Monthly Archives: December, 1999

D.C. NOTES: WTO and Bill’s bad hair day

Forgive Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates for feeling a bit paranoid these days, what with the feds being on his case about trying to...

Ericsson wins Sichuan contract

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson announced a contract valued at about $100 million with China's Sichuan Mobile Communications Co. to expand its Global System for Mobile communications...

KPN Telecom, Telia to sell Eircom stakes

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands-KPN Telecom of the Netherlands and Telia of Sweden announced they will sell their stakes in Eircom, the Irish telecom operator...

world BRIEFS

Latin AmericaMillicom International Cellular S.A. said MIC Latin America recently commenced offering dial-up Internet and e-mail services to its mobile telephony customers in Bolivia,...

Analog Devices’ new DSP to use TigerSharc architecture

Analog Devices Inc. today plans to introduce the first digital signal processor to use the company's TigerSharc DSP architecture.The TigerSharc architecture, which ADI introduced...

Protecting trade secrets complicated by job-hopping

NEW YORK-Protecting trade secrets may seem impossible in a marketplace characterized by the simultaneous increase in the amount of privileged information and the frequency...

AT&T to implement ScoreBoard quality measurement solution

More spectrum, better call quality and expanded coverage are the battle cries of the wireless industry as of late, and ScoreBoard Inc. in Herndon,...

Rohde: Hunt for 3G spectrum to dominate 2000 agenda

WASHINGTON-Gregory Rohde, President Clinton's new telecom adviser, last week said the top international telecom issue next year will be finding more spectrum for third-generation...

Qualcomm, Intel reach license pact

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology...

FCC proposes greater flexibility for spread-spectrum technology

WASHINGTON-The coming of the new millennium may bring with it new products using spread-spectrum technology.The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules that would increase...

AT&T to sell Motorola StarTac

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and AT&T Corp. announced the availability of Motorola's ST7797 StarTac Time Division Multiple Access digital wireless phone.The ST7797 offers up to...

Adaptive, United Online sign contract

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it signed a $15 million contract to provide AB-Access broadband wireless networking equipment to United Online, a Colorado-based carrier...

Defense holds ’em in ’99 Congress

WASHINGTON-On one level, the wireless campaign on Capitol Hill this year was not unlike that of Congress as a whole. In the end, when...

Class-action securities lawsuit moves

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court said last week a class-action securities-fraud lawsuit against battery maker Valence Technology Inc. can go forward.Shareholders became upset when Valence...

More big-name companies join Bluetooth SIG

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc.These industry...

Third operator to deploy iDEN

Motorola Inc. found a third operator in the United States willing to deploy its proprietary integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology and more may follow.Specialized...

Sprint expands affiliate agreements

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced new affiliation agreements and the expansion of existing affiliation agreements, which will enlarge its wireless footprint nationwide.Sprint PCS signed...

Lai study connects long-term memory loss to RF

WASHINGTON-A new study by University of Washington researcher Henry Lai suggests rats exposed to cell phone microwave frequencies suffered long-term memory loss."Studies before this...

AT&T affiliate Tritel to launch IPO

NEW YORK-Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss.-based personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., plans to go public just in time for Christmas.Tritel...

Sprint, Motorola to trial 3G CDMA technology

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector signed an agreement to begin a third-generation trial of Code Division Multiple Access digital...

BT CellNet, Freeserve team on wireless Internet

LONDON-BT Cellnet, Britain's second-largest mobile phone operator, teamed with Freeserve, the United Kingdom's largest Internet service provider, to develop information services for wireless Internet...

Newtel launches hostile bid for Ireland’s Esat

DUBLIN, Ireland-Newtel AB, the newly formed company resulting from the merger of Telia AB of Sweden and Telenor AS of Norway, has launched a...

Sprint enters CDMA equipment service agreement with Ericsson

Sprint PCS signed a seven-year master service agreement with Ericsson Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access equipment, though the nationwide carrier has not committed...

Tivoli Systems creates new business unit

NEW YORK-Tivoli Systems Inc., an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of IBM Corp., has created a Service Provider Business Unit to execute its new Net Generation...

Telstra combines KPN’s satellite interests, offers prepaid solution

SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. and KPN of the Netherlands said they may merge their global mobile satellite businesses to form a joint venture aimed...
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