Monthly Archives: April, 2000

SignalSoft acquires BFound.com

BOULDER, Colo.-Wireless location services developer SignalSoft Corp. said last week it acquired BFound.com, a Victoria, British Columbia-based company experienced in mobile asset tracking on...

CDG expects CDMA handsets with SIM cards by the end of 2000

The CDMA Development Group said it expects handset makers to introduce commercial Code Division Multiple Access handsets with subscriber identity modules by the end...

Solectron completes purchase of Alcatel’s Puerto Rico assets

MILPITAS, Calif.-Solectron Corp., a supply-chain facilitator for customized electronics technology, completed the acquisition of Alcatel's manufacturing assets in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and will assume...

Nextel to announce Web services

Nextel Communications Inc. will soon announce commercial availability of wireless Internet service, people close to the company say.According to the company's Web site, its...

NextWave gets attention of House Judiciary: hearing scheduled

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. appears to have gotten the attention of the House Judiciary Committee with a letter sent to its chairman last week complaining...

ReachNET introduces messaging app for Inter@ctive pagers

BALTIMORE-ReachNET Inc. introduced an instant messaging application for Research In Motion Ltd. Inter@ctive pagers called Pulsar, which it said is compatible with existing instant...

Milwaukee Arena renamed U.S. Cellular Arena

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular and the Wisconsin Center District announced a six-year, $2 million "title sponsorship" agreement renaming the former Milwaukee Arena the U.S. Cellular Arena.The...

JP Systems technology aids mobile health care providers

DALLAS-JP Systems Inc. reported it has designed technology for the wireless exchange of vital medical data for STATmail, a provider of home health care...

CTS forms strategic relationship with Kyocera

ELKHART, Ind.-CTS Corp. formed a strategic relationship with Kyocera Corp. to exchange the license of patents and intellectual property with regard to the design...

NEWS BRIEFS

Adaptive Broadband Corp. was awarded a $56 million, five-year contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless broadband equipment to Cybertech Wireless Inc., a privately...

Lightbridge provides system to Independent Wireless One

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Independent Wireless One Corp., a Sprint PCS Northeast Network Partner, has contracted Lightbridge Inc.'s Retail Management System on an outsourced basis through an...

Leap purchases Buffalo, Syracuse licenses

SAN DIEGO-Wireless communications carrier, Leap Wireless International Inc., signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to purchase personal communications services operating licenses in Buffalo and...

Lexico dictionary available on Sprint PCS Wireless Web

LOS ANGELES-Lexico L.L.C., a provider of language learning services on the Internet, and Sprint PCS announced nationwide availability of Lexico's Dictionary.com on the Sprint...

C-block winners, losers see the same world differently

WASHINGTON-Some see the eventual fate of license winners in the 1996 personal communications services C-block auctions as one of strategy and planning; others see...

Contradictory messages arise out of wireless health and safety issues

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week was rocked by two confounding controversies involving a California bill to promote hands-free devices as a precautionary measure against...

Products

FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving...

Nokia to expand VoiceStream network

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. signed a multi-year supply agreement that will enable VoiceStream to expand its Global System for Mobile communications...

Nokia to expand Globe network

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Globe Telecom, a Philippine telecommunications company, singed an agreement to expand Globe Telecom's Handyphone service, the company's Global System for...

NTCH launches PCS network in Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-NTCH Inc., the holding company of communications investor, Glenn Ishihara, launched its Code Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services network in Grand...

Nokia, New World to trial 3G system

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding with New World Mobility to further develop third-generation mobile services in Hong Kong. A field trial...

What Ever Happened to Truth, Justice and the American Way?

Big business spends billions of dollars on infrastructure. No matter whether the business is an airline or a telecommunications company, the economic theory is...

Orange extends Nokia equipment agreement

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. extended its infrastructure supply relationship with Orange in the United Kingdom by $316.2 million.The additional equipment to be delivered includes Global...

PCIA solicits speakers

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is soliciting speaker submissions for its GlobalXChange conference program providing information and research covering a range of strategic...

People

ATISThe members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its...

Primal to provide billing system to Metrocall

IRVINE, Calif.-Primal, a provider of Internet-enabled customer management software to the communications industry, signed an order to provide Metrocall Inc. with its customer care...
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