Monthly Archives: October, 2000

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Wireless bills may wait until next year

WASHINGTON-With Congress stuck in town at least another week and prospects growing that pending legislation will be rolled into one or two catch-all spending...

Cell-phone ban passes in Suffolk County

NEW YORK-Holding a cell phone while driving got the boot Oct. 3 in Suffolk County, a large and populous jurisdiction on Long Island, part...

TI partners with AMD

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices will collaborate to develop an architecture for AMD's Flash memory devices and TI's digital signal processors-based Open...

Finalists named for tower industry awards

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.-Shorecliff Communications Inc. announced the finalists for the Tower and Site Development Industry's Annual Excellence in Business Awards, to be given...

Dark angel~

A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first...

Tower pact hits historic preservation snag

WASHINGTON-Attempts by the wireless industry to reach a collocation agreement with a historic preservation group hit a few bumps last week when members of...

Intelsat spinoff goes public

NEW YORK-New Skies Satellites N.V., a commercial spinoff of Intelsat, became a publicly traded company Oct. 4 when it sold 28.5 million American Depositary...

Groups participate in Call to Protect program

LOS ANGELES-Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. are donating 100 pre-programmed digital wireless phones and free airtime to eight domestic violence prevention programs in the...

ComNet-Ericsson awarded Florida radio contract: Motorola system to be dismantled

Florida awarded ComNet-Ericsson a contract to upgrade and enhance the state's partially completed law enforcement radio system, much to the chagrin of Motorola Inc.,...

Satellite indsutry prepares to shine: Infant indsutry recovers from Iridium and focuses on broadband future

For more than six months the mobile satellite industry has been trying to polish its image after the well-publicized failure of Iridium L.L.C. tarnished...

Panasonic eyes U.S. phone sales

TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic...

Vodafone to invest in China Mobile (HK)

BEIJING-Vodafone, the world's largest mobile-phone operator by total subscriber numbers, is set to take a 2-percent stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed...

Verizon adds 806,000 subscribers

NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless added 806,000 new customers during the third quarter of this year, a 35-percent increase in net additions compared with third quarter...

Market Briefs

Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PCS licenses in Eugene, Ore., and Fort Collins and Greeley, Colo., from American Wireless...

Free markets and the cost of business

We are a fickle people. What is in vogue one week can be quickly out of fashion the next. So it seems with government...

BenefitMall.com simplifies insurance brokers work wirelessly

Beginning early next year, insurance brokers will be able to access quotes, check on the status of cases and edit quotes wirelessly from Palm...

Lowe’s to offer Arch messaging service

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Home improvement retailer Lowe's will offer Arch Wireless Inc.'s Arch Webster 100 wireless interactive two-way messaging service through its nationwide chain of stores.The...

Lucent, Sanyo plan alliance

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sanyo Fisher Co., a division of Sanyo North America Corp., reported plans for an alliance to accelerate commercialization...

Dobson launches wireless Internet product

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. launched WebMagic, a wireless Internet product that allows its cellular phone customers to access the Internet and receive e-mail messages.Dobson...

Letters

Position clarifiedDear Editor: In the article, "EDGE: The People's Choice," (Sept. 25, page 55 by Sheila Mickool, president of the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium) I am...

China Mobile Hong Kong buys networks

HONG KONG-China Mobile Hong Kong is buying seven mobile-phone networks from China Mobile Communications, its parent company, for about US$33 billion. China Mobile Hong...

Labor, business approve of DT wireless purchase: EU, U.S. may spar on int’l trade issue

WASHINGTON-As the unlikely union of labor and business leaders ratcheted up pressure last week to kill legislation that would nix Deutsche Telekom AG's $50.7...

Vyyo, Proxim partner for wireless broadband in multidwelling buildings

Vyyo Inc. and Proxim Inc. announced they will work together to bring wireless broadband connectivity to multidwelling units.Under terms of the agreement, Vyyo said...

T-Speed launches wireless Internet service

DALLAS-T-Speed Broadband Communications launched its high-speed wireless Internet access service in Dallas/Fort Worth, the company announced.The company said it is targeting small and medium-sized...
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