Yearly Archives: 2001

Leap looks for strategic fits at auction

With the large wireless carriers bidding top dollar on wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commissions re-auction of personal communications services licenses, smaller companies...

AT&T Wireless acquires Houston from PrimeCo

NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. completed its acquisition of PrimeCo PCS's wireless system in the Houston market covering a population of about 5.6 million...

Adaptive Broadband lowers expectations, Western Multiplex to re-evaluate acquisition

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Adaptive Broadband Corp. lowered its revenue expectations for the fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 31, calling into question its pending acquisition by...

How I spent my winter vacation

Alan Greenspan's move to cut interest rates is cause for concern. The economy has slowed. Telecom stocks generally are still in the dumper and...

Mixed blessings for bundling

In an age of customer-service fumbles and a plethora of services, high-tech wizards dream of bundling as the lightning rod to greater revenues. So...

False reading

No doubt, the wireless industry is wringing its hands over concern about a high-tech downturn on Wall Street that's dragging down values of wireless...

Business Briefs

Starbucks customers across North America can enjoy their coffee simultaneously with high-speed wireless Internet access, thanks to an agreement between Microsoft and Starbucks Coffee...

Chip sales on track to top $200B

Worldwide silicon chip sales for 2000 likely will top $200 billion for the first time, the Semiconductor Industry Association, San Jose, Calif., projected last...

Refinery takes pragmatic approach to wireless Web

Refinery Inc., a six-year-old Web development company, identified the wireless industry as something it "definitely needed to be involved in," the company's director of...

World Briefs

CHINAUnder a new deal, Comverse Technology Inc. will provide short messaging service, cell broadcasting and expanded voice mail to Chinese mobile operator Heilongjiang Mobile...

Matav purchases 51 percent of Maktel

BUDAPEST, Hungary-A Matav-led consortium has offered a winning bid of US$341.3 million to acquire 51 percent of Makedonski Telekommunikacii (Maktel), the sole fixed-line and...

Israel’s Partner launches HSCSD

ROSH HA'AYIN, ISRAEL-Partner Communications, the only GSM mobile telephone network operator in Israel, announced the launch of High Speed Circuit Switched Data service, named...

Wall St. shakeout starts

NEW YORK-Although the technology-laden Nasdaq posted its strongest one-day gain ever in response to the Federal Reserve Board's surprise rate cut Jan. 3, the...

Bear market bruises Blackberry

With its volatile appetite, the bear market showed little respect last week, not even for the sweet Blackberry.The Blackberry, a popular handheld device created...

Evans stresses spectrum oversight

WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary-designate Donald Evans said he will stress spectrum management in the next administration and told Senate Commerce Committee members he realizes the international...

Standards forum beats chest

Secure with 50 converts and confident of its quality, the torch bearers of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology believe that telecom companies...

I3Mobile cuts 28 jobs

I3 Mobile Inc. executives confirmed late last week the company laid off about 20 percent of its work force as part of a streamlining...

Bids reach $13 billion, pool of bidders dwindles

The Federal Communications Commissions re-auction of 422 personal communications services licenses returned from its winter break by closing in on the $13-billion barrier, and...

Tauzin to take Commerce chair

WASHINGTON-Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) last week won the battle to chair the House Commerce Committee as part of a congressional realignment that has pro-wireless...

Tower industry 2001: Put up or shut up

Back in October, when the top brass of the tower industry converged in Las Vegas for the 2000 Tower Summit and Trade Show, the...

Cell-Loc tries to stay afloat: Company restructures, lays off some employees

Location technology and services provider Cell-Loc Inc. pulled in the reins on its hopes for a national takeover and announced it will restructure its...

Spectrian sells semiconductor division to Cree

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. completed the sale of its UltraRF semiconductors division to Cree Inc. for about $30 million and 1.8 million shares of Cree...

Zucotto receives financing, offers development kit

SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. received $35 million in its second round of financing, which was led by Shelter Capital Partners L.L.C. and Baker Capital...

American Tower revenues to exceed expectations, earnings may fall short

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it expects fourth-quarter revenues to be in the range of $226 million to $233 million, exceeding the company's previously announced...

VoiceStream uses RealName system

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-RealName Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. plan to bring wireless keyboard navigation for the wireless Web to VoiceStream's mobile Internet service, WebStream.The...
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