Monthly Archives: October, 1999

DIGITAL WIRELESS PHONES PROPEL MOTOROLA EARNINGS

NEW YORK-Despite its investments in the troubled Iridium L.L.C. satellite carrier, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., reported strong third-quarter results Oct. 12 that reflected growth...

NEW HP STRATEGY TARGETS WIRELESS CARRIERS

GENEVA-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced at Telecom '99 a new company initiative focused on the mobile electronic services industry that combines products, a subscription- and transaction-based...

NORTEL, TELIA COOPERATE ON INTEROPERABILITY

GENEVA-Nortel Networks and Telia Mobile announced a cooperative development effort to enable subscriber-managed services that can span multiple, dissimilar networks, including traditional wireless and...

APION BUY IS PHONE.COM’S ENTRY INTO GSM EUROPE

Phone.com Inc. added to its mounting momentum last week by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol products and operations of...

3COM ESTABLISHES 3G WIRELESS NETWORKING EFFORT

GENEVA-3Com Corp. unveiled its third-generation technology strategy last week that calls for the company to develop wireless networking technologies that will give people and...

STUDY SHOWS CONSUMERS WILL PAY $16 FOR UNIFIED MESSAGING

NEW YORK-In a recent survey conducted in 10 European countries, Infratest Burke InCom, a London-based market research company, found that most people would pay...

SPRINT PCS TRIALS MULTIVENDOR NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS said it has begun field trials to evaluate the performance quality of a multivendor wireless network environment within the same...

ORACLE SOFTWARE EXPANDS WIRELESS DATA USES

Oracle Corp. introduced wireless Internet software called Portal-to-Go, a universal translator of sorts designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with any Internet site,...

CARRIERS TO BE ASKED TO VOLUNTARILY REPORT OUTAGES

WASHINGTON-The Network Reliability and Interoperability Council is recommending that wireless carriers voluntarily report when a mobile telephone switching office fails, preventing transmission of new...

NOVATEL TO RESELL RICOCHET TECHNOLOGY

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced it entered into a technology license agreement with Novatel Wireless under which Novatel will sell wireless modems based on...

D.C. NOTES: DR. WHEELERSTEIN

At precisely what moment did Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler realize he'd created a monster? Was it after the first lawsuit? The...

SENATE BILL HAS ROCK CREEK PROVISION

WASHINGTON-The Senate on Friday passed a District of Columbia appropriations bill that includes a provision to foster antenna siting in Rock Creek Park and...

SONERA PURCHASES BYEDESK SOLUTION

GENEVA-Finnish personal communications services carrier Sonera said it bought the business activities of ByeDesk from TeamWare Group of San Jose, Calif., for an undisclosed...

SONERA SMARTTRUST, ERICSSON TEAM ON E-COMMERCE SECURITY SOLUTION

GENEVA - Sonera SmartTrust and L.M. Ericsson announced a digital signature solution for secure wireless e-commerce using Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones. Sonera SmartTrust developed...

ERICSSON, SYMBIAN AND OTHERS ALLY ON GPRS DEVELOPMENT

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced that it and IBM Corp., Lotus, Oracle, Palm Computing Inc. and the Symbian group have formed an alliance to advance...

ROAMING REVENUE BOOSTS U.S. CELLULAR’S FINANCIAL RESULTS

Fueled by United States Cellular Corp.'s strong financial results, parent company Telephone and Data Systems Inc. increased revenues and operating cash flow by 17...

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CTIA ATTEMPTS TO DELAY TV SHOW

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week attempted to delay ABC's "20/20" broadcast on mobile phones and attacked the credibility of the man who...

CELLULAR ONE OFFERS FREE LONG-DISTANCE, ROAMING PLANS

CHICAGO-Cellular One of Chicago, north central Illinois and northwest Indiana introduced Digital Edge Midwest and Digital Edge USA-new regional and national wireless rate plans...

NOKIA, PALM TEAM TO CREATE NEW WIRELESS PHONE CLASS

Nokia Corp. and Palm Computing Inc. have entered into a joint development agreement under which the two will cross-license their respective technologies to create...

FCC AFFIRMS 800 MHZ SMR LICENSING RULES

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely affirmed auction-driven 800 MHz specialized mobile radio licensing rules, but made several modifications that drew applause from...

SIEMENS TAKES NEOPOINT STAKE

German manufacturer Siemens AG invested a 15-percent stake in San Diego-based Neopoint Inc., the maker of a CDMA smart phone that integrates a personal...

WAP, 3G, GSM AND E-COMMERCE TAKE SPOTLIGHT IN GENEVA

HarrisHarris Corp. previewed its ClearBurst 2.5/3.4/10.5 GHz point-to-multipoint system, the newest addition to the Harris broadband wireless access product line, which is intended for...

GSM VENDORS SELECT SUN’S JAVA

GENEVA-Sun Microsystems Inc. announced three manufacturers of Global System for Mobile communications handsets have agreed to incorporate Java technology in their products.First, Motorola Inc....

RIM OFFERS 5M SHARES

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. commenced with its public offering of 5 million common shares last Thursday in both Canada and the United States.The...
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