June 2001

MONTE CARLO-Centro de Tecnologia de las Communicaciones S.A. has integrated Agilent Technologies Inc.’s equipment into test solutions designed to help manufacturers meet the industry certification requirements for Bluetooth devices.

MANCHESTER, N.H.-Public Service of New Hampshire is offering its General Construction and Maintenance Facility in Hooksett, N.H., to Cellular Specialties Inc. to test the company’s wireless in-building amplifiers, antennas and …

LONDON-BT Cellnet will use Seven’s mobile software architecture to launch its Connected wireless Internet service. Connected, which is a mobile Internet portal and suite of services for business customers in …

Blackstone Blackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates …

NEW YORK-By early fall, the Federal Communications Commission expects to issue rules governing software-defined radio, which industry participants believe will revolutionize wireless communications, Bryan Tramont said June 11 at the …

After months of struggling to beef up its customer base and emerge, even slightly, from debt, Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it’s officially open to the possibility of a sale, merger …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. said it was provisioned by Beijing P-Com, its Chinese joint venture partnership, to supply a combination of P-Com and Ceragon Networks Ltd. fixed wireless access systems to …

144 kilobits/second or higher in high mobility (vehicular) traffic; 384 kilobits/second for pedestrian traffic; 2 Megabits/second or higher for indoor traffic.

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 year: ” enhanced 911 deployment. But …

Cellemetry L.L.C. Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.’s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. …

SAN DIEGO-Wireless silicon designer Transilica Inc. reported a $30 million deal with Memcorp Inc., the producer of the Memorex brand of consumer goods, to sell units of its OneChip Bluetooth …

HONG KONG-Motorola Inc. announced today its Telecom Solutions Sector will team with Altera Corp., which supplies programmable logic devices, to design and develop a cdma2000 1xEV-DV network solution. Altera plans …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Hewlett-Packard Co. and Aether Systems Inc. announced the launch of Wireless Management for HP’s OpenView, which is a combination of HP’s OpenView and Aether’s device management solution. The …

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 take as aggressive a stance as …

As the Virgin Mobile rumor factory continues to pump out news stories, Sprint PCS finally brought some substance to the situation. The wireless carrier issued a brief, two-sentence release confirming …

BOSTON-MessageMachines Inc., which provides advanced messaging solutions, and Mirapoint Inc., which provides Internet messaging infrastructure products, have teamed to enhance the messaging and notification capabilities of Mirapoint’s product lines. In …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Palm Inc. has made further headway in the Asia-Pacific region through an announcement with Acer Inc., under which Acer licensed the Palm Operating System through 2005. Under the agreement, …

WASHINGTON-Diveo Broadband Networks Inc. announced it is the first dedicated hosting provider in Latin America to receive IBM hosting advantage approval. To qualify for the hosting advantage program, Diveo said …

VERNON HILLS, Ill.-ArialPhone Corp., which provides wireless devices and voice-enabling software, has chosen Ultralife Batteries Inc. to supply batteries for ArialPhone, a voice-activated wireless product the company plans to release …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-2Roam Inc. added voice support to its wireless platform using Tellme Network Inc.’s Voice Application Network, a deal 2Roam said will allow businesses to incorporate integrated voice and …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. scored a major, $750,000 sale for its @ctiveMessaging unified messaging platform to Edge Wireless Inc., an AT&T Wireless Communications Inc. affiliate. The deal comes shortly after …

NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. shareholders approved June 7 the creation of separate tracking stocks, which pursued separate pricing paths at the close of their first day of trading on Nasdaq June …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., announced its Intelligent Short Message Service Center (ISMSC) was selected by Airtel Mobil, a mobile operator in Spain and part of the …

HELSINKI, Finland-Kaj-Erik Relander, president and chief executive officer of Sonera Corp., has resigned effective Aug. 1. He will continue as an adviser to the chairman of the board of the …