Yearly Archives: 2000

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

Nokia introduces CityHopper products for broadband

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced its CityHopper Broadband Wireless Access range of products, which the company said will bring high bandwidth services to businesses and...

BarPoint extends shopping services to mobile users

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-BarPoint.com Inc. announced it is extending its mobile shopping and information service to digital phone users through a short messaging system version...

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...

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...

France Telecom takes Mauritius Telecom stake

PORT-LOUIS, Mauritius-Mauritius Telecom said France Telecom will take a 40-percent stake in the currently state-owned operator for $261 million. The Mauritian government will retain...

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...

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...

Cellular One celebrates 10 years

DALLAS-Cellular One Group announced this month marks its 10-year anniversary-proof of the brand name's staying power in a tumultuous industry."The combined efforts of Cellular...

Study predicts wireline to far surpass wireless broadband

Wireline technologies continue to trump broadband wireless in the journey to the last mile.In a new study on multidwelling units, Washington-based market research and...

China Mobile wants cut in line fees

BEIJING-China Mobile (Hong Kong) is negotiating with China Telecom to cut the leased-line fees it pays by one-half. About 90 percent of China Mobile...

Tessco to include Allot products in BWA solution

HUNT VALLEY, Md.-Tessco Technologies Inc. announced it would include Allot Communications' products in its broadband wireless solution offerings.Tessco said it would present Allot's NetEnforcer...

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...

Psion to use ReturnsPort.com for inventory management

Psion USA, a manufacturer of personal productivity handheld computers, has agreed to use ReturnsPort.com's full suite of services to track and manage the comings...

Inktomi wins China Mobile business

BEIJING-Inktomi announced China Mobile will integrate its Traffic Server network cache platform within its national Internet Protocol Backbone for delivery of wireless content and...

Nextel Partners launches service in two more states

MACON, Ga.-Nextel Partners launched wireless service in the Macon, Ga., and Dothan, Ala., areas, giving customers access to its digital cellular, Nextel Direct Connect...

Sprint partners with Countrywide

CALABASAS, Calif.-A partnership between Countrywide Home Loans Inc. and Sprint PCS could allow home buyers and real estate agents to wirelessly research and determine...

Cisco buys Radiata for 802.11a resources

In a move that the company said would strengthen its New World strategy and its ability to deliver next-generation wireless networks using the IEEE...

Intelect to sell private networking unit

RICHARDSON, Texas-Intelect Communications Inc. announced it will sell its private networking business operated by its Intelect Network Technologies subsidiary.The announcement is part of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

StarHub slams 3G auction: Carrier still plans to participate

SINGAPORE-StarHub Chief Executive Terry Clontz said end users would draw the short end of the stick because of the Singapore government's decision to use...

Lucent shaken after sales warning

No thanks to an accounting error in a week for thanksgiving, Lucent Technologies Inc.'s bleeding continued as it withdrew its projected fourth-quarter sales by...
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