Monthly Archives: April, 2001

TeleCorp adds 86,174 customers

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. reported it added 86,174 net customers during the first quarter of 2001, with net postpaid additions of 105,240 customers offsetting...

Motient receives investment from Rare Medium

NEW YORK-Rare Medium Group Inc. said it will provide Motient Corp. with up to $50 million on a short-term basis by purchasing Motient's stock.Company...

AT&T Wireless to carry Digital Angel: Wireless service transmits medical information from patient to doctor

NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has agreed to become the first carrier for Digital Angel, which expects to offer the first on-body gauge of...

Brightpoint to provide logistics services to B Digital USA

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced its subsidiary Brightpoint North America L.P. will provide B Digital USA Inc. with integrated logistics services including packaging fulfillment and other...

Economic downturn does not affect value proposition of wireless Internet

No one is quite sure where the wireless Internet is going.There is such a profusion of technology developed and offered on a daily basis-from...

Broadband industry running out of breath

One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of...

E911 Phase II deadline nightmare materializes: Powell remains optimistic deadline can be met

WASHINGTON-Fears about the timely deployment of enhanced 911 Phase II service appear to be coming true even as the chairman of the Federal Communications...

Kada platform enhances capabilities of Palm devices

A new company out of Andover, Mass., hopes to make the Palm personal digital assistant feel even more like a personal computer than ever...

Metrocall, WebLink plan unprecedented merger

The plan is ambitious, to say the least.Metrocall Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. announced last week a plan to merge by concurrently filing for...

Bush to nominate Martin, Abernathy, Kopps to FCC

WASHINGTON-The White House on Friday said President George W. Bush intends to nominate Kevin J. Martin, Kathleen Q. Abernathy and Michael J. Kopps to...

Alcatel not fully behind mobile handsets

PARIS-An Alcatel executive said the company is not fully committed to the mobile handset business, because of the strong advantage of competitors Nokia and...

Lucent’s latest labor: squelching speculation

Even rumors did not forgive Lucent Technologies Inc. last week as the telecom equipment maker scrambled to reassure its nervous investors that it was...

Inhofe weighs in on 3G spectrum battle

WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and...

Motorola denies $ problem

On the heels of a similar situation involving Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc. late Friday denied published reports that it faces a serious liquidity...

Verizon launches in Cedar Rapids

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa-Verizon Wireless launched its digital wireless service in Cedar Rapids, which includes coverage to Iowa City, Waterloo/Cedar Falls and Dubuque.According to the...

Tellabs lowers estimates

LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs has revised its revenue and earnings per share expectations for the first quarter of 2001.The company now projects first-quarter sales of about...

ICO requests MSS spectrum be used for terrestrial-based services

New ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd. has hand-delivered a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell, asking the commission to allow mobile...

HP endorses Lutris server

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Lutris Technologies Inc., an open source software and services company, said Hewlett-Packard Co. will endorse and recommend Lutris' Enhydra 3.5 wireless application...

Device quality key to wireless Internet experience

The wireless Internet is only as good as the device it's on.Granted, there are plenty of other issues surrounding the look and feel of...

Manufacturers try to balance cost cutting with growth plans

What safety nets do wireless manufacturers have in place in case we stumble into a true recession?The question has come up often lately because...

Blue Ribbon panel calls for using telecom excise tax for universal service

WASHINGTON-A Blue Ribbon panel released a report last week that called for the telecommunications excise tax to be used to fund universal service."A current...

GAO report finds increasing cyber security weaknesses

WASHINGTON-With fresh indications last week that government and industry information systems remain highly vulnerable to cyber attacks, the Bush administration faces added pressure as...

Nokia gains credibility as total supplier

Amid the frenzy over a flagging economy and road bumps to the next generation of technologies, Nokia Corp. won a series of third-generation infrastructure...

Sprint PCS beats analyst expectations

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS added more than 800,000 direct customers during the first quarter and about 50,000 resale customers to its subscriber base, ahead...

Telus Mobility reports record results

SCARBOROUGH, Ontario- Telus Mobility, the national wireless telecommunications business unit of Telus Corp., announced what it said are record first quarter wireless subscriber results.The...
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