2000

HELSINKI, Finland-Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group joined the MeT initiative, formed earlier this year by Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. to jointly develop an open and common …

NEW DELHI, India-Total Access Communications (TAC), Thailand’s second-largest mobile operator, has announced an expansion and financial restructuring with the help of its Norwegian partner Telenor, which has pumped US$260 million …

SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corporation Ltd. and Hong Kong Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. announced completion of revised terms of their alliance, first announced in April. Telstra will grab control of …

Aether Systems Inc. announced USAToday.com as the first customer for the recently introduced AirLoom service, which adapts Web content for wireless distribution. In addition, Aether said it will help USAToday.com …

CARACAS, Venezuela-Venezuelan telecom regulator Conatel said bidding rules for the auction of 20 wireless local loop (WLL) licenses in the 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz frequency band are available. Four …

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gravitate Inc., a new mobile location services software provider, launched its Gravitate Platform and closed a $3.7 million round of funding, the company announced. “The Gravitate Platform …

Wireless messaging services are looked upon by many wireless service providers and Internet service providers as the “killer app” that will fuel both future subscriber and revenue growth. Unfortunately, the …

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications has unveiled its first bundled offering allowing the residential customer of many of its local telephone companies who purchase any Verizon Wireless digital calling plan of at …

WASHINGTON-With Congress stuck in town at least another week and prospects growing that pending legislation will be rolled into one or two catch-all spending bills, the fate of several key …

Congress approved legislation that will increase to 600,000 the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers during the next three years. The measure also includes provisions funding scholarships for …

Ireland’s telecom regulator launched a comparative tender for a national 15-year TETRA license. The result of the competition will be announced in January 2001. Licenses for the two blocks of …

We are a fickle people. What is in vogue one week can be quickly out of fashion the next. So it seems with government comments about the prices paid by …

RCR Wireless News announced that Dan Meyer, formerly editorial assistant, has been promoted to reporter. Meyer has been with RCR since December 1999. “Dan came to RCR Wireless News less …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc., the H.L. Yoh Co. L.L.C. and TAC Worldwide Companies announced an agreement to manage the procurement and administration of contract labor services for Motorola operations in …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Voice Mobility International Inc. signed an agreement with Taiwan’s Logtech Info-Net Inc. to jointly provide Voice Mobility’s Unified Communications software suite to telephone, Internet and cellular phone users …

Beginning early next year, insurance brokers will be able to access quotes, check on the status of cases and edit quotes wirelessly from Palm Inc.’s personal digital assistants and software …

WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association put Nextel Communications Inc. and Pegasus Guard Band L.L.C. on notice Friday that the private wireless association will “watch very closely” to ensure the enhanced specialized …

NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on new importance. Presence is shorthand for …

MONROE, La.-CenturyTel Inc. completed its purchase of approximately 133,000 telephone lines from Verizon Communications in Wisconsin for $364 million in cash in two separate transactions. The first transactions involved CenturyTel …

TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial, which manufactures cell phones under the Panasonic brand name, is discussing an alliance on third-generation mobile phones with European mobile carriers, according to a report in the …

MADRID, Spain-Spain’s Telefonica has finally added Mexico to its Latin American footprint with the acquisition of Motorola’s Mexican mobile-phone assets. The $2.5 billion acquisition is also an important stepping stone …

A new report from Ovum warns new entrants planning to deploy broadband technologies such as digital subscriber line may find the cost and complexity discouraging, and other access methods such …

WASHINGTON-The mobile phone industry is expected shortly to unveil a privacy policy to guide carriers as they reinvent business plans to capitalize on the Internet and new location-based wireless technology. …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this session has before it three mobile-phone health cases, a sign of things to come in a Digital Age where technology outpaces the law and raises novel …

SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. entered a five-year, $1 billion agreement for Lucent to be the primary provider of data, voice and access infrastructure for SBC’s national …