Yearly Archives: 2000

Iridium finds its place: Satelite service provider will serve governments, remote users

After months of uncertainty peppered with glimpses of hope, Iridium L.L.C. officially settled into its new home last week as a mobile satellite service...

Ericsson, Tivoli ally for device management solutions

Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson and IBM's subsidiary Tivoli Systems Inc. have allied to roll out a set of managed devices the companies believe...

PCS bids top $1B early on

WASHINGTON-The C-block auction isn't a cheap date.Bids topped more than $1 billion in early rounds of an auction taking place largely because a previous...

Time for sound spectrum policy

As the industry whets its appetite on the prospect of third-generation services and all the revenue-generating opportunities wireless Internet access can bring, telecom vendors...

TSR to keep network running

A week after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey, TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's fourth largest paging carrier, announced Friday it will...

Nokia to ship Lutris Enhydra 3.5 with mobile developer tools

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. will ship with its suite of mobile developer tools the Lutris Enhydra 3.5 Java/XML Open Source application server, including the Nokia WAP...

AT&T forms partnerships for travel services

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced a "wireless travel concierge" portfolio to its Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service via partnerships with several companies and...

Court rules Qualcomm must share Korean royalties

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s financial expectations from its CDMA technology fell on account of the ruling by the International Court of Arbitration of the International...

PacketVideo to feature streaming video apps

Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services.PacketVideo...

Globalstar announces data play in effort to boost subscribers

Globalstar USA, in desperate need of some debt relief, announced it launched Globalstar Data Services, which will provide 9,600 bit per-second Internet connectivity for...

Cisco buys CDMA technology company

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems further staked its position in the wireless technology market by buying Exi0 Communications for $155 million in stock.The deal which...

KPN Mobile takes full ownership of KPN Orange

BRUSSELS, Belgium-KPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgium operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for $443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership.France Telecom...

FTC looks at wireless privacy issues, reaches no conclusions

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission last week began looking into the various consumer questions-including privacy-and emerging technologies of the wireless Web by holding a day-and-a-half...

RIM to offer GPRS data services in Canada

TORONTO-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it will purchase airtime and services from Microcell Connexions Inc. to offer Canadian customers wireless data services based on...

Carlo book points finger at CTIA, Wheeler

WASHINGTON-A new book describes top cellular lobbyist Thomas Wheeler as obsessed with controlling public relations for industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research conducted in the 1990s...

Ceremonial agreement signed

From left FCC Commissioner Susan Ness, FCC Chairman William Kennard and FCC Commissioner Michael Powell look on as Mikel Thomsen, president and chief operating...

Death-row ads about sensitivity

To the Editor: Dick Lyons, president of Cellular One, misses the point when he claims that the "Death Row Ad" is "not about the death...

Personal responsibility is key to safety

To the Editor,According to Tina Eichner (Missed Opportunity, RCR, Dec. 11), it is time for the wireless industry to join the cause that infects...

Littlefeet expands into new headquarters

SAN DIEGO-Littlefeet Inc. said it needs to expand. But that expansion won't be into new business markets. It will be into a new corporate...

World Briefs

BRAZILADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a $16 million contract to supply GVT Brazil with a broadband access bundled solution for the southern and...

MWIF finalizes recommendations for Layered Functional Architecture

FREMONT, Calif.-The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum announced it has finalized its recommendation for a new Layered Functional Architecture, designed to provide a unified structure...

Correction

In the Page 2 story, "Lucent shaken after sales warning (Nov. 27 issue of RCR Wireless News) it should have stated that Merrill Lynch...

Siemens selects SignalSoft location technology

BOULDER, Colo.-Siemens AG selected SignalSoft Corp.'s location technology to enhance its deployment of WAP gateways.The software will allow mobile network operators to combine the...

Motorola, Oracle unite on UNIX

Motorola Inc. and Oracle Corp. teamed last week to create a UNIX-based e-business platform designed for carriers, Internet service providers, enterprise customers and application...

Swisscom completes SmartServ agreement

STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. and Swisscom announced they are concluding definitive agreements to allow Swisscom to license SmartServ's Web and wireless application technology.The technology...
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