1999

CULVER CITY, Calif.-DSI Technology Inc. said it will begin selling its new Adserver Internet platform at the Personal Communications Showcase in New Orleans this week. The Adserver allows paging carriers …

WASHINGTON-Millions of cellular telephones may be getting safety approvals by the Federal Communications Commission despite possibly exceeding the agency’s radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines. Professor Om P. Gandhi, a prominent RF …

WASHINGTON-The saga of the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy, like a hurricane in the ocean, kept churning last week as a variety of activities here and in New York had players …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it invested in Formus Communications in an effort to build out Formus’ networks, which will provide improved broadband Internet access to small- and medium-sized businesses, …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nextlink Communications Inc. announced it has begun a field test of its broadband wireless technology in the Los Angeles area. “This is another important step to providing a complete …

LOS ANGELES-Driscoll-Wolfe Marketing & Research Consulting conducted a multiclient marketing research study on consumer interest in location-based mobile communication services, and identified the location-based services of greatest interest to consumers …

Confirming weeks of speculation, 3Com Corp. announced it plans to spin off its Palm Computing subsidiary into an independent public company by next year. The restructuring will allow 3Com to …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week attempted to neutralize legislation to curb antenna siting by telling Congress that consolidation in the tower business will reduce the number of wireless …

The need to add a wireless play in global telecommunications alliances became clearer last week as AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc announced a strategic alliance designed to create seamless …

NEW YORK-In fulfilling a commitment made earlier this year, AT&T Corp. announced it had priced a three-year $450 million all-minority lead and underwritten bond offering. The company said the bond …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Interoperability testing between AirNet Communications Corp.’s base station subsystem and a Lucent Technologies Inc. mobile switching center was successfully completed and will be deployed by Carolina PCS I Ltd. …

WASHINGTON-With the exceptions of 9-pound babies being born and people getting married at the ninth hour of the ninth day of the 99th year in the last century of the …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced the Third-Generation Partnership Program 2 (3GPP2) has completed its international harmonization workshop on global 3G and has moved closer to resolving technical issues related …

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department, already embroiled in controversy over a secret wireless licensing pact with Nextel Communications Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission, last week urged a federal court here to …

Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission. Gary Ritter, wireless offer manager, location services, …

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. and Nokiterra Oy merged, giving Nokia approximately 64.3 million of its shares, corresponding to approximately 5.3 percent of the total share capital and voting rights of Nokia, said …

LOS ALTOS, Calif.-Wireless Online Inc. introduced an antenna system for two-way messaging called the WOL-2000R, which it said reduces the cost of planning, deploying and operating two-way wireless messaging networks. …

Every day does not produce news about the 3G standards process; it just seems that way. The basic reason, as Jimmy Durante once succinctly put it: “Everybody wants to get …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-BroadVision Inc. announced CellMania.com was the fastest e-commerce site to launch using BroadVision’s One-To-One Business Commerce software. Time to market for CellMania.com took seven weeks. “The BroadVision One-To-One …

SAN FRANCISCO-Continued growth of the Internet and continued deregulation are fueling the tremendous change in the telecommunications equipment market, said Sutro & Co. in its newly issued research report. Sutro’s …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-SiRF Technology Inc. announced an alliance with location technology product and services provider Integrated Data Communications. The two companies plan to develop complementary product offerings that will enable …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells broadband data …

LA JOLLA, Calif.-NeoPoint Inc. said it has begun volume shipments of the NeoPoint 1000 smart phone to Sprint PCS, which will market the handset as the Sprint PCS NP1000. Sanford …

NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P., shifting focus from a development company to an operating company, named a new senior operating team in preparation for its impending commercial launch. The low-earth-orbit satellite carrier …

WASHINGTON-A standards subcommittee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions plans to create a new working group to develop standards for fixed-access solutions. The Standards Committee T1’s Technical Subcommittee for …