Monthly Archives: April, 2000

France plans UMTS license tender

PARIS-The French government said it will issue this month calls for tender for four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System phone licenses, Reuters reported. The third-generation...

Cohesive branding is the exception for global merged companies

A corporate merger is not unlike a marriage. Two separate parties enter the union with two individual identities, and emerge from the ceremony as...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Metrocall Inc. formed a strategic partnering agreement with WirelessMD Inc. to target the medical community. Specifically, the two hope to upgrade existing one-way paging...

Centennial Puerto Rico to offer notes

Centennial Puerto Rico Corp., a subsidiary of Centennial Communications Corp., Neptune, N.J., plans to raise $250 million in eight-year notes to help finance its...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

VIEWPOINT: Learning from other’s mistakes

Was anyone paying attention to the debacle that was the U.S. C-block spectrum auction of 1996? Has anyone been paying attention to what has...

Group targets standard for wireless imaging solutions

LOS ANGELES-The Digital Imaging Group, an open industry consortium created to expand the use of digital images across markets and applications, launched the Wireless...

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...

Motorola next-generation DSP now available

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. announced its DSP56311 digital signal processor is now available in production volumes, allowing companies to build next-generation networking infrastructure systems for...

Nokia, Cisco to enhance mobile-IP connectivity

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia Corp., and Cisco Systems Inc. announced a nonexclusive agreement to enhance connectivity between mobile and Internet...

D.C. NOTES: Ground zero

As my plane left San Jose International Airport for the friendly skies last Monday, I looked down and saw what appeared to be a...

Chadmoore to test ComSpace DC/MA

LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. reported an agreement with ComSpace Corp. to purchase and test market ComSpace's digital technology, DC/MA, in a selected market.DC/MA...

Song identification technology available to Palm usªers

PHILADELPHIA-ConneXus Corp. reported that its *CD technology, which lets listeners find out what song is playing on the radio with either a call from...

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...
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