NEW ORLEANS-Cellport Systems announced it will begin shipping in March its Cellport 3000 universal hands-free system, capable of supporting a variety of phones through the use of changeable pocket adapters. The company also said the Cellport 3000 will be available with Motorola Inc.'s Telematics...
Crown Castle InternationalCrown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. plans to enhance the capacity and reach of its existing network through a $210 million infrastructure equipment contract with Lucent Technologies Inc.The new equipment allows PrimeCo to expand into new markets throughout Florida, Texas and the mid-Gulf region and includes...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Thanks to Bell Atlantic Mobile and Bell Labs, people with speech or hearing disabilities will be able to make digital cellular phone calls-including 911 emergency calls-using text-telephone devices plugged into wireless telephone handsets.Using software from Bell Labs-the research and development unit of...
WASHINGTON-With predictions that data-particularly e-commerce-will shape the industry's future, the big question is which enterprise network will handle the most wireless traffic in the New Millennium.Will it be a network based on Internet Protocol or on voice-friendly circuit-switched network technology? Or something else?The answer,...
LONDON-The Radicchio initiative announced 16 new companies have joined the group, which hopes to set a Public Key Infrastructure standard for secure e-commerce transactions over wireless networks.The new members include security notables like Baltimore Technologies Inc., Entrust Technologies and VeriSign Inc. Other members include...
NEW YORK-A securities class-action lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Lucent Technologies Inc. between Oct. 27, 1999, and Jan. 6, 2000.The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, charges Lucent...
NEW YORK-Calling it "a first step toward demonstrating fully open standards in General Packet Radio Services," Symmetry Communications Systems Inc. said it will collaborate with Lucent Technologies Inc. on interoperability testing of 2.5 generation wireless network elements.Venture-backed Symmetry, based in San Jose, Calif., came...
Granite Systems Inc., a New Hampshire-based provider of network configuration management solutions for the telecom industry, and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a global alliance that will allow Lucent to offer Granite's Xpercom product to its customers.Xpercom is an inventory management software system that provides...
SEOUL, South Korea-As part of the Chinese government's telecommunications modernization project, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. was awarded the first-ever commercial contract in China.The agreement, with Hebei Century Mobile Communications Co. Ltd., calls for Samsung to build a Code Division Multiple Access mobile communication system...
NEW ORLEANS-While Florida State was the main story at the Nokia-sponsored Sugar Bowl, wireless communications was making its own news with the first successful completion of a two-way transmission of short messaging service using an Internet application on a Time Division Multiple Access network.The...
As pocket telephone companies cater to the mobile society and make tiny inroads into the monopolized residential sector, a new breed of wireless carriers are emerging to challenge Baby Bells for the highly lucrative high-speed business communications market.2000 could be their year. If not...
Siemens and NEC announced a joint venture to develop infrastructure equipment for third-generation systems. The joint venture, in which Siemens will hold 51 percent and NEC will hold 49 percent, is called Mobisphere Ltd. The Reading, United Kingdom-based venture will conduct research and development...
It appears that since Dan Hesse's appointment as president and chief executive officer of AT&T Corp.'s wireless business three years ago, AT&T has had a tenuous relationship with the man.Financial analysts last week were wondering why the man who had brought AT&T Wireless Services...
NEW YORK-Diginet Americas Inc., Washington, D.C., a wireless broadband access provider in Latin America, signed a $100 million vendor supply and credit facility agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc.The company plans to serve as the Teligent Inc. or Winstar Communications Inc. of Latin America. Under...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-GTE Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they signed a multimillion-dollar contract for Lucent to provide a personal communications services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology to GTE PCS S.A., GTE's Argentine subsidiary.GTE said CDMA technology will allow it to...
NEW YORK-Tivoli Systems Inc., an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of IBM Corp., has created a Service Provider Business Unit to execute its new Net Generation Initiative for managing complex telecommunications systems.As part of these developments, announced at a press conference in early November, Tivoli said...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc.These industry powerhouses have joined founders L.M. Ericsson, IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia and Toshiba Corp. in a new group effort called...
China's on-again, off-again plan to allow commercial deployments of Code Division Multiple Access networks looks like it's on again.The recent World Trade Organization pact between the United States and China and progress in negotiations over technology transfers appear to have paved the way for...
Several big names in the wireless and computing industries last week took additional steps in the process of converting wireless networks from a switch-based to a packet-based environment.Cisco Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. unveiled the next phase of their joint venture, formed in February,...
Sprint PCS signed a seven-year master service agreement with Ericsson Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access equipment, though the nationwide carrier has not committed to buying any infrastructure from the vendor."We have not committed to buying any equipment," said Tom Murphy, spokesman for Sprint...
TeleCommunications Systems Inc. launched a free wireless portal service called Data4Me, aimed directly at end users with the goal of increasing awareness of wireless e-mail services across multiple networks.The portal allows users to send and receive messages to and from others on the same...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia's One.Tel Ltd. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an alliance to pursue business opportunities in third-generation mobile networks in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. One.Tel also received financing from News Corporation Ltd.Under a memorandum of understanding, One.Tel and Lucent will collaborate in...
WASHINGTON-Sealing the historic U.S.-China trade pact last week-notwithstanding all the controversies, complexities, and stops and starts during the past 13 years-was the easy part.Translating it into major economic benefits for the U.S. wireless industry will be a much taller order.In an emerging market where...
