Monthly Archives: August, 2001

Arch 2Q losses in line with expectations

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Wireless messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. today released its second quarter earnings, showing revenues and one-way paging subscriber losses in line with the...

Transcrypt reports S.D. radio order

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. announced its subsidiary, EFJohnson Co. has been awarded a purchase order for 2,000 of its SmartZone radios from the state...

Motorola plans to ship 5 million GPRS handsets

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said that it plans to ship 5 million GPRS-enabled phones this year in tune with its forecast.The company said most of...

Lucent announces European job cuts

PARIS-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it plans to cut 410 jobs in France out of 1,300 positions as part of the company's cost-cutting strategies.The decision...

Oracle unveils e-Business Suite for PDAs

Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which...

IMC WorldCell offers Iridium phones, service

SILVER SPRING, Md.-Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places across the...

Siemens could cut more jobs

FRANKFURT, Germany-As the company grapples with a slackening economy, Siemens AG may slash 3,000 more jobs to save money in its telecommunications divisions, according...

Ultra-wideband company proposes way to protect GPS

WASHINGTON-XtremeSpectrum Inc., a hopeful entrant into the ultra-wideband market, has made a proposal that it believes will answer critics' claims that ultra-wideband technologies will...

Sonera quits Norwegian UMTS venture

Finland's Sonera said it will "take immediate steps to liquidate" Broadband Mobile ASA in Norway, partly because Enitel ASA, its equal partner in the...

Economy, excess inventory keep auctioneers busy

One man's asset recovery is another man's poison.Like a stylized garage sale, wireless equipment manufacturers are auctioning off excess inventories, which are being shipped...

FCC asks for ruling by Supreme Court

WASHINGTON-Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. insisted last week in meetings with industry, federal regulators and the press that it plans to build out its network,...

Power outage cuts Cingular’s D.C. service

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless customers in the Washington, D.C., area were without service early yesterday following a power outage at one of the carrier's main switching...

Nortel, Alamosa find healthy bond markets

NEW YORK-Nortel Networks Corp. and Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. tapped the debt markets for a total of $1.65 billion last week, providing...

Pricing structure set for Sprint offering

Sprint Corp. announced the pricing structure of its planned $2 billion secondary offering of Sprint PCS shares and equity units, placing 70 million shares...

Lawsuit seeks $148M from FCC for reneging on lottery procedures

WASHINGTON-A $148 million class-action lawsuit was filed last week accusing the Federal Communications Commission of breach-of-contract when it failed to redraw lottery applications for...

Netonomy offers self-service CRM solution

With several customers in Europe already under its belt, Netonomy Inc. is honing in on U.S. wireless carriers looking for a different way of...

European carriers expected to boost business of colocation providers

LONDON-Colocation providers in Europe will need to weather a difficult transitional period between now and 2003, but the principle of outsourcing data to a...

ROI critical to high-speed network enhancements

With wireless operators expected to spend billions of dollars in the next several years introducing high-speed data capabilities onto their networks, the need for...

Making $$ from wireless Web more about strategy than code

By The wireless application developer community is suffering, according to WirelessDeveloper.com President Konny Zsigo. "Fifty percent of the content developers have either left the...

OS: Who is the fairest of them all?

In the short lifespan of the still nascent wireless Internet, the owners of the operating systems have already learned that best is not always...

DaimlerChrysler, AT&T partner on telematics

REDMOND, Wash.-DaimlerChrysler chose AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its development partner and wireless provider for the company's new telematics strategy, AT&T Wireless announced.In addition...

Useful couponing

While I believe that m-commerce will someday become mainstream in the United States, I have to admit that my eyes always tend to glaze...

A silver lining

Telecom layoffs have climbed above 175,000 since the first of the year. Earnings are down, stocks are down and a turnaround is not expected...

Trying times reach tower industry: Expenses, jobs cut in efforts to keep revenues in line

Crown Castle International Corp., SpectraSite Holdings Inc. and SBA Communications Corp. reported positive revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, but they did...

J-Phone selects Nokia for W-CDMA equipment

TOKYO—Nokia has signed a contract to supply a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) mobile packet switching system and radio-access network to Japanese carrier J-Phone Group.The J-Phone group,...
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