Yearly Archives: 1999

Mobile Inspector brings wireless office to the field

GREENSBORO, N.C.-The inspections division of the Greensboro Engineering & Inspections Department and BellSouth Mobility DCS have teamed to develop Mobile Inspector, a technology that...

BT CellNet, Freeserve team on wireless Internet

LONDON-BT Cellnet, Britain's second-largest mobile phone operator, teamed with Freeserve, the United Kingdom's largest Internet service provider, to develop information services for wireless Internet...

Protecting trade secrets complicated by job-hopping

NEW YORK-Protecting trade secrets may seem impossible in a marketplace characterized by the simultaneous increase in the amount of privileged information and the frequency...

AT&T to implement ScoreBoard quality measurement solution

More spectrum, better call quality and expanded coverage are the battle cries of the wireless industry as of late, and ScoreBoard Inc. in Herndon,...

Data4Me wireless portal service aimed at end users

TeleCommunications Systems Inc. launched a free wireless portal service called Data4Me, aimed directly at end users with the goal of increasing awareness of wireless...

AOL buys Tegic

In what is perhaps the most concrete example to date of its commitment to extend Internet services to mobile devices, America Online Inc. last...

Sprint, Motorola to trial 3G CDMA technology

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector signed an agreement to begin a third-generation trial of Code Division Multiple Access digital...

Telstra combines KPN’s satellite interests, offers prepaid solution

SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. and KPN of the Netherlands said they may merge their global mobile satellite businesses to form a joint venture aimed...

Adaptive, United Online sign contract

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it signed a $15 million contract to provide AB-Access broadband wireless networking equipment to United Online, a Colorado-based carrier...

world BRIEFS

Latin AmericaMillicom International Cellular S.A. said MIC Latin America recently commenced offering dial-up Internet and e-mail services to its mobile telephony customers in Bolivia,...

Newtel launches hostile bid for Ireland’s Esat

DUBLIN, Ireland-Newtel AB, the newly formed company resulting from the merger of Telia AB of Sweden and Telenor AS of Norway, has launched a...

Ericsson wins Sichuan contract

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson announced a contract valued at about $100 million with China's Sichuan Mobile Communications Co. to expand its Global System for Mobile communications...

Class-action securities lawsuit moves

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court said last week a class-action securities-fraud lawsuit against battery maker Valence Technology Inc. can go forward.Shareholders became upset when Valence...

France’s Cegetel signs with Nortel Networks for 3G

PARIS-French cellular operator Cegetel will work with Nortel Networks to develop third-generation services based on the Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services standard, according to the...

SpectraSite negotiates Apex buy

SpectraSite Holdings Inc. last week signed a definitive agreement to acquire property management firm Apex Site Management Inc.The stock-for-stock transaction, which is expected to...

FCC proposes greater flexibility for spread-spectrum technology

WASHINGTON-The coming of the new millennium may bring with it new products using spread-spectrum technology.The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules that would increase...

Hyundai licenses WAP browser

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. announced Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. has agreed to license the UP.Browser Wireless Application Protocol compatible microbrowser for its Code...

KPN Telecom, Telia to sell Eircom stakes

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands-KPN Telecom of the Netherlands and Telia of Sweden announced they will sell their stakes in Eircom, the Irish telecom operator...

Carriers debate making OHG official

The Operators Harmonization Group began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied group of four operators trying to end the world's...

Defense holds ’em in ’99 Congress

WASHINGTON-On one level, the wireless campaign on Capitol Hill this year was not unlike that of Congress as a whole. In the end, when...

Y2K efforts lead paging teamªwork

The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and...

Barnes & Noble launches wireless e-commerce

NEW YORK-Internet retailer barnesandnoble.com launched a wireless e-commerce initiative called bn.com On the Go, which is designed to allow customers to search for and...

Wysdom receives $7M investment from VenGrowth

TORONTO-Wysdom Inc., a developer of wireless Internet applications, has received a $7 million private equity investment from The VenGrowth Investment Fund Inc., a Canadian...

Lucent, Motorola collaborate on DSP core

Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., through their StarCore Joint Design Center, announced the availability of a digital signal processor core optimized for next-generation...

NTT takes stake in Hong Kong carrier

NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's largest mobile carrier, said Dec. 2 it plans to buy a 19-percent interest in Hutchison Telephone Co....
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