June 1999

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. this week signed several interconnection agreements with Bell Atlantic Corp. and a three-year bundling agreement with AnswerNet Network. The interconnection agreement provides for the delivery of local …

Fresh from his turnaround performance leading MobileMedia Communications Inc. out of bankruptcy, former president and chief executive officer Ron Grawert has been named CEO of Clariti Telecommunications International. The company …

SEATTLE- Tegic Communications, a company that specializes in text entry solutions for wireless devices, signed a licensing agreement with NEC Corp., which allows NEC to integrate the company’s T9 Text …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to hold field hearings in rural America on the best ways to connect those areas of the country to the Information Superhighway. For one thing, …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS will offer both dual-mode and single-mode Web-capable handsets from Nokia Corp., according to a contract the two signed that could be worth up to $500 million. …

WASHINGTON-Vice President Gore last week promised high-tech tax cuts and increased information technology research funding as part of his official announced candidacy for president. “I will craft these tax cuts …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. and Aether Technologies Inc. have formed a new company called OpenSky, created to extend corporate intranet and Internet-based information to wireless devices using the Palm Computing …

PLANO, Texas-EDS introduced a service offering that will enable Internet service providers, phone companies and others to brand, sell and bill for the latest e-business applications such as enterprise resource …

Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, entered the public realm with a bang last Friday with an initial public offering that proved exceptionally successful in a market where technology stocks don’t …

NEW YORK-For bond investors, high-yield debt deals by telecommunications and media companies are hard to ignore since they have constituted 30 percent to 40 percent of all new dollar-denominated issues …

SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun’s Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com’s Palm …

WASHINGTON-David Aaron, undersecretary of Commerce for international trade, told wireless executives last week the Clinton administration intends to press the European Union to affirm a carrier compromise on harmonizing competing …

LONDON-Symbian introduced the latest version of its EPOC technology to developers and licensees with several new features and architectural advances. EPOC Release 5 features messaging, e-mail and SMS capabilities as …

TORONTO-Nortel Networks’ President Dave House plans to leave the company by the end of August. House joined Nortel as part of the company’s acquisition of Bay Networks, where he served …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Telecommunications industry wholesale revenues will more than double during the next five years, according to a preliminary survey of the industry conducted by Phillips Group InfoTech of Parsippany, N.J. …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-ShopKo Stores Inc. plan to sell MobileComm branded paging products in its 158 stores beginning in September, under an agreement with Arch Communications Group Inc. ShopKo stores are located …

HONG KONG-The future of cdmaOne technology was the theme of this year’s CDMA World Congress in Hong Kong, and while data services are the future, wireless executives are struggling with …

Scandinavian Softline to license WAP HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavian Softline Technology has agreed to license Nokia Corp.’s Wireless Application Protocol technology to deliver value-added data solutions for wireless carriers. SST has developed …

Last week proved a significantly productive one for wireless data service bureau provider Saraide.com as the company acquired a value-added service provider in Europe and received a $5.5 million investment …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.’s Code Division Multiple Access digital pdQ smart phone can offer the Palm Computing platform and support full-time access to the Internet, said the company. 724 Solutions Inc. …

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it is beta testing a service that will allow mobile users to comparison-shop wirelessly, by scanning product barcodes and checking competing vendor prices on wireless …

NEW YORK-Mitsubishi Materials Corp. recently completed field trials of a new system designed to provide Internet access to vehicular and other mobile terminals. Mitsubishi said the system, called SWIFTcomm, will …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. introduced myTalk, a free ad-supported Internet service allowing users to manage their e-mail using the phone and spoken word commands. The company said it intends to …

WASHINGTON-A technical committee for Code Division Multiple Access technology development is working on an adjunct standard of the technology that could be used for Phase II enhanced 911. The specification …