Yearly Archives: 1999

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

GLENAYRE WINS PAGING, MVP INT’L CONTRACTS

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. received two separate contracts for $16.5 million and $1 million to upgrade the nationwide paging network of the Long Distance...

PHONE.COM REGISTERS FOR 3.3M SHARE OFFERING

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission proposing to offer up to 3.3 million additional shares of...

Six consortia vie for South African cellular license

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The four-week license hearings for the third cellular operator in South Africa held in September and October offered some of the best...

Japan’s carriers ready for Y2K

TOKYO-Japan's major carriers said they had taken all necessary measures by the end of September to cope with any potential Y2K problems. Now, say...

TAUZIN WANTS FCC REFORM–NOW

WASHINGTON-House Republicans last week signaled their intention to pursue Federal Communications Commission reform sooner and in a more drastic fashion than envisioned by FCC...

Decision on trunking standard still pending

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The decision of the South African Regulatory Authority (SATRA) and Department of Communications about whether to support TETRA as a digital standard...

VOICESTREAM ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR GOV’T APPROVALS ON MERGERS

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Stanton said the carrier is likely to complete its mergers with Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial...

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...

NATION BRIEFS

Telstreet.com announced it offers wireless phones, service and accessories online. "Telstreet.com takes responsibility for the entire customer experience from buying to fulfillment to delivery...

ILLINOIS COMMISSION APPROVES BELL ATLANTIC-GTE MERGER

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Illinois Commerce Commission on Friday approved the proposed merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., bringing the $53 billion deal a...

VIEWPOINT: JUST DO IT

In the debate over whether radio-frequency emissions from handsets cause adverse human health effects, the wireless telecommunications industry should borrow a page from the...

SENATE LEADER CALLS FOR RURAL PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

WASHINGTON-The Senate Democratic Leader last Wednesday called for a public-private partnership to ensure that rural America has access to advanced telecommunications."A public-private partnership is...

WAP TECH BRIEFS

Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Authentix Inc. will begin final carrier testing on SimplySay 1.0, its voice-activated e-mail and wireless portal system, the company said. The system allows users...

GLOBALSTAR EXPECTS FEWER HANDSETS AVAILABLE AT YEAR-END

Low-earth-orbit satellite voice provider Globalstar L.P. has reduced the number of handsets expected to be available at the end of the year from 70,000,...

LOCATION TECHNOLOGY MOVES CLOSER TO REALITY

Wireless location-based services have been talked about for years and few carriers have deployed them, but reality should begin to set in within the...

D.C. NOTES: COOKIE MONSTER

First, let's start with the premise that at the moment you were assigned a social-security number, all privacy rights went to hell. But if...

WIRELESS I.T. COMES INTO ITS OWN

Perhaps the greatest indicator of how the wireless data industry has matured is the almost giddy buzz of excitement generated by this week's Wireless...

MOTOROLA PROPOSES UNIFYING TWO-WAY RADIO STANDARDS

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it proposed unified Time Division Multiple Access technology guidelines that would allow interoperability and easier migration between TDMA technology and...

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...
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