Monthly Archives: June, 2001

Motorola completes Mexican cellular sale with Telefonica

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola said it completed the sale of its investments in four cellular companies in northern Mexico to Telefonica S.A. for more than $1.8...

Services, not speed, count in 3G world

Forget about 3G speed. Bring on the services."Today's network speed and coverage are more than adequate for most of the so-called 3G services," said...

Wireless LANs help companies save time, money

As wireless local area networks continue to permeate the enterprise market, corporate IT managers are faced with having to learn how to integrate the...

@Track, Minorplanet close transaction

RICHARDSON, Texas-@Track Communications Inc., a provider of wireless-based vehicle fleet management and intelligent mobile-asset-tracking solutions, closed a previously approved transaction with Minorplanet Systems, a...

Pentagon budget woes could boost Industry 3G effort

WASHINGTON-While policy-makers struggle to balance commercial spectrum needs and national security, the outcome of industry efforts to secure the military's 1700 MHz band for...

802.11b business holds promise for vendors

802.11b, otherwise known as WiFi, is growing into one of the most buoyant fountains of money in the wireless industry, challenging big and small...

France Telecom services rebranded as Orange

PARIS-France Telecom said it will rebrand its mobile service brands in France, Itineris, Ola and Mobicarte, with the Orange brand. Along with the June...

Dancing to new beats

A few years back RCR Wireless News ran a story that said AT&T Corp. was exploring-just studying the possibility, mind you-of implementing a CDMA...

Dorgan bill addresses Internet taxation

WASHINGTON-A spokesman for a lawmaker at the center of the Internet tax debate said a front-page USA Today story last week that reported a...

Verizon downplays W-CDMA comments

Verizon Wireless is considering either using wideband-CDMA technology as its third-generation network standard or adding the technology to its CDMA-based network. Company spokespeople assert...

M-Services initiative comes out of the gate running

The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that...

House panel hears much rhetoric, few answers on E911 deployment

WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee heard testimony last Thursday on what Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called "the most compelling issue to come before it this...

CTIA’s Wireless Foundation expands Donate-A-Phone with its Return Outreach Initiative

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, has expanded its successful Donate-A-Phone program so that carriers and other...

Venture-capital investments fall as firms focus on existing clients: Telecom/wireless investments up from 1Q 1999

NEW YORK-Amid a widespread retrenchment in venture-capital outlays last quarter, investments in the telecommunications and wireless sector fell to $3.7 billion, a $2.2 billion...

NTT, Sumitomo test Socket Bluetooth cards

NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communication Inc. said its Bluetooth CompactFlash Cards have been successfully used in a Bluetooth wireless technology trial by Japan's NTT and Sumitomo...

Rogers aims to take company back to private status

NEW YORK-Bucking the spin-off and tracking stock trend among telecommunications companies, Rogers Communications Inc., Toronto, plans to take Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. private by...

PacketVideo, Siemens partner to resell 3G streaming media services

PacketVideo Corp. scored a major deal today with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile, which will resell the streaming media company's MPEG-4 technology platform to...

Nasdaq halts trading of U.S. Wireless pending SEC filings

Mobile location services provider U.S. Wireless Corp. is under threat of being delisted from the Nasdaq National Market following a series of findings that...

USTR not likely to push Korean 3G process

WASHINGTON-The White House, in the first official expression of wireless trade policy, said it supports technology neutrality but did not signal it planned to...

Asian manufacturers could slip into European 3G market

Timing is everything. As European wireless markets face saturation, the rollout of next-generation services becomes even more essential to the continued growth of the...

UWCC disagrees with Shosteck report

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced they disagree with several conclusion in the CDMA Development Group's sponsored June 2001 study "GSM or CDMA: The...

Sprint PCS, Virgin crawl to alliance

As the Virgin Mobile rumor factory continues to pump out news stories, Sprint PCS finally brought some substance to the situation. The wireless carrier...

Palm may branch into two firms

Executives for personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week discussed the possibility of splitting the company's operating system business and its device manufacturing...

Late News

NTT DoCoMo applies for stock listings, calls back handsetsNTT DoCoMo Inc. has applied for listings this fall on the New York Stock Exchange and...

Lucent rolls out IP services products

With an eye to rich services, reduced complexity and higher profits for service providers catering to their enterprise customers, Lucent Technologies Inc. has rolled...
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