Monthly Archives: September, 1999

AT&T PRICES $450M BOND

NEW YORK-In fulfilling a commitment made earlier this year, AT&T Corp. announced it had priced a three-year $450 million all-minority lead and underwritten bond...

ERICSSON SIGNS DEALS WITH THAI CARRIER

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it signed two contracts, valued at more than $55 million, with Advanced Info Service Public Co. Ltd. in Thailand for...

3GPP2 GROUP RESOLVES SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES FOR 3G

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced the Third-Generation Partnership Program 2 (3GPP2) has completed its international harmonization workshop on global 3G and has moved...

KITCHEN SAYS SHOW WILL FOCUS ON CONVERGENCE

WASHINGTON-After last year's PCS show was largely disrupted by Hurricane Georges, Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association, said he's been assured...

QUALCOMM PUSHES FCC ON OMNIPOINT PREFERENCE

Qualcomm Inc. last week asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny Omnipoint Corp.'s request to transfer its New York personal communications services license to...

I.D. SYSTEMS USES GPS TO WIN POST OFFICE CONTRACT

NEW YORK-I.D. Systems Inc., a newly public company, has deployed its patented wireless monitoring and tracking system to help the U.S. Postal Service keep...

DECIDE.COM LAUNCHES COMPARATIVE WEB SITE

SAN JOSE-Decide.com introduced the Decide.com Web site, where consumers can identify, compare and purchase telecommunications products and services based on how they will use...

INTERNET SITES TO GET MORE SAVVY

A number of Internet sites have popped up in recent months offering side-by-side wireless services pricing comparison and purchasing. But some are evolving to...

CELL-LOC’S IDI PURCHASE WILL ALLOW INTERNET-BASED WIRELESS LOCATION

CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. said it agreed to purchase Intelligent Database International Ltd. of Calgary for 455,555 company shares.In the acquisition, Cell-Loc will assume full...

WIRELESS ON VERGE OF LIABILITY VICTORY

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is on the verge of arguably its biggest victory since congressionally mandated state deregulation in 1993: liability protection.Congress is poised this fall...

CARRIERS NEED TO STOP SHOUTING AND START LISTENING

We recently heard a captivating story that has ramifications for the wireless industry, and for that matter, any industry that deals with the nasty...

LOCATION SERVICES COULD BE PUT IN PLACE TODAY

Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.Gary Ritter,...

REPLACEMENT HANDSET SALES DRIVING TERMINAL GROWTH

This analysis explains why initial terminal forecasts for 1999 averaged 55 million units below what will likely be 260 million terminals shipped. It reveals...

3COM SET TO SPIN OFF PALM UNIT

Confirming weeks of speculation, 3Com Corp. announced it plans to spin off its Palm Computing subsidiary into an independent public company by next year.The...

INTERNET-BASED CUSTOMER CARE HOLDS UNIQUE CHALLENGES

NEW YORK-Those who think Internet-based services provision will reduce overhead should remember the conventional wisdom once was that computers were heralds of a paperless...

FCC KEEPS SPECTRUM CAP FOR URBAN MARKETS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area...

NEW ECONOMY GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT MUST MOVE FASTER

WASHINGTON-Government needs to move faster to keep up with the New Economy, said many members of the New Economy Task Force of the Progressive...

QUALCOMM, SYMMETRICOM DEMO SYNCHRONIZATION SOLUTION

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they successfully demonstrated the ability to synchronize and maintain time and frequency between Code Division Multiple...

WHITE HOUSE EXPECTED TO RESPOND TO EU ON 3G

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration this week is expected to respond again to the European Commission's plan to deploy third-generation mobile phone service in all 15...

UWCC WORKS TO PROMOTE TDMA IN CHINA

Moving on its promise to step up promotion of Time Division Multiple Access technology worldwide, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium said it recently met...

VIEWPOINT: ARE WE THERE YET?

About the time PCS licenses were first up for grabs, industry prognosticators predicted that four or five mega-carriers would one day rule the U.S....

ALLTEL ENHANCES VIRTUOSO

ATLANTA-Alltel Corp. announced its AS/400-based Virtuoso customer care and billing software has been enhanced to support the provisioning and billing of multiple telecommunication services,...

WIRELESS DATA IS REBORN

In 1989, I started my career in wireless as an outside sales rep for Metro Mobile (which would later become part of Bell Atlantic...

VOICESTREAM SELECTS RIGHTPOINT E-MARKETING

SAN MATEO, Calif.-RightPoint Inc. said VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is implementing RightPoint's real-time e-marketing suite to personalize its customer sales and support Web site.RightPoint said...

WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES THREE-PRONGED ENCRYPTION PLAN

WASHINGTON-The federal government moved closer to life in the 21st century with two actions that will help law enforcement, while allowing companies to develop...
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