October 2000

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Unimobile.com and Advertising.com have teamed to provide a method to include global ads in messages delivered to wireless devices. The deal combines Advertising.com’s ad content with Unimobile.com’s Universal …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said its revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 increased 76 percent to $174.6 million compared with $98.9 million reported for the same time last …

NEW YORK-Hughes Network Systems and America Online have begun marketing AOL PLUS Powered by DirecPC, the satellite delivery of AOL’s content, the companies announced last week at Internet World Fall …

WASHINGTON-As the nation prepares for a sea change that will come when a new president is elected, the wireless industry’s main trade association experienced some major changes recently and prepared …

BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard. After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-A survey of U.K. businesses has found more than 70 percent have no intention of implementing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in the near future, while just 15 …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-When most travelers plan out their itineraries, the most pressing needs involve finding an airline flight and booking the hotel reservations. If you are lucky you may even …

MANCHESTER, N.H.-Communication software provider Granite Systems Inc. released version 3.6 of its Xpercom product suite, a next generation network and service resource management solution for telecommunications service providers. The updated …

LONDON-Cable & Wireless and Baltimore Technologies, an e-security company, announced today they will jointly offer secure e-business services for large corporations. The first service is scheduled to start in the …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could have a more difficult time offering bundled services to its customers after the business unit is separated from the parent group, according to one analyst. …

UTRECHT, The Netherlands-A television program in Germany used short message service (SMS) to allow viewers to interact with the contestants. Viewers sent answers to questions via SMS messages using mobile …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Hungary is preparing to launch an auction for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses in second-quarter 2001. According Andras Somogyi, the director of the International Organization Communications Authority, the …

ROME-The results of the Italian third-generation license auction are unfortunate for the Italian government and British Telecommunications plc, while most opportune for the five companies that have unofficially won licenses …

Gigabit Wireless of San Jose, Calif., is taking a new name and at the same time, taking its first steps in the wireless broadband market with a non-line-of-sight technology that …

Less than a week after introducing a new suite of messaging services targeted in part to teen users, Sprint PCS introduced a new package of wireless Internet-based games to its …

ABU DHABI, UAE-ETISALAT, the United Arab Emirates telecommunications service provider, and Motorola announced today they completed a live mobile data transfer in the Middle East. ETISALAT hopes the transfer, which …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week said it will soon ask the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to craft national wireless location privacy rules that call …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. released third quarter results with a net loss of $6.1 million, or 29 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $994,000, or 6 cents per …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Bulgaria, a small country in Eastern Europe, has been shaken during the last few months by a scandal in the communications market. The mobile communications market in Bulgaria, a …

ISELIN, N.J.-Electric Fuel Corp. announced that The PocketPhone Shop, a mobile phone retailer in the United Kingdom, will carry its line of Instant Power cell-phone batteries. The batteries are fully …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-While many of the public statements from the U.K. cell-phone operators have always mentioned early 2002 as the commercial deployment date for third-generation (3G) services, the four existing …

Cross Country Automotive Services, a 28-year-old company responsible for much of the behind-the-scenes work for several car manufacturers’ roadside assistance programs, announced last week it is partnering with WirelessCar to …

Aether Systems Inc. is celebrating its one-year anniversary as a public company, capping a busy year of acquisitions, investments and partnerships that have positioned the firm at the center of …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries operating in China reached an agreement with Alcatel Suzhou Telecommunications Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Alcatel, to distribute Alcatel mobile telephones …

SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. reported an agreement to work together to accelerate global deployment of third-generation CDMA wireless services by aligning development of Kyocera’s wireless handsets …