June 2000

KUWAIT-Motorola Inc. and Kuwait Global System for Mobile communications operator Mobile Telecommunications Co. signed an expansion contract valued at $14 million to implement countrywide capacity enhancements at 1800 MHz on …

NEW YORK-Where wireless data is concerned, Dennis F. Strigl, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless, has assumed the enthusiasm of a recent convert. “I was not bullish on …

LOS ANGELES-Qualcomm Inc. stock continued its quick rebound Friday from last weeks slump on speculation that the company might be ripe for a takeover by Nokia Corp. As of midday …

PARIS-Lloyd Carney knows U.S. carriers hate him for saying it, but the facts speak for themselves. “Europe is the dominant player in the wireless data space,” he said last week …

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 …

WASHINGTON-A coalition of dispatch radio operators urged the Federal Communications Commission to restrict Neoworld Inc. from readily reselling to Nextel Communications Inc. licenses purchased from Geotek Communications Inc.’s creditors in …

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 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish telecommunications operator Telia reported it acquired more than 51 percent of Norwegian mobile operator Netcom ASA for $2.5 billion. Telia said the acquisition will strengthen its competitiveness in …

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 …

VIENNA, Va.-Broadband wireless operator Teligent Inc. and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., the telecommunications subsidiary of Mannesmann AG, have formed a joint venture called ArcTel that will provide high-speed voice, …

NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc., Reston, Va., can expect a total of 302 current and former employees to file complaints against it with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging discrimination based …

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 …

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 …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AirFlash Inc. announced Orange PCS Ltd. of the United Kingdom has deployed its location-based information services to customers as part of a service trial there. The test revolves …

Just days before Geoworks Corp. is expected to introduce dramatic changes to the licensing program supporting its patent claim on aspects of Wireless Application Protocol technology, the company escalated its …

ATLANTA-LHS Inc. will integrate its customer acquisition product ConVerge with Oracle Purchasing under Oracle’s Cooperative Applications Initiative, accelerating customer acquisition and managing the operations of the retail, direct and indirect …

OracleMobile added support for two-way wireless messaging devices to its OracleMobile.com wireless Internet portal service, which Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. both agreed to make available to their …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on June 8 adopted rules and policies aimed at increasing teledensity on tribal lands but did not address requests from the wireless industry to obtain universal-service …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. granted Novatel Wireless Inc., a provider of wireless Internet solutions, a worldwide license under Qualcomm’s Code Division Multiple Access patents to design and market modem card products …

WASHINGTON-Andrew Sukawaty, president and chief operating officer of Sprint PCS and recently installed chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said Friday he is leaving the nationwide mobile-phone carrier to …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday approved the transfer of GTE Corp.’s communications licenses to Bell Atlantic Corp. contingent on 25 conditions, including putting some wireless properties into a trust …

MONTE CARLO, Monaco – Socket Communications Inc. and Axis Communications of Sweden have agreed to deliver end-to-end networking solutions incorporating Bluetooth wireless technology, providing mobile computer users with broadband wireless …

Amid a flurry of speculation it might spin off its microelectronics group, Lucent Technologies Inc. won a contract to be the primary network infrastructure supplier to Verizon Wireless. The deal, …

Microsoft Corp. and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. announced an agreement to jointly create a new line of mobile phones based on Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system. Specifically, Samsung will create …

Nearly 41 million people worldwide subscribed to Time Division Multiple Access-Enhanced Data for Global Evolution technology by the end of the first quarter, an increase of 87 percent from the …