June 2000

NEW YORK-A pair of state legislators from New York City who planned to bar wireless phone companies from rounding up airtime charges to the next minute have run into a …

WASHINGTON-A federal judge last Wednesday ordered Microsoft Corp. to be split into two companies, calling the world’s largest computer software maker untrustworthy and a threat to other high-tech sectors. The …

WASHINGTON-The wireless and wireline industries are battling it out at the Federal Communications Commission over how much they should pay to connect the other’s calls. Sprint PCS asked the FCC …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday set aside 14 megahertz of radio-frequency spectrum as the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service to help protect wireless health devices from interference, the transition to …

ARLINGTON, HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector signed a $123.5 million digital cellular network expansion contract with China’s Hunan Mobile Communications Corp., a Global System for Mobile communications network operator. …

WASHINGTON-Peter Angelos, the wealthy Baltimore lawyer and Democratic Party benefactor, said he will decide by early summer whether to file a class-action lawsuit against the wireless industry for alleged health-related …

SEOUL, South Korea-Korean operator SK Telecom said it will launch commercial cdma2000 1X service in the fourth-quarter, using equipment from Samsung Electronics. Samsung and SK Telecom said the 1X system …

RESTON, Va.-Comsearch reported that Nokia Corp. selected its IQ-Link microwave path design software tool to assist in the design of the microwave interconnect for Italy’s BLU Global System for Mobile …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc., a WorldCom Inc. company, has begun offering the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion Ltd., branded BlackBerry by SkyTel, to customers nationwide. The service …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-SanDisk Corp. said Qualcomm Inc. will provide support for flash storage MultiMediaCards in its Code Division Multiple Access chipsets and system software solutions. Qualcomm CDMA Technologies’ first product to …

GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc., a provider of proprietary radio-frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications applications, opened its first local European sales and support center in the United Kingdom. The …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced two strategic investments as part of a plan to manage DigiPH PCS properties. The carrier said it will purchase a 49.9-percent equity interest in Eliska …

NEW YORK-WebLink Wireless Inc., Dallas, will target teen-agers and twenty-somethings with a two-way messaging and e-mail service it plans to debut this summer. Subscribers who sign a year-long service contract …

The wireless industry shouldn’t be surprised about the confusion surrounding China Unicom’s cdmaOne technology deployment plans in China. After all, the prospect of widespread cdmaOne technology deployments have been uncertain …

NEW YORK-Mobilocity Inc. will develop and deliver wireless business offerings to its Global 1000 clients using AvantGo Inc.’s Enterprise solutions. AvantGo’s infrastructure software and services are designed to mobilize intranet …

Formus Communications Inc. filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of its class A common stock. Formus, a wireless broadband carrier, expects to complete the offering by the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission needs to clarify its rules on how unused spectrum could be subleased if it hopes to facilitate a secondary market for spectrum, panel members said at …

Compaq Computer Corp. revealed new capabilities for its IN PrePay network-based solution and said BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom has selected and deployed the solution to serve its prepaid …

MELVILLE, N.Y.-Comtech Telecommunications Corp. said it entered an agreement to acquire EFData, the satellite communications division of Adaptive Broadband Corp., for $61.5 million in cash. Shortly following the acquisition announcement …

SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Canadian wireless company Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it installed new wireless equipment adhering to the new third-generation cdma2000 international standard. Clearnet said it will use the new wireless base …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s inspector general last week cleared FCC Chairman William Kennard and his staff of any wrongdoing in connection with allegations by a high-ranking agency official last fall …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will acquire Chromatis Networks, a manufacturer of optical networking systems, for 78 million shares of Lucent common stock, which is valued at about …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. last week said the Federal Communications Commission is attempting to re-auction its licenses before a federal appeals court can rule whether it has the authority to do …

NEW YORK-Venture capital investments in American telecom/wireless companies during the first quarter reached $4.3 billion, an amount equal to the total raised in all industries during the same period a …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint GmbH, a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., entered an agreement with Nokia GmbH to sell Nokia Corp.’s mobile phone accessories in Germany. The agreement also authorizes Brightpoint to package Nokia …