Monthly Archives: March, 2000

Amazon.com expands wireless presence

NEW ORLEANS-Amazon.com Inc. intensified its wireless presence last week, announcing a new Web address exclusively for mobile e-commerce customers as well as alliances with...

Virginia siting bill pulled

WASHINGTON-The sponsor of a controversial antenna-siting bill in the Virginia General Assembly pulled the measure last week apparently at the urging of top officials.The...

GTE TSI makes roaming, W911, telematics announcements

NEW|ORLEANS-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. said it has purchased the Jambala Mobility Gateway from L.M. Ericsson to complement its Interim Standard-41 to Global System for...

Motorola, Cadence unveil module design

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. and Cadence Design Systems Inc. introduced a fully integrated FLEX Messaging Module reference design that can be integrated into a variety...

Nokia, ICL Finland form e-business company

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Oy and ICL Finland have formed a joint venture to further support Nokia Information Management's e-business development.The new venture, called Nice-business Solutions...

Nokia launches `how-to’ Web site for handset users

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Oy launched a new Web site designed to provide information on how to use the features available on any of the company's...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nextel announces alliances

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with Aether Systems, Amazon.com, eDispatch.com, Wireless Data Inc., IBM and MicroStrategy to offer wireless Internet applications unique for...

Tauzin to introduce bill to restrict FCC merger review authority

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) intends to unveil legislation shortly that is expected to go far beyond last week's proposal by the...

Metrocall introduces My2Way service

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced its My2Way two-way paging service, reselling airtime from WebLink Wireless Inc.'s ReFLEX network under an existing agreement.Metrocall said it will...

Sony licenses Microsoft browser for GSM handset

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced handset manufacturer Sony Corp.'s Digital Communication Europe division has licensed its Mobile Explorer microbrowser for its CMD-Z5 Global System for...

Motorola completes layered VoIP/3G packet-data call

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384...

Motorola study negative for cancer increase

WASHINGTON-A new study failed to find an increase in cancer and other diseases among nearly 200,000 employees who worked at Motorola Inc. from 1976...

Siemens plans re-entry into handset market

NEW ORLEANS-Siemens AG announced it will re-enter the U.S. mobile-phone market in 2001, about two years after it left the market unable to compete...

Lucent announces several alliances

NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc. has been relatively quiet about its plans for the wireless Internet, but last week it announced a number of initiatives...
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