Monthly Archives: January, 2001

US Unwired sells towers to SBA

LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc. sold 127 of its towers in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas to SBA Communications Corp. for about $40 million.SBA paid...

D.C. Briefs

The Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies, whose members often provide wireless as well as wireline service to rural America,...

Spectrian sells semiconductor division to Cree

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. completed the sale of its UltraRF semiconductors division to Cree Inc. for about $30 million and 1.8 million shares of Cree...

Zucotto receives financing, offers development kit

SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. received $35 million in its second round of financing, which was led by Shelter Capital Partners L.L.C. and Baker Capital...

Cell-Loc tries to stay afloat: Company restructures, lays off some employees

Location technology and services provider Cell-Loc Inc. pulled in the reins on its hopes for a national takeover and announced it will restructure its...

Tower industry 2001: Put up or shut up

Back in October, when the top brass of the tower industry converged in Las Vegas for the 2000 Tower Summit and Trade Show, the...

Bids reach $13 billion, pool of bidders dwindles

The Federal Communications Commissions re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses returned from its winter break by closing in on the $13-billion barrier, and...

American Tower revenues to exceed expectations, earnings may fall short

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it expects fourth-quarter revenues to be in the range of $226 million to $233 million, exceeding the company's previously announced...

VoiceStream uses RealName system

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-RealName Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. plan to bring wireless keyboard navigation for the wireless Web to VoiceStream's mobile Internet service, WebStream.The...

FCC may delegate interconnection to states

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is drafting a proposal that would give states more authority over the thorny issue of how carriers compensate each other...

WAP fights bad publicity with numbers

The news of WAP's demise has been greatly exaggerated, according to the Wireless Application Protocol Forum.The WAP Forum last week struck back against a...

British Airways, IBM launch WAP seat-selection process

LONDON-British Airways and IBM Corp. showed the fruits of their two-year, $17.5 million co-development contract with the launch of a variety of IBM Corp.-developed...

Wall St. shakeout starts

NEW YORK-Although the technology-laden Nasdaq posted its strongest one-day gain ever in response to the Federal Reserve Board's surprise rate cut Jan. 3, the...

OmniSky picks up location technology with NomadIQ buy

OmniSky Corp., a wireless Internet and e-mail services provider, has signed a deal to acquire NomadIQ, which provides location-based applications and services for handheld...

Asia-Pacific wireless Internet users will fall behind

The prospects for wireless Internet use in Asia-Pacific during the next decade will be both a leap forward and a heartbreak.The Strategis Group concluded...

Motorola announces efforts to streamline operations

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.- Motorola Inc. is ditching its troublesome Communications Enterprise unit and streamlining its operations, creating three new units and promoting executives to head...

Paratek aims to speed development of communications capacity

NEW YORK-Paratek Microwave Inc., a Columbia, Md., company established by a former U.S. Army researcher, plans to accelerate the evolution of communications capacity with...

Questions linger about TSR demise

Almost a month after the apparent demise of TSR Wireless L.L.C., which was the nation's fourth-largest paging carrier before it suddenly closed its doors...

Pinpoint debuts unified search and navigation platform

DURHAM, N.C.-Pinpoint Inc., founded last year by then high-school students Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman, unleashed its Search Anywhere unified search and navigation platform,...

Qualcomm licenses technology to RIM

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will license its CDMA technology to Research In Motion Ltd., which will develop CDMA and 1xEV data-centric wireless devices.RIM...

Eastern European operators witness increasing penetration levels

PRAGUE, Czech Republic-During the 11 years since the fall of communism in Central Europe, the region's countries have rapidly embraced mobile telephony, including the...

KDDI to launch HDR services

TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest carrier in Japan, has decided to launch its third-generation (3G) services based on High Data Rate (HDR) technology. KDDI will launch...

Indonesia poised for massive expansion

NEW DELHI, India-The Indonesian cellular phone market, which witnessed strong growth during 2000 despite political turmoil, is set for further expansion in 2001 when...

KDDI expands international roaming services: Other Japanese operators restricted by technology

TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology.In January, KDDI launched...

3G licensing to reshape mobile market: Two dominant carriers wil offer W-CDMA service

SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea awarded much-coveted third-generation (3G) mobile service licenses to SK Telecom, the country's largest mobile carrier, and state-run Korea Telecom on...
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