February 1999

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 call center will service carriers in …

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 the transaction were not disclosed. “With …

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 to design and build those networks, …

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 is marketing NTC’s service under …

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 to Brightpoint. Brightpoint said its services …

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 on the TruePosition Wireless Location system …

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 paging provider and will resell its …

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 Multiple Access Processor 100 chip, …

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

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 National Park Service’s handling of antenna-siting …

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 on Palm Computing Inc.’s platform, such …

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 GSM customers attending the Cellular Telecommunications …

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 will involve several thousand customers …

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

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, according to Strategy Analytics Inc.’s report …

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 Inc. and Riverbed Technologies Inc. According …

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, La., at Wireless ’99. Later in …

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 signing an extended non-exclusive contract for …

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 primary competitor, Symbol Technologies Inc., for …

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 Group now will be known …

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. expects to have its first commercial …

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, including RWI III. The financing will …

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 International Business Communications’ Year 2000 Contingency …

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 into InfoSpace.com Inc.’s syndicated network. InfoSpace.com …

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 wireless carriers in the universal-service debate …