February 2001

LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. completed its merger with Roberts Wireless Communications L.L.C. and Washington Oregon Wireless L.L.C., increasing Alamosa’s licensed population from 8.5 million residents to 12.5 …

CLINTON, Miss.-WorldCom Inc., the nation’s largest wireless reseller, revised the terms of its merger with Intermedia Communications Inc. to settle a lawsuit filed by the minority shareholders of Digex Inc., …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-America Online Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. reported a comprehensive services, content and marketing agreement to provide America Online’s features and services to customers as part of VoiceStream’s wireless …

Many discussions about what’s inherently wrong with the wireless Internet, m-commerce or mobile data in general seem to end up placing the blame squarely on the device. It’s too big. …

NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today? That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of …

WASHINGTON-Susan Ness, the most senior member of the Federal Communications Commission, is planning on leaving the agency before the end of her recess appointment; her aid confirmed last week. Rumors …

To know what the broadband industry is going to do tomorrow, just look at what the cellular industry is doing today. Year after year, several key cellular carriers and vendors …

Despite some `hiccups’ within the industry and key supply channels, phone sales worldwide grew 46 percent to 412.7 million units last year, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. reported revenues for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31 of $202 million and $649.2 million, respectively, compared with $114.2 million and $345.8 million for …

With AT&T Wireless Services Inc. behind it, Panasonic Telecommunications Systems Co. hopes to rise out of the shadows of the U.S. market and push its weight around with two new …

In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline. Against a background of outsized estimates, employee downsizing, technological miscues and …

PITTSBURGH-Verizon Wireless said it is offering its customers a comprehensive protection plan for $4 per month that protects them in case their phone is lost, stolen, damaged or suffers mechanical …

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s semiconductor products sector said it would reduce its workforce by 4000 jobs in the course of this year as part of its “steps to boost efficiency and …

NEW YORK-GEO Interactive Media Group announced it will change its name to Emblaze Systems Ltd., which is the name of the company’s streaming video technology. “We intend to invest heavily …

According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector signed a network replacement contract with Maroc Telecom. Terms of the agreement call for Motorola to install its new generation Horizonmacro and …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is ready to start high-volume production of commercial GSM radio base stations at its Campinas plant in Brazil.

LONDON-TimesTen Performance Software said Tecnomen selected TimesTen’s real-time data management software for use in its next-generation intelligent network platform. The software company said Tecnomen will gain an increase in the …

WASHINGTON-Education Secretary Roderick Paige refused to retreat from President Bush’s plan to scrap the schools and libraries Internet program, a posture that prompted Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) to demand that …

WASHINGTON-The Privacy Coalition is calling on lawmakers at the state and federal levels to sign what it is calling a privacy pledge. The privacy pledge says that “privacy is one …

ATLANTA-Seagull, a provider of e-business enabling software, announced a partnership with Symbol Technologies, a supplier of rugged wireless devices and wireless network solutions. As partners, Seagull and Symbol will be …

WASHINGTON-Enforcement of government rules, including telecommunications rules, should be efficient and fair and have the consent of the governed, said FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. Furchtgott-Roth was the keynote speaker at …

SEATTLE-Imaging technology company LizardTech Inc. partnered with computer chip giant Intel Corp. to enter the wireless Internet market with a product the company said will allow wireless users to view …

BOSTON-The wireless application service provider market will grow to $3.6 billion by 2005 and is in the same formative stages as the fixed Internet ASP industry was a few years …

WASHINGTON-There is probably not a need for Congress to pass legislation to reform the Federal Communications Commission especially if new FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell is successful in his attempts …