Monthly Archives: February, 2000

MVNOs are coming to the U.S., driven by wireless e-commerce

Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice...

Another day, another appeals court for C-block debacle

WASHINGTON-Yet another federal appeals court has been brought into the debacle known as the personal communications services C-block.Bankrupt PCS operator NextWave Telecom Inc. filed...

Qualcomm eyes Europe fleet market

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands-Qualcomm Inc.'s Wireless Business Solutions operation announced plans to provide wireless communications-based fleet management solutions to the European freight transport industry and other...

USA Wireless plans East Coast facility

PACOIMA, Calif.-USA Wireless Technologies, a value-added distributor of wireless accessories, announced its East Coast division will operate out of Florida with the primary responsibility...

Teligent, Mannesmann Arcor partner for German fixed wireless services

NEW YORK-In a Valentine's Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had...

TTC, Wavetek agree to merge

GERMANTOWN, Md.-TTC, a unit of Dynatech Corp., and Wavetek Wandel Goltermann announced plans to merge. According to TTC, the new company, which will announce...

U.K. qualifies 13 applicants for UMTS bidding

LONDON-The U.K. government said it qualified all 13 applicants for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses to bid in a March auction."I am delighted that...

NEC, Telecom Italia cooperate on UMTS

ROME-NEC Corp. announced an agreement with Telecom Italia Group to work together in technical trials for Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems.NEC, which supplies handsets to...

D.C. BRIEFS

The Department of Justice last week said SBC Communications Inc. has not sufficiently opened its local exchange market in Texas to be allowed into...

Washington addresses recent cyber attacks

WASHINGTON-President Clinton and other administration officials met with high-tech, security and civil-liberty representatives at the White House last Tuesday to address the recent wave...

Government set to appeal Hardin

WASHINGTON-In another move in the litigative trench warfare that is the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, the federal government on Thursday filed a notice...

New funding could help PCCW’s bid for Cable & Wireless HKT

HONG KONG-Pacific Century CyberWorks, the Asian Internet company vying for a tie-up with Cable & Wireless HKT, raised more than $1 billion through a...

Boston Communications doubles prepaid subscribers

WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it doubled its prepaid wireless subscriber base, reaching 2 million subscribers, in less than 12 months.The company attributed...

AT&T launches promotion with Bill Russell

BOSTON-AT&T Wireless and the Boston Celtics have teamed up for a new promotional relationship featuring Celtics legend Bill Russell.In addition to featuring the Hall-of-Famer...

Tantau platform improves e-commerce security for enterprises

Tantau Software International Inc. unveiled an open mobile e-commerce platform, built specifically for the enterprise customer, that bypasses the typical constraints placed by carriers...

Symbian initiative outlines new agreements

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Symbian initiative unveiled several new product enhancements through deals announced at the Symbian Developers Conference.An agreement with Communication Intelligence Corp. added...

Order delay expected to affect Spectrian results

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. said forecasted orders for a product in its single carrier amplifier line have been delayed until later this year and will...

Sprint PCS launches in Madison

MADISON, Wis.-Sprint PCS launched service in the Madison, Wis., area as part of a nationwide network expansion covering more than 4,000 cities.As part of...

SCC announces Phase I 911 rollout

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. announced an aggressive deployment schedule for its Phase I wireless 911 service with more than 1,000 public safety answering points...

Rural access remains challenge for telecom providers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Rural and underserved markets quickly are becoming integral, strategic components of international telecommunications expansion, because reaching the 4 billion people worldwide still...

RIM, Bid.Com form strategic alliance

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research in Motion Ltd. and Bid.Com International Inc. reported plans to form a strategic alliance.Bid.Com International, an online e-commerce company, and Research in...

RIM to provide BlackBerry to OCI

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Inc. signed an agreement to provide its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to OCI Communications Inc, distributing an initial order of...

Two companies use WAP for mobile work-force applications

SAN FRANCISCO-Two companies turned to Wireless Application Protocol technology to wirelessly extend their e-business applications to a mobile work force.SAP AG released version 2.0...

Geoworks to supply technology to Virgin Mobile

MACCLESFIELD, England-Geoworks Corp. signed an agreement to provide its Premion Server+ technology to Virgin Mobile.The server is the backbone of Geoworks' Mobile Attitude reminder...

Aviation community concerned about interference from ultra-wideband

WASHINGTON-Prospects for the widespread development of ultra-wideband technologies were dealt a blow last week when the aviation community-associations representing both airlines and air travelers-expressed...
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