Yearly Archives: 1999

VIEWPOINT: RISK EXPOSURE

My family went out to eat the other night at a fondue restaurant. My sister, who works in the insurance industry, kept wondering aloud...

NOKIA, PALM TEAM TO CREATE NEW WIRELESS PHONE CLASS

Nokia Corp. and Palm Computing Inc. have entered into a joint development agreement under which the two will cross-license their respective technologies to create...

AMERICAN TOWER COMPLETES PRIVATE PLACEMENT

American Tower Corp., Boston, completed a private placement of $584 million in debt securities, which it will use primarily for acquisitions and construction, the...

SENATE BILL HAS ROCK CREEK PROVISION

WASHINGTON-The Senate on Friday passed a District of Columbia appropriations bill that includes a provision to foster antenna siting in Rock Creek Park and...

CONVERGING SYSTEMS, SERVICES MAY AID FRAUDSTERS

ORLANDO, Fla.-The term convergence means different things to different people. To some, convergence means bundling and selling more than one product to a customer....

SURVEY PREDICTS IN-BUILDING GROWTH

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Phillips Group-InfoTech projects the U.S. in-building wireless voice market will grow at an average annual growth rate of 34 percent to reach $815...

STUDY SHOWS CONSUMERS WILL PAY $16 FOR UNIFIED MESSAGING

NEW YORK-In a recent survey conducted in 10 European countries, Infratest Burke InCom, a London-based market research company, found that most people would pay...

NEW HP STRATEGY TARGETS WIRELESS CARRIERS

GENEVA-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced at Telecom '99 a new company initiative focused on the mobile electronic services industry that combines products, a subscription- and transaction-based...

WESTERN WIRELESS GAINS USF ELIGIBILITY

NEW YORK-Western Wireless Corp. plans to begin offering competitive local exchange services in a few Minnesota towns by year-end now that it has become...

BT, MICROSOFT TEAM ON MOBILE INTERNET

British Telecommunications plc and Microsoft Corp. announced they have agreed to work together in developing mobile Internet and multimedia applications and equipment.Specifically, the two...

FORMUS ISSUES IPO

NEW YORK-Denver-based Formus Communications Inc. hopes to raise $150 million in an initial public offering of stock to help finance its deployment of fixed...

GSM ASSOCIATION HEADS EFFORT TO CREATE ROAMING FORUM

GENEVA-The GSM Association announced it plans to establish a roaming forum to address roaming issues among wireless protocols. Approval of the World Roaming Forum...

NATION BRIEFS

AirGate PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a three-year supply contract valued at up to $150 million, calling for Lucent to supply Code Division...

CARLO’S HEADSET SUGGESTION DOESN’T MAKE SENSE

Dear Editor,Studies of possible harms to the brain from cell phone use by the Wireless Technology Research Group, meant to be a definitive, industrywide...

FCC ASKS FOR RE-HEARING ON CPNI RULES

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week asked a federal appeals court in Denver for a rehearing of a recent decision that vacated agency rules...

WORLD BRIEFS

ScandinaviaAs expected, the European Commission approved the merger of Telia of Sweden and Telenor of Norway. To secure the approval, the two companies have...

NORTEL, TELIA COOPERATE ON INTEROPERABILITY

GENEVA-Nortel Networks and Telia Mobile announced a cooperative development effort to enable subscriber-managed services that can span multiple, dissimilar networks, including traditional wireless and...

ETSI, WAP FORUM TO COOPERATE ON MOBILE INTERNET INTEROPERABILITY

GENEVA-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Wireless Application Protocol Forum signed a cooperation agreement designed to drive interoperability of standards for wireless mobile...

MOTOROLA, AOL TEAM ON MESSAGING FOR WIRELESS DEVICES

GENEVA-Motorola Inc. and America Online Inc. announced plans to integrate the AOL Instant Messenger application into Motorola wireless devices, including both handsets and two-way...

RIM OFFERS 5M SHARES

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. commenced with its public offering of 5 million common shares last Thursday in both Canada and the United States.The...

WAP, 3G, GSM AND E-COMMERCE TAKE SPOTLIGHT IN GENEVA

HarrisHarris Corp. previewed its ClearBurst 2.5/3.4/10.5 GHz point-to-multipoint system, the newest addition to the Harris broadband wireless access product line, which is intended for...

SIEMENS TAKES NEOPOINT STAKE

German manufacturer Siemens AG invested a 15-percent stake in San Diego-based Neopoint Inc., the maker of a CDMA smart phone that integrates a personal...

ROAMING REVENUE BOOSTS U.S. CELLULAR’S FINANCIAL RESULTS

Fueled by United States Cellular Corp.'s strong financial results, parent company Telephone and Data Systems Inc. increased revenues and operating cash flow by 17...

CARRIERS TO BE ASKED TO VOLUNTARILY REPORT OUTAGES

WASHINGTON-The Network Reliability and Interoperability Council is recommending that wireless carriers voluntarily report when a mobile telephone switching office fails, preventing transmission of new...

TOPP TELECOM FILES PATENT LAWSUIT

MIAMI-Topp Telecom Inc. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Miami against Telemac Corp., U.S. Intelicom Inc. and...
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