Monthly Archives: November, 2000

SolidStreaming, AnyDevice integrate software

NEW YORK-SolidStreaming Inc. and AnyDevice Inc. said they plan to integrate their software platforms to enable carrier and enterprise customers to deliver data, audio...

Maptuit, Sympatico-Lycos agreement births Canadian direction service

NEW YORK-Canadian users of Web-enabled wireless phones and two-way pagers can get walking or driving directions to any location within the country, under an...

3G licensing controversy continues in Spain

MADRID, Spain-The Spanish government said it will tender two additional GSM licenses by 2002, according to international press reports. The country's four Universal Mobile...

VoiceStream to offer Webraska services

POISSY, France-Webraska entered the North American wireless market in a new deal with Voice-Stream Wireless, which will offer the company's navigation services on VoiceStream's...

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...

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...

Iridium resurrection in the works

A new venture backed by veteran airline executive Dan Colussy is reported to be buying the assets of Iridium L.L.C., Motorola Inc.'s financial drain...

Death-row ads cause firestorm

WASHINGTON-CellularOne Group, one of the nation's top mobile-phone service brands, has created a firestorm of controversy by refusing to pull a TV commercial that...

BellSouth Wireless Data to use Geoworks’ AirBoss

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.L.P. said it will launch a wireless Web proxy server and microbrowser based on Geoworks Corp.'s AirBoss technology.The deal will...

ADC, TMNG form strategic alliance

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. and The Management Network Group Inc. announced plans to team up in a nonexclusive strategic alliance to provide operations support system...

D.C. Briefs

The Federal Communications Commission has extended the comment period for the merger of VoiceStream Wireless Corp., Powertel Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG to Dec....

Florida license ownership in dispute

WASHINGTON-While the world awaits the final outcome of the seemingly endless process in Florida to pick the president of the United States, members of...

U.S. Wireless Data acquires CellGate

NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data completed its previously announced $10 million acquisition of CellGate Technologies, which was made in cash and shares.U.S. Wireless hopes CellGate,...

EMS Wireless creates broadband group

ATLANTA-EMS Technologies Inc. said it formed the Terrestrial Broadband Group within its EMS Wireless division, which will provide base-station antennas and hub assemblies for...

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...

MDSI focuses on strength of vertical applications

NEW YORK-Despite the hope and hype around consumer and corporate use, vertical applications remain today's stronghold for wireless data, said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology...

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...

CTIA spells out location guides for FCC

The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association moved to set the standard for location-based services privacy principles by laying out its own guidelines to the...

U.S. needs technology direction

Dear Editor: While Communications Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth sings a soliloquy of regulatory and technical evolution, the state of future technological applications lies in disarray ("Opinion",...

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...

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...

Phone.com to integrate keywords function

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. announced an agreement to integrate the Wireless Keyword Navigation System from RealNames Corp. into the Phone.com UP.Link Server.The result will...

Products

Digital PagingDigital Paging Co. released its new Hit plus pager, which the company said can carry three different frequencies. The pager also features a...

PMC-Sierra introduces DSP chip for 3G networks

Continuing the flow of wireless technological improvements from north of the border, Burnaby, British Columbia-based PMC-Sierra Inc. introduced its Power Amplifier Linearizer and Distortion...

Wi-Lan reassesses revenues short of expectations

CALGARY, Alberta-Wireless infrastructure provider Wi-Lan Inc. reported its broadband wireless revenues for next year would total $32 million, more than three times higher than...
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