Monthly Archives: May, 2001

Mixed signals on follow-up to GAO health report

WASHINGTON-Aides to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week sent out conflicting signals on whether the two lawmakers will follow...

Motorola wins Kazakhstan deal

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Kazakhstan carrier Altel has awarded Motorola Inc.'s telecom solutions sector a contract to upgrade its existing nationwide analog system to a home...

DT, VoiceStream, Powertel merger expected to close May 31

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Deutsche Telekom AG, VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Powertel Inc. said they expect their pending merger to close on May 31.The companies also announced...

Telia to offer GPRS by September

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish mobile operator Telia said it will provide GPRS access to its 3 million wireless customers by September."Our tests have been a great...

Cost-cutting measures boost Cell-Loc

CALGARY, Alberta-Location services company Cell-Loc Inc.'s third-quarter results show that the company's drastic cost-reduction measures are starting to take hold.The company's loss for the...

Distracting or annoying?

One basic of writing a column is that the writer needs to have a strong opinion on the issue she is writing about. Normally,...

News Briefs

Verizon Wireless has signed an agreement with Triad Holdings L.L.C. to acquire Triad's PCS licenses covering the Southern Oklahoma BTA of Ardmore and Lawton-Duncan....

Medical records must be coordinated before they go wireless

WASHINGTON-Medical records need to be in the same electronic format before medicine can go wireless, according to a panel of transplant experts at last...

Denso, Kyocera, Kenwood to make 3G handsets

Since technology is almost meaningless without the phones, it also can be lonely to be a phone maker in a market where securing a...

Year of the Outlyer

Suddenly, the balance of power in official Washington has swung to The Outlyer.Who could've predicted Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) would become such an unabashed...

Zing, AT&T team on radio information

PHILADELPHIA-Zing Interactive Media reported an agreement to use AT&T Wireless' Free Connect offer to provide airtime-free, three-digit access to music and information services offered...

BREW conference attracts more than 800 attendees

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its inaugural BREW conference attracted more than 800 wireless application developers, device manufacturers, carriers and other professionals from around the...

TriQuint to merge with Sawtek

HILLSBORO, Ore.-Under a $1.3 billion deal, chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. will merge with wireless components maker Sawtek Inc., a move the companies said...

Sprint PCS partners with Erskine College

DUE WEST, S.C.-In an experiment set to run through this fall, Sprint PCS has partnered with Erskine College to merge wireless phones with computer...

Nortel increases credit agreements

OTTAWA-Nortel Networks Corp. said it now can borrow up to $1.75 billion in light of its regulatory filing Tuesday in which it increased its...

Business Briefs

Motorola Inc. said it is considering selling its Integrated Systems Group, its government and information technology business based in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Motorola's Integrated Information...

Telus develops long-term debt financing plan

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. plans to take advantage of debt capital markets in both Canada and the United States as it struggles to develop...

Angelos to file another lawsuit, lawmakers get GAO report

WASHINGTON-Baltimore lawyer Peter Angelos and attorneys in Atlanta were expected to file another lawsuit against the wireless industry either Friday or today in Georgia,...

Legislation to create privacy commission advances in House

WASHINGTON-Legislation that would create a commission to study whether broad privacy protection legislation is necessary in light of various federal, state and local laws...

FCC to overhaul universal-service program

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said it was overhauling its universal-service program by proposing new rules to determine how much telecommunications carriers pay...

Weiner to ask GAO to study consumer cell-phone complaints

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is set to ask the General Accounting Office to investigate mobile-phone service problems and consumer complaints across the country, a...

Aether tweaks business plan

Aether Systems Inc. announced solid first-quarter earnings last week along with a slightly revised business plan, but the results were not enough to please...

Verizon, WorldCom raise debt

NEW YORK-Good news for carrier access to capital arrived from the debt markets May 9 as WorldCom Inc. broke a record for debt deal...

Rome was not built in a day

The wireless industry has already admitted-repeatedly-that it jumped the gun a bit on the whole wireless Internet thing, acknowledged that its fruition still is...

Nokia smiles on Symbian

Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends...
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