2000

SAN MATEO, Calif.-SkyGo unveiled plans for a wireless interactive marketing platform that will be available for licensing to credit card companies, wireless services providers and Internet companies. “Advertisers will need …

HONG KONG-Sunday Communications Ltd. announced plans to work with Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard and PacketVideo to develop wireless Internet services for customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Many of the services …

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support. Sybase created iAnywhere Solutions Inc. to …

MCLEAN, Va.-Telespatial Inc. will use info-USA.com’s online directory content, under a licensing agreement between the two companies. Telespatial is a wireless application services provider of real-time location-based services.

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company’s westward network expansion and to handle additional growth. The Lucent 5E …

OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and up to a 24.9-percent stake in …

Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail. Telephia Inc. is conducting a nationwide survey …

MIAMI-Tiaxa launched its panregional wireless Internet portal in Latin America, offering wireless phone users personalized, location-sensitive mobile Internet services. The company noted it can capitalize on the region’s adoption and …

ATLANTA-TowerCom Enterprises L.L.C., a company that owns, develops and manages wireless communications towers, said it purchased certain tower assets in California and Arizona and formed TowerCom West Coast L.L.C.

PHILADELPHIA-The wireless industry is not ready for the advent of wireless data even as data is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry and the Internet economy, said panelists at …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry received a stinging rebuke Thursday about its lack of action on a Federal Communications Commission item that could increase the amount of money wireless customers pay into …

NEW YORK-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. squeaked through its initial public offering May 18, pricing its 8-million-share deal at $11 each, $2 below the low end of the expected …

How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless phones can cater to the less …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Vyyo Inc. said it has joined Remec Inc. to develop customer premises equipment products for use in multichannel multipoint distribution system broadband wireless access networks. Remec will provide the …

LONDON-Webraska Mobile Technologies, a provider of traffic maps and navigation services on Internet mobile phones, is opening access to its Global Navigation Server to wireless carriers, their partners and wireless …

WASHINGTON-After a shaky start, Clinton administration officials last week said progress is being made at the World Radiocommunication Conference on a global multiband spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems. …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. signed an agreement with Telecom Italia Mobile to provide a range of Yahoo!’s Wireless Application Protocol-enabled content and services in Italian to TIM’s customers. “The wireless …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week raised nearly $411 million as it sold 2,173 licenses for fixed wireless service in the 39 GHz band. “Winning bidders have the potential to …

Front Porch Communications L.L.C., a hardware and software solutions developer for Internet service providers since 1998, expanded its offerings last week to include wireless Internet solutions. Qualcomm Inc. also said …

APTOS, Calif.-RangeStar Wireless raised $25 million in its mezzanine round of funding, which the company said it would use to continue development of its Invisible Antenna technology and support general …

ATLANTA-Mobile e-commerce solutions provider Hotpalm.com announced a strategic alliance to provide the wireless platform for ComTelco International Inc., a telemanagement, computer telephony integration, hospitality and health-care systems telecommunications provider. “ComTelco’s …

Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said its money will run out in five months unless it gets help. In the meantime, ongoing efforts to establish a worldwide network and begin widespread commercial …

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will provide wireless Internet access for the Handspring Visor handheld computer through its Go.Web service. The service will allow individuals and businesses …

VIENNA, Austria-Motorola Inc. and Mobilkom Austria, a Global System for Mobile communications operator in Austria, signed a contract to implement a mobile data General Packet Radio Service network. According to …

MILAN, Italy-The Italian government has proposed to use a two-stage process to award five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses later this year. The proposal combines a “beauty contest” with an …