SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network integrator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a deal with Motive to jointly offer service-provisioning solutions designed to ease the installation of bundled Wi-Fi and DSL or cable model broadband services.Boingo noted the agreement fits into its Platform Services Wi-Fi...
The segregated world of wireless local area networks took a giant step toward integration as the nation's largest Wi-Fi hot spot provider T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a deal with software-enabled virtual network operator iPass Inc. allowing iPass' corporate customers to roam onto T-Mobile USA's...
Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points. MCI noted it currently has about 600 Wi-Fi access...
ASHBURN, Va.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points.MCI noted it currently operates approximately 600 Wi-Fi access...
CRYSTAL CITY, Va.- Like most everything else in Iraq these days, wireless telephony in the country is not going according to plan.The official wireless licenses have yet to be awarded Coalition Provisional Authority officials acknowledged Wednesday, but the three licensees have all been given...
CRYSTAL CITY, Va.-If the Coalition Provisional Authority had wanted Iraqis to have access to communications through three mobile-phone networks by now, this-like most everything else in Iraq these days-is not going according to plan.The official licenses have yet to be awarded CPA officials acknowledged...
WASHINGTON-After weeks of speculation, it appears that GSM technology has won out over CDMA systems in Iraq. The Coalition of Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Minister of Communications Oct. 6 announced the winners of mobile-phone licenses in Iraq. Asia-Cell, the incumbent GSM provider, will...
WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc., which is doing business under the name MCI, named five independent directors to its board late last month.Laurence Harris is a partner at the law firm of Patton Boggs L.L.C. Harris was an executive of Teligent Inc., a fixed wireless startup that...
WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...
ANDOVER, Mass.-One of the nation's largest wireless carriers will launch a wireless conferencing service for businesses through a new deal with conferencing infrastructure provider Spectel Inc.Spectel executives would not name the carrier, but said the service would be available in the coming months. The...
WASHINGTON-After settling with the federal government and admitting to more than $11 billion in accounting misdeeds, WorldCom Inc., parent to SkyTel Paging and recipient of a contract to build a private mobile-phone system in Baghdad, now must face the wrath of the states.Oklahoma filed...
WASHINGTON-The U.S.-led administration in Iraq decided not to release the names of consortia that bid last week on three regional mobile-phone licenses up for grabs in Iraq. "When all evaluations have been carefully reviewed and evaluated, the Coalition Provisional Authority contracting agency will notify...
WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...
WASHINGTON-A consortium with investors from Iraq, the United States, South Korea and the United Kingdom applied last week to construct U.S.-engineered CDMA technology mobile-phone networks in Iraq, according to sources, despite indications the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority and new telecom ministry may be leaning...
WASHINGTON-The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of WorldCom Inc. on Wednesday approved the company's settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission."It represents additional validation of all the positive steps the company has taken over the past year to both put its house in order and...
WASHINGTON-As suspected due to last week's Pentagon press conference, the Coalition Provisional Authority has changed the rules regarding government ownership of telecommunications companies wanting to offer mobile-phone service in Iraq from 5 percent to 10 percent."No government shall directly or indirectly own more than...
WASHINGTON-The Coalition Provisional Authority may revisit a ban against government-owned telecommunications companies from winning a wireless license in Iraq, said a top military official on Friday afternoon."This is what the CPA needs to work out. That will be a factor in their thinking. If...
WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. was awarded the fixed-wireless assets of bankrupt WorldCom Inc. by Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez.Nextel will pay $144 million for the licenses. BellSouth Corp., which originally entered an agreement to buy the licenses for $65 million, will receive a $1.95 million breakup...
WASHINGTON-A day before the civilian administrator of Iraq addressed the National Press Club and the U.S. Department of Commerce released the details of an auction of Iraqi mobile-phone licenses, a mobile-phone network began operations in Baghdad.Batelco Iraq, a new division of Bahrain Telecommunications Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, signed an order creating a new Iraqi government agency to oversee licensing of commercial wireless and wireline telecom systems in that country.The June 9 order establishing the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, obtained by RCR Wireless News,...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. is getting a slice of the $34 million contract held by WorldCom Inc. to provide mobile phone service to U.S. civilian and military officials in Baghdad, even as pressure builds to have the Bush administration dismiss the embattled long-distance giant as a...
The GSM Association reported that Kuwait-based wireless operator MTC-Vodafone deployed a GSM-based network in southern Iraq designed to support the reconstruction efforts and non-governmental organizations delivering humanitarian aid. The network reportedly is currently providing coverage along supply routes in the southern Iraqi city of...
A certain RCR Wireless News reporter based in D.C. who shall remain nameless likes to hold onto her stories for a little bit before turning them in to be edited. She says they need "time to cook." Depending on how much we are pushing...
