2000

DALLAS-T-Speed Broadband Communications launched its high-speed wireless Internet access service in Dallas/Fort Worth, the company announced. The company said it is targeting small and medium-sized businesses, and it already has …

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.-Shorecliff Communications Inc. announced the finalists for the Tower and Site Development Industry’s Annual Excellence in Business Awards, to be given out at a dinner and ceremony …

For more than six months the mobile satellite industry has been trying to polish its image after the well-publicized failure of Iridium L.L.C. tarnished the reputation of all those involved …

LOS ANGELES-Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. are donating 100 pre-programmed digital wireless phones and free airtime to eight domestic violence prevention programs in the Los Angeles area as part of …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices will collaborate to develop an architecture for AMD’s Flash memory devices and TI’s digital signal processors-based Open Multimedia Application Platform. TI said the …

BEIJING-Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile-phone operator by total subscriber numbers, is set to take a 2-percent stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed subsidiary of parent China Mobile Telecommunications …

TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like …

NEW YORK-New Skies Satellites N.V., a commercial spinoff of Intelsat, became a publicly traded company Oct. 4 when it sold 28.5 million American Depositary Shares priced at $9 each. The …

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. …

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 …

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-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association unveiled its official partners and event sponsors for its Wireless I.T. 2000 expo and convention. CTIA also reported that pre-registration attendance is nearly triple last …

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 …

Arch Wireless Inc.’s shareholders approved the company’s pending merger with Paging Network Inc. at a special meeting of shareholders. The transaction still requires the approval of PageNet stockholders. In addition, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

ATLANTA-O2wireless Solutions Inc. said it will provide engineering design and systems integration support services to Netro Corp.’s channel partners and AirStar service providers worldwide. O2wireless will provide radio-frequency and network …

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 …

SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle’s portal-to-go technology and …

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 …

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. launched WebMagic, a wireless Internet product that allows its cellular phone customers to access the Internet and receive e-mail messages. Dobson said the service will be …

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 …