Monthly Archives: January, 2001

Happy Birthday to us!

Twenty years ago, in a dangerous neighborhood in the slums of Denver, a monthly newspaper called Radio Communications Report was first published. Its mission: to...

Telesp acquires stake in Brazil operator

LISBON, Portugal-Portugal Telecom announced its Brazilian cellular subsidiary, Telesp Celular Participacoes S.A., acquired 49 percent of the common shares and 100 percent of the...

American Tower prices shares

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. has priced the sale of 10 million shares of class A common stock through Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an underwritten...

Handspring beats estimates

SAN FRANCISCO-With a second-quarter revenue rise of about $100 million from the year-ago period, handheld maker Handspring Inc. surpassed Wall Street estimates and looks...

Nokia, Symbian may blaze trail with color-screen mobile phone

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Symbian Ltd. are teaming up to develop a color-screen mobile phone and personal organizer ahead of Microsoft Corp., according to...

Triton sells subordinated notes

STAMFORD, Conn.-Wireless operator Triton PCS Inc. sold $350 million of 10-year senior subordinated notes in the 144a private placement market.Triton said it would use...

TIA’s market forecast predicts more growth

Citing results from their new, 300-plus page report covering almost every facet of the telecommunications industry, executives of the Telecommunications Industry Association said that...

TCS takes over Xypoint

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it received the necessary shareholder and regulatory approvals to complete its acquisition of privately held Xypoint Corp.Under terms of the...

S&P predicts increased telecom ratings pressure

NEW YORK-Debt downgrades for telecommunications carriers last year outnumbered upgrades by a two-to-one margin, setting the stage for increased pressure on ratings this year,...

Siemens lands Portuguese 3G contract

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said Portuguese mobile operator TMN chose it as its preferred supplier for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System technology. Siemens will be the main...

Israelis target Silicon Alley in reserve trade mission

NEW YORK-In an unusual but not unprecedented step, the U.S. Commercial Service Export Assistance Center will be hosting what its officials call a "reverse...

Pixo teams with Snippets

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Pixo Inc. and Snippets Software announced they are teaming to make Snippets' corporate Intranet and Internet monitoring system available to wireless devices."Together with...

Cingular chooses recognizable figure for branding campaign

With celebrity endorsements becoming common in advertisements for wireless carriers, Cingular Wireless knew it needed a recognizable figure to kick off the advertising campaign...

Verizon launches S.C. markets

GREENVILLE, S.C.-Verizon Wireless launched digital wireless services in Florence, Lee, Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina."With this significant digital expansion into eastern...

Ease of use will drive m-location

BOSTON-The mystery of how mobile location services will make money could be solved by the increasingly popular and consumer-friendly appeal of mobile commerce and...

Tauzin calls for hearing on Internet address selection

WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has called for a hearing next month to examine complaints about how Internet addresses are selected, an...

PCS auction has some life left: Bids top $17.5B

Most analysts expected the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses to finish up late last week. Instead, there were 37...

NTIA says UWB has potential in 3 to 6 GHz bands

WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said last week testing showed that ultra-wideband systems "have the potential" to operate in the 3 to 6...

Cellular licenses: A gold rush

It has been less than 20 years since the first commercial cellular phone call was completed in the United States.The date was Oct. 13,...

Nuance software to be used by OnStar

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Nuance, a manufacturer of voice interface software, and OnStar, the telematics subsidiary of General Motors Corp., announced OnStar has licensed Nuance's speech...

TSI drops GTE tag

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. announced it will no longer market itself with GTE or Verizon Information Services and will note the distinction by...

Internet Briefs

Yada Yada Inc. has formed an alliance with Novatel Wireless Inc. to provide co-branded Minstrel V Wireless Handheld Modems for the Palm V and...

SpectraSite Transco purchases share in Sofrer

SpectraSite Transco Communications SAS, the French subsidiary of SpectraSite Transco Communications Ltd., said it purchased 19 percent of the share capital of Paris-based telecommunications...

Flying high: Wireless taps air travel business

More than 50 percent of the 39.8 million business travelers in 1999 brought cellular phones with them on their trips, according to the Travel...

Nokia signs MoU with Fujian MCC

HELSINKI, Finland-Phone maker Nokia Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding that allows China's Fujian Mobile Communications Co. to try Nokia's mCatch positioning system for...
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