After one week and 16 rounds of bidding, incumbent operator Orange plc led all third-generation license bids in the United Kingdom with a $632.9 million bid for License B. The auction for five licenses, which is expected to last another one to five weeks,...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
Kansai Tele-Message and Hokkaido Telemessage became the latest victims in Japan's declining paging industry. Kansai Tele-Message filed for liquidation with US$183 million in debts, and Hokkaido had US$6.3 million in debt in excess of assets at the end of 1999, according to a Kyodo...
BONN, Germany-Deutsche Telekom AG reportedly will combine its Internet service provider and cellular phone units to offer mobile data services on cellular phones via the Internet.Deutsche Telekom's ISP, T-Online, is said to be Europe's biggest with 4.2 million customers. T-Mobil, the company's mobile phone...
OSAKA, Japan-KansaiTele-Message became the latest victim in Japan's declining paging industry by filing for liquidation with $183 million in debts, according to a Kyodo News Service report. The filing came five months after the paging company announced it was no longer accepting new subscriptions.The...
Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's Craig McCaw, swooping in to rescue yet another struggling satellite wireless phone company-leading a group of investors to provide $74.6 million in interim financing for the bankrupt Iridium L.L.C.This is McCaw's second performance in his satellite...
NEW YORK-Extraterrestrial wireless received good news when Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. sold a $245 million secondary stock offering Jan. 26.In preparation for Globalstar Telecommunications' secondary offering last week, Bernard L. Schwartz, chairman and chief executive officer, took an unusual step the prior weekend to test...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector announced a successful launch in Japan of its commercial high-speed wireless Internet access for cdmaOne networks.The new service, deployed by DDI Corp. and IDO Corp., allows subscribers to access the Internet at speeds up to 64 kilobits...
New sales records of all kinds were set during last year's fourth quarter, reinforcing the importance of the last three months of the year for the wireless industry."In the cellular market, the battle for market share is won and lost in the fourth quarter,...
Two-way operators hope new technology aids capacity constraints.Traditional small two-way radio operators are hoping new technology can ease their capacity problems and offer more integrated services to their customers."There is a real serious question whether smaller operators can exist in tomorrow's marketplace," said Alan...
The harmonious relationship between wireless technology and the Internet is making monumental advances in communication, but the rate at which consumers are taking advantage of both is lagging a little behind.To accelerate the current e-commerce frenzy and entice customers into buying more, more often,...
Several telecommunications companies hooked up with auto makers to provide in-vehicle wireless capabilities at last week's 2000 Detroit Auto Show. General Motors Corp. is in talks with Bell Atlantic Corp. to put at least 1 million cellular phones in its vehicles this year.The alliance...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Prepaid cellular phone service took a step forward this holiday season with Shared Technologies Cellular's announcement that it achieved a one-day record for phone activations.STC, a national cellular service provider of rental, prepaid and activation services, signed up approximately 7,000 new prepaid cellular...
1999 is behind us, although it won't soon be forgotten. The last year of the 20th century brought tragedy to many locations around the world. It's comforting to know that our industry did its part to lessen the impact of such events on many...
NEW YORK-To further enable data communications, Sun Microsystems Inc. has updated its Java2 platform for the corporate enterprise and is at work on a Year 2000 release of a version to facilitate ease of making transactions over wireless devices.At its Java Business conference last...
NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip Redman, program manager, wireless/mobile communications for The Yankee Group, Boston.Moore's Law, which says the...
Dear Editor: I totally disagree with your unsupported conclusion that digital cellular phones are less dangerous than their analog counterparts. The exact opposite is true! The brain cells of digital cellular users are quite literally being "all shook up."Digital cellular phones are continuously being pulsed...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs has developed a single-chip digital signal processor that operates at 100 MHz using only 1 volt of power, the company said.Typical system-on-a-chip technology combines on a single silicon chip a number of components that formerly had to...
ATLANTA-A BellSouth Corp.-led consortium won a $26 million license to provide nationwide wireless communications service in Guatemala. BellSouth and its Panama-based partner, Multi Holding Corp., expect to begin service in Guatemala, the largest Central American nation with a population of 11 million, by mid-2000.Guatemala...
A U.S. investigative news television program caused a mild stir in the wireless industry after airing a report in October on the possible link between cellular phones and health problems. It was the first major U.S. media report on the issue since lawsuits claiming...
GENEVA-Just five years from now, cellular will overtake fixed-line access to become not only the dominant form of telephony, but the world's primary access to the online world as well. That bold prediction doesn't come from a controversial industry guru or brash market analyst,...
VeloCom Inc., which recently won "mirror" licenses to operate competitive telecommunications networks in Brazil, said it has acquired the Latin American assets of Argentina-based SLI Wireless S.A. and Brazil-based Taquari Participacoes S.A., in return for stock. The move gives VeloCom interests in telecommunications companies...
ABC's 20/20 segment, which was supposed to make me change the way I use my cell phone, instead made me more suspicious about TV journalism. The only person in the 30-minute segment who actually was credible and who appeared credible was Dr. Ross Ady.ABC's...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association said in response to its request, the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology and its Compliance and Information Bureau have issued a public notice strongly warning against the manufacture or use of transmitters designed to prevent or...
