April 2000

French vendor Alcatel SA said it is contemplating an entrance into the U.S. mobile-phone market. The company admitted as much during a press event in Paris during which it announced …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will begin offering Internet content channels to subscribers via GoAmerica Inc.’s wireless e-mail service. The deal extends the Go.Web service to Arch customers, …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced its pending merger with Paging Network Inc. has received clearance from the Department of Justice’s antitrust division. It remains subject to clearance yet by …

Code Division Multiple Access technology is gaining some momentum in Europe. Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they will cooperate with Hungarian Nordic Mobile Telephone operator Westel Radiotelephone Ltd. …

CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-Referring to the failure of Iridium L.L.C.’s satellite phone service and the continued growth of OmniTracs’ Internet-based satellite tracking service, a report by Datacom Research Co. and Farrar & …

LONDON-A new study by Strategy Analytics reports that players in Western Europe’s cellular handset market will survive only if they develop product lines offering a well-segmented approach to the customer …

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Jim Murrell, chairman of the North American GSM Association, could not use his Global System for Mobile communications phone last week in Brazil during Telecom Americas 2000. …

ANKARA, Turkey-Italy’s Telecom Italia SpA and a leading Turkish bank, Turkiye Is Bankasi AS, won a license to operate Turkey’s third mobile telephone network with a bid of more than …

WASHINGTON-The White House confirmed on Thursday it has not taken an official position on the move to repeal the tax on talking, notwithstanding a separate statement submitted in a report …

SEATTLE-Lucent Technologies Inc. and TeraBeam Networks are entering into a venture to develop and deploy TeraBeam’s fiberless optical networking system, which sends data through the air using invisible light, the …

There seems little doubt the wireless Internet is going to be a reality, but what remains unclear is exactly who will use it, on what devices and using which technology. …

WorldCom Wireless became the latest-and most high-profile-company to fall victim to the climbing bids for five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in the United Kingdom last week. WorldCom withdrew from …

Boy, you take a few months off to have a baby and the world changes. I don’t think RCR had used the term m-commerce when I left in early February …

With concerns rising over the need for enhanced security in future wireless e-commerce, several firms in both the wireless and security industries launched efforts last week aimed at designing secure …

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Voice-interface software provider Nuance Communications Inc. postponed its initial public offering by a day, but still managed to beat the market, closing up $16.94 at $33.94 per share …

Analysts covering Motorola Inc.’s stock were surprised and irritated last week after the company unexpectedly indicated wireless handset profits would face pressure the rest of the year. Though the company …

HONG KONG-China Unicom Ltd., China’s No. 2 telecommunications operator, will make an initial public offering and listing of 25 percent of the company’s enlarged capital on the Hong Kong and …

WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king. The trade association again delivered a set of …

NEW YORK-The crowded vendor marketplace obscures the fact that customer relationship management, though expensive, easily pays for itself in business expansion and market differentiation. “Companies looking for flat head decisions, …

NEW YORK-Because of their relative scarcity, augmented by their growth history and potential, wireless carriers seeking financing enjoy elevated status in the eyes of investors, even in volatile capital markets. …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, despite having shed many state and federal telecom regulations in recent years, is about to be swept into a bold new regulatory regime as wireless and Internet …

ASCOT, England-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group and Nokia Networks are conducting General Packet Radio Services interoperability tests between handsets using Lucent’s Sceptre chipset and Optimay protocol stack software solution and …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to announce as early as next month a dramatic improvement to global positioning system accuracy, a move with enormous public safety and commercial implications for …

WASHINGTON-MCI WorldCom Inc. filed with federal authorities to sell up to $15 billion in debt securities, according to Reuters. The company, which is in the process of buying competitor Sprint …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has reduced the minimum bid amounts for the June 14 auction of 104 guard-band licenses in the 700 MHz band. The maximum opening bid will now …