May 2000

WASHINGTON-The House, aided by intense Clinton administration and high-tech lobbying as well as legislative commitments to monitor any import surges and human rights, is expected this week to pass a …

WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust lawyers reportedly oppose the proposed $115 billion merger between WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp., a major snag that-if true-could kill the deal and spark bidding wars for …

OTTAWA-Nortel Networks and the State Development Planning Commission of China signed a memorandum of understanding outlining long-term plans to cooperate on research and development in wireless communications, broadband optical transmission …

HAYWARD, Calif.-Entrust Technologies Inc., CV Cryptovision and Scopus Tecnologia joined the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group. The group was formed in 1998 to develop interoperable security solutions based on elliptic …

CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. announced the U.S. patent office has allowed Cell-Loc to claim as its property the delivery of handset-based wireless location content and services over the Internet, regardless of …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-BellSouth Corp. said it acquired 16.5 percent of the total capital of Brazilian cellular operator Tele Centro Oeste Cellular for $229 million, bringing the number of its Brazilian …

ATLANTA-BulletIN.net, which develops and supplies wireless Internet messaging products, closed on $15 million in first-round venture funding from Milford Investment Partners. BulletIN.net noted it would use the funding to complete …

CISCO, Texas-BroadBand Wireless International Corp. said Ronald L. Baker resigned as a director of the company on May 3, at which time an internal investigation of certain financial and accounting …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a personal communications services provider serving the southeastern United States, introduced its PowerChat text message service designed to deliver messages between Powertel and other Global System …

This is a copy of a letter sent to President Clinton in response to his recent American tour exposing the lack of wireless telephony and Internet access to rural and …

ATLANTA-TowerCom Enterprises L.L.C., a company that owns, develops and manages wireless communications towers, said it purchased certain tower assets in California and Arizona and formed TowerCom West Coast L.L.C.

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association said it has asked the Federal Communications Commission to extend the digital wiretap deadline for two-way pagers to 2001. “The paging industry and FBI agree …

Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail. Telephia Inc. is conducting a nationwide survey …

OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and up to a 24.9-percent stake in …

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company’s westward network expansion and to handle additional growth. The Lucent 5E …

MCLEAN, Va.-Telespatial Inc. will use info-USA.com’s online directory content, under a licensing agreement between the two companies. Telespatial is a wireless application services provider of real-time location-based services.

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support. Sybase created iAnywhere Solutions Inc. to …

HONG KONG-Sunday Communications Ltd. announced plans to work with Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard and PacketVideo to develop wireless Internet services for customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Many of the services …

SAN MATEO, Calif.-SkyGo unveiled plans for a wireless interactive marketing platform that will be available for licensing to credit card companies, wireless services providers and Internet companies. “Advertisers will need …

BEIJING-Sina.com, an Internet media and services company geared toward the Chinese community, signed separate memoranda of understanding agreements with L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Siemens in China to deliver content …

LOS ANGELES-SigmaOne Communications and Radix Technologies Inc. announced a joint agreement under which SigmaOne will have an exclusive license to Radix Technologies’ GeoPhone Code Division Multiple Access location technology. The …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector was awarded a $5.8 million contract by China Telecom to provide seven Global System for Mobile communications dual-band Rapid Deployment Vehicle units. The …

MINNEAPOLIS-William Cadogan, chairman, president and chief executive officer of ADC Telecommunications Inc., said he will retire from ADC after a transition to a new leader is complete. ADC noted the …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and PhotoJet L.L.C., a developer of wireless imaging technologies, entered a worldwide Code Division Multiple Access license agreement for wireless digital cameras. The agreement grants PhotoJet a …

Interactive Solutions Teltronics Inc. announced its subsidiary, Interactive Solutions Inc., developed a new product offering, the MentisSoft iCommunicator system, which makes verbal communications possible between the hearing world and a …