OTTAWA-Sigem Inc. and WirelessCar announced they intend to form a strategic alliance to develop and offer a complete telematics solution, leveraging Sigem’s ePing global positioning system products with WirelessCar’s communications, …
LONDON-Infrastructure supplier Marconi Inc. said it will lay off 3,000 workers this year as part of its strategy to save costs. The company, however, says it will create 3,000 new …
ATLANTA-Numerex Corp., which develops and markets technological products and services, announced its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will offer Seamless Roaming. The service allows Cellemetry customers to offer mobile tracking solutions seamlessly …
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc confirmed the content and technology partners chosen for its Global Platform and Internet Services Group. The partnerships will add design, custom content, advanced search technology, content integration …
NEW YORK-As it gears up to export i-mode to the United States as part of its alliance with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., NTT DoCoMo recently has established an American subsidiary …
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. reported it increased its tower portfolio for the first quarter ended March 31 by 449 towers, 182 of which were newly built, and 267 of …
NEW YORK-The recent “Internet & E-Business Conference & Expo” brought together a host of players occupying various niches in cyberspace, and some may become shining stars in the wireless galaxy. …
HNC Software, which provides predictive software solutions, is breaking ground in the telecommunications world with its new Telecommunications Fraud Data Consortium, which it said is a first in the industry. …
SINGAPORE-The number of mobile-phone subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region reached 230 million at the end of 2000, a 52-percent increase compared with 1999 results, according to Dataquest, a unit of …
NEW YORK-Although Sprint PCS announced earlier this year its subscribers with smart phones had reached 1 million, “the number doesn’t mean anyone is using them and the smart phones are …
SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp., a provider of wireless locations information and traffic-related services, completed tests for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), confirming that its RadioCamera caller location system, …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Wireless advertising will play a large role in the future of the wireless Internet, according to Probe Research’s Ann Lynch, senior analyst for the Wireless Internet Services subscription …
Hoping to soothe the Bluetooth community’s fears over last month’s announcement from Microsoft Corp. that it would not support the wireless technology in its upcoming Windows XP platform, Widcomm Inc. …
NEW YORK-Rural carriers, with operating histories often many decades old, appear poised at the forefront of the strategy for long-term growth based on bundled or converged services. Seeking to be …
Chips are falling through the cracks of the slowing economy. Just like phone makers, solutions providers and operators, chip makers are buckling in what analysts describe as their worst time …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. said it joined with 11 other companies to create the TDD Coalition, which will advocate specific U.S. spectrum allocations for wireless broadband data systems using Time …
LOS ANGELES-A recent study by Econ One, an independent economic research and consulting firm, said the average cost of cell-phone service across U.S. cities for March 2001 has actually dropped …
PARIS-Alcatel signed a GSM expansion contract with China’s Shanghai Mobile Communication Company Ltd. Valued at more than $80 million, the expansion contract will bring the network to a total capacity …
HONOLULU-RAM Paging Hawaii, a Hawaiian paging company, said it will start operating under the name of its parent company, Arch Wireless Inc. “Arch Wireless has grown to become one of …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, William E. Kennard, made his first step into the private sector by joining the board of directors of personal digital …
