February 2001

NEW YORK-AirMedia has embarked on a common carrier strategy for Internet content provision with the late January introduction of its new “Wireless Hub.” “This will be a worldwide automated marketplace, …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) this week plans to re-introduce legislation that sets mobile-phone service standards and directs the Federal Communications Commission to monitor complaints of dropped calls, busy signals, dead …

Several large wireless operators showed proof of continuing strength in the wireless industry, amid rumblings of a general slowdown in the economy. AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless …

For phone maker Nokia Corp., 800 jobs will bite the dust as some of its production gravity moves out of the United States. In the same week it announced a …

The fat cat of vendors, Nokia Corp., ate humble pie last week despite dishing out a juicy fourth-quarter report. The report, which beat estimates in spite of recent rumblings about …

CenturyTel Inc.’s stock dropped more than 13 percent last Wednesday, following the company’s release of less-than-stellar fourth-quarter operating results and warnings of first-quarter and full-year profits coming in below expectations. …

PARIS-The French government’s award of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses was thrown into disarray, with only two companies submitting applications for four licenses. Incumbent mobile carrier Bouygues Telecom did …

TOKYO-The value of wireless Internet transactions in Japan will grow from $336 million in 2000 to more than $5 billion in 2005, according to a report from Japanese research firm …

MONTREAL-Bell Canada and Amdocs, a telecommunications customer care and billing company, announced they will extend their relationship to offer Bell’s customers a single bill, which will cover local, long-distance, wireless, …

TOKYO-Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it was adding Internet services to its second-tier personal handyphone system, in an attempt to cut into a market dominated by its rival …

NEW YORK-Armstrong World Industries Inc., Lancaster, Pa., has produced conventional looking, pop-out ceiling tiles that hide radio-frequency antennas in their upward facing sides. “Providing in-building coverage for voice and data …

Motorola Inc.’s recent financial problems reverberated through the wireless industry and across the Atlantic, sending shares of Europe’s biggest personal digital assistant maker plummeting after Motorola pulled out of a …

SAO PAULO, Brazil(AP)-Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel said Friday it had suspended next week’s planned auction for the first three of nine new licenses due to lack of bidders. Analysts said …

News of the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to delay the auction of 700 MHz spectrum from March to September, caused a slight panic for shareholders of Nextel Communications Inc. stock …

RICHMOND, Va.-Web strategy and development company Whitlock ebs announced a strategic partnership with Voice Technologies Inc., a company focused on voice/speech technologies. The companies said they hope to help clients …

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should be exempt from the actual or threatened rolling blackouts that have plagued California in recent weeks in the same way wireline carriers are exempt, two of the …