Monthly Archives: November, 1999

TANTIVY GALLOPS INTO WIRELESS INTERNET FUTURE

WASHINGTON-A company with a name that means "a rapid gallop" or "the blare of a horn" next month plans to begin alpha testing a...

PRODUCTS

TadiranTadiran Inc. introduced the Pulses Plus battery, a high-energy lithium thionyl chloride battery designed specifically for global positioning system tracking, radio-frequency interference detection and...

PINNACLE GROWTH ACHIEVED A LITTLE BIT AT A TIME

With 3,600 owned or managed towers in its inventory, Pinnacle Holdings Inc. ranks among the largest tower companies in the industry, but the way...

GO2 SYSTEMS ADDRESSES GEOGRAPHY PITFALLS WITH PATENT

NEW YORK-The average person does not use latitude and longitude to determine or describe where he or she is and neither, for that matter,...

GAZPROM COMPLETES WORLD’S LARGEST TRUNKED NETWORK

GENEVA-Russia's Gazprom, the world's largest supplier of natural gas, is completing the final stages of a $100 million trunked radio network built to service...

NOVATEL TO USE FUSIONONE SERVICE

LOS GATOS, Calif.-FusionOne Inc. said it will make its Internet Sync wireless synchronization service available to customers of Novatel Wireless Inc., which makes the...

WIRELESS IS FOUNDATION TO LAUNCH OTHER SERVICES

NEW YORK-Landline replacement, the Holy Grail of wireless telephony, received a boost from an array of forces unleashed simultaneously into the communications environment.This is...

SMALL N.J. FIRM FILLS ROLE IN 3G STANDARDS PROCESS

NEW YORK-A key component of the IMT-2000 global wireless third-generation standard that the International Telecommunication Union evaluated this month comes from the kind of...

WIRELESS E-COMMERCE TO DRIVE ONLINE SECURITY

Wireless data and electronic-commerce applications should become increasingly popular in the future, with users trading stocks, comparison shopping and making travel arrangements all via...

DDI TO LAUNCH UP.LINK-BASED INTERNET SERVICE

TOKYO-Phone.com Inc. said Japanese carrier DDI Corp. will soon launch a wireless Internet access service based on the UP.Link Server Suite on a Personal...

CROWN RELISHES INTERNATIONAL ROLE

While most tower companies have been focusing their attention on the domestic market, Crown Castle International Corp. has cast its net overseas.Crown, through its...

`PICK ME COACH,’ WIRELESS TELLS SENATE AT COMPETITION HEARING

WASHINGTON-Competition in the local loop does not need to come from wireline competitive local exchange carriers, it can come from wireless carriers, a high-level...

GTE-BELL ATLANTIC NAME TOP EXECS

NEW YORK-GTE Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles R. Lee and Bell Atlantic Corp. Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg designated six executives to...

VIEWPOINT: DATA DESTINY: MORAL QUESTIONS?

Alain Rossmann, founder of Phone.com, told the opening session audience at CTIA's Wireless I.T. conference last week in Santa Clara, Calif., that the wireless...

PEOPLE

TesscoTessco Technologies Inc. appointed Kevin P. Demery vice president and unit director of product and brand development. He will be responsible for electronic commerce,...

PARADIGM4 PRODUCT AIDS LAW ENFORCEMENT

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Paradigm4 unveiled SmartPartner Pager, a new wireless data service that provides law enforcement officers with the ability to access critical information from...

ORANGE HOPES TO DIFFERENTIATE IN COMPETITIVE MARKET

Following Orange's launch of a $15.5 million promotional campaign in July of the Wildfire voice-activated personal assistant, the carrier said 20,000 subscribers have signed...

U. OF OKLAHOMA TO PROBE PHONE CONNECTION TO GAS-PUMP FIRES

NORMAN, Okla.-The Center for the Study of Wireless Electromagnetic Compatibility said it will conduct research to determine whether mobile phones can interfere with aircraft...

NTT PLANS STOCK SALE IN LONG-TERM PRIVATIZATION PLAN

NEW YORK-Through an underwriting syndicate led by Salomon Smith Barney, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plans to sell up to 982,000 shares of stock,...

D.”C. NOTES: CYNICAL IN SILICON VALLEY

The concept of a trade show devoted to wireless data applications, like Wireless I.T., is as marvelous as it is timely. The show no...

NEXTEL PRICES 30M SHARES AT ABOUT $84

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it priced its underwritten offering of 30 million shares of its Class A common stock at $83.813 per share.The...

JUDGES HEAR ARGUMENTS IN NEXTWAVE BANKRUPTCY COURT

NEW YORK-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments Nov. 1 in the government's appeal of decisions that had affirmed...

HE WHO HOLDS THE SPECTRUM ATTRACTS INVESTORS, BUYERS

NEW YORK-For strategic and financial investors, many domestic wireless carriers possess a strong desirability quotient because they own scarce spectrum in a huge and...

Report says mobile to dominate within five years

GENEVA-Just five years from now, cellular will overtake fixed-line access to become not only the dominant form of telephony, but the world's primary access...

Orange touting transparency in new prepaid offer

LONDON-Orange, the United Kingdom's third-largest mobile operator, announced just prior to Global Wireless press time that it is offering a new prepaid package, called...
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