July 2001

Cellport Systems and Ford Motor Co. have teamed to offer the Cellport 3000 with Voice Command hands-free docking station and adapter in select 2002-model Ford vehicles late this summer, Cellport …

For several years, it seems there has been little good news to report about the mobile satellite industry. It is one that has been marked by marginal peaks and inconceivable …

With less than two years in the game, software platform provider Stick Networks has already made a name for itself with its flagship Personal Digital Network, a wireless platform that …

NEW YORK-The free spirits from the domain of Internet content development lamented their “don’t tread on me” approach to government, whose intervention is seen as beneficial in 20: 20 hindsight. …

TOKYO-Barely two weeks after it recalled 560,000 Sony mobile phones, Japanese carrier KDDI Corp. announced another recall of 52,100 cell phones because of software glitches. The phones were made by …

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. added nearly 90,000 postpaid customers during the second quarter, bringing the wireless operator’s customer base to just more than 1 million wireless subscribers. The carrier’s results …

SEATTLE-Applications management and platform provider ViAir Inc. said Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility will integrate ViAir’s WirelessInbox messaging application with its mobility office inbox product, a move which will give …

Close below the surface of the third-generation mobile-phone spectrum debate is a technology war, the kind of feud industry thought was behind it and wanted to avoid as it tries …

ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp PCS said it plans to use Invertix Corp.’s technology in the carrier’s voicemail password reset and over-the-air activations. The Software Services group of Invertix specifically …

Congress seems to be catching up with industry regarding how spectrum auctions have been manipulated to solve federal budget shortfalls. The House has signaled the Senate that putting arbitrary deadlines …

While the event was not celebrated with fireworks across the country, AT&T Wireless finally was able to celebrate its independence last week as it began its first trading day as …

As Sony Corp. choreographs its dance steps for the awaited 3G stage, cell phones continue to inflict muscle spasms. The Japanese electronics giant dampened market confidence in its abilities as …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. said it was ranked No. 1 in the United States in delivering CDMA handsets for 2000, with a 20.9 percent market share, in Dataquest’s year-end 2000 …

BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission made surprise raids on nine mobile operators in the United Kingdom and Germany last week to investigate alleged price fixing, according to international press reports. The …

BOSTON-Timnet.com, the wireless services provider for Telecom Italia Mobile in South America, will license Wysdom Inc.’s Mobyle Application Platform, which serves as a bridge among wireless devices, enterprise data and …

Like two pods in a peanut shell, Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to realign its business operations into two main divisions-wireless and wireline. It is part of the Murray Hill, N.J.-based …

WASHINGTON-With apologies to Shakespeare, “To eliminate the analog set-aside rule or not to eliminate the analog rule, that is the question?” The answer, however, is in the eye of the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission indefinitely postponed the scheduled Sept. 12 auction of licenses in the 700 MHz band, amidst a move in the House Appropriations Committee to stop setting arbitrary …

WASHINGTON-In a major development that could leverage political pressure to force mobile-phone carriers to make greater public-safety use of their networks, the first-ever demonstration of emergency wireless messaging went off …

Many people have claimed the success of the Internet really took off once service providers implemented one-rate plans for unlimited usage. The plans allowed computer users to surf all they …

The European and North American wireless local area network worlds got a little closer last week thanks to Germany-based Systemonic AG, which introduced a baseband processor supporting both the North …

WASHINGTON-A congressional report due out later this summer is expected to determine that a Pentagon study-which cast doubt on making military spectrum available for third-generation wireless services-is incomplete and needs …

WASHINGTON-House and Senate lawmakers plan to introduce legislation after the August recess that would provide federal funding for mobile-phone health research and repeal a 1996 law prohibiting local officials from …

To witness the merciless effects of today’s bear market, one should look no further than Broadband2Wireless Inc., an unlicensed wireless broadband provider in the Boston area that filed for Chapter …

TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it could cut jobs at a semiconductor plant in Scotland and put off an increase in chip output at a Chinese joint venture as part of its …