Monthly Archives: January, 2000

Web services key to BAM growth in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH-Bell Atlantic Mobile feels good in the Steel City, attributing much if its recent growth in the Pittsburgh area to the company's recent introduction...

Motorola, SingTel to offer tri-band GSM phone

SINGAPORE-Residents of Singapore can now surf the Internet without getting caught in those annoying wires.Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with SingTel Mobile to provide...

Six groups vie for Spanish licenses

MADRID, Spain-Six groups submitted bids to the Spanish government for four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Spain to be awarded in March.Telefonica Moviles,...

Dobson Communications begins IPO road show

Dobson Communications Corp. plans today to begin a road show in advance of its initial public offering, which is expected to be priced during...

BT, Telenor agree on Esat

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and Telenor AS announced they have reached an agreement regarding Ireland's Esat Telecom and its wireless arm Esat Digifone. BT is...

Telematics products take the stage at Detroit Auto Show

Several telecommunications companies hooked up with auto makers to provide in-vehicle wireless capabilities at last week's 2000 Detroit Auto Show. General Motors Corp. is...

GSMA, UWCC to work together on requirements

DUBLIN, Ireland, and BELLEVUE, Wash.-Building on their recent interoperability agreement, the GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium agreed to work together for...

CTS forms phone card subsidiary

SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Company Inc., a provider of real-time information processing and management solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced the formation of Isis Tele-Communications...

AT&T confident of financial targets

NEW YORK-At a recent conference of financial analysts, AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong confirmed the company's confidence in meeting its 1999 and 2000 financial...

Ericsson to use TI’s multimedia platform for 3G

NEW YORK-In its next-generation, Internet-enabled mobile wireless devices, L.M. Ericsson will use the Open Multimedia Application Platform of Texas Instruments Inc., according to an...

Sierra, Infowave bundle solution for N.A. businesses

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-While most people bundle together in Canada to stay warm, two companies in Vancouver are bundling to make their services warmer for...

WAP interoperability increasing concern

As the United States gears up for the commercial launch of Wireless Application Protocol services, the question of interoperability between WAP vendors has become...

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...

Omnitel subscribers up 68 percent

ROME-Italian wireless operator Omnitel announced a record increase in customers during 1999 with 4.22 million new subscribers, an increase of 68 percent compared with...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Tegic Communications Inc. signed a global licensing agreement with Voxson, allowing Voxson to integrate the T9 Text Input technology for Chinese and European languages...

American Tower obtains credit facilities

BOSTON-American Tower Corp., Boston, has obtained amended credit facilities, arranged by four financial institutions, that will permit it to take out revolving loans of...

AAA Michigan to offer online travel booking

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Customers of the American Automobile Association of Michigan will have a little more help trying to get where they are going. GetThere.com...

NEWS BRIEFS

Brightpoint Inc. will continue as the exclusive distributor of Ericsson Mobile Phones in the United States, according to the company. The agreement extends Brightpoint's...

LHS, Alcatel sign MoU for Chinese projects

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of operations support systems, and Alcatel, a Paris-based network infrastructure supplier, have signed a memorandum of understanding to...

Sonera, Gemplus to market SIM card

HELSINKI, Finland-Hoping to make e-commerce a little safer, Sonera SmartTrust Ltd. announced a deal with Gemplus to market a Global System for Mobile communications...

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...

Lucent hit with class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK-A securities class-action lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Lucent Technologies Inc. between Oct. 27, 1999,...

Analysts should speak up

NEW YORK-If the overall stock market advance is to continue, securities analysts must recognize their right and discharge their duty to speak fully and...

Nokia to expand Dutch network

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a two-year, $205.8 million agreement to expand Dutch wireless operator Ben Nederland B.V.'s General Packet Radio Service and Global System...

Alcatel divests N.A. plants

DALLAS-Alcatel USA is divesting itself of three North American manufacturing plants as part of the company's strategic initiative to better focus its resources on...
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