April 2000

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 licenses will be granted through a …

A corporate merger is not unlike a marriage. Two separate parties enter the union with two individual identities, and emerge from the ceremony as one entity, committed to achieving common …

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 accounts to two-way interactive paging services …

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 Caribbean expansion. Centennial’s personal communications services …

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 PCS Wireless Web. The new service …

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 Syracuse, N.Y., for an undisclosed amount. …

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 application service provider model. According to …

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 held, business-to-business Internet Service Provider. Aether …

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 and manufacture of frequency control products, …

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 communications. The new system, InfoBeam Healthcare …

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 mobile phone radiation and a British …

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 company’s name will appear on …

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 messaging products like AOL Instant Messenger …

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 happened to the C-block “winners” since …

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 Image Transmission Initiative to accelerate the …

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 band is located at 38.6-40 GHz. …

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 wireless communications and Internet Protocol telephony …

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 Protocol backbone networks. The agreement calls …

As my plane left San Jose International Airport for the friendly skies last Monday, I looked down and saw what appeared to be a massive plume of smoke, mushroom-shaped, rising …

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 is a digital air interface …

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 any phone or via the Internet, …

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., convened a recent Practising Law Institute …

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 been pictured rather than Sn. …

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 local, state and federal officials fear …

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 U.S.-Cuban telecom trade? The answer …