Monthly Archives: January, 2000

RIM stock surges on investment news

Research In Motion Ltd. last week received a $25 million investment from Nortel Networks and an order for more than 2,000 BlackBerry handheld devices...

Beijing Telecom Greatwall Mobile expands CDMA network with Andrew

ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. announced the use of its base station antenna products and services to expand Beijing Telecom Greatwall Mobile Communications Ltd.'s Code...

VIEWPOINT: Weighting the scales of justice

Judge Hardin needs our positive thoughts. As he tries to make some sense out of the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, Hardin will find...

Industry-government group to craft WRC-2000 recommendations

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, still struggling to craft a third-generation mobile phone spectrum position for this spring's World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, has organized a...

Calif. consultant may get millions for wireless name

A $100 investment in 1992 could turn into a million-dollar profit for a Silicon Valley businessman, as bidding began last week for the Internet...

Motorola to expand CDMA network in Israel

SWINDON, England-Motorola Inc. received a $122 million contract from Pele-Phone Communications to supply and deploy infrastructure equipment to expand Pele-Phone's Code Division Multiple Access...

Partner gains 13 percent of Israel market

ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel-Partner Communications Co., an Israeli Global System for Mobile communications operator, announced it gained 13 percent of the Israeli cellular market after...

Nokia signs agreements with SOHU.com, BMCC

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia is taking the Chinese market seriously, announcing an agreement with SOHU.com and Beijing Mobile Communications Corp. to offer end users services covering...

Motorola, IFR sign licensing agreement

WICHITA, Kan.-Motorola Inc.'s Commercial Government and Industrial Solutions Sector announced a licensing agreement with IFR Systems Inc. for Motorola's SmartNet and SmartZone trunking protocol.The...

Alcatel forms high-tech venture capital fund

PARIS-Alcatel announced it formed Alcatel Ventures Fund I L.P., an information technology venture capital partnership. The new fund is planned to have an eventual...

Fininfo Group, FinGo join for financial services

PARIS-Mobile Internet financial services in Europe have a new partnership with the announcement that the Fininfo Group and FinGO have combined forces. Fininfo, which...

EDS to incorporate Synergistics software

PLANO, Texas-EDS said it is adding knowledge management and professional training software from Synergistics to its Web-based wholesale applications rental service.The company initially will...

DT creates holding company for mobile phone assets

BONN, Germany-Deutsche Telekom announced it will bundle its cellular phone activities into a new holding company called T-Mobile International AG.Kai-Uwe Ricke, currently head of...

Swiss operator to provide WAP services

UTRECHT, The Netherlands-diAx, the second-largest Swiss wireless operator, said it will provide wireless Internet service using the Wireless Application Protocol beginning in the first...

Ghana Telecom chooses Motorola for GSM expansion

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Ghana Telecommunication Co. Ltd. awarded Motorola Inc. a $41.5 million contract to supply and deploy the west African country's Global System for...

Geoworks lays groundwork for WAP IPR royalties

Geoworks Corp. last week unveiled a licensing program to collect royalties on a user-interface method employed by the Wireless Application Protocol and Wireless Markup...

More players mean cheaper prices in Europe, study finds

LONDON-The successful market entry of new players in Western Europe caused cellular prices to drop 15 percent to 25 percent last year. However, in...

Bundling begins to get its act together

NEW YORK-Ubiquitous connectivity, driven by consumer demand rather than carrier plan, could well develop into a completely new kind of convergent telecommunications, said Joan...

Extended Systems, Motorola cooperate on infrared messaging

SAN FRANCISCO-Extended Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. said they have joined forces to add infrared messaging capabilities to the Timeport P935 two-way pager.The IrDA...

NextWave: Next stop is court

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. at RCR press time was expected to file papers with the bankruptcy court asking Judge Adlai S. Hardin Jr. to explicitly...

Cell phone users oppose driving and dialing legislation

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-In a recent survey by Cellmania.com, an online information resource for wireless products, 53.7 percent of respondents said any legislative prohibition of...

D.C. NOTES: Oy vey

While Steve Case, Gerald Levin and Ted Turner were cartwheeling last week over AOL's planned purchase of Time Warner, others were not jumping for...

Digital Microwave signs deal with infrastructure provider

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. announced it entered into a strategic partnership sales agreement with a major global telecommunications infrastructure provider.The agreement with the...

Globalstar registers public offering

NEW YORK-Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. announced plans to sell 7 million shares of common stock in a public offering, according to a registration statement filed...

Mobile commerce to reach $200B

LONDON-The mobile commerce market could reach $200 billion by 2004, according to a study released by Strategy Analytics.The report predicts an explosion in demand...
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