Monthly Archives: November, 1999

GSM carriers need to exploit data

SAN FRANCISCO-Act now! GSM carriers need to deploy wireless data today, speakers told Global System for Mobile communications operators at last week's GSM in...

VoiceStream raises $1.5B in notes sales

BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. announced it raised about $1.5 billion in proceeds from the issuance of 10.375-percent senior notes and 11.875-percent senior discount notes.The...

Tower industry winners announced

LAS VEGAS-Following are the winners of the tower industry's Excellence in Business Awards sponsored by RCR and Shorecliff Communications Inc. The winners were announced...

In Fusio, Webraska team on WAP game

PARIS-In Fusio, a games development and animation provider, announced it has joined forces with Webraska, a provider of mapping and guidance services for Wireless...

Nokia wins GPRS contracts

HELSINKI-Telefonica Moviles of Spain, with approximately 8 million cellular subscribers, signed an agreement with Nokia Corp. for the deployment of a General Packet Radio...

SingTel, KDD form alliance

TOKYO-Singapore Telecom and KDD Corp. of Japan formed a partnership under which the two companies agreed to swap shares, forming a joint venture to...

U.S. may be shifting 3G spectrum stance

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, bowing to industry pressure here and across the Atlantic, last week signaled for the first time a willingness to consider supporting...

Microsoft antitrust ruling charges wireless competitors

As the wireless industry continues its journey toward the convergence of wireless and Internet, many have kept a wary eye on Microsoft Corp. to...

Tower firms switch from acquisitions to execution

LAS VEGAS-The agreement between Crown Castle International Corp. and GTE Corp. by many accounts eliminated the last major carrier tower portfolio on the market...

Spectrian makes UltraRF unit independent

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. said its semiconductor division will operate as an autonomous business unit named UltraRF."With its formation as an independent business unit, UltraRF...

Vodafone AirTouch acknowledges Mannesmann interest

LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc acknowledged speculation circulating last week that it was interested in making a bid for Germany's Mannesmann AG and hinted that a...

Va. Supreme Court rules siting approvals must be local

WASHINGTON-In a major setback to Bell Atlantic Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the Virginia Supreme Court ruled wireless carriers must have local approval...

SMRs (and the rest of the industry) need more spectrum

WASHINGTON-The No. 1 issue for the wireless telecommunications industry is access to additional spectrum, whether it is the incumbent cellular operators wanting the spectrum...

Nextel, Southern Linc embrace WAP deployment

Enhanced specialized mobile radio operators are poised to lead the country in rolling out Wireless Application Protocol services next year.Today, no U.S. wireless provider...

AT&T doesn’t care about customer

Dear Editor: I have been a customer of AT&T Wireless in the New York region for several years. During this time, I have utilized the...

Specifications approved for IMT-2000

GENEVA-A group of radio experts on IMT-2000, which met in Helsinki, Finland between Oct. 25 and Nov. 5, have approved a set of terrestrial...

World Briefs

United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc is close to a deal with Viag, the German utility, that would give it access to the Austrian telecom market...

Motorola adds JP’s InfoBeam to PageWriter

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. said it has added InfoBeam technology from JP Systems to the PageWriter 2000X, extending microbrowser functionality to the two-way pager...

AMTA: We’re on the same side

Dear Editor: I'd like to offer a short response to Scott Adam's letter to the editor in your Nov. 8 edition, "Protected spectrum counters efficient...

PageNet-Arch combo shrinks debt

Key to the merger agreement between Paging Network Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. is a massive debt reduction to be achieved through a...

Nortel wins China GSM contracts

BEIJING-Nortel Networks announced that its joint venture, Guangdong Nortel Telecommunications Equipment Ltd., was awarded contracts valued at $64 million by China Unicom and Anhui...

D.C. NOTES: Democracy in drag

The waning loss of faith in the American political system can be explained away by episodes like this.The alleged misdeed, if true, is bad...

N.A. GSM operators celebrate roaming progress

SAN FRANCISCO-North American Global System for Mobile communications operators had an upbeat story to tell international GSM carriers this year at the GSM in...

D.C. Briefs

The House, over protests from the White House and some congressional Democrats, last week approved legislation to make electronic signatures legal.The measure, which passed...

Phone.com offers 4.0 beta version of development kit

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. released beta version 4.0 of its UP.SDK software development kit, providing the wireless developer community with a Wireless Application Protocol...
- Advertisment -

Most Read