Yearly Archives: 1999

Geoworks, TSR team on Toys for Tots

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. and TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced they have teamed to conduct a holiday campaign in support of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve's...

Lucent enters Brazilian venture

CURITIBA, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Inepar S/A Industria e Construcoes, a Brazilian energy and systems manufacturer, announced they formed a joint venture to supply...

Wheeler goes on the road to preach the virtues of wireless data

BALTIMORE-In what he hopes will be the first of many such appearances, Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week told...

Ericsson scores La. America contract

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it signed a $200 million contract with Diginet Americas to further build out Diginet's fixed wireless broadband network throughout Latin America....

EF Johnson wins Motorola contract

LINCOLN, Neb.-EF Johnson Co. announced it received a contract from Motorola Inc. for $3.7 million to provide the mutual aid equipment for the shared...

ITU works on specs for IMT-2000 networks

The International Telecommunication Union announced network experts who met in Geneva earlier this month agreed on six sets of specifications for IMT-2000 networks.The ITU...

OmniTracs gets Chinese contracts

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Chinese service provider Guandong South Satellite Telecommunications Service Co. Ltd. said contracts have been signed to provide the OmniTracs mobile...

Esat recommends shareholders reject takeover bid from Newtel

DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Telecom's board of directors said the offer made by Newtel AB in a hostile takeover bid is "derisory and fundamentally undervalues the...

Winstar gets $900M for stake in firm

NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc., New York, will receive $900 million from its sale of a 13-percent stake to a group of investors, including Microsoft...

Japan telecom carriers unite

Following months of speculation, three Japanese telecom companies announced plans to merge into one group to compete in the country's increasingly competitive telecom market....

Nettech gets investment from Japenese firm

PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. announced Itochu Techno Science-a computer system distributor in Japan-has invested in the company.Nettech also said it acquired the assets of...

FCC makes plans for NPCS auction

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission expects to hold an auction for the remaining narrowband personal communications services licenses as early as next summer."At this point...

WebLink attracts developers

WebLink Wireless Inc., formerly PageMart Wireless, announced several companies have joined its Enterprise Solutions Provider Program in the last week.The most recent addition is...

CTIA backs Western Wireless in efforts to gain ETC status

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration urging that wireless...

CTIA to sue if private wireless gets spectrum

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to release auction and service rules that will make 30 megahertz of spectrum available for commercial...

Business Briefs

Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss., personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., raised $168.75 million Dec. 14 in an initial public offering...

Ericsson aims to integrate strategies for international players

NEW YORK-Sweden's L.M. Ericsson has majored on the infrastructure side of provisioning to wireless carriers within the United States while playing a comparatively minor...

Motorola expects to unveil two-way pager at CES

As the fourth quarter comes to a close, it seems ReFLEX 25 paging operators will not get the two-way pagers manufacturers promised would be...

Siemens, Casio to enter wireless PDA space

Competition in the wireless personal digital assistant space will be heating up soon, as Casio Computer Co. Ltd. and Siemens' Communication Devices division have...

Concealment industry no longer under wraps

Looking out the window of his Los Angeles office, William E. Jackson II can see two wireless sites his company designed, but he hopes...

Motorola licenses Palm OS

In a deal mirroring one recently completed by Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. announced it will license the Palm operating system from Palm Computing Inc....

New FleetTrack switches systems

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.-Integrated Systems Research said its new FleetTrack automatic vehicle location system is the first to offer users automatic switching from Cellular Digital...

Judge relaxes rules to give Nextel access to 900 MHz

WASHINGTON-A federal judge last week approved a new antitrust settlement between the Justice Department and Nextel Communications Inc., allowing Nextel to acquire more 900...

FCC hopes to study RF interferªence

WASHINGTON-The government, not industry, needs to study the interference impact of the explosion of wireless devices occurring today, said Bob Lucky, corporate vice president...

Ztango.com delivers Internet to wireless devices

RESTON, Va.-Ztango.com Inc. introduced software solutions that enable the delivery of Internet-based services to digital wireless phones and Wireless Application Protocol-based smart phones.Ztango.com's software...
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