with Semelab plc of Britain to manufacture and distribute linear...

PAGENET CHOOSES IBS FOR STATEMENT PROCESSING

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services announced Paging Network Inc. selected the company to be its exclusive provider of statement processing services.Under terms of...

NEXTEL TO OFFER INTERNET SERVICE WITH UNWIRED PLANET, NETSCAPE

NEW ORLEANS-1999 could be a key year for many carriers in determining if wireless users want to access the Internet from mobile devices.Nextel Communications...

TMTOUCH DEPLOYS LIGHTBRIDGE PRODUCT

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced TMTouch, the digital cellular network service and product of Telekom Cellular Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, deployed Lightbridge's FraudBuster to detect...

GTE CREATES WIN-4 VIRTUAL NETWORK

NEW ORLEANS-Imagine you are in a horrible accident on a dark road, late at night. Your airbag deploys but you are unconscious, alone, so...

PCIA CONTINUES PRESS AGAINST SPECTRUM CAP

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association continued its fight last week to keep the spectrum cap in place. The spectrum cap limits carriers to 45...

ERICSSON SHOW NEWS

At CTIA's Wireless '99: The Jambala Wireless Application Protocol Gateway, which will allow operators to improve and expand wireless data services to their customers,...

LUCENT SHOWS NEW CDMA PRODUCTS

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced new hardware and software options to provide cdmaOne wireless operators investment protection with an evolution path to cdma2000...

QUALCOMM SHOW NEWS

Its vision of future wireless telecommunications, which includes the naming of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, previously the company's ASIC Products division, which develops and produces...

CTIA SHOW NEWS

Omnipoint TechnologiesOmnipoint Technologies Inc. introduced a Global System for Mobile communications radio module called Eagle One as the latest addition to its GSM-based wireless...

AG TO OFFER INGAGE SOLUTION TO SUN

PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems, a Lucent Technologies Inc. subsidiary, will offer its intelligent network-based INgage Wireless Prepaid Services solution on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s scalable Netra...

AIRNET TO ANNOUNCE GSM 900 PRODUCTS

NEW ORLEANS-AirNet Communications Corp., Melbourne, Fla., plans to announce Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz systems at the GSM World...

MOODY’S DOWNGRADES AT&T, UP GRADES TCI

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. has downgraded its long-term investment grade ratings of AT&T Corp. debt and preferred stock while upgrading those of cable...
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