Monthly Archives: June, 2000

FCC favors AirCell in carrier disputes

LOUISVILLE, Colo.-In a decision released June 9, the Federal Communications Commission sided with AirCell Inc., an air-to-ground communications system provider for the aviation market,...

Informio to offer voice-enabled enterprise app as enhanced service

A new company called Informio was established today, created with the goal of voice-enabling enterprise applications, either hosted at its data center or at...

Lucent snags Verizon contract

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

News Briefs

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...

Microsoft, Samsung to cooperate on WinCE-based phones

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...

Qualcomm licenses Novatel to build CDMA, HDR products

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...

Carriers must leverage strengths to compete with conglomerates

BOSTON-Media conglomerates will likely control the content available to wireless devices, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, and wireless carriers' only hope...

Geoworks sues Phone.com

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

NATE calls NIOSH tower safety report unbalanced

WASHINGTON-The National Association of Tower Erectors, angered by a government report that raised serious tower safety concerns, has complained to the Occupational Safety and...

BellSouth signs Nortel to $200M GSM equipment deal

DALLAS-BellSouth Mobility DCS signed Nortel Networks Corp. to a three-year, $200 million equipment and services agreement to expand its Global System for Mobile communications...

Japan commission urges NTT to reduce mobile stake

TOKYO-Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. should reduce its current 67-percent stake in its mobile phone subsidiary, NTT DoCoMo, according to a report from Japan's...

Short messages will increase 170 percent per year

LONDON-Within three years, mobile telecommunication operators will be sending 100 billion short messages per month, a 170-percent per year increase over current levels, according...

World Briefs

CanadaBCE Inc. said it is in discussions with the independent committee of the Teleglobe board of directors, the majority shareholders of Teleglobe and their...

Telmex, BCI form company to focus on South America

MEXICO CITY-Telefonos de Mexico and Bell Canada International announced they will form a new company with an initial capitalization of $3.5 billion to target...

AMTA to take over frequency coordination from ATA

WASHINGTON-Refuting rumors of slowing revenue growth and decreasing membership, the American Mobile Telecommunications Association said last week it is taking over the frequency coordination...

MobileSys partners with paging firms

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-MobileSys Inc. launched its MobileSys Network last week, and made partnerships with WebLink Wireless Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to expand its...

Customer service world moves online

We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other "electronic" conveniences. The "e" phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and...

Sukawaty says goodbye to Sprint

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...

Xircom to acquire Omnipoint Technologies

Xircom Inc. announced it is acquiring Omnipoint Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Xircom also said last week it will provide Bluetooth...

CRADA comes under attack

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone research pact between the Food and Drug Administration and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has come under attack by the former chairman...

Viewpoint: Unsung hereos

Fires, floods, avalanches, carjackings. Disaster at every turn. This is everyday Americana?Yes, according to CTIA head Tom Wheeler at last week's CTIA's Wireless Foundation...

Vendors plan for cdmaOne in China

HONG KONG-U.S. mobile-phone vendors are gearing up for cdmaOne sales in China despite uncertainty whether the technology will be deployed there.While China Unicom told...

FCC bypasses ETC status for wireless on tribal lands

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...

OracleMobile extends portal to two-way pagers

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...

Red-M helps take Bluetooth to the next level

Red-M, a wireless Internet server developer, and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to cooperate on enabling Wireless Application Protocol applications over Bluetooth technology.The idea is...
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