Monthly Archives: March, 1999

MATSUSHITA TO INTEGRATE WAP CAPABILITIES

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Unwired Planet Inc. and Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. announced a licensing agreement for MCI to integrate Unwired Planet's UP.Browser in its...

SAFCO INTRODUCES CDMA-BASED VOICEPRINT PRODUCT

CHICAGO-Safco Technologies Inc. introduced a Code Division Multiple Access version of its Portable VoicePrint product, which automatically collects and analyzes call quality data on...

WORLD BRIEFS

GermanySiemens' Information and Communication Networks Group, T-Mobil and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they will participate in a field trial to integrate Wireless Application Protocol...

ONE YEAR AFTER E911 MANDATE MADE LAW, NOT MUCH PROGRESS MADE

This week marks the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission's Phase I enhanced 911 deadline, and by most accounts, not much progress has...

RURAL AMERICA LEFT OUT OF C-BLOCK RE-AUCTION

WASHINGTON-Rural America may be left out of the re-auction of personal communications services licenses. At the end of round six on Thursday, 37 percent...

LUCENT PLATFORM ENABLES 3G TDMA

HANNOVER, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced a wireless platform that will enable TIme Division Multiple Access network operators to offer third-generation services such as seamless...

LETTERS

Modeling important in MPE solutionDear Editor,In your article, "Countdown to MPE rules" (RCR, March 15), the reader is left with the impression that field-testing...

SAMSUNG OPENS MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN BRAZIL

AO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a Code Division...

OPPOSITES ATTRACT

It was an unprecedented event. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest defender of CDMA technology, and L.M. Ericsson, the largest naysayer of the technology, embraced last week,...

LIGHTBRIDGE TO DEPLOY SERVICES FOR SPRINT PCS

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced Sprint PCS will deploy Lightbridge's Retail Management System and consulting services.According to Lightbridge, RMS will help Sprint PCS to incorporate...

PAGEMART GETS CREDIT FACILITY

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has obtained a new $100 million senior secured credit facility through Bankers Trust Co. and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding...

HANDSET SUBSIDY COULD UP IRIDIUM NETWORK USAGE

Early cellular carriers did it. Early paging carriers did it. Mobile data carriers are doing it now, and according to analyst Tim O'Neil of...

OMNIPOINT PLAYING ITS HAND ON STRATEGIC PARTNERING OPTIONS

NEW YORK-"With respect to the status of our strategic partnering, we are pleased to say we have received written proposals from four (companies) and...

QUALCOMM PATENT FOR CDMA STANDARD REAFFIRMED

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reaffirmed the validity of one of its key Code Division Multiple Access patents.The patent...

METROCALL JOINS AOL REWARDS

DALLAS-Metrocall Inc. has begun participating in America Online Inc.'s AOL Rewards Program, according to Digital Marketing Services Inc., which provides incentive programs for the...

MEDIAONE SALE MAY PUT WIRELESS INTERESTS ON MARKET

The announcement last week that Comcast Corp. and MediaOne Group signed an agreement to merge in a $60 billion deal driven by broadband cable...

VIEWPOINT: KEEPING SCORE

Qualcomm decides to sell its infrastructure division to archrival Ericsson.VLSI rejects Philips' takeover bid, but says it will explore others.Four Canadian carriers join forces.Cable...

EVERYBODY GETTING INTO MERGER MANIA

WASHINGTON-Telecom mergers are not just about mergers anymore.Multibillion-dollar deals have become the jumping-off-point for activism on labor rights, civil rights, regulatory reform, consumer protection,...

PCIA IN THE MIDDLE OF COORDINATION DISPUTES

WASHINGTON-As the private wireless industry prepares to enter the battle against auctioning spectrum, competing private wireless groups are fighting over how spectrum should be...

CONXUS REFOCUSES AMID LAYOFFS

Conxus Communications Inc. confirmed it had conducted a series of layoffs last week as part of a "strategic refocus" that will affect employees at...

FOURTH ITALIAN LICENSE COMING SOON

Reuters reported that Italy's Ministry of Communications approved the auction process for a fourth cellular license there, scheduled to get underway in June or...

ROHN/PIROD MERGER POSTPONED

PEORIA, Ill.-Rohn Industries Inc. said its previously announced merger with PiRod Holdings Inc., which was expected to close in the first quarter, has been...

CANADA’S TELECOM LANDSCAPE GETS MAKEOVER

Canada's telecom market saw major changes last week, as its four smallest telecom companies agreed to merge into one company and Bell Canada formed...

D.C. NOTES: SECOND THOUGHTS

FCC Chairman Bill Kennard now says the agency has an open mind on the question of private wireless auctions. It wasn't always that way.The...

NASDAQ DELISTS PNI

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. said The Nasdaq Stock Market notified the company that effective with the close of business on March 22, the company's common...
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