Yearly Archives: 1999

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...

VENEZUELA COULD AWARD FOURTH LICENSE

CARACAS, Venezuela-Venezuelan regulatory agency Conatel expects to award an additional cellular operating license early next year, according to a Reuters report.There currently are three...

TELECOM OFF CHINA WTO TABLE?

WASHINGTON-As the Clinton administration scrambles to strike a deal on China membership in the World Trade Organization before the start of a global trade...

AT&T EXPANDS ON ONE-RATE PLAN

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new service plan for its Digital One Rate program.The carrier said it offered a calling plan last...

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...

DIGITAL CELLULAR DANGER COMES FROM PULSES

Dear Editor: I totally disagree with your unsupported conclusion that digital cellular phones are less dangerous than their analog counterparts. The exact opposite is true!...

HANDSET SHORTAGE ANSWERS DEPEND ON WHO YOU ASK

Some confusion exists in the wireless industry over whether mobile-phone-component shortages are affecting the handset supply in the United States.Major handset suppliers say they...

PROTECTED SPECTRUM COUNTERS EFFICIENT USE OF SPECTRUM

Dear Editor: I read Alan Shark's rebuttal in the Oct. 18 issue of RCR and feel it's time Mr. Shark take a trip back into...

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...

SONERA SELECTS AIRFLASH.COM LOCATION-BASED INTERNET SERVICE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AirFlash.com Inc. said Finnish carrier Sonera Inc. has implemented its mobile location-based Internet services as part of the carrier's recently announced mobile...

WIRELESS BOOSTS U S WEST REVENUES

DENVER-U S West Wireless said it added nearly 60,000 customers during the third quarter, reaching a weighted average penetration rate of 2.6 percent.The personal...

ERICSSON AUSTRALIA, SOLECT TEAM ON IP

TORONTO-Ericsson Australia and Solect Technology Group signed a partnership to jointly provide a range of wireless Internet Protocol solutions to the Australian market. Under...

ORANGE LAUNCHES PREPAID WITHOUT THE FINE PRINT

LONDON-Orange, the United Kingdom's third-largest mobile operator, announced it is offering a new prepaid package, called Just Talk, that makes clear all conditions and...

FCC MAY TINKER WITH 911 COST-RECOVERY

WASHINGTON-Lost in the hoopla over the enactment of wireless 911 legislation last week is the growing prospect that the rollout of position location for...

GEOWORKS IMPROVES NET LOSS, REVENUES DOUBLE

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. reported a net loss of $994,000, or six cents per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, compared with a...

WORLD BRIEFS

HungaryMotorola Inc. said it is providing Hungarian mobile operator Westel 900 its Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform. The trial is Hungary's first deployment of...

TELENOR TAKES STAKE IN MALAYSIAN CARRIER

OSLO-Newly merged Telenor and Telia agreed to acquire a 30-percent stake in DiGi Swisscom Berhad, a Malaysian telecommunications group that operates a Global System...

SIEMENS GAINS MOROCCO GSM CONTRACT

MUNICH-Siemens AG announced it won a contract to provide Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz infrastructure equipment to Medi Telecom, the second GSM...

INTELLIWORXX JOINS CERULEAN PROGRAM

SARASOTA, Fla.-Intelliworxx Inc. said it has joined Cerulean Technology Inc.'s Partner Program, running Cerulean's PacketCluster Patrol and Rescue public-safety wireless solutions on its VoiceTablet...

AT&T LIMITS 3Q CUSTOMER ADDS DUE TO CAPACITY, HANDSET SHORTAGES

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said capacity problems and handset shortages constrained the company's ability to add subscribers in the third quarter.The nation's largest wireless...

LOTUS DEVELOPMENT MESSAGING TAKES DOMINO WIRELESS

BERLIN-IBM's Lotus Development Corp. launched a unified messaging initiative aimed to extend the Lotus Domino platform to wireless devices, so users may access Domino-based...

MOTOROLA CGIS ACQUIRES SOFTWARE FIRM

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced its Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector acquired Software Corporation of America Inc., which markets wireless software applications and middleware...

SHARED TECH. TO OFFER METROCALL PREPAID PAGING

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it signed a letter of intent to add Metrocall Inc.'s CountDown prepaid paging to its CellEase prepaid services...

SBC EARNINGS RISE DESPITE M&A COSTS

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter increased 9.4 percent to $12.5 billion from $11.4 billion reported for the same...

CORRECTION

RCR's Oct. 25 story reporting Ericsson AB's third-quarter financial results should have indicated the company's third-quarter net income was more than expected by analysts.
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