Monthly Archives: September, 2004

AirGate PCS reaches agreements with Sprint PCS

ATLANTA-Sprint PCS affiliate AirGate PCS Inc. reported changes to its Sprint management and services agreements regarding back-office billing and service changes, new customer activation...

Sprint wins multi-year deal with NetVersant

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported a multi-year agreement with integrated network infrastructure solutions provider NetVersant to provide more than 1,200 "lines" of wireless voice...

Cingular Wireless packages travel content

Cingular Wireless has partnered with content providers Vindigo, Tele Atlas, Digital Cyclone and Handango to offer a suite of mobile travel-related applications.The service is...

Skype works to fix mobile VoIP bug

Skype's new mobile voice over Internet Protocol offering is receiving decidedly mixed reviews.Released less than a week ago, Skype for Pocket PC 1.0 allows...

AWS prepares wireless messaging device

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is preparing to launch the Ogo wireless messaging device, according to documents from the Federal Communications Commission.Manufactured by Taiwan-based Chi...

Legislator charges Bush administration with lack of public-safety leadership

WASHINGTON-It will take leadership from the White House and Congress for public safety to achieve interoperable communications and that leadership has been lacking, charged...

AWS reaches $1.4B agreement on Rogers Wireless

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that it has reached an agreement with Rogers Communications Inc. to sell its 34-percent interest in Rogers Wireless Communications...

Business Briefs

BellSouth Corp. said it plans to offer $3 billion aggregate principal amount of five- and 10-year senior notes to help finance its share of...

People

CrystalVoice Communications, which provides enterprise voice communications software solutions, appointed Harvey White chairman of its board of directors. White most recently was chief executive...

Orange launches PTT in U.K.

LONDON-European wireless operator Orange plc commercially launched its push-to-talk Talk Now service on its U.K. network following nine months of customer trials across Europe....

Rogers inches closer to buying AWS stake in Rogers Wireless

TORONTO-Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. said it has entered into a letter of agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to facilitate the possible...

Lucent wins Chinese deal, makes further R&D investment

BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a $98.5 million contract to expand the CDMA network of Guangdong Unicom. It is the third phase...

Centennial to sell TV assets to fund Mich. wireless buildout

Centennial Communications Corp. said it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Puerto Rico cable television operations to Hicks, Muse, Tate &...

Crown Castle begins tender offers

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. has commenced cash tender offers for $205.6 million of its outstanding 9.375-percent senior notes due 2011, $216.4 million of its...

iPCS sells towers to TCP for $16M

Sprint affiliate iPCS Inc.'s operating facility iPCS Wireless will sell 92 wireless communications towers to TCP Communications L.L.C. for proceeds of $16.5 million. The...

World Briefs

SOUTH KOREAThe W Seoul Walkerhill Hotel has implemented a voice-over-wireless local area network solution from Nortel Networks Ltd. and its channel partner ECS Telecom...

News Briefs

Regional telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International Inc. expanded its nationwide wireless voice service to residential and small business customers in Las Cruces, Alamogordo and...

Products

AirGate Technologies, a subsidiary of The X-Change Corp., said it has completed a radio-frequency identification (RFID) prototype for car child safety seats. The prototype...

Qualcomm acquires display tech firm

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has acquired a display technology company known as Iridigm Display Corp. for $170 million in cash.The sum accounts for...

Wi-Fi Alliance certifies WMM standard

AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it has certified the Wi-Fi-multimedia standard, otherwise known as WMM, for networking in consumer electronic devices such as DVD...

Company offers alarm service for cell phones

JONKOPING, Sweden-Datalink Nordic has developed a mobile service that allows users to send alerts from their mobile phone when they are in danger.Users activate...

AAT, Bechtel form tower-siting partnership

ST. LOUIS-AAT Communications Corp. and Bechtel Telecommunications have signed a national two-year contract under which they will partner to offer wireless carriers a one-stop...

Dwango Wireless taps M7 Networks

LA JOLLA, Calif.-Mobile entertainment publisher Dwango Wireless has tapped M7 Networks, a wireless platform hosting company, to deliver short message service "wake-up" functionality to...

Kitchen to leave PCIA

Jay Kitchen, president and chief executive officer of PCIA, plans to retire from the industry trade group he has led for 10 years.Kitchen expects...

Wavecom dumps phones, chips in restructuring

PARIS-Module maker Wavecom Inc. said it will no longer develop handsets and semiconductors as part of a sweeping restructuring of the company that will...
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