Monthly Archives: November, 2000

Verizon buys Calif./Nev. property

Verizon Wireless bought up the last bits of the Sacramento Valley L.P., which covers about 3.8 million people in Northern California and Nevada and...

Cisco gives Tessco premier certification status

HUNT VALLEY, Md.-Tessco Technologies Inc. got a vote of confidence from Cisco Systems Inc. after Cisco gave the company premier channel partner certification status."Premier...

Air2Web partners with Mascot

ATLANTA-Air2Web Inc. and Mascot Systems Ltd. announced a partnership to allow Mascot to develop wireless application solutions using Air2Web's wireless platform.Mascot will also have...

Reinventing Ron

I'm beginning to think those mobile-phone studies on memory loss are for real. How else to explain the superb op-ed penned by Ron Nessen...

US Unwired offers Freedom Plan

LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. announced its new Freedom Plan, which gives callers an unlimited amount of calling minutes if they are inside their...

DOJ/FBI: Punch list is cost effective

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice is pointing to contracts it signed with four manufacturers to show it is cost-effective for telecom carriers to add additional...

Suder to file second RF lawsuit: Disney to stop licensing cartoon face plates

WASHINGTON-A major personal injury lawsuit is expected to be filed this week in Illinois against Motorola Inc. and possibly others by a former technician...

South American buses to include satellite technology

NEW YORK-Globalstar do Brasil and South American transportation company Itapemirim have teamed up to put mobile phones on 43 inner-city buses in South America.The...

Kinetic launches wireless Internet access for fleets

BILLERICA, Mass.-Kinetic Computer Corp. and Sierra Wireless Inc. have taken wireless fleet management systems one step further by introducing Internet access to eTRUCK, Kinetic's...

AT&T Wireless Group tops profit growth

NEW YORK-The major players' rankings reflect the dynamic environment of telecommunications as some stalwarts held their ground, some newcomers joined the group, while still...

Telefonica Moviles, Telekom Austria enter IPOs

NEW YORK-A pair of smooth operators from Europe eased into the choppy initial public offering market last week, although they had to trim their...

Brazil has 20.9 million cellular lines

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Director of Anatel Ant"nio Carlos Valente da Silva said Nov. 16 that Brazil already has 20.9 million activated cellular lines. Valente also...

Collocation proposal sound, but not adopted

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Staff of the federal Advisory Commission on Historic Preservation said a wireless industry proposal on collocation of wireless facilities is sound, but did...

Five bids received for Thailand’s ACT mobile network

NEW DELHI, India-Five companies and groups have submitted bids for supply of infrastructure for the proposed GSM network of the state-owned company ACT Mobile...

Caribbean liberalization moves forward

WASHINGTON-Five Caribbean countries, all part of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States are in the process of implementing telecom legislation challenging Cable & Wireless'...

World Briefs

NORWAYNorway is expecting to raise between $2 billion and $2.7 billion in the initial public offering comprising 21 percent of state-owned Telenor. Shares will...

Stock slides amid `Buy’ recommendations for Openwave

Ever since the two announced their merger in mid-August, a lingering question was what name would Phone.com Inc. and Software.com Inc. call their combined...

Wireless ready to cash in on online shopping boom this holiday

This holiday season, those shopping for wireless service and devices will find a culmination of new offerings, as well as traditional bargain rates on...

AlterEgo offers scalable platform for apps development

The wireless Internet's influence on the wired Web is often portrayed as a positive, allowing people to access the information previously available only when...

Ericsson to upgrade Bolivian network to GPRS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said Bolivian operator Entel Movil selected it to deploy Latin America's first General Packet Radio Service network. The three-year $36 million...

buy.com, AT&T partner for sales

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Just in time for the busy holiday season, buy.com and AT&T Wireless Services announced a partnership to offer buy.com's online store to...

Empower to introduce WAP Gateway using Java

LONDON-Empower INteractive Group Ltd. said it will introduce a Java-based WAP Gateway to the open source community this week, following a trial with an...

Alltel earnings estimate in line with expectations

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. forecast its fully diluted fourth-quarter earnings from current businesses would range between 60 cents and 63 cents per share, with...

Statement from Disney

"Since issues were first raised about the safety of cellular telephones when held to the ear, we have been examining the available scientific research...

Equant, Global One intend to merge

PARIS-Equant and France Telecom's Global One announced they will merge, forming a company with about 3,700 large business customers and pro forma annualized revenues...
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