NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect. Opportunity is …
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc., a provider of outsourced services, said it completed its plan to repurchase 130,000 of its convertible, subordinated, zero-coupon bonds due 2018. As of December 31, 2000, the bonds …
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc., a provider of wireless telecommunications systems, said it received notice of contract suspension and termination from Metricom Inc. with regard to remaining RF engineering and deployment …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Tele-communication & Internet Association launched its new Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC), a forum addressing development of the wireless Internet. An inaugural meeting of WIC will take place in …
WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Duane Ackerman told reporters at the Precursor Group annual conference that the country’s third-largest local telephone company had no plans to cut its …
If professionals need to be productive on the go, vVault thinks it has a platform on which they can walk. A mobile productivity applications provider, the company sets out to …
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The Westchester County Legislature voted unanimously last Monday to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld cellular phones. The measure authorizes fines of up to $150 for an offense …
NEW DELHI, India-HFCL, a leading Indian telecom equipment manufacturer, has bagged a contract in Nepal to supply 5000 wireless local loop (WLL) lines. The contract, part of a World Bank-aided …
The results of a wireless advertising study released today show consumers are extremely open to receiving advertisements on their wireless devices, and that wireless marketing may be so effective it …
AT&T Wireless Group jumped into the very active debt capital market last week selling off $6.5 billion worth of senior unsecured notes, the largest private bond sale ever by a …
MOSCOW-The Russian Agency for Radio Frequencies (GKRCh) decided to allow the creation of 3G trial zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg. GKRCh passed the decision after the Russian 3G Association …
NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step …
Practically everything you ever wanted to know about a specific stock is now accessible through a Palm, Research in Motion Inc. Blackberry or Microsoft Corp. Pocket PC handheld device courtesy …
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The St.Petersburg-based RadioTel carrier concluded an agreement with the Russian Transport Ministry regarding the construction of the first Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) network along the Moscow-St. Petersburg-Vyborg-Finnish …
According to MicroOptical Corp.’s vision of the future, a person could watch a movie while on a train journey and the passenger on the next seat would not know. The …
WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) told state regulators last week that the answer to how to get broadband services to rural American might be wireless. “We can’t wire rural America. … …
In the first step of his reform of the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Michael K. Powell last week named Mary Beth Richards as special counsel in charge of FCC reform …
PHOENIX-Fixed-wireless service provider Kite Networks officially launched its broadband services in Phoenix last week following a four-month beta trial with businesses in Tempe and Phoenix. “We are confident we can …
While many desktop surfers don’t care for them, the presence of advertisements on the wired Internet was virtually assured even before the Internet’s widespread use-marketers saw that advertisements fit almost …
WASHINGTON-Nearly 700 employees of Cingular Wireless Inc. will be represented by the Communications Workers of America through a card check conducted by the American Arbitration Association. Under the card-check process, …
