BOSTON-Wireless carriers are increasingly searching for solutions to serve credit-challenged customers, according to The Yankee Group, which released its opinions on AT&T Wireless Inc.'s recently announced GoPhone service and a similar service from Washington D.C.-based Liberty Wireless, majority owned by InPhonic Inc. Both solutions...
The Internet may be the most revolutionary communications medium ever, but that revolution comes with the burden of a boatload of questionable "stuff"-rampant pornography, anonymous access to prescription drugs, illegal music downloads, online gambling, fraud, hoaxes, plagiarism-all led by the granddaddy of all Internet-related...
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA- Liberty Technologies, which owns data, Internet and spectrum licenses covering the country, has deployed a non-line-of-site wireless broadband network using the 2.3 GHz Ripwave system from Navini Networks Inc., Richardson, Texas.Liberty is marketing the service as "WISPER: All the Internet inside...
WASHINGTON-The volatile debate surrounding the rules allowing or restricting the use of ultra-wideband technologies got louder as companies commented on ambient noise test results from the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the tests were not relevant....
NEW YORK-The Liberty Alliance Project has released for public review on its Web site at www.projectliberty.org a draft of specifications for an open, interoperable standard for federated network identity for the Internet, designed to enable a single sign-on for individual businesses and consumers."In a...
DENVER, United States-VoiceStream Wireless' launch of wireless service last month in the U.S. states of California and Nevada not only provided the country's smallest nationwide operator with a footprint in a pair of lucrative markets, but also was the carrier's first public launch of...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having run up debts of US$17 billion, the United Kingdom-based cable operator NTL has denied that money problems are behind its decision to cancel launch plans for a high-speed wireless network. The company, which is rumored to be a prospect for topping...
Representatives from the wireless industry are being asked to testify against Microsoft Corp. in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the computer software giant, each with new insight into how Microsoft is allegedly muscling into new markets and resisting cooperating with competitors.A witness list released...
IDT Corp., a familiar face in the wireless broadband industry as the former suitor of Teligent Inc., successfully bid $42.5 million for Winstar Communications Inc. after several tumultuous days of negotiations that had the company teetering on the edge of liquidation.A judge in the...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it plans to team with other wireless industry leaders to found the Liberty Alliance Project to streamline easy single Internet sign-on by creating an open, standards-based solution for network identity and authentication."The way in which people communicate with each other...
NEW YORK—Verizon said its wireless network experienced congestion due to heavy calling in the aftermath of yesterday's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. During the peak of the day, Verizon said it experienced 50- to...
As expected, Teligent Inc. voluntarily filed for bankruptcy last week following a long and tedious demise that included debt extensions, layoffs and management shake-ups.Vienna, Va.-based Teligent said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of...
WASHINGTON-Aides to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week sent out conflicting signals on whether the two lawmakers will follow up legislatively on a government mobile-phone health report expected to be released tomorrow. In April, RCR Wireless News reported the...
The roller-coaster ride local multipoint distribution services provider Teligent Inc. is on took an unwelcome dip last week when the company announced it cut 900 jobs, or approximately 38 percent of its work force.On Tuesday the company also must show definitive documentation that it...
Teligent Inc. got the reprieve it was hoping for last week when several of its creditors agreed to grant the local multipoint distribution service carrier a waiver to an amendment and consent to credit agreement, providing an extension until May 15. But Alex Mandl,...
Clearwire Technologies Inc. and the Instructional Television Fixed Service Spectrum Development Alliance are teaming to deliver wireless broadband services to educational, nonprofit and commercial customers, with a $97 million commitment from Goldman Sachs & Co. and Liberty Associated Partners L.P.The partnership will give Clearwire...
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian's EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week.A simulation using content from Emblaze's content partners and Symbian-based smart phones will be available on Symbian's...
NEW YORK-Although some satellite companies, like Globalstar L.P. and Iridium, have stumbled badly while chasing mobile telephony, provision of broadband communications remains a meaningful business opportunity for these extraterrestrial carriers, even in the United States.The inability of land-based wireline and wireless connectivity alternatives to...
Speculation is running high about what moves AT&T Corp. will make to bolster its tumbling stock price.The company's stock has lost nearly 39 percent of its value this year since hitting a 52-week low of $29.63 in recent weeks. The sell-off has come as...
Ellen Bork, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, recently wrote a marvelously illuminating piece for The Washington Post that captured President Clinton's Pollyanna-ish view of high-technology in the New World Order.Bork contrasts, on the one hand, Vice President Gore's concern about the Internet's...
NEW YORK-For market watchers waiting to exhale, the AT&T Corp. Wireless Group's $10.6 billion initial public offering proved not just big, but also graceful, as it took center court April 27.Nearly double the size of the last record-breaker, the United Parcel Service Inc. IPO...
WASHINGTON-With a U.S.-Cuban custody battle and U.S.-China trade dominating business in the nation's capital these days, the question arises: What are the prospects for future U.S.-Cuban telecom trade?The answer is not easy to come by, given the lack of full diplomatic ties between the U.S....
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled markets. All subscriber numbers reflect year-end 1999 figures reported by each company.Triton Cellular Partners...
WASHINGTON-The status of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s 63 personal communications services licenses is in doubt after an appeals court ruled that communications law supersedes bankruptcy law.In making that judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said it would be fair to assume...
