Yearly Archives: 2000

Web services key to BAM growth in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH-Bell Atlantic Mobile feels good in the Steel City, attributing much if its recent growth in the Pittsburgh area to the company's recent introduction...

Bell Atlantic Mobile adds 874,000 customers

LAQUINTA, Calif.-Customers continue to flock to wireless communications, with Bell Atlantic Mobile announcing it added 874,000 wireless customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its...

BT, Telenor agree on Esat

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and Telenor AS announced they have reached an agreement regarding Ireland's Esat Telecom and its wireless arm Esat Digifone. BT is...

Clinton to launch campaign for China WTO membership

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, backed by telecom firms and other U.S. businesses, last week said it will launch an aggressive lobbying campaign to win congressional...

Convergys signs supply contract with Telesp

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it signed a six-year contract with South America's largest cellular operator, Telesp Celular S.A., to supply the company's billing and customer...

CTS forms phone card subsidiary

SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Company Inc., a provider of real-time information processing and management solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced the formation of Isis Tele-Communications...

Dobson Communications begins IPO road show

Dobson Communications Corp. plans today to begin a road show in advance of its initial public offering, which is expected to be priced during...

Sierra, Infowave bundle solution for N.A. businesses

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-While most people bundle together in Canada to stay warm, two companies in Vancouver are bundling to make their services warmer for...

WAP interoperability increasing concern

As the United States gears up for the commercial launch of Wireless Application Protocol services, the question of interoperability between WAP vendors has become...

Six groups vie for Spanish licenses

MADRID, Spain-Six groups submitted bids to the Spanish government for four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Spain to be awarded in March.Telefonica Moviles,...

Lucent hit with class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK-A securities class-action lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Lucent Technologies Inc. between Oct. 27, 1999,...

LHS, Alcatel sign MoU for Chinese projects

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of operations support systems, and Alcatel, a Paris-based network infrastructure supplier, have signed a memorandum of understanding to...

Ericsson to use TI’s multimedia platform for 3G

NEW YORK-In its next-generation, Internet-enabled mobile wireless devices, L.M. Ericsson will use the Open Multimedia Application Platform of Texas Instruments Inc., according to an...

GSMA, UWCC to work together on requirements

DUBLIN, Ireland, and BELLEVUE, Wash.-Building on their recent interoperability agreement, the GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium agreed to work together for...

Motorola, SingTel to offer tri-band GSM phone

SINGAPORE-Residents of Singapore can now surf the Internet without getting caught in those annoying wires.Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with SingTel Mobile to provide...

Mobile commerce to reach $200B

LONDON-The mobile commerce market could reach $200 billion by 2004, according to a study released by Strategy Analytics.The report predicts an explosion in demand...

NTT buys KDD wireless network facilities

TOKYO-NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's largest mobile operator, purchased KDD Corp.'s wireless network facilities for about $170 million. The acquisition is intended to...

Leap subscribers jump 250 percent

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced its international and domestic subscribers have jumped to more than 210,000 since Aug. 31, a 250-percent increase for...

interWAVE announces IPO

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-interWAVE Communications International Ltd. said it filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of...

Winstar gains nine more channels at 38 GHz in North

NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission granted Winstar Communications Inc. nine additional 100 megahertz channels in the 38 GHz spectrum range. The channels cover more...

30 MHz of spectrum set aside for auction

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will auction 30 megahertz of spectrum being made available with the transition to digital TV for advanced fixed and mobile...

AirGate launches PCS network

ATLANTA-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS network partner, launched the initial phase of its personal communications services wireless operation, which covers a significant portion...

Alcatel divests N.A. plants

DALLAS-Alcatel USA is divesting itself of three North American manufacturing plants as part of the company's strategic initiative to better focus its resources on...

Analysts should speak up

NEW YORK-If the overall stock market advance is to continue, securities analysts must recognize their right and discharge their duty to speak fully and...

AOL, Casio cooperate on wireless e-mail

DULLES, Va.-The merging of Internet services and wireless communications continued to proliferate with the announcement that America Online Inc. and Casio Computer Co. Ltd....
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