Monthly Archives: May, 2000

CTIA urges subcommittee to pass uniform sourcing bill

WASHINGTON-The cellular industry and leaders of state and local government groups took to the road last week with their efforts to pass legislation to...

Network vendors not worried by GPS signal improvement

WASHINGTON-Even with President Clinton's decision last week to dramatically improve global positioning system accuracy for civilians, vendors that offer a network-based E911 solution say...

Geoworks launches Mobile Site service

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. launched its Mobile Site service as a complement to its existing Mobile ASP solution. Mobile Site pulls data from a Web...

Brits to post health labels on cell phones

On the heels of press reports that the British government soon will require mobile phones to carry health warnings, a Swedish team of medical...

Bankruptcy court approves ICO reorganization plan

LONDON-ICO Global Communications announced the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Delaware has approved ICO's plan of reorganization.The plan and related plans of arrangement in Bermuda...

WORLD BRIEFS

ChileNexus Telocation Systems Ltd. formed a joint-venture company in Chile to deploy communication and location services. The new company, Ubinet Telecom S.A., will offer...

Lucent, Italy cooperate on 3G

MILAN, Italy-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is committing technical and business expertise in Italy to promote collaborative projects with government, industry and academia to...

SkyBridge focuses on differences in delivering broadband access

NEW YORK-SkyBridge L.P. is building a network and a business model designed to sidestep the negatives associated with other land and space alternatives for...

Pixo pictures access beyond today’s WAP protocol

While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the...

PhoneRun, Lucent to market `phonecasting’ to carriers

BOSTON-PhoneRun Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they will jointly market to service providers a mobile Internet service called "phonecasting," a media network of...

PageNet ends year with greater net loss

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. finally reported year-end and fourth-quarter 1999 financial results and filed its 10-K annual report, following repeated delays blamed on a massive...

Alcatel, Fujitsu form venture to develop 3G systems

PARIS-Alcatel and Fujitsu Ltd. said they will establish a joint venture to develop and manufacture next-generation mobile communications network systems.According to Alcatel, the agreement...

Gavel to open on 700 MHz band Sept. 6

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week officially delayed the auctions for the 700 MHz band to Sept. 6. The auctions had been originally scheduled...

Celulares Telefonica signs billing pact with Amdocs

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-Celulares Telefonica Inc., a Puerto Rican wireless carrier, implemented Amdocs' Ensemble solution for customer care and billing to support all of...

NIOSH questions number of accidents for telecom tower workers

WASHINGTON-The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said injuries and fatalities from workers falling from wireless towers are occurring at a substantially greater...

D.C. NOTES: Splitsville

Time was when Bill Gates was the quintessential symbol of American capitalism. The undisputed icon of the Digital Age. But now, with the Justice...

Ericsson upgrades 2 TDMA markets for BellSouth

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. replaced BellSouth Mobility's existing Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure in Nashville, and Chattanooga, Tenn., and Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette,...

CrossKeys offers bandwidth capacity solutions

When most broadband-based Internet service providers encounter problems with bandwidth capacity, the most common remedy is to open the company checkbook and purchase more....

Xircom bundles software with AvantGo modem

GENEVA-Xircom Inc. said it has bundled software from AvantGo Inc. in its wireless modem product for the Handspring Visor organizer, allowing devices equipped with...

E-tailers walk fine line when taking industry funds

Web sites that offer comparison shopping for wireless phones and services appear to be a dime a dozen these days. Consumers go to these...

Pan-Asian wireless growth likely to jump

SINGAPORE-With the worst effects of the economic crisis over, telecommunications companies in countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region are likely to advance rapidly in these...

MIC launches fixed wireless service in Argentina

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its Argentine subsidiary launched the first phase of its service rollout in the Buenos Aires area. Millicom Argentina...

NEWS BRIEFS

Reuters Group plc and Aether Systems Inc. launched their Sila Communications European wireless data joint venture, created to host, design and manage content and...

Inktomi, Nokia team on mobile network software

HELSINKI, Finland-Inktomi Corp., a developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, and Nokia Networks have agreed to deliver carrier-class infrastructure software to mobile network operators.According...

OmniSky kicks off wireless Internet solution for Palm V

OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta...
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