GroupServeGroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup's first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
LAS VEGAS-Like fresh water on a dry rock, some good news for Lucent Technologies Inc. But how good?The $5 billion deal last week with Verizon Wireless provided a shot in the arm for a company whose repeated stumbles have made industry watchers wonder if...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc. is serving up advanced computing power for wireless network elements and operations support systems, according to separate announcements the company issued last week.With its new series of Sun Fire Midframe servers now available in quantity, the Palo Alto, Calif., company...
LAS VEGAS-Sonera's zed portal service won a major victory last week as wireless carrier Vodafone U.K. adopted the services for use in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group plc offers its own portal service to carriers in conjunction with Vivendi, called Vizzavi, and the carrier...
LAS VEGAS-Sprint PCS used the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2001 show to finalize its widely rumored plans to roll out next-generation services using cdma2000 later this year. While the carrier's 3G plans surprised few, its claim to have enough spectrum to cover...
LAS VEGAS-Qualcomm Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said a study they commissioned showed consumers want mobile multimedia services now.International Data Corp., which conducted the research study, surveyed several end-user segments to determine what the most popular mobile Internet applications would be if...
MOSCOW-Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who is known to back European-developed technologies, confirmed that the U.S.-developed IS-95 standard is doomed in Russia."I continue to believe that the standard has absolutely no prospects for the Russian market. We shall stick to the line," the minister...
Dennis Roberson is sitting at a large, round conference table talking about the mandate he was given three years ago to "fix" Motorola Inc.'s storied research lab.As the conversation progresses, he reaches inside his breast pocket and pulls out a cell phone made with...
HONG KONG-Agere Systems, formerly the Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc., established new regional headquarters in Hong Kong to support operations in the Asia-Pacific region.According to the company, Agere relocated its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters to Hong Kong from Tokyo so it could enhance services...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. said it intends to raise a total of $425 million in gross proceeds through a private sale of senior subordinated discount notes, subject to market and other conditions. The sale includes $350 million from a Lucent Technologies Inc. facility announced...
The new CEO at Andrew Corp. is promising that the manufacturer of wireless communications equipment will double the company's revenues in four years.Guy M. Campbell, who succeeded Floyd English in October, announced at the annual meeting last month that he expects Andrew to reach...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
RESTON, Va.-In their first deal ever, Nextel Communications Inc. has picked Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply gateway switches for its digital wireless network in the United States and other markets."This is just the beginning of what we expect to be a long and strong...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Multimedia Forum, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is on schedule in building a framework for content that must be written just once for delivery to any device over any network.Earlier this year, the WMF released Version 1.0 of its Recommended...
With a commercial launch in full gear in South Korea, Samsung Inc. may be the John the Baptist of 3G as the first manufacturer to streak out of the uncertain cloud hovering over migration to the technology.Already eyeing the United States' market with trials...
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
NEW YORK-The story of NTELOS Inc. and Citizens Communications Inc., as told at Legg Mason Wood Walker's recent "Future of Rural Telecommunications" conference, demonstrates the wireless opportunity's expansion well beyond urban centers."We've done this so quietly we haven't shown up yet on the tables...
Weary of playing second fiddle, L.M. Ericsson trumped all the competition by soaring to the top of equipment makers, dislodging premier Lucent Technologies Inc., which dropped to the No. 4 spot for 2000, according to a survey by Gartner Inc.'s Dataquest.The survey is a...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems, the former microelectronics group of Lucent Technologies Inc., has released a chip that switches voice and data signals, doubling the channel capacity of other products for wireless base station controllers and voice over Internet protocol networks.The chip will be demonstrated at...
MOSCOW-The Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC) carrier is drafting documents for a 3G trial network and the construction of the project is to be launched in the second or third quarter of 2001.MCC, which currently operates the NMT-450 MHz technology, jointly with Lucent Technologies is...
In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline.Against a background of outsized estimates, employee downsizing, technological miscues and a haunting investigation of its accounting practices, the company's credit rating suffered downgrades from two...
Streaming content onto wireless devices seems like a perfect match of technology. Without the hard drive space required to download and save large files, streaming content to wireless devices is a good way for wireless customers to experience large data files.PacketVideo Corp. has jumped...
Telcom GlobalChris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.'s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company's global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience in wireless network design and...
NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today?That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of Jigami, Rosh Haayin, Israel, developer of the trademarked 3Gate platform and content switch.Carrier trials are...
