Yearly Archives: 2000

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...

Motorola reports contract win in China

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Global Telecom Solutions Sector won another large stake in China's mobile phone market with a $29 million GSM communications award...

ReFlex brings broadband wireless to apartment communities

Last mile is ReFlex Communications Inc.'s breath of life.Thanks to the Seattle-based company, multifamily communities have been enjoying high-speed broadband wireless Internet services in...

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...

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...

Verizon picks up Price

The hunt for spectrum by wireless carriers continued last week as Verizon Wireless, the country's largest operator, offered more than $2 billion for Price...

Clear of bankrupt parent, Vast free to tackle wireless ASP market

Now that Arch Wireless Inc.'s acquisition of Paging Network Inc. is complete, former PageNet subsidiary Vast Solutions Inc. is free of the dead weight...

Lucent pledges $10M to researchers

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. today pledged $10 million to academic and industry researchers in hopes they could develop a business model that would...

Sprint Broadband launches Denver

DENVER-Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Direct fixed-wireless service is available in the Denver metro and Boulder areas, the company announced.A pizza box-sized antenna is professionally installed...

Wireless security to follow the same path as wired Web

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Just as content on the wireless Web is not at the same point as the wired Web, wireless Web security is not at...

U.K. fixed wireless auction prices top $123M

LONDON-After 14 rounds of bidding in the U.K. auction of 42 broadband fixed wireless access licenses, bids totaled more than $123.7 million last week,...

TIA to integrate MMTA

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it would fully integrate its subsidiary, MultiMedia Telecommunications Association, and continue to offer the combined 1,000 members the...

Sprint uses Hybrid system in Colorado

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sprint Corp. will use Hybrid Networks Inc.'s two-way system to deploy its Sprint Broadband Direct in Denver and Boulder, Colo.Hybrid will provide...

HP, Nokia partner on mobile printing app

HELSINKI, Finland-In a move the companies hope will lead to wide usage of mobile services, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Nokia Corp. announced an agreement to...

TDMA-EDGE subscribers reach 53 million

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced there were 53 million TDMA-EDGE subscribers worldwide by the end of the third quarter, which is a...

Sweden’s Telia launches mobile payment system

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish operator Telia partnered with ForeningsSparbanken, a Swedish banking group, to develop secure solutions for payment, bank and e-commerce services using mobile phones....

WatchMark supports Sun platform

CHICAGO-WatchMark Corp. announced it joined a group of industry businesses in supporting Sun Microsystems' hardware, operating system and enterprise management software platform.WatchMark will deliver...

CTIA wants location-based m-commerce guides

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission, appearing to be staking out regulatory jurisdiction over the nascent mobile Internet industry, said it will examine a wide range...

Salt Lake City to tax cell-phone use

Starting Jan. 1, several cities in Utah, including Salt Lake City, Cedar City and South Salt Lake, will levy a $1-per-month tax on cellular...

SkyTel to offer personalized reports

VIENNA, Va.-SkyTel will soon be able to offer its customers personal financial, news and weather reports through a deal announced with Strategy.com, a MicroStrategy...

More than just a phone

Cell phones have never been just phones. They've always been communicators, but they've also had the ability to be deal-makers, marriage-savers, calculators, address books,...

Spike receives financing

NASHUA, N.H.-Spike Broadband Systems Inc. said it received $47 million in financing, led by Canada-based CDP Sofinov. Other investors include CDP Capital Communications, Sandler...

Internet opens new avenues for wireless fraud

Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to...

Perot Systems joins with Kabira to update architecture

NEW YORK-The telecommunications environment has become so dynamic that it is forcing rapid and radical change in the way internal information technology departments and...

South Central selects NTC prepaid solution

DALLAS-South Central Communications announced it plans to introduce NTC's SmartPay Wireless and iRoam prepaid wireless services to its customers in the St. George basic...
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