February 2001

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 and multimedia campaigns highlight its focus …

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 reported. The SEC reportedly is looking …

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 time to deploy enhanced 911 Phase …

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 president and chief executive officer …

Mobile Commerce Conference February 12-13 Key3Media. The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Calif. www.key3media.com/mc2. Vamos Wireless! 2001 Conference February 12-13 Latin Venture Partners. Miami. www.latinventure.com. Wireless/Portable Symposium and Exhibition February 12-16 …

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 million in Toymax stock. Maxverse …

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 the three-year agreement, UPS Logistics …

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 options when Qualcomm sold a division …

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 million. SyriaTel won one of two …

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 Which?. The independent guide said the …

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 commitments. The Uzbek Agency for Posts …

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 that Advanced Info Service (AIS) …

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 acquired. Terms of the original plan …

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 extremely well,” said Akio Kogane, …

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 time sheets, scheduling and fleets. Airput …

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 and libraries Internet discount program and …

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 stream, or do carriers …

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 a pre-set amount for unlimited wireless …

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 not be sued in state court …

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 choice for the Digital Angel Delivery …

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 reported for fourth-quarter 1999. The company …

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 legend. Some say AT&T was less-than-concerned …

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 that the tie-up looks like it …

MALAYSIA Motorola Inc. signed a $130 million infrastructure contract with Maxis Communications Bhd to increase Malaysia’s network capacity to accommodate more than 3 million subscribers during the next three years. …

As the South African telecommunications industry prepared for a meeting to map out the legal future of communications in the country, Telecom Namibia said it fears no competition when its …