January 2001

GREENVILLE, S.C.-qServe Communications said it acquired SiteTech Services L.L.C., a company that designs and develops wireless and fiber telecommunication sites. “STS’s expertise in engineering design and development services enables qServe …

MMTA Anne-Rivers Forcke was appointed chairman of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association’s Media Relations Committee. Forcke is a relationship marketing strategist for the Global Small Business group at IBM Corp., where …

SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. reported continued strong growth in data services and contributions from Cingular Wireless, its wireless joint venture with BellSouth Corp., combined to increase fourth quarter 2000 revenues …

YEHUDA, Israel-Floware Wireless Systems said the Abrared Consortium of Spain selected its WALKair system for its wireless network rollout throughout Spain. The $3.7 million contract makes Floware the supplier for …

NEW YORK-A host of players behind the scenes is pulling the complex strings required to amplify and simplify the end-user experience with billing and customer relationship management for the increasing …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use Sierra Wireless’ GPRS wireless modems for its plans to deploy GPRS, which expands the companies’ previous $30 million agreement for EDGE wireless …

TRENTON, N.J.-(AP)Troubled telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to cut about 10,000 jobs as part of an effort to reduce its annual costs by more than $2 billion after more …

NTT DoCoMo became the largest investor in AT&T Wireless Group last week when the previously announced strategic alliance between the two wireless giants officially commenced. For its $9.8 billion investment, …

I believe the Federal Communications Commission should keep the spectrum cap in place. The agency last week decided to review whether the spectrum cap-which prohibits any carrier from owning more …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Sprint PCS Network Partner iPCS Inc. reported an investor group led by two of The Blackstone Group’s private equity funds, Blackstone Communications Partners and Blackstone Capital Partners III, made …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will consider abolishing analog cellular technical rules that require cellular carriers to set aside a portion of their networks for the AMPS standard. “We …

If the Internet and mobile networks tend sometimes to be a choir of discord, the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum wants to be the voice of symphony. Founded in January 2000, …

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Divine Tower International Corp. said it signed a contract with Metricom Inc. to manage, direct and construct Metricom’s Ricochet fixed-wireless service expansion into Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester, N.Y., and …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Denmark awarded two new GSM 900 MHz licenses to Mobilix and Telia Denmark, the country’s two incumbent operators that had only GSM 1800 MHz licenses. Telia said the GSM …

CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. reported 171,000 net customer additions for the fourth quarter, a 15-percent increase from 1999, bringing U.S. Cellular’s subscriber base to more than 3 million customers. The …

NEW YORK-Cue Corp. announced it entered an agreement with Ten Square, an interactive point-of-sale broadcasting and publishing company, to enable Ten Square to broadcast near real-time news/sports, weather and traffic …

If we applied human attributes to mobile location services, they would be in preschool today, learning and acquiring the skills they will need to have a long and successful life …

Aether Aether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of …

Centerpoint Broadband Technologies Inc., an optical networking company based in San Jose, Calif., revealed this week it is expanding the reach and capabilities of its core technology to serve the …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Nextel Partners Inc. reported it added 55,000 digital subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2000 ended Dec. 31, compared with 46,100 subscribers added during the same quarter of 1999, …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will not reconsider the eligibility rules for the re-auction of 422 PCS licenses that allowed large carriers to bid on licenses previously reserved for …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-SnapTrack Inc. was awarded a patent that describes methods for remotely locating or tracking a wireless device via client-server systems that use a computer network or Web browser …

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Portugal Telecom have agreed to combine their mobile ventures in Brazil through a $10 billion strategic joint venture. The venture will combine the two companies’ existing mobile-phone …

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunications Systems said it joined the Location Interoperability Forum. Through its Xypoint unit, TCS will work with the LIF to develop global interoperability standards among mobile positioning systems, and …

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. added 878,300 cellular subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2000, a 49-percent increase compared with the 589,500 net additions during the same quarter in 1999, bringing …