Monthly Archives: March, 2000

Conita technology turns handset into voice portal

COLUMBIA, S.C.-Conita Technologies Inc. has a simple plan to provide business people easy access to company databases using voice-recognition technology with a tool they...

TIA to study wiretap solutions for packet-mode

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association was invited by the Federal Communications Commission to study digital wiretap solutions for packet-mode technology and report on its findings.TIA...

D.C. BRIEFS

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that Baby Bell telephone companies cannot resell long-distance service to local subscribers.Last June, the U.S....

Dobson affiliate buys Michigan RSA

DENVER-An affiliate of Dobson Communications Corp. acquired the Michigan 3 rural service area from Trillium Cellular Corp., according to Daniels & Associates, representatives for...

Glenayre premieres two-way initiatives at trade show

NEW ORLEANS-Glenayre Technologies Inc. introduced a two-way wireless communications module called @ctiveLink for the Visor handheld computer from Handspring Inc., the first ReFLEX-based two-way...

Lightbridge, Corsair form strategic alliance

NEW ORLEANS-Lightbridge Inc., a provider of customer acquisition, retention and risk-management solutions, and Corsair Communications Inc., a real-time business solutions provider for the wireless...

LHS, Siemens team for GPRS customer care and billing

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Siemens Business Services will jointly provide a Global Packet Radio Service customer care and billing infrastructure for wireless Internet services...

Kennard wants quicker transition to digital TV

NEW ORLEANS-Bidders in the upcoming 700 MHz auction should be able to negotiate with incumbent broadcasters to facilitate a quicker transition to digital TV...

NTIA hopes to spur wireless innovation

NEW ORLEANS-The federal spectrum czar believes that federal government spectrum users need to do a better job of encouraging innovation by private industry.Such communication...

Sonera to trial PacketVideo services

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-PacketVideo said Finland's Sonera Corp. will conduct field trials of its wireless multimedia services this summer.PacketVideo's MPEG-4 compliant software-based encoding, decoding and...

Palm, IPlanet plan enterprise applications

NEW ORLEANS-Palm Inc., a 3Com company, said it plans to develop a solution with iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, part of the Sun-Netscape Alliance, to provide...

PrairieComm announces 3G processor for CDMA

NEW ORLEANS-Prairie Comm Inc., Rolling Meadows, Ill., announced the development of a next-generation digital baseband integrated circuit supporting the Code Division Multiple Access standard....

PCS Innovations gains $2.2M in financing

MONTREAL-PCS Innovations Inc. reported it has obtained investments of $2 million from Innovatech du Grand Montreal and $200,000 from Le Fonds Regional de Solidarite-Ile...

Phone.com system configures handsets via over-the-air provisioning

Phone.com Inc. unveiled a new Wireless Application Protocol-based system that can change software settings and roaming configurations on handsets after they have been purchased...

AT&T is leader in N.Y. consumer study

Telephia Inc. released last week the results of its Wireless E-trac survey of the New York metro area, and despite past reports of capacity...

Wireless portal users to reach 25 million

WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. wireless portal users are expected to reach 25 million in the next five years, according to a recent report released by the...

U.S. wireless telephone penetration 43 percent in 1999

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-According to J.D. Power and Associates' "PCS Report," penetration rates for wireless telephone service rose to 43 percent of households nationwide last...

Powertel launches newbranding campaign

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a wireless personal communications services provider in the southeastern United States, will employ the branding slogan "We're On That" to...

RangeStar unveils smallest Bluetooth embedded antenna

NEW ORLEANS-RangeStar Wireless introduced what it says is the industry's smallest Bluetooth embedded antenna for use by Bluetooth adopters in notebook computers.The new 2.4...

Rohde: FCC needs to do more for universal service

NEW YORK-If the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 were a building under construction, inspectors evaluating this work in progress should be concerned about its...

Cell C named preferred group for 3rd So. African cellular license

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Cell C, the consortium backed by Middle Eastern conglomerate Saudi Oger with CellSaf as a local partner, has been officially named the...

Calling party pays has murky outlook following show comments

NEW ORLEANS-The outlook for adoption of rules for calling party pays is now seen as murky by many of those who attended last week's...

InfoSpace drops dot-com

REDMOND, Wash.-Bucking the recent trend, InfoSpace.com Inc. announced it will remove the dot-com from its name in an effort to position itself as a...

Infowave, Nokia deal on WAP applications

NEW ORLEANS-Infowave Software Inc. signed a value-added services cooperation agreement with Nokia Networks to develop Wireless Application Protocol applications.The agreement calls for the two...

WORLD BRIEFS

CanadaGranite Systems Inc.'s Xpercom solution has been selected by Bell Mobility Inc. of Canada to provide network configuration management to all of the company's...
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