February 2000

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. is having a busy start to the new millennium, announcing a new merger and adding more towers to its portfolio. The merger, with Galaxy Engineering Services, will …

NEW YORK-Extraterrestrial wireless received good news when Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. sold a $245 million secondary stock offering Jan. 26. In preparation for Globalstar Telecommunications’ secondary offering last week, Bernard L. …

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. announced an agreement with Triton Cellular Partners L.P. to provide its 9-1-1Connect service to 15 rural Oregon counties. SCC’s 9-1-1Connect service provides Triton with access to …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Hong Kong’s mobile operator, Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd., selected Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group to implement its Wireless Application Protocol platform for wireless Internet-based services. The deal calls …

BOULDER, Colo.-SignalSoft Corp., a software developer focused on the wireless location industry, completed $33 million in private equity financing from existing investors as well as new financial and strategic investors …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS reported earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, of $996 million and $3.18 billion, respectively. This marks a significant increase from the $437 …

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced its membership in the Wireless Data Forum. According to Spyglass, the goal of the WDF is to work cooperatively to promote the development of standards and …

LONDON-During the next five years, cellular base station deployment in Europe is expected to more than double, according to a report released by the Strategis Group. The report, “Strategis databank: …

VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. announced it has entered into a non-exclusive worldwide patent license agreement with Andrew Corp. to manufacture and sell a docking station for digital cellular handsets using …

CANNES, France-Motorola Inc. and Turkish Global System for Mobile communications operator Telsim announced they signed a $1.5 billion contract calling for Motorola to provide infrastructure, handsets and associated services to …

NEW YORK-ThinAirApps L.L.C. introduced its ThinAir Server, a platform that allows corporate users to access enterprise data from wireless devices. The first set of products includes the ThinAir Server for …

After resisting a hostile takeover attempt by Vodafone AirTouch plc for more than two months, Germany’s Mannesmann AG last week agreed to a revised friendly offer just days shy of …

CANNES, France-Vodafone Ltd. said it bought CMG Telecommunications Inc.’s WAP Service Broker solution to bolster its Wireless Application Protocol services.

Although some rumblings continue over Geoworks Corp.’s licensing program for Wireless Application Protocol technology, WAP-related announcements continued making news at last week’s GSM World Congress in Cannes. Phone.com Inc. announced …

France Telecom announced a partnership with IBM Corp. and Palm Computing Inc. for a trial service extending intranet and desktop-environment data to personal digital assistants. The solution integrates France Telecom’s …