BSWDBellSouth Wireless Data L.P. has named cellular industry veteran Donald Kovalevich as its new president and chief executive officer. Former BSWD President and CEO William Lenahan left the company in May to take a position at another telecom firm. Since then, J.D. Gardner has...
The Personal Communications Industry Association made another move designed to evolve the association into one that serves the global mobile Internet market.PCIA last week announced the PCIA Global Initiative, a new PCIA division designed to provide consumer and market data for the mobile Internet...
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...
With a little help from concerned consumer groups and government researchers, voice technologies are forging ahead as a safe alternative to dialing while driving, while at the same time opening new revenue channels for advertisers and wireless carriers.Voice technologies include portals, which can be...
GENEVA-Second-ranked Spanish carrier, Retevision, is taking to the air waves with plans to build one of the world's largest networks based on point-to-point and point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access technology.The company, which became Spain's first new market entrant following the liberalization of the Spanish market...
HONG KONG-MagiNet Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. formed an alliance to bring wireless Internet access to laptop users, the companies said.The companies will combine MagiNet's Laptop Connect broadband wireless local area network and Lucent's Orinoco suite of products. The service, which will provide data...
NEW YORK-Manufacturers increasingly are planning to outsource production as more companies transition to the virtual manufacturing model, according to a recent Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. study.A substantial number of electronics manufacturers plan to outsource a collective average of 72 percent of production, a...
The road to higher data speeds for wireless networks is rooted in voice technology, but Flarion Technologies, a new venture company formed by Lucent Technologies Inc., hopes to bypass that road and develop a technology rooted in data.Flarion is developing flash-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,...
NEW YORK-Airspan Networks Inc., a British designer of fixed wireless communications systems, went public on Nasdaq July 19, raising $82.5 million in an offering of 5.5 million shares priced at $15 each.Credit Suisse First Boston was lead manager of the deal, which was increased...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Group will launch fixed wireless service in four more markets in the coming months and is partnering with vendors to cope with its aggressive deployment strategy during the next two years.Following a successful commercial rollout of the service in Dallas in...
NEW YORK-Andrew Seybold offered attendees of a recent New York New Media Association meeting this twice-told tale to illustrate how mobile data badly needs an application of common sense, that least common of all the senses.The respected wireless Web guru and curmudgeon offered this...
Amid weeks of speculation and analyst prodding, Lucent Technologies Inc. announced plans to spin off its $4 billion microelectronics business. The company is planning an initial public offering for up to 20 percent of the new company in the first quarter 2001, with the...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless released an online video featuring a third-generation wireless data call on its Lucent Technologies Inc.-supplied network.The video shows a comparison of two laptops loading the Verizon Wireless home page. One computer is shown downloading the page in three seconds using 3G...
It's been a wild roller-coaster ride for Qualcomm Inc.'s stock this year.The former Wall Street angel is fighting a public-relations battle that says a move to wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology is a move away from Qualcomm.Such is the story in South Korea,...
NEW YORK-The interplay between intelligent networks and Internet Protocol is a battle of the Titans, according to David Berndt, director of wireless mobile technologies for The Yankee Group.Carriers must avoid getting caught in the crossfire while emerging from this transition as winners that take...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. said it has almost tripled its existing agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc. to purchase and sell network equipment to Leap's subsidiary, Cricket.Leap will purchase approximately $900 million in wireless infrastructure equipment and an array of Lucent's Net Care deployment...
The CDMA industry recently chose to standardize Qualcomm Inc.'s High Data Rate technology, but industry analysts wonder when carriers will see a big enough business case to deploy the data-only megabit-speed technology and what type of applications are in store for it in the...
WASHINGTON-Congress Friday passed legislation to give federal law enforcement the ability to negotiate directly with wireless carriers and manufacturers for network-wide digital wiretap upgrades of switches on a firm fixed-price basis.Legislative language giving the Justice Department and FBI greater flexibility to implement the 1994...
HONG KONG-The government of Hong Kong is likely to be among the first in the Asia-Pacific region to clear spectrum and issue licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile phones, according to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA)."While the USA and Europe may take five...
TORONTO-The major Canadian carriers are cautiously laying the groundwork for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. But true, full-blown 3G in Canada is at least three to four years away."Canadian mobile operators are unlikely to reach the promised land of mobile data services in one single...
WASHINGTON-A group of wireless and telecommunications executives are planning to roll out a new service they hope will lead to residential wireless broadband service with what could be megabit data rates.The market for Burst Wireless Inc. are those customers that cannot get access to...
NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were "a one-night stand as an investment opportunity," has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan Passoni, vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Excluding electronic commerce, DLJ projects...
Amid a flurry of speculation it might spin off its microelectronics group, Lucent Technologies Inc. won a contract to be the primary network infrastructure supplier to Verizon Wireless.The deal, estimated at $1.5 billion, will allow Verizon Wireless to increase its coverage and capacity in...
HONG KONG-U.S. mobile-phone vendors are gearing up for cdmaOne sales in China despite uncertainty whether the technology will be deployed there.While China Unicom told reporters here last week it still is interested in the technology, it remained unclear when and if the company would...
