Monthly Archives: February, 2001

U.S. Cellular adds tagline

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. debuted a new company tagline, "We connect with you," supported by consumer and business-to-business advertising campaigns. The company said the tagline...

SEC investigates Lucent for fraudulent accounting

NEW YORK-The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a formal investigation of Lucent Technologies Inc. for possible fraudulent accounting practices, The Wall Street Journal...

Industry may consider reversed 911 solution: Facing looming 911 deadlines, CESA offers to go to bat for industry

WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra...

CCI acquires Berkshire Wireless

SAN ANTONIO-Telecommunications infrastructure service provider CCI Telecom Inc. acquired Berkshire Wireless Inc., a wireless facilitates deployment specialist.CCI Telecom President Mike Novak will serve as...

Calendar

Mobile Commerce ConferenceFebruary 12-13 Key3Media. The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Calif. www.key3media.com/mc2.Vamos Wireless! 2001 ConferenceFebruary 12-13 Latin Venture Partners. Miami. www.latinventure.com.Wireless/Portable Symposium and ExhibitionFebruary...

Toymax subsidiary to make wireless toys

PLAINVIEW, N.Y.-Toymax International Inc. formed a subsidiary, Maxverse Interactive Inc., to create wireless toys targeted at teens and children.The subsidiary was formed with $4.6...

UPS subsidiary expands logistics for Sprint PCS

ATLANTA-UPS Logistics Group, a subsidiary of United Parcel Service, agreed to expand its logistics services for Sprint PCS' returns management services.Under the terms of...

Qualcomm sues ex-employees

SAN DIEGO (AP)-Qualcomm Inc. is trying to recover $573,527 in legal costs from former employees who sued the company, claiming they were denied stock...

Orascom Telecom wins Syrian GSM license

CAIRO, Egypt-Orascom Telecom said its subsidiary SyriaTel was awarded a new GSM license in Syria. The GSM 900 MHz license will cost about $20...

WAP fails to impress U.K. consumer watchdog

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Once again the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has been consigned to the dust bin of failed technology by the U.K. consumer magazine...

Uzbekistan restores licenses to two carriers

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan-The Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan restored AMPS/D-AMPS licenses to two carriers that it earlier recalled for failure to stand up to their...

WAP phones set to reach 1.5 million in Thailand in 2001

NEW DELHI, India-Thai cellular companies foresee a big jump in use of WAP phones during 2001.About 70 percent of the 1.4 million new handsets...

China Unicom in CDMA lease agreement

BEIJING-The listed vehicle of China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) is making plans to lease a Code Division Multiple Access network its parent has recently...

FunMail completes tests

TOKYO-FunMail announced it is a step closer to introducing its animated messaging service after several successful tests between two mobile phones."Our tests are going...

Nextel announces wireless Web alliances

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with Airput, @Road and ClickSoftware to provide Nextel Wireless Web customers with solutions for real-time, remote management of...

Powell not a crusader against Digital Divide

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell last week signaled he will not get in the way of President Bush's plan to overhaul the schools...

Wmode aims to connect carriers, content providers

So far, the question has been: Who drives the traffic?Do content providers for the wireless Internet push user traffic for wireless carriers, increasing their revenue...

Quality vs. quantity: Local plans hurt network quality, users complain

In an attempt to expand their customer bases, some wireless operators have taken to rolling out wireless local loop-type services allowing customers to pay...

Carriers lose appeals court ruling in liability case

WASHINGTON-A California appeals court on Thursday told a lower court it must deny a petition from two California mobile-phone carriers that claimed they could...

ADS forms strategic alliance with AT&T Angel

PALM BEACH, Fla.-Applied Digital Solutions Inc., a single-source provider of e-business solutions, formed a strategic alliance with AT&T Wireless as its wireless carrier of...

XO Communications reports 181-percent revenue increase

RESTON, Va.- XO Communications Inc. reported revenues for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 of $253.1 million, a 181-percent increase from the $90.02 million...

Breaking Ma Bell

How it came to pass that AT&T let its cellular licenses slip away during its 1984 divestiture is the stuff of wireless industry urban...

Less congestion on telecom freeways

NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed...

World Briefs

MALAYSIAMotorola Inc. signed a $130 million infrastructure contract with Maxis Communications Bhd to increase Malaysia's network capacity to accommodate more than 3 million subscribers...

Telecom Namibia prepares for privatization

As the South African telecommunications industry prepared for a meeting to map out the legal future of communications in the country, Telecom Namibia said...
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