Monthly Archives: September, 1999

BELLSOUTH PLANS E-COMMERCE OFFERINGS

NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Wireless Data said it plans to introduce a portfolio of secure wireless electronic-commerce offerings by the end of this year.The company also...

AQUIS TO BUY SOURCEONE PAGING: CEO SAYS CUSTOMERS, CHICAGO MARKET DROVE SALE

NEW ORLEANS-Aquis Communications Group Inc. is in the process of buying bankrupt paging carrier SourceOne Wireless Inc. of Chicago.John Adiletta, Aquis president and CEO,...

BELLSOUTH TO TEST WAP SERVICES IN GSM MARKETS

NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Cellular Corp. announced it will begin a Wireless Application Protocol trial with customers in some of its Global System for Mobile communications...

SPRINT PCS AFFILIATE AIRGATE PLANS IPO

NEW YORK-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate headquartered in Atlanta, last week was hoping to raise about $100 million in an initial public...

Y2K-READY FIRMS TO FEEL EFFECTS FROM THE UNPREPARED

WASHINGTON-A new Senate report concludes most wireless carriers and other telecom service providers are not endangered by year-2000 computer glitches, but lawmakers warned that...

NORTEL TO EQUIP SPAIN’S AIRTEL WITH PACKET SYSTEM

MADRID, Spain-Nortel Networks was selected by Airtel Movil S.A. to supply a wireless/wireline packet network valued at about $50 million during the next two...

SAMSUNG, SPRINT DEBUT CDMA DUAL-BAND INTERNET PHONE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS introduced the Samsung SCH-3500 dual-band Code Division Multiple Access phone and announced an agreement, valued at...

AT&T RESTORES SERVICE IN MOST OF N.Y. MARKET

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp. reported 90 percent of its wireless cell sites are back on the air and cellular service in metropolitan New York/New...

AMERICAN TOWER EXCHANGES LOAN FOR TOWER RIGHTS

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. entered into an agreement with TV Azteca S.A. de C.V. in Mexico under which American Tower will loan up to $120...

SPRINT PCS WEB SERVICE LAUNCHED

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS introduced the Sprint PCS Wireless Web, which allows Sprint PCS customers to browse the Internet from their wireless phones. Sprint...

KOREAN FIRM TO MAKE PAGER USING OMNIVOICE TECHNOLOGY

SAN DIEGO - OmniVoice Technologies Inc. announced that Wide Telecom in Korea will produce a voice pager using OmniVoice's VoiceOver technology.Wide Telecom is the...

SARAIDE, DIVERSINET TO OFFER SECURE DATA

NEW ORLEANS-Diversinet Corp., a developer of security products based on public-key technology for wireless and wireline electronic-commerce applications, and Saraide signed an agreement to...

INDUSTRY TEAMS WITH LAWMAKERS, ACTIVISTS FOR CALL TO PROTECT

WASHINGTON-Reps. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.), celebrity spokeswoman Gabrielle Reece, Denise Brown of the Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation, and Rita Smith, executive...

BILL PROMOTES COMPETITIVE ACCESS TO FEDERAL BUILDINGS

WASHINGTON-Reps. Thomas Davis (R-Va.) and James Moran (D-Va.) last week introduced legislation to foster nondiscriminatory telecommunications access to federal government buildings, bolstering competitive prospects...

AUDIOVOX UNVEILS HANDSETS

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-AudioVox Communications Corp. introduced a new line of "clamshell" style cellular handsets.The line will debut with the PCX-3500XL. Made exclusively for PrimeCo Communications...

READYCOM RUNNING IN PUERTO RICO, CHILE

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-ReadyCom Inc. said it introduced its two-way, advanced voice messaging technology with cellular carriers in Puerto Rico and Chile, and confirmed the...

MOTOROLA, AUDIBLE DOWNLOAD AUDIO CONTENT TO HANDSETS

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. and Audible, a provider of Internet-delivered spoken audio content, demonstrated at Personal Communications Showcase '99 in New Orleans the direct downloading...

TELSTRA LAUNCHES AUSSIE SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. announced the commercial availability of its Code Division Multiple Access wireless network across the metropolitan Adelaide, Australia, area. Coverage also...

LUCENT TO EQUIP KONKA WITH GSM HANDSET TECHNOLOGY

SHENZHEN, China-Konka Group Co. Ltd. of China and Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced a five-year agreement under which Konka will use Lucent's Global...

SPRINT PCS TO OFFER SANYO INTERNET PHONE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Sanyo Fisher Co., a division of Sanyo North America Corp., announced an exclusive agreement that calls for Sanyo Fisher...

BOSTON MARKETS PREPAID ARCHITECTURE TO SMALLER MARKETS

NEW ORLEANS-Boston Communications Group Inc., Woburn, Mass., announced Sept. 23 the availability of its new BCGI Prepaid Connection for wireless carriers serving small and...

ANDREW EQUIPS POWERTEL WITH NETWORK ACCESSORIES

ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it will supply Powertel Inc. with its Heliax coaxial cable, RingFlare connectors, SureFlex cable assemblies, SureGround radio-frequency grounding kits...

AMERICAN WIRELESS TO REP FOR QUALCOMM

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. selected American Wireless to distribute a broad line Qualcomm's consumer products, American Wireless announced. Carriers, retailers, resellers, dealers and independent...

BLUETOOTH DEVELOPER GETS FINANCING

SAN DIEGO-Widcomm Inc. announced it has secured more than $5 million in first-round financing led by Enterprise Partners.The company said the funding will allow...

3G SPECTRUM AND ACCEPTANCE TOP PANEL CONCERNS

NEW ORLEANS-The fiery politics that once characterized the third-generation standards-setting process is rapidly dying, members of a 3G panel said at the PCS '99...
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