June 2000

Not many 44-year-olds can put on their resum, that they built a nationwide wireless business from the ground up with a capital infrastructure budget larger than the Boston freeway project. …

PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co. to integrate …

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Mesa Communications Group L.L.C. announced it acquired a 25-percent ownership stake in Centerpointe Communications L.L.C., based in Arlington, Texas. Centerpointe manages approximately 2,000 communications towers for cable television …

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission decision last week that is largely favorable to the paging industry has led one local telephone company to threaten to sue. “Requiring local service providers to …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, breaking with the public-safety community, last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap efforts to improve technical capabilities of 911-only mobile phones donated to charitable organizations …

LONDON-U.K. mobile carrier BT Cellnet said it launched commercial service on the world’s first General Packet Radio Service network. The “always on” service will increase the speeds at which users …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Portugal operator Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais signed a contract with L.M. Ericsson calling for Ericsson to upgrade Telecel’s Global System for Mobile communications network and introduce mobile Internet capability using …

Ellen Bork, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, recently wrote a marvelously illuminating piece for The Washington Post that captured President Clinton’s Pollyanna-ish view of high-technology in the New …

After months of inconsistent and negative reports that it was slipping further into financial trouble, Globalstar L.P. released a statement clarifying its future funding requirements. Globalstar previously stated that, without …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. introduced a free online billing system for most of its wireless customers, allowing them to analyze their calling patterns and pay bills with a credit card …

DALLAS-WebLink Wireless Inc. announced it has begun shipping the Talkabout T900 two-way pager from Motorola Inc. this week. The company plans to ship more than 60,000 units to more than …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s decision last week to encourage rather than mandate band-clearing arrangements at 700 MHz could be moot if a powerful lawmaker’s plan to get high-speed access to …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net said it is extending its MicroBurst service into six states as part of an agreement with operator Triton PCS. The MicroBurst service uses cellular network control channel …

DENVER-Mobile location services will be an essential element of the mobile Internet revolution, but the industry’s success teeters on its ability to ensure privacy to the end user. Application service …

Dear Editor, I think you really said it with the quote “Is it possible to specialize in things that haven’t happened yet?” (Viewpoint in the June 12 issue of RCR.) …

WASHINGTON-If nothing is done to try to conserve telephone numbers, North America will run out of area codes and later phone numbers sometime between 2012 and 2019. NeuStar Inc. told …

One thing Cricket Communications Inc. did not plan on when it decided to offer a wireless service that competes with landline telephony was the fact that handsets break faster. In …

NEW YORK-A senior executive of Moody’s Investors Service Inc. has issued a stern warning to securities analysts that a widely used measure of financial health is misleading and inadequate, particularly …

ROSH HA’AIN, Israel-CT Motion Ltd., a location-based mobile Internet service developer, said it is developing its MobileMate personal portal for m-commerce services. The company said the portal analyzes usage habits …

NEW YORK-Good news arrived last week for Handspring Inc., a Palm Inc. competitor that went public with a 10-million-share offering, which priced at $20 June 20 and began trading June …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. announced new application hosting and development abilities designed to allow rapid deployment of wireless Internet services using Extensible Markup Language. Aether XML is designed to …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Technical Committee Special Mobile Group, which has been responsible for setting Global System for Mobile communications standards, announced it will close. ETSI said …

WASHINGTON-A group of wireless and telecommunications executives are planning to roll out a new service they hope will lead to residential wireless broadband service with what could be megabit data …

The GSM community, which has struggled to make inroads in Latin America, was ensured access to an important market as the Brazilian government granted personal communications services licenses in the …

TOKYO-Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is reported to be considering an entrance into the U.K. market through a tie-up with Canada’s Telesystem International Wireless Inc. and Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. TIW …