Monthly Archives: July, 2001

CTIA pressures PSAPs for deployment dates

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association again last week pressured the public-safety community to make firm commitments as to the deployment of enhanced 911...

Rumsfeld spectrum decision on hold, congressional 3G hearings scheduled

WASHINGTON-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week told lawmakers no decision has been reached on future military spectrum requirements, a response starkly at odds with...

MSS players get access to 2 GHz

The mobile satellite industry finally had something to smile about last week when the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission granted eight MSS...

NTT DoCoMo suffers 3G setbacks

While Japan's largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc., continues to trial its 3G network in select portions of Tokyo, speculation continues to circulate that...

Motient warns slowdown will continue to hurt business

Motient Corp. posted another slow quarter last week, showing total revenue of $23.7 million on a net loss of $65.5 million, and warned that...

News Briefs

The Personal Communications Industry Association announced ten new companies plan to join its Global Initiative program for help in assessing and managing m-convergence opportunities....

House lowers FCC funding, Senate committee raises

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission made out better on its fiscal year 2002 budget with the Senate Appropriations Committee than it did with the full...

Sprint PCS results top expectations

The country's continued slowing economy seemed to have little impact on wireless carriers reporting second-quarter results last week, with Sprint PCS, often used as...

Marconi cuts costs

LONDON-Panting from a barrage of criticisms from its shareholders and calls for a boardroom overhaul, Marconi plc said it will go back to basics...

Wi-Lan to trim workers by 30%

CALGARY, Alberta-Wi-Lan Inc. said it will cut about 30 percent of its staff, in line with the slump in the fixed wireless market. The...

Falling market forces chip makers to form friendships

As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves...

OmniSky receives location-related patents

SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp. said it received two key provisional patents covering technology related to location-based services, an area many see as a major future...

Delta, Nextel form marketing initiative

RESTON, Va.-Delta Air Lines Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced a marketing initiative allowing Delta SkyMiles members to earn 5,000 frequent flyer miles when...

Study shows high network quality across U.S.

Even with more than 100 million customers across numerous carriers and a handful of technology choices, wireless subscribers in the United States hold and...

`Two-way me’

"Yo, Dog, two-way me."It's quickly becoming the hip new thing in hip-hop, and it's also quickly becoming a major market segment in two-way messaging...

Intel’s 2Q reflects slump

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The slump in the chip business was reflected in Intel Corp.'s second-quarter report as both sales and earnings dropped and little expected...

Letters

Wireless and politicsDear Editor: Correct me if I am wrong, but is your publication a trade tabloid directed to the needs of those involved in...

Samsung, Sprint PCS unveil handset

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Samsung Telecommunications America unveiled the Samsung SPH-N200 handset for Sprint PCS' wireless network, the replacement for the popular Samsung...

OkamLogic bets on voice for future

Amid mounting layoffs and company bankruptcies across the entire telecommunications sector, a little start-up out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is making its debut, hoping...

Sierra suffers from Metricom troubles

VANCOUVER, Canada-The consequences of Metricom Inc.'s bankruptcy continue to ripple through the wireless industry, most recently forcing a serious drop in revenues for wireless...

Re-auction winners call for FCC probe of NextWave

WASHINGTON-Three wireless carriers-all of which won licenses in the PCS re-auction-petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to re-evaluate the ownership structure of bankrupt NextWave Telecom...

Air2Web offers 3.0 version

Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is...

AT&T Wireless launches GSM/GPRS in Seattle

SEATTLE-A week after being spun off as an independent wireless operator, AT&T Wireless launched its GSM/GPRS network in Seattle, the first market for the...

Telecom M&A $ activity drops dramatically

NEW YORK-Telecommunications reflected the dramatic drop in the number and size of mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies last quarter, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.Across...
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