Monthly Archives: February, 2000

Ericsson signs deals with Mannesmann, Celcom

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two deals providing increased capacity to wireless telecommunications providers.A $300 million contract with Mannesmann Mobilfunk will provide Global System for...

Monument predicts stock growth in handset, voice recognition markets

NEW YORK-Qualcomm's meteoric stock price appreciation in 1999 may well be a unique phenomenon that other companies are unlikely to replicate.Nonetheless, other established and...

More Metrocall expansion?

Speculation continues about Metrocall's stated intention to participate further in the paging industry's consolidation. The quintupling of Metrocall stock to more than $10 a...

Citizens protest Mass. siting legislation

WASHINGTON-A major controversy with national implications has erupted in Massachusetts over draft legislation that would promote antenna siting collocation and streamline siting approval for...

Leap acquires Georgia licenses

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reached a definitive agreement to acquire personal communications services operating licenses in Macon, Columbus and Albany, Ga., from Zuma...

Lawmakers push for increase in high-tech visas

WASHINGTON-A group of lawmakers, responding to the growing shortage of skilled workers in the digital economy, last week introduced legislation to increase the number...

Japan’s declining paging market claims another victim

OSAKA, Japan-KansaiTele-Message became the latest victim in Japan's declining paging industry by filing for liquidation with $183 million in debts, according to a Kyodo...

McCaw financing rescues Iridium

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's Craig McCaw, swooping in to rescue yet another struggling satellite wireless phone company-leading a group of...

Web hacking just one obstacle to wireless e-commerce

WASHINGTON-As wireless e-commerce struggles to establish itself as an industry mainstay, it faces major legal, technical and security challenges like the cyber attacks of...

Vodafone AirTouch now focused on smaller acquisitions

While Vodafone AirTouch plc last week advanced its merger with Germany's Mannesmann AG, the company indicated it may look to fill in its footprint...

Kansas, Washington grant ETC status to wireless

WASHINGTON-Slowly, but surely, the picture is getting brighter for wireless carriers that wish to obtain federal universal service support subsidies as two states recently...

Cable & Wireless ponders Caribbean fate

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago-Cable & Wireless is said to be in negotiations with Trinidad and Tobago regarding the future of the carrier's...

Robust competition unfolding on act’s fourth anniversary

WASHINGTON-"The vision of robust competition laid out in the is beginning to unfold," said the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy in a...

Chadmoore urges FCC to deny Nextel waiver request

WASHINGTON-A request by Nextel Communications Inc. that it be granted a waiver to use frequencies close to the Canadian border on a secondary basis...

CellPort Labs changes name

BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. changed its name to Cellport Systems Inc. to reflect what the company says is the evolution from a research and...

Mixed feelings remain between technology camps

Public skirmishes over third-generation technology died last year when the wireless industry embraced a harmonized CDMA-based standard, but old feelings between camps die hard...

Cyber defense planned

WASHINGTON-President Clinton plans to meet with Internet executives and key government officials on Tuesday to discuss last week's cyber attacks that temporarily shut down...

FCC debate centers on calling party pays

WASHINGTON-An FCC staff proposal for the implementation of calling party pays service is being heavily debated by the commissioners' offices-a debate that could lead...

Wireless growth, new services bode well for tower sector

NEW YORK-Tower companies are sitting pretty and poised for even greater prosperity in 2000 and beyond as domestic demand for their properties grows.Prime movers...

Long-term debt defaults hit record high in 1999

NEW YORK-Publicly held long-term debt set an unwelcome record in 1999 as 147 corporate and sovereign issuers defaulted on $44.6 billion in bonds, more...

Telephia financing totals $11M plus

SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc., a provider of integrated marketing and network quality data, reported its series B round of financing totaled more than $11 million.The...

TI exec predicts wireless phone growth to continue

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-Speaking at a Goldman Sachs Technology Symposium, the head of Texas Instruments Inc.'s wireless business unit said the company expects last year's...

VIEWPOINT: Mobility and communications

I wonder what it was like to be around when the automobile first really hit it big. Suddenly, there was a whole new world...

BellSouth to issue Latin American tracking stock

BellSouth Corp. said last week it could issue a tracking stock for its highly successful Latin American operations by late April or early May,...

TIA backs NTR for China

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is joining other business sectors in backing President Clinton's call for congressional passage this year of permanent Normal Trade Relations...
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