June 2001

STAMFORD, Conn.-Verizon Wireless users are the most satisfied, according to a recent survey by Gartner Inc. Verizon received the highest marks in service satisfaction, with 87 percent of those surveyed …

Move over, Neville Chamberlain. Mobile-phone carriers in Great Britain and Germany last week struck a deal out of desperation, an arrangement with obvious policy implications that may or may not …

NEW YORK-Carrier network sharing, which made headlines this month in Europe with regard to third-generation wireless, is nothing new and will not hurt the prospects of equipment providers, executives of …

As European telecom companies pant under spectrum’s debt burden and fret over possible third-generation rewards, a market research firm thinks the future is worthy of the torture. “Mobile operators will …

HONG KONG-Repeater Technologies Inc. announced at the 3G World Congress in Hong Kong receiving type acceptance for its Over-the-Air 850C Network Repeater from China’s Ministry of Information Industry’s State Regulatory …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Airbiquity Inc. and motoring and travel services company AAA are field testing a portable location services device that attaches to existing cellular handsets, the companies announced. The test is …

MONTREAL-Canadian mobile operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc. launched Project Rainbow, an initiative to bring together companies to develop and market commercial mobile data services. The group will include systems integrators, network …

NEW YORK-The bad news, according to Jerry Newman, senior managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., “is word of a 50-to-75 percent decline in new venture capital investments” so …

With an eye to rich services, reduced complexity and higher profits for service providers catering to their enterprise customers, Lucent Technologies Inc. has rolled out five new high performance, attractively …

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. said it may cut more than 10,000 jobs, the figure the company projected in February as part of its drive for efficiency. The company said it …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Columbitech said it demonstrated secure network roaming between a public GSM wireless network and a Bluetooth local wireless hotspot with a handheld device. The demonstration, held at the Bluetooth …

BOSTON-Mobile services company Sonera Zed U.S. Inc. announced it plans to offer a variety of ring tones and icons in addition to its WAP and short message service offerings for …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it has agreed to conduct an eight-week trial of Emblaze Systems’ technology using a scaled-down version of a cdma2000 1xRTT network. It is designed to test …

BRAMPTON, Ontario-Standard and Poor’s has lowered its outlook on Nortel Networks Corp. to “negative” from “stable” as the company warned that the downturn in the market may lead to a …

NEW YORK-To celebrate World Environment Day, a group of telecommunications carriers, equipment vendors and industry associations formed the Global e-Sustainability Initiative last week, an alliance billed as the first of …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service in Hickory, N.C. The launch is the carrier’s third market in North Carolina following Charlotte and the Triad cities …

MEXICO CITY-U.S.-based Williams Communications said it entered an agreement with America Movil, the wireless arm of Mexican telecom giant TelMex, to sell its 19-percent interest in Brazilian wireless provider Algar …

If the debate over third-generation mobile-phone spectrum depended solely on financial lobbying clout, the well-heeled cellular industry would be awash in radio frequencies by now. Case closed. Complete, total victory. …

ScoreBoard likes to keep the networking slate clean of errors. The company, which specializes in network management and optimization for the mobile communications industry, helps operators to improve network quality …

WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association is urging that business communications that use two-way handheld radios be exempted from legislation meant to curb distracted driving. “We do not believe the intent of …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. slapped back at Research In Motion Ltd., which recently filed a patent lawsuit against the company’s unified message distribution service. Glenayre said it filed an answer …

Under an agreement announced last week between messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. and entertainment company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., TV sets sold next year will be-in essence-really big pagers. The …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a Web-to-wireless telemetry network operator, and American Innovations, a supplier of remote monitoring systems, have teamed up to offer what they say is a surer way to …

NEW YORK-ISeg Technologies Inc., McLean, Va., expects to release commercially by mid-June a software package that allows wireless carriers to monitor in real time customer use of different services and …

NEW YORK-To help wireless carriers assess the quality of service as it is delivered to their customers via the Internet, Agilent Technologies Inc., Fort Collins, Colo., introduced at Supercomm its …