Monthly Archives: April, 2000

Success will come to those companies that can reinvent themselves

NEW YORK-After first admonishing all attendees to turn off their cell phones, William T. Lake, a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.,...

Correction

An incorrect picture appeared with the story titled, "Senators ask: What is broadband?" (April 3, pages 1 and 10). Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) should have...

NHTSA to address digital driver distractions

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to hold a series of meetings beginning in July on digital driver distractions, like mobile phones, that...

U.S.-Cuban telecom trade in the cards?

WASHINGTON-With a U.S.-Cuban custody battle and U.S.-China trade dominating business in the nation's capital these days, the question arises: What are the prospects for future...

D.C. BRIEFS

The Federal Communications Commission has approved 35 bidders to participate in this Wednesday's auction of licenses for the 39 GHz band. The 39 GHz...

AT&T registers Wireless Group IPO

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. registered for sale with the Securities and Exchange Commission $13.248 billion of AT&T Wireless Group tracking stock, which would by far...

ETSI approves Ericsson satellite phones

NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson's mobile satellite phones for Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. have received type approval from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.The new phones are compatible...

U.S. cautious about EC plans for multiple standards

American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing...

edocs introduces billing module for Palm VII

NATICK, Mass.-edocs Inc., a provider of Internet billing and customer management software and services, introduced a bill presentment and payment distribution module for Palm...

Many industry players feel EDGE will not be big in Europe

A growing number of operators, vendors and analysts are not convinced EDGE technology will make significant inroads in Europe."In Europe, I'm not expecting a...

VIEWPOINT: Scaling a sheer cliff

European regulators this year will auction, grant or selectively tender 70 to 80 licenses. It's a double-edged sword for the incumbent operators, which in...

UMTS auction “the next big one”

Bids for each of the five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in the United Kingdom reached or topped $3 billion last week. All 13...

Qualcomm, Motorola end patent disputes

Qualcomm Inc. and Motorola Inc. ended their longstanding patent disputes last week, agreeing to extend their Code Division Multiple Access cross licenses.The new settlement...

Merger necessary to compete

ATLANTA-Speculation again surfaced that BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. will announce the merger of their U.S. wireless assets as early as this week,...

Bell Atlantic expands digital

GREENVILLE, S.C.-Bell Atlantic Mobile reported that its digital wireless service is now available in eight counties in western North Carolina.According to Bell Atlantic, the...

Senators ask: What is broadband?

WASHINGTON-There is not any official definition of broadband in law today and policy makers may be trying to apply an old law to the...

Lucent, Bandai partner for games

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an agreement with Bandai Co. Ltd. of Japan to help service providers stimulate new wireless network services in...

Iusacell launches mobile Internet service in three states

MEXICO CITY-Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. launched its new mobile Internet service based on Wireless Application Protocol in the Mexican states of Mexico, Morelos...

Telecom Italia Mobile focuses on SIM cards

NEW YORK-Telecom Italia Mobile, Europe's largest wireless carrier, sees the Subscriber Identity Module that links each customer to its network as key to its...

WORLD BRIEFS

ChinaMotorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded a $14.5 million contract to install a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 network in China. The...

GroupServe markets “in-time communications” to wireless business customers

Led by an executive team that includes a lawyer, a doctor, an analyst and an engineer, GroupServe Inc. offers software applications that allow business...

E-commerce commission approves report for Congress

NEW YORK-During a special conference call March 30, a majority of federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce members approved a final report to deliver...

Citizens group to appeal RF safety standards ruling

SAN FRANCISCO-A citizens group plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a recent federal appeals court decision upholding the Federal Communications Commission's...

Motorola invests in Centerpost

SCHAUMBERG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it made a strategic equity investment in Centerpost Corp., which is developing technology expected to enhance the way electronic messages...

D.C. BRIEFS

A bill to prohibit the interception and dissemination of conversations over wireless technology has been introduced in the United States Senate. "In the Information...
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