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TORONTO-Stratos Global Corp. completed its Mount Kilimanjaro educational expedition using its turnkey remote communications network. Stratos provided the expedition team with an Inmarsat-M4 terminal, allowing the team to send and …

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-Sierra Wireless Inc. will use PrairieComm Inc.’s PCI3800 integrated baseband processor to enable a next-generation TDMA/EDGE wireless modem now in development, allowing notebook computers and other mobile computing …

NEW YORK-@Road Inc., a Fremont, Calif.-based provider of vehicle location information, messaging and dispatch services, went public Sept. 28 with an offering of 7 million shares of stock priced at …

WASHINGTON-In a move with major implications for the future of mobile commerce and the $183 billion merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc., the Federal Communications Commission last …

NEW YORK-Telecommunications carriers worldwide are under significant pressure due to the bandwidth explosion, rising capital expenditures, competition from new players and delays in commercial rollout of new technologies. “I take …

CHICAGO-Almost half of wireless data users feel data services are “very” to “extremely important” when selecting their wireless service provider, according to results from Telephia Inc.’s wireless data and Internet …

BOLINGBROOK, Ill.-Tellabs and Nokia Networks, the infrastructure division of Nokia Corp., signed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic agreement to enhance ATM and IP transmission in second- and third-generation …

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. said it launched wireless broadband service in Pittsburgh, bringing to 43 the total number of markets it serves. Teligent’s smartWave technology offers network speeds up to 45 …

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles informed Spain’s National Securities Market Commission of the company’s intention to sell a yet-to-be-determined amount of share capital on Spanish and international markets. The company said the …

IRVING, Texas-Telecommunications network engineering services provider Telecom Global Solutions Holdings Inc. closed on $11 million in first-round Series-A equity financing by Bear Stearns Merchant Banking. The company said it will …

NEW YORK-Solid Information Technology, known for network synchronization software, has received $50 million in second-round private equity investment. Robertson Stephens Inc. served as placement agent for the transaction, which is …

HELSINKI, Finland-Tibco Software Inc., which provides real-time infrastructure software for e-business, is deploying Nokia Corp.’s WAP technology for its Tibco MobileConnect third-generation networks, enabling mobile access to personalized services and …

NEW|YORK-Texas Instruments plans to release next year a third-generation wireless solution for independent developers of modules for the Springboard expansion slot on Handspring’s Visor handheld computers. “We are pleased to …

JACKSON, Miss.-AT&T Wireless network partner Tritel Inc. launched digital wireless phone service in nine markets under its SunCom and AT&T brand names. The markets include Corbin and Owensboro, Ky.; Florence, …

CHICAGO-Video content may be the new show to watch on the wireless Internet. Content is the name of the game in the wireless Internet evolution going forward. And while it …

Verizon Wireless turned the industry on its ear last week, announcing plans to support legislation in Illinois that would ban cell-phone use while driving unless the caller is using a …

MCLEAN, Va.-Ventera Corp., an e-business solutions provider, announced it has formed a wireless Internet and mobile commerce practice group. The company already uses WAP technology to allow network system administrators …

CHICAGO-“Spectrum is like money, everyone always wants more of it and you can never get enough of it,” said Mark Kelley, chief technology officer of Leap Wireless International Inc. It …

NEW YORK-Wireless users may be free of the wire but not of the clutter. Despite the image of untethered communications, they are burdened with a bevy of devices. Only technology …

CHICAGO-Mobilestop Inc. is expected today to announce a partnership with L.M. Ericsson where the Swedish phone maker will install Mobilestop’s products in its phones. The agreement calls for the Mobilestop-enabled …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. subsidiary Brightpoint Middle East FZE entered an agreement with Go Mobile, a GSM operator based in Malta, to provide wireless prepaid products and integrated services. From its facility …

TEMPE, Ariz.-Scientists working for Motorola Inc. demonstrated a prototype of a ceramic-based microfluidic fuel delivery system for a miniature direct methanol fuel cell that may one day replace the traditional …

CHICAGO-More antenna sites and towers will be needed as the wireless industry begins to address the data market, said Malcolm Wood, president and chief executive officer of San Diego-based Littlefeet …

NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. is on track to launch its new Ricochet service with data speeds up to 128 kilobits per second in New York and several other cities markets by …

On any given day, you can pick up a newspaper and read about killings and suffering abroad due to political unrest; ethnic, religious and racial rivalries; border and territorial disputes; …