Yearly Archives: 1999

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...

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...

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....

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...

Sprint PCS to acquire 30 percent of Pegaso

SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS plans to acquire a 30.5-percent interest in Mexican wireless carrier Pegaso, said Leap Wireless International Inc., a co-founder and major shareholder...

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...

D.C. NOTES: 12 themes of wireless

At the recent Practicing Law Institute's Telecommunications Conference, Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, gave a humorous presentation describing the wireless...

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...

Iusacell places $350M debt issue

MEXICO CITY-Nuevo Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, placed privately Dec. 9 a $350 million issue of 14.25 percent senior notes due 2006...

Motorola beefs up E911 functionality

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Network Solutions Sector is pursuing several alternatives in the development of advanced emergency 911 wireless caller location functionality...

Sun updates Java2

NEW YORK-To further enable data communications, Sun Microsystems Inc. has updated its Java2 platform for the corporate enterprise and is at work on a...

Lucent to supply CDMA system for GTE Argentine network

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-GTE Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they signed a multimillion-dollar contract for Lucent to provide a personal communications services network based...

Motorola, China to cooperate on 3G

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced an agreement to cooperate on third-generation technology and research with the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic...

Newtel won’t sweeten bid for Esat

NEW YORK-Newtel AB, formed by the merger of Sweden's Telia AB and Norway's Telenor AS, announced Dec. 7 it will not sweeten its hostile...

BellSouth to begin testing high-speed wireless Internet access

WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. announced last week that early next year it will begin testing high-speed wireless Internet access in Houma, La., using wireless communications service...

Scientists debate RF effect on children

WASHINGTON-While industry this holiday season pushes family plans and makes pocket phones attractive to the younger crowd, questions linger in the scientific community about...

Leap to buy Denver, Pittsburgh licenses

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase personal communications services licenses in Denver and Pittsburgh for an...

Triton chooses PCS-Over-Microwave solution

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Inc. selected Transcept Inc. to help the carrier extend its personal communications services network using Transcept's TransCell...

AvantGo software extends content to wireless

SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc. unveiled the AvantGo Enterprise Publisher, a service designed to extend Web-based corporate intranet and Internet content to handheld devices.The solution...

SkyBridge, Boeing enter partnerªship

BETHESDA, Md.-SkyBridge L.P. and the Boeing Co. signed a partnership agreement under which Boeing will become the launch service provider for SkyBridge as well...

Metrocall to increase stock

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has scheduled a special stockholder meeting for Jan. 14 to vote on increasing Metrocall common stock from 100 million to 200...

Sprint, Amazon.com explore revenue options for delivering data

Carriers across the United States are scratching their heads trying to figure out what the best business model is when teaming up with content...

Chartered, Ericsson to develop technologies

SINGAPORE -Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and L.M. Ericsson announced they jointly plan to develop advanced wireless communications technologies. The technologies, radio frequency CMOS and BiCMOS,...

AirNet grabs $200M in IPO

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp., a manufacturer of Global System for Mobile communications network infrastructure equipment, raised $192.5 million in is initial public offering Dec....

Brazil considers PCS license sale

BRASILIA, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulatory agency, was planning to hold a public hearing to discuss terms for the sale of a round of personal...
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