The outgoing (and next) Congress and administration should be worried about losing the third-generation mobile phone market to Europe and Asia. Why? Because, in a very real sense, losing 3G is tantamount to losing U.S. high-tech leadership.American high-tech superiority in today's Internet economy is...
CHICAGO-Partnerships are the key to success in the wireless Internet space, was the resounding theme at last week's PCIA GlobalXChange convention keynote session."The wireless Internet is like the proverbial wild West or the first blast off into space," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and...
WASHINGTON-If Al Gore becomes the next president of the United States, as polls increasingly are suggesting, Big Telecom could gain unprecedented access to the White House and have extraordinary influence on high-tech policy for the next four years.It's not that Big Telecom is any...
BOSTON-IBM Corp. says it is partnering with two-thirds of the world's leading wireless operators and that its wireless operations are growing 300 percent per year, though the company has not signed a single exclusive deal, according to research examining the wireless partnering strategy of...
In a wide-ranging alliance, Nortel Networks and Broadbase Software Inc. will jointly develop and market a product they say will provide end-to-end customer relationship management.The communications company and the CRM vendor plan to release Nortel Clarify Analytic Applications by January. The tool will be...
Can a 30-year-old Harvard Business School graduate rebuild Cabletron Systems Inc. as a snazzy player in the enterprise network switching industry?Garry K. McGuire Jr., executive vice president-worldwide marketing and chief marketing officer at Cabletron, is going to try. He wants to outflank big-name competitors...
NEW YORK-The best is yet to be in the conjunction of wireless and the Internet, and that means plenty of opportunity, said Lior E. Yahalomi, managing partner of CMGI @Ventures.The Menlo Park, Calif., venture fund, established in 1995 to invest solely in Internet-related companies,...
There are 27 miles separating Silicon Alley from the sprawling corporate campus of Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J.But the distance between the region's Internet hotbed and the heart of telecommunications research is shrinking. Small wireless start-ups in Silicon Alley, hungry for talent,...
DUBLIN, Ireland-High license costs and fierce competition have further increased the pressure on European third-generation (3G) operators to quickly roll out their networks. But while this rush to market will create opportunities for companies other than the current dominant cellular infrastructure vendors Nokia and...
CALGARY, Alberta-Air2Lan will build a nationwide broadband wireless network using Wi-Lan Inc.'s broadband access products, the companies announced.Air2Lan launched high-speed Internet access service in Jackson, Miss., in May, and based on the success of that service launch, the company said it is purchasing approximately...
PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
SHENZHEN, China-Chinese GSM operator China United Telecommunications Corp. launched General Packet Radio Service mobile data on its network in Shenzhen, China, enabled by the core GPRS network solution supplied by Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc."Once you turn on your cellular phone, you are...
In an effort to make up for a history of poor communication with application developers, Motorola Inc. held its first Application Developer Conference last week in San Diego.Dubbed the Xtreme Developer's Conference, some 300 developers met with Motorola and other industry personnel during the...
NEW YORK-Arbinet-thexchange Inc. has completed a year-long process of implementing what it calls the first carrier-grade bandwidth trading solution, company officials said at last week's Telecom Business Conference and Expo here."We are now trading cellular traffic on the exchange, and there already is a...
Enticed by the tremendous expected demand for wireless broadband services, Loop Technologies Inc., based in Ridgeland, Miss., soon will offer high-speed data-only service in several major cities around the country.Loop recently entered into a Business Unit Alliance agreement with Cisco Systems Inc. to purchase...
The end is near.That is the prophecy heralded by the principals of Phone.com Inc. and Software.com Inc., which last week said they will merge in what is the largest announced wireless Internet transaction to date."Together, we are going to be an incredible force," said...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkish GSM operator Telsim launched a commercial General Packet Radio Service network, four months after successfully completing technology trials.Motorola Inc.'s Network Solution Sector, along with Cisco Systems Inc., supplied the GPRS network core with a previously announced, end-to-end solutions contract valued at around...
NEW YORK-Western Multiplex Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., a broadband wireless access equipment provider, went public last week with a 7.5-million share offering of common stock, priced at $12 each.The company, formerly part of Glenayre, develops systems used in both the licensed and unlicensed portions of...
The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry.Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks.Today, the story is much different. Wireless has caught the attention of many powerful and nontraditional...
Legislation by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from approving the transfer of licenses from an American telecommunications company, such as VoiceStream Wireless Corp., was included in the FCC spending bill last week.The FCC was successful last week in its...
NEW YORK-Merger and acquisition activity involving American companies shed some of its recent hyperactivity, slowing down last quarter to its lowest level since early 1998, Mergerstat L.P., Los Angeles, reported.Among companies releasing the dollar amount of their transactions, aggregate deal value dropped to $248.1...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector and its strategic alliance partners, Cisco Systems Inc. and Xybridge Technologies, will participate in Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo's Internet Protocol-based mobile communications trial.Cisco will use its core Internet routers and media gateways to provide expertise in IP...
Xircom Inc. announced it is acquiring Omnipoint Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Xircom also said last week it will provide Bluetooth access products to Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and partner with Cisco Systems Inc. to provide wireless local area network products.Under...
A new company called Informio was established today, created with the goal of voice-enabling enterprise applications, either hosted at its data center or at the enterprise, and providing wireless carriers access to these applications, which can be marketed to end users as an enhanced...
