2001

ATLANTA-The University of South Florida plans to use Air2Web’s wireless platform to extend wireless services to students, faculty and staff beginning in January. The University’s IT department is developing applications …

While 802.11b, otherwise known as Wi-Fi, has made huge inroads as the wireless local area network technology of choice, many companies providing equipment and support for the technology acknowledge higher-speed …

SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. will acquire Mspect and add the company’s short messaging service QoS monitoring capabilities to the Telephia Wireless Data Network and Application Performance (Wireless DNA Performance) service, which …

LAS VEGAS-AOL Time Warner Inc. and Sony Corp. announced at the Comdex show in Las Vegas that they will explore a range of initiatives for the broadband home networking environment. …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. reported strong results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 with revenues of $63 million, an increase from the $45.4 million reported for third-quarter 2000. …

NEW YORK-Fraud is following the course of least resistance, trending largely but not exclusively toward subscriber identity theft and away from the use of wireless networks as a means to …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-TeleComputing has released its new Mobile Services Powered by TECOS, a hosted application solution that enables service providers to deploy services that offer PDA users secure access to …

Osama bin Laden and his goons appear to be in retreat. For that alone we should give thanks, though no one will be satisfied until justice is brought to the …

Qualcomm Inc. has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other …

DETROIT-OnStar is working with Verizon Wireless to make it cheaper for OnStar Personal Calling customers to forward calls from a handheld Verizon phone to the OnStar phones embedded in their …

TEWKSBURY, Mass.-Starent Network Corp., a provider of next-generation mobile infrastructure solutions, reported its ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway platform was selected by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to be incorporated into Samsung’s …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. launched Amdocs customer and billing platform Ensemble, which the carrier expects will improve customer service and reduce customer retention costs. The implementation is part of a …

SAN FRANCISCO-Long-distance, credit-card and online services company Working Assets has chosen Sentori Inc. to provide its new wireless billing solution, Sentori 3G, which will be hosted by billing and revenue …

LAKE FOREST, Calif.-Verizon wireless selected Mericom Corp. to expand and enhance Verizon’s service in southern Oregon. Mericom, through its Wilsonville, Ore., office, will provide site acquisition, land-use planning, architectural and …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has successfully demonstrated a wireless voice call via a third-generation UMTS-compliant handset equipped with Qualcomm CDMA Technologies’ MSM5200 Mobile Station Modem W-CDMA chipset and system …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Mirapoint announced China Telecom purchased the company’s messaging products and will offer the services to customers in the Guangxi province. The announcement comes just weeks after Mirapoint released new …

ROCHELLE PARK, N.J.-U.S. Cellular Corp. signed a network services agreement with Schema Inc. to deploy Schema’s Telecom Resource Management software designed to increase network capacity and improve service quality. Under …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. and Tele2 AB have agreed on a price of $80 million for Tele2 to purchase MIC’s Russian cellular telephony assets, plus up to an additional …

MIAMI-Brightstar Corp. announced its third-quarter revenues showed it remains the market share leader in Latin American wireless outsourcing. The company’s $161.5 million in revenues was well above competitors CellStar Corp.’s …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Personal digital assistant maker Handspring Inc. announced a series of deals aimed at fortifying its business offerings. The announcements are the latest in a major enterprise push from …

LOS ANGELES-Qualcomm Inc. said it has committed $266 million of equity financing in support of Vesper, a Brazilian CDMA wireless carrier. “With a footprint of more than 120 million pops …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless marketing company SkyGo Inc. announced five additional content providers have joined the SkyGo Mobile Advertising Network, including CBS MarketWatch.com, ESPN.com, Hoover’s Online, nGame and Funcaster.com.

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse has been chosen to provide its unified messaging solution to Portugal’s Vodafone, a mobile operator that has 2.6 million cellular customers and holds 35 percent of the market …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Wireless said it will acquire the majority of bankrupt MobileStar Network Corp.’s equipment and contracts for an undisclosed sum, although the mobile service provider is not yet saying …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. announced the release of its first GPS-enabled handset, the 9155GPX. The new CDMA tri-mode phone is Web-enabled, equipped with 1XRTT and Bluetooth capability and includes gpsOne-based …