MELBOURNE, Fla.-Interoperability testing between AirNet Communications Corp.'s base station subsystem and a Lucent Technologies Inc. mobile switching center was successfully completed and will be deployed by Carolina PCS I Ltd. Partnership, said AirNet."This highlights the power of the open GSM interface," said Dr. Lee...
Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.Gary Ritter, wireless offer manager, location services, for Lucent Technologies Inc., said many commercial services could be deployed today because they don't...
NEW YORK-Comparatively few of the hundreds of telecommunications billing companies in business today are publicly traded, but that list could grow by one if Daleen Technologies Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., proceeds with a planned initial public offering scheduled for late this month.The company views...
NEW YORK-Those who think Internet-based services provision will reduce overhead should remember the conventional wisdom once was that computers were heralds of a paperless society.Nevertheless, Web-based customer care promises its own rewards over the longer term for companies that meet its unique challenges, said...
Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market.Carriers had better beware.Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise of a gift in the form of a Trojan horse. Looking back, it seems hard to...
The Wireless Data Forum celebrated its first birthday last week by releasing its first book, called "Going Mobile: A Cookbook of Wireless Data Solutions."The WDF said Going Mobile is the first in what is to be an annual publication on the state of the mobile...
NEW YORK-As the Internet accelerates the globalization of telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions among traditional and nontraditional players have eclipsed initial public offerings as the preferred strategy for retaining competitive advantage."In the United States, the Internet economy generated $301 billion in 1998 and will generate...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. signed a three-year $180 million contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand BellSouth's network in Georgia and southern Florida.Terms of the agreement call for Lucent to be the preferred vendor for all of BellSouth's wireless equipment, software and service requirements in...
Ericsson Inc. said last week its displacement from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the majority vendor hurt the company and conceded part of the reason it lost AT&T Wireless contracts was because of problems supplying equipment throughout the year."It hurts," said Gary Pinkham, vice...
NEW YORK-Wireless carriers can only imagine scaling back their costly call-flooded customer support centers and slashing the overhead that comes with them. And wireless users long to regain those wasted afternoons on hold with a receiver glued to their ears only to find they've...
Amid increased media publicity over capacity problems in its New York City market, AT&T Wireless Services granted contracts to Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks that calls for the vendors to replace Ericsson's equipment in the country's two largest wireless markets, New York and Los...
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications and Optimay GmbH, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies Inc., announced they signed a licensing agreement that allows Optimay to integrate the Chinese language version of Tegic's T9 Text Input software with Optimay's Global System for Mobile communications Phase 2 Protocol Stack and...
Amidst increased media publicity over capacity problems in its New York City market, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week granted a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. that calls for the vendor to replace Ericsson Inc.'s equipment in the country's largest wireless market.Ericsson-AT&T Wireless' main...
DENVER-Analysts speculate AT&T Wireless Services Inc. may add Nortel Networks as an additional supplier of Time Division Multiple Access equipment.Growth on the carrier's networks has skyrocketed since AT&T Wireless introduced the Digital One Rate plan last May. The plan eliminates long-distance and roaming fees....
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-With a $120,000 grant from Lucent Technologies Inc., the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory of Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J., has established the Lucent Technologies Wireless Postdoctoral Fellowship."Our sponsorship (of WINLAB) over the past decade has proved to be a good investment, yet we believe...
NEW YORK-It was just this year that the camel's nose of wireless intelligent networks appeared under the mobile communications' tent, and it is not expected to rise to its full height until the dawn of the new millennium in 2001.A creature of technology to...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc., a San Diego company that helps carriers plan, design and deploy wireless telecommunications networks, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 18 to raise up to $70 million in an initial public offering.The company has applied for a Nasdaq...
NEW YORK-The Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 16 to spin off its test and measurement division by taking it public.The unit, given the name of Agilent Technologies Inc., plans to raise up to $100 million through...
WASHINGTON-Companies like Qualcomm Inc. that wish to enter the potentially lucrative Chinese wireless market now must wait for the United States and China to negotiate issues surrounding technology transfer, the Bureau of National Affairs Inc. reported Friday.BNA, which publishes a daily newsletter on government...
AerisAeris Communications Inc. added to its senior management team, naming Peter F. Stone chief financial officer and Patricia E. Hart vice president and general counsel.Aeris also announced Douglas M. Pavicich is its new director of operations. Pavicich will oversee all the day-to-day operations and...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it raised $125 million through a public offering of 7 million shares of common stock.Half the proceeds will be used to pay down debt, while the other half will be used for general business purposes, the company said.The successful...
WASHINGTON-The European Commission said it supports industry efforts to harmonize third-generation mobile phone standards, but refused to retreat from plans to deploy home-grown technology for a pan-European 3G network and suggested U.S. policy will discriminate against foreign manufacturers seeking to sell advanced wireless products...
HOUSTON-Eagle Wireless International Inc. signed an agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc. to become a reseller of Lucent's data network products, including Internet service provider infrastructure, wireless local area networks and wide area networks, as well as professional services and support.
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $150 million contract from VoCall Communications Corp. to provide the company a virtual private network that employs Internet telephony as its telecommunications infrastructure, said WinStar.VoCall specializes in prepaid telecommunications services such as prepaid calling cards,...
