Yearly Archives: 2000

Nokia, Motorola maintain lead

According to Strategy Analytics' new market report, "U.S. Cellular Handset Market Status," Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. continue to hold leadership positions in the...

Andersen, Amdocs in alliance

NEW YORK-Andersen Consulting and Amdocs Ltd. today announced an alliance to combine their management, technology, billing and customer-service operations for the communications market.Andersen, a...

Hearing impaired ask for compatibility mandate on digital phones: Issue complicated by hands-free compliance

WASHINGTON-The hearing-impaired community has asked the Federal Communications Commission to consider mandating hearing aid compatibility for digital mobile phones, saying the wireless industry has...

Gravitate, Oven cooperate on location-based games

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Gravitate Inc. has partnered with Oven Digital to cooperate on developing location-based wireless Internet gaming based on Gravitate's Location Precise software platform.Under...

Sprint hears the music

In the effort to alter consumers' perceptions of wireless phones, Sprint PCS turned up the volume last week with the introduction of an online...

DoCoMo in talks with AT&T

TOKYO-A press report has stated Japan's NTT DoCoMo is in talks with AT&T Corp. regarding taking a minority stake in the U.S. carrier's mobile-phone...

Invertix raises $11M

ANNANDALE, Va.-Invertix Corp. garnered $11 million in its second round of private-equity financing and said it plans to use the funds to bolster the...

Trinidad and Tobago receives nationwide fixed wireless service

NASHUA, N.H.-Spike Broadband Systems said it won two contracts in Trinidad and Tobago.Borde Communications will use Spike's fixed-wireless broadband technology to provide a broadband...

Metrocall net loss increases

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced third-quarter operating results with a net loss of $60.1 million, or 69 cents per share, compared with $47.9 million, or...

POTUS as Proteus

Oh thank heaven for Eleven-7. Election Day 2000 is here, mercifully. This presidential marathon, which has become totally corrupted by big money, cynicism and...

Informano provides Gallup results

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Informano Networks announced it added interactivity to The Gallup Organization's Election 2000 wireless Web site.Informano said users will be able to remotely check...

Ericsson launches T20 phone

LONDON-Ericsson launched its new T20 mobile phone, available in November, which features Swatch Internet time and WAP mobile chat.The company said the Swatch Internet...

JP Systems provides e-mail access to YadaYada

NEW YORK-YadaYada Inc. announced JP Systems Inc. has agreed to provide its e-mail access to YadaYada customers on Palm OS-based personal digital assistants, according...

i3 Mobile launches m-banking program

STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc. launched a pilot program with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce providing customers and CIBC employees with wireless information services...

Greece announces fixed-wireless auction

ATHENS, Greece-The National Telecommunications and Post Commission of Greece announced its intention to grant individual licenses for fixed wireless access networks. The auction for...

Motorola leads OpenGrid investment

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Corporate and private investors such as Motorola Inc. and Commtouch invested $19 million in OpenGrid Inc., a wireless transactions provider, the company...

Metricom to deliver Ricochet to Aether corporate customers

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has agreed to deliver its Ricochet high-speed mobile Internet access technology to Aether Systems Inc. corporate customers.Under the deal, Aether...

CFW selects Lucent for expansion

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Residents in Virginia and West Virginia will likely see an expanded PCS network after a $100 million deal between Lucent Technologies Inc....

Japanese mobile users increase 10 percent on year

TOKYO-Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading market research firm in Japan, on 25 October announced Japanese mobile-phone users, including both cellular phones and PHS...

MCC plans Moscow GSM service next year

MOSCOW-Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC), which so far has been operating an NMT 450 network, announced it is planning to start a GSM service next...

Mobileum aims to simplify corporate wireless Web deployment: Company leverages technology, funding muscle

NEW YORK-Mobileum, a Pleasanton, Calif., start-up, has filed for nine patents and received $45 million in first-round venture funding for its system to simplify...

Certicom files registration statement

HAYWARD, Calif.-Certicom Corp., a provider of information security software and services for mobile e-business, filed a registration statement for a proposed public offering of...

Voice recognition moves to forefront of enhanced-services offerªings

If you were to ask most wireless subscribers what they wanted out of their wireless service, you would get a variety of answers that...

O2wireless enters service pact with Broadnet

ATLANTA-O2wireless Solutions Inc. entered a service agreement with Broadnet, under which O2wireless will provide license application, early stage planning, radio-frequency design and technology consulting...

Ebbers says MCI WorldCom is not seeking acquisition

NEW YORK-MCI WorldCom Inc. sees an opportunity to transform its wireless resale business into one of full-fledged virtual network operation, said Bernard J. Ebbers,...
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