Monthly Archives: February, 1999

METRO ONE ADDS ATLANTA CALL CENTER

PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. said it has begun providing its Enhanced Directory Assistance service from a new call center in Atlanta. The new...

BAM ACQUIRES HILTON HEAD MARKET

GREENVILLE, S.C.-Bell Atlantic Mobile said it has acquired the cellular service market that includes Hilton Head, S.C., from South Carolina Cellular Corp. Terms of...

FIXED-PRICE OUTSOURCING HELPS CONTROL RF ENGINEERING COSTS

Wireless carriers often face a dilemma in obtaining radio-frequency engineering services to implement and operate their networks. How do they find experienced RF engineers...

BLACKFOOT TO OFFER CUSTOMERS NTC’S PREPAY OPTION

DALLAS-National Telemanagement Corp. teamed with Blackfoot Communications to offer NTC's SmartPay Wireless prepaid billing option to personal communications services customers in western Montana.Blackfoot, which...

BRIGHTPOINT, AMERICA ONE ENTER SERVICE AGREEMENT

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it entered into a services agreement with America One Communications Inc. under which America One will outsource various integrated logistics services...

TRUEPOSITION, ERICSSON WORK ON TDMA POSITIONING SOLUTION

RICHARDSON, Texas-TruePosition Inc. and Ericsson Inc. announced an agreement to develop and market a mobile positioning solution for Time Division Multiple Access networks, based...

LEGACY CHOOSES PAGEMART

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Legacy Software Inc., which recently began a merger process with Videocall International Corp., announced it has chosen PageMart Wireless Inc. as its exclusive...

VLSI TO SHIP CDMA SOLUTION

SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. said it expects to ship its CDMA+ dual-core baseband solution in March.The solution is comprised of a Code Division...

WAP FORUM PREDICTS PRODUCTS FOR SPRING

The Wireless Application Forum held its latest members meeting last week in Dallas, convening this time to determine its road map for the coming...

INDUSTRY, FCC CAUGHT IN MIDDLE OF E911 VENDOR BATTLE

WASHINGTON-A seemingly well-scripted House hearing to launch a watered-down E911 bill and a beefed-up privacy bill disintegrated into a fracas last week over the...

W-TRADE SUPPORTS RIM AND PALM

NEW YORK-w-Trade announced its Wireless Internet Trading System now supports both the Research In Motion Inter@ctive 950 handheld wireless device, as well as those...

OMNIPOINT PROVIDES GSM NET WORK FOR CTIA SHOW

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-The North American GSM Alliance announced Omnipoint Communications Inc. will supply a temporary Global System for Mobile communications digital network to serve...

ORANGE TO DEPLOY WILDFIRE

Wildfire Communications Inc. announced United Kingdom operator Orange plc has begun a targeted deployment of Wildfire's network voice-activated virtual assistant.Orange said the initial deployment...

SPYGLASS LICENSES BROWSER TO TOSHIBA

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it licensed its Spyglass Device Mosaic thin browser and the Spyglass MicroServer to Toshiba Engineering Co.

FORECAST: BY 2003 725 MILLION WIRELESS USERS WORLDWIDE

BOSTON, Mass.-By 2003, more than 725 million people worldwide will subscribe to cellular and personal communications services, generating annual service revenues of $330 billion,...

SYMBOL FORMS ALLIANCES WITH PUMA AND RIVERBED

NEW ORLEANS-At the Symbol Worldwide Sales and Partner Conference held here last week, Symbol Technologies Inc. announced mobile computing alliances with both Puma Technology...

TELECORP LAUNCHES IN BIG EASY

NEW YORK-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, Tuesday plans to debut its first commercial market, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,...

TELEMAC SEARCHING FOR LICENSEES

LOS ANGELES-Telemac Corp., a handset-based prepaid technology supplier, said it aggressively is seeking to license its Telemac Prepaid Technology to wireless handset manufacturers after...

TELXON SUES SYMBOL OVER FALSE STATEMENTS

NEW YORK-Telxon Corp., an Akron, Ohio, designer and manufacturer of wireless mobile information systems for vertical markets, announced Feb. 1 it has sued its...

PRUDENTIAL OFFERS REAL-ESTATE SERVICES

INDIANAPOLIS-Prudential announced it joined forces with DicksonHughes Group L.L.C. to provide wireless real-estate services throughout the United States.As a result of the affiliation, DicksonHughes...

QUAKE WIRELESS BUILDING TERMINALS FOR ORBCOMM LOW-SPEED DATA APPS

A new San Diego-based company has begun developing subscriber communicators for low-speed, two-way global data communications over Orbcomm's low-earth-orbit satellite network. Quake Wireless Inc....

RANGESTAR RECEIVES FINANCING

SAN JOSE, Calif.-RangeStar International announced it received its second round financing, totaling $5.5 million, from GSM Capital L.P. and other leading venture capital firms,...

STRATEGIC RISK MANAGEMENT KEY STEP IN Y2K PREP

NEW YORK-"The only clear advantage to not planning is that disaster will come as a complete surprise," Philip E. Lian said last week at...

WIRELESS SHOPPING SERVICE GETS WIDE WEB EXPOSURE

REDMOND, Wash.-Multiple Zones International Inc. and Wireless Dimension have signed an agreement that will allow the two companies to integrate their products and services...

WESTERN PRESENTS ITS SUBSIDY MODEL FOR UNIVERSAL-SERVICE PROGRAM

WASHINGTON-A computer model by Western Wireless Corp. to determine the amount of subsidy each customer in a rural, high-cost or low-income area could help...
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